Dr. Wal Van Lierop
President & CEO @ Chrysalix Venture Capital
Dr. Wal Van Lierop is a Series A investor at Chrysalix Venture Capital focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. As co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Chrysalix Energy Management Inc., Dr. Wal van Lierop oversees the firm’s operations and investments. He currently works with Angstrom Power, HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., H2Gen Innovations, and –until 2008 Day4 Energy, as well as a number of other early stage companies. Dr. van Lierop isa Consultant and member of the Investment Committee for Chrysalix’ affiliated fund in Europe: SET VP.Dr. van Lierop holds a part-time adjunct professorship: Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital. He is also the initiator and a current Director of New Ventures BC the successful new ventures and business plan competition in the province of British Columbia. Dr. van Lierop is a frequently invited speaker on topics related to new energy, venture financing and global business and provides ongoing support to a series of national and international cleantech organizations. He is heavily involved in the community and is a proud supporter of the arts. He is an avid jogger and likes to enjoy the outdoors of British Columbia.Prior to joining Chrysalix, Dr. van Lierop was Vice President of Strategic Planning at Westcoast Energy, Inc. headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. van Lierop was with McKinsey & Co for 7 years, prior to which he worked for almost 10 years in various positions at the Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From that base he consulted to business, government, and major international institutions such as the European Community and the World Bank.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
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Industries Dr. Wal Van Lierop invests in
Stages Dr. Wal Van Lierop invests in
Countries Dr. Wal Van Lierop invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (27%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (18%)
- Fuel 1 (9%)
- Water 1 (9%)
- Chemical 1 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Series B 2 (18%)
- Series E 2 (18%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Country
- Canada 2 (18%)
- United States 2 (18%)
Investments
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General Fusion
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General Fusion pursues a commercially oriented path toward fusion energy by developing a magnetized target fusion (MTF) technology. The company applies advances in plasma physics, modern electronics, materials, and compression mechanisms to generate fusion-relevant conditions. It operates a demonstration system, Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), thatinjects magnetized plasma into a liquid metal liner and compresses it using coordinated mechanical pistons to reach high temperatures and pressures. The technology serves as a practical stepping stone toward building a fusion demonstration facility and ultimately delivering fusion-derived electricity to the grid. The approach focuses on closing the gap between demonstration milestones and a deployable power-plant system. | $21.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 21, 2025 | |
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General Fusion
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General Fusion pursues a commercially oriented path toward fusion energy by developing a magnetized target fusion (MTF) technology. The company applies advances in plasma physics, modern electronics, materials, and compression mechanisms to generate fusion-relevant conditions. It operates a demonstration system, Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), thatinjects magnetized plasma into a liquid metal liner and compresses it using coordinated mechanical pistons to reach high temperatures and pressures. The technology serves as a practical stepping stone toward building a fusion demonstration facility and ultimately delivering fusion-derived electricity to the grid. The approach focuses on closing the gap between demonstration milestones and a deployable power-plant system. | $65M / Series E / Dec 16, 2019 | |
Axine Water Technologies
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Axine Water Technologies is a Vancouver-based developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions established by founder and Chief Engineer, Colleen Legzdins.They’re specifically focused on overcoming the complex, expensive, and often ineffective nature of today’s incumbent wastewater systems by developing low-cost, energy-efficientsolutions for treating dissolved organic pollutants such as phenols, aromatics, acids, dyes, PHPs, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals that enable industrial and municipal customers to reduce costs and improve performance of their wastewater treatment.Their solutions are based on a proprietary electrolytic oxidation technology that treats high concentrations (up to 5000 mg/L COD) of toxic organics, biodegradable organics, ammonia, pathogens, and some inorganics in a single step without chemicals and without producing sludge. | $8M / Series B / Sep 14, 2016 | |
Liquid Light
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Liquid Light is the developer of technology that allows the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to a wide variety of chemicals, fuels, and other compounds. Their patent-pending electrocatalytic platform leverages low-cost inputs with long-term pricing predictability and secure, domestic sources of energy to convert an industrial waste into asource of revenue. | $15M / Series B / Sep 11, 2014 | |
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Axine Water Technologies
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Axine Water Technologies is a Vancouver-based developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions established by founder and Chief Engineer, Colleen Legzdins.They’re specifically focused on overcoming the complex, expensive, and often ineffective nature of today’s incumbent wastewater systems by developing low-cost, energy-efficientsolutions for treating dissolved organic pollutants such as phenols, aromatics, acids, dyes, PHPs, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals that enable industrial and municipal customers to reduce costs and improve performance of their wastewater treatment.Their solutions are based on a proprietary electrolytic oxidation technology that treats high concentrations (up to 5000 mg/L COD) of toxic organics, biodegradable organics, ammonia, pathogens, and some inorganics in a single step without chemicals and without producing sludge. | $5.6M / Series A / Feb 12, 2014 | |
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Axine Water Technologies
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Axine Water Technologies is a Vancouver-based developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions established by founder and Chief Engineer, Colleen Legzdins.They’re specifically focused on overcoming the complex, expensive, and often ineffective nature of today’s incumbent wastewater systems by developing low-cost, energy-efficientsolutions for treating dissolved organic pollutants such as phenols, aromatics, acids, dyes, PHPs, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals that enable industrial and municipal customers to reduce costs and improve performance of their wastewater treatment.Their solutions are based on a proprietary electrolytic oxidation technology that treats high concentrations (up to 5000 mg/L COD) of toxic organics, biodegradable organics, ammonia, pathogens, and some inorganics in a single step without chemicals and without producing sludge. | $2.2M / Seed / Sep 11, 2012 | |
BridgeLux
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Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open upnew markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions. | $100M / Series E / Feb 09, 2012 | |
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Liquid Light
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Liquid Light is the developer of technology that allows the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to a wide variety of chemicals, fuels, and other compounds. Their patent-pending electrocatalytic platform leverages low-cost inputs with long-term pricing predictability and secure, domestic sources of energy to convert an industrial waste into asource of revenue. | $5.6M / Series A / Dec 27, 2011 | |
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BridgeLux
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Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open upnew markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions. | $50M / Series D / Jan 13, 2010 | |
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BridgeLux
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Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open upnew markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions. | $30M / Series D / Apr 08, 2008 | |
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Co-Investors
About Chrysalix Venture Capital
Chrysalix is an early-stage industrial innovation venture capital firm that connects market-driven problems to breakthrough solutions.It invests in and supports compelling technologies and entrepreneurial management teams that address the changing demands of the global industry and actively work with their clients and support them with deepindustry and technical knowledge, management and board assistance, organized networking with industrial and financial partners, management of intellectual property, and direct access to capital.In 2001, Wal van Lierop established the firm in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Chrysalix Venture Capital Contacts
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Alfred Lam
Partner
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Charles Haythornthwaite
Partner
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Fred van Beuningen
Managing Partner
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Dr. Wal Van Lierop
President & CEO
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Richard MacKellar
Managing Director
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What does Dr. Wal Van Lierop invest in?
Dr. Wal Van Lierop invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Fuel startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Dr. Wal Van Lierop last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dr. Wal Van Lierop closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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