# William O'Donnell

> William O'Donnell is a Series B investor at Prologis (San Francisco) backing SaaS and Logistics. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Prologis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prologis)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-o-donnell-85b25120/

William O'Donnell is a Co-founder & Managing Partner at Prologis Ventures company.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 30% |
| Logistics | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Analytics | 2 | 20% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xnrgy Climate Systems | Xnrgy Climate Systems is an engineering and manufacturing company that provides air treatment systems for data centers, and industrial institutional buildings. They provide air systems and air handlers incorporating energy recovery technologies, cooling, heating coils, fans, and humidification systems. |  |  | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| PassiveLogic | PassiveLogic’s mission is to empower people through generative autonomy to solve the world’s largest climate challenges. Buildings are the most complex controlled infrastructure in the world, however, they are often fitted with technologically stagnant and expensive control systems that waste energy and provide sub-optimal occupant comfort. Theconsequence of this inefficiency is that buildings account for more than 40% of the entire world's energy usage. Autonomous buildings are the key to addressing this energy challenge and unlocking the future of cities. PassiveLogic’s autonomous building platform, powered by Quantum - the physics-based digital twin standard for autonomous systems, has proven 30% energy savings compared to conventional control systems. Applying this scalable technology across the entire U.S. building sector alone creates a net savings opportunity of 9.6 Quads per year—the equivalent of taking 1/3 of all U.S. vehicles off the road.PassiveLogic’s team is committed to developing extraordinary products that tackle the most challenging sustainability issues. | $74M | Series C | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Outrider | Outrider, the pioneer in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety and increase efficiency. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption ofsustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai | $62M | Series D | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Crisp | Crisp leverages the power of the cloud to connect and analyze disparate retail data sources, providing the supply chain with real-time insights and trends. Food suppliers, retailers, distributors and brokers use Crisp's open-data platform to manage supply more efficiently, reduce waste and skyrocket profitability. | $17M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Terminal Industries | Terminal Industries builds the novel AI platforms that helps logistics operators in creating efficient and resilient supply chain. | $17M | Seed | Jul 20, 2023 |  |
| FreightWaves | FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's​ SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $16M | Private Equity | May 19, 2021 |  |
| Kinetic | Kinetic creates wearable devices and cloud-based software that reduces workplace injuries, for the industrial workforce.REFLEX, the company's product is a device that employs analytics to provide reminders and notifications to workers once the device detects a high-risk motion such as unsafe postures that could cause injuries in theconstruction, warehouses, and factories environment. It can also be used as a sensor that detects COVID-19 exposure.In 2014, Haytham Elhawary and Aditya Bansal established Kinetic in New York, New York. |  | Series A | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Outrider | Outrider, the pioneer in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety and increase efficiency. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption ofsustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai |  | Series B | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Outrider | Outrider, the pioneer in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety and increase efficiency. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption ofsustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai | $44.5M | Series A | Feb 19, 2020 |  |
| FreightWaves | FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's​ SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $21M | Series B | Feb 25, 2019 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Koch Disruptive Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koch-disruptive-technologies) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GOOSE Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goose-society-of-texas) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fm-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fontinalis Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fontinalis-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hearst Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearst-interactive-media) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Prologis

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Prologis Ventures is an owner, operator, and developer of industrial real estate. The company leases modern distribution facilities to more than 5,200 customers, including manufacturers, retailers, transportation companies, third-party logistics providers, and other enterprises with large-scale distribution needs. It also offers its customers andinvestors the most modern and geographically diverse platform of distribution space in the world.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Prologis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gary E. Anderson | Chief Executive Officer, Europe and Asia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-e-anderson |
| Gert-jan Meerkerk | Risk Manager / FVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gert-jan-meerkerk |
| Michael S. Curless | CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-s-curless |
| Simon Nelson | Head of Asset Management for European Properties | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-nelson-67d5 |
| Thomas S. Olinger | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-s-olinger |

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## FAQ

### What does William O'Donnell invest in?

William O'Donnell invests primarily in SaaS, Logistics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did William O'Donnell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William O'Donnell closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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