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Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in United States

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Renewable energy startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in United States

Investor	Renewable Energy United States investments
Jackson Moses	4
Patrick Soon-Shiong	3
Sunmeet Jolly	3
Bill Gates	3
Bill Gates	3
David E. Weekly	3
Tom Werner	3
Ramez Naam	3
Eugene Goldberg	2
Dr Ritesh Malik	2
Ashley Mayer	2
Dhruv Chitgopekar	2
Nat Friedman	2
Nat Friedman	2
Sam Altman	2
Luke Kupersmith	2
Rayyan Islam	2
Edward Kim	2
Luigi Bajetti	2
Surya Panditi	2
Kittu Kolluri	2
Thomas McInerney	2
Kittu Kolluri	2
Sierra Peterson	2
Sytse Sijbrandij	2
Maulik Majmudar	2
Supriya Paul	2
Josh Felser	2
Marc Tarpenning	2
Mark Cuban	2
Chuck Yates	1
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	1
Jack Fuchs	1
Jeff Immelt	1
Gregory Avis	1
Mark Goines	1
Ronald Conway	1
Atin Batra	1
Angélica Fuentes	1
Tyson Trautmann	1
Rob Stevens	1
Jamie Lee	1
Ariel Poler	1
Stephen Mandel	1
Daniel Gross	1
Mark Friedgan	1
Craig Winkler	1
Kerim Baran	1
Richard Lowenthal	1
Tobias Lütke	1

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A successful serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also founded and manages Silent Capital, a privatesyndicate that provides its members exclusive access to leading multi-stage defense and frontier tech deals. Additionally, Jackson serves as a Senior Advisor to the founding teams of Castelion and Privateer Space.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet: the first tech company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows and integrations. As a founding executive, he was responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, building a world-class sales organization, managing business development initiatives, and scaling annual revenue to over $30M. To date, MainStreet has employed hundreds of people and helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in tax savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs (enterprise AIaaS), which was acquired by ActiveFence after last being valued at $137M. Spectrum Labs pioneered multimodal LLMs, specifically a series of proprietary GPT foundation models, designed to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, influencers, and their users. Its customer base spanned gaming, dating, and social media, and included Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines. Having raised $120M+ across his two companies, Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, a16z, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Quiet Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, First In, Cubit Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc

Investment focus

Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Rivet — Rivet is a corporate & personal tax prep firm, designed to make tax season less taxing. Because everybody deserves a tax prep firm that they love.
Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors since NantHealth’s founding in July 2010. A physician, surgeon and scientist, Dr. Soon-Shiong has pioneered novel therapies for both diabetes and cancer, published more than 100 scientific papers, and has received over 95 patents on groundbreakingadvancements spanning a myriad of fields.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
NantKwest —
Sienza Energy — Sienza Energy is developing a radical new approach to design and manufacture batteries. The company’s revolutionary strategy is based on a 3D nanotechnology electrode structure that takes advantage of advances in multiple fields over the last decade, providing an approach to battery design that is unique in the industry. By combining these advancesin an innovative way, Sienza can drastically improve the batteries’ energy and power densities — all with the goal of simultaneously reducing the overall battery costs. With this new approach, Sienza Energy can provide even more capability in a range of products, from smart devices to electric vehicles.

Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
Pops Diabetes Care — If you are an employer, caregiver, or just someone who wants an easy diabetes management system, Click here to learn how we can help!

Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Series C, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mainspring Energy — Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.

Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mainspring Energy — Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.

David E. Weekly is the Founder and CEO of Medcorder and he was the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Robotics, Drones, Aerospace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Sugarlogix — A precise reflection of human milk to provide the best nutrition for babies
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.

Tom Werner serves as SunPower’s CEO and chairman of the SunPower board of directors. Prior to joining SunPower, he held the position of chief executive officer of Silicon Light Machines, Inc., an optical solutions subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Previously, Werner was vice president and general manager of the Business ConnectivityGroup of 3Com Corp., a network solutions company, and has also held a number of executive management positions at Oak Industries, Inc. and General Electric Co. He currently serves as a board member of Cree, Inc., Silver Spring Networks, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and is a member of the Marquette University board of trustees. Werner holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University and a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Kevala — Kevala helps our customers predict and plan for a safer, more effective, and environmentally sustainable grid through our cloud-based data analytic and visualization platform.
Tandem PV — Discover the future of sustainable energy with Tandem PV, a leader in perovskite solar technology and innovative solar energy solutions.
Rock Rabbit — We make the rebate process quick, accurate, and efficient so contractors and homeowners can focus on their projects.

Ramez Naam is Chief Futurist and Partner at Prime Movers Lab.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Automotive
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Xeal — Xeal Energy provides the world's most advanced electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, designed especially for commercial, business & apartment use.
WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
Distributed Energy — Distributed Energy is a development and aggregation platform that connects renewable projects with funders.They are experienced platform aggregators who have come together to enable renewable energy projects in the developing world.The Distributed Energy platform reviews, screens and lists fundable projects on their marketplace. Investors canexpress interest to invest in credible opportunities. Their smart contracts and blockchain produce a robust link between parties, automating payments. They also provide ongoing reporting on performance of the assets.

Eugene Goldberg

Investment focus

CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Airblack — Learn makeup, beauty and culinary skills from India's top experts and get professionally certified. Join a student community of 35,000+ students.
BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.

Ashley Mayer is the Operating Council at Mixing Board . Ashley Mayer attended Georgetown University.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Natural Resources
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.

Dhruv Chitgopekar

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
Zeta Labs — Revolutionize daily tasks with our AI assistant. Not just a chatbot - it chats, understands, and performs. Free yourself to focus on meaningful things.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Klarity — Automated document management for finance and accounting - Review, Reporting, and Audit Trail.
ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

APEX — Use Apex AI Security Platform to drive your organisation at the speed of AI, agentlessly. Unleash AI securely, with visibility, detection, and remediation. (156c)
ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
Airchat — Better Conversations - Download on today!

Luke Kupersmith - President & CEO @ Lojistic

Investment focus

CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.

Rayyan Islam is the Co-Founder and General Partner at 8090 Industries. As serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on industrial technology and the low-carbon economy, the companies Rayyan's invested in, sourced and advised have grown to over $8B in market value and have gone to raise further financing from the likes of SequoiaCapital, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Rayyan previously spent time helping source technology investments for multiple family offices globally, particularly focused towards industrialists based in the Texas and American midwest region and began his VC career at leading East Coast seed stage venture firm, Romulus Capital, where he sourced the firm’s most valued investment, EquipmentShare.A product manager by trade, he worked stints at Spotify, was on the founding team of a subscription airline and began his career supporting M&A transactions for industrial clients at Deloitte as well as economic developments efforts for Deloitte Consulting’s Emerging Markets Practice. Rayyan is a Forbes 30U30 Fellow, served as a United Nations Youth Delegate and is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award.Influenced by his family upbringing in Bangladesh, he personally witnessed energy security issues and the ramifications of climate change at a young age and its impact on communities around the world. Determined to make a serious dent on the issue, Rayyan supports a cadre of climate solutions, drafted policy recommendations to President Joe Biden’s climate transition team and is the editor of Decarbon Weekly, a decarbonization focused newsletter which counts leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, climate tech founders and ESG focused investors and foundations amongst its subscription base. Rayyan co-founded the industrial decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners, in partnership with prominent industrial and energy families from around the world to invest, support and accelerate breakthrough technology companies decarbonizing every industrial sector driven by radical economic advantages.Rayyan and his work has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and Forbes.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
Cache — Biomolecules are the next bits of the 21st century. So we're developing the first wet operating system for storing, accessing, and computing biomolecules at scale to make them widely accessible and useful. We're enabling the storage and access to the whole data universe—digital and biological—forever so that we don't have to deleteor dispose of anything ever again.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

Edward Kim

Investment focus

CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.

Luigi Bajetti is the managing partner and founder of Lombardstreet Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.Luigi is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the tech and internet industries, with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in building and scaling startups.As a full-time investor since2013, he has been leveraging his experience and insights to identify and support the next generation of Silicon Valley founders. With a passion for backing game-changing technologies and a talent for spotting emerging trends, Luigi has a proven track record of success in identifying groundbreaking startups. He has invested almost always at the earliest possible stage of seed in 20+ US startups valued at over $30 billion combined, including 8 that have since become unicorns.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Cardenxe Sotol — Artisanal Small Batch 100% Sotol Spirit Cardenxe Sotol is a terroir-inspired premium craft spirit, distilled from the heart of the Dasylirion plant, in North of Mexico - where it holds a Denomination of Origin. Every label (Desierto and Sierra) honors a different environment in which the plants used to distill grew.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Rebellyous Foods — Rebellyous Foods makes crispy, juicy, 100% plant-based nuggets. Your guests will love the taste. Your team will love the simplicity. Get Rebellyous with us!

Surya Panditi joined Enel X as CEO and President in 2019. Surya Panditi is the Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider Networking Group at Cisco.He is responsible for the strategy, engineering, and marketing direction of Cisco's comprehensive family of service provider networking platforms, includingcore/edge/access routing, optical, and mobility. He manages strategic architectural convergence and alignment of innovative technologies across market segments to leverage investments in hardware, ASICs, and software to ensure that Cisco products meet customer needs.Panditi joined Cisco in 2005 and has served as Vice President and General Manager for a variety of Cisco engineering organizations. These include the Core Technology Group, the Service Provider Routing Technology Group, as well as the Access and Transport Technology Group, which included Cisco's portfolio of optical products, cable modem termination systems, quadrature amplitude modulation, and access transmission business units. His responsibilities included profit and loss, overall strategy, product development and positioning, and the introduction of leading-edge technologies and competitive products.With more than 25 years of senior leadership experience with several public and private data and telecommunications equipment provider companies, Panditi brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to Cisco. He served as President and CEO of Polaris Networks, a provider of optical transport switches. He also held the CEO position for Convergent Networks Inc., a provider of broadband voice infrastructure products for cable and telecom service providers. Panditi also served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Avici Systems Inc., where he successfully managed the company's growth and transition from a private to a public company. Earlier in his career, Panditi was Vice President and General Manager of the local area network infrastructure business unit at USRobotics.He also worked for,Intel Corporation, Ungermann-Bass, Telco Systems .Panditi has served on the Boards of,enKoo, a developer of remote access products now part of SonicWALL, Internet Photonics, a company acquired by Ciena Corporation in 2004, Avici Systems .Panditi holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Investment focus

Hardware, Renewable Energy, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.

Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Analytics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Vendia — Vendia's data automation platform delivers trusted business insights and complete data oversight, empowering you to integrate any system, anywhere.
Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
AssetPlus — AssetPlus focuses on offering digital-first solutions to financial advisors and mutual fund distributors.

Tom McInerney is a notable angel investor. He was a seed investor in Segment, Notion, GetAround, Tala, MemSQL, Mode Analytics, OpenTrons, Arcadia Power, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ware — Ware deploys autonomous, self-flying drones—combined with machine learning—inside warehouses to automate their inventory tracking. Designed to solve some of the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry’s most pressing issues, Ware’s product helps their customers operate more efficiently. A partner of Skydio and funded by Bloomberg Beta, Ware works withthe world’s largest 3PL’s and global brands to improve their accuracy, workflows, and save money.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.

Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vendia — Vendia's data automation platform delivers trusted business insights and complete data oversight, empowering you to integrate any system, anywhere.
Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
AssetPlus — AssetPlus focuses on offering digital-first solutions to financial advisors and mutual fund distributors.

Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Patch — We make carbon removal as simple as writing a few lines of code. Build sustainable products with ease and put your climate goals on autopilot.
Remora — Carbon capture for semi-trucks
Glacier — Glacier is the creator of the first affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient AI-enabled robot for recycling.

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair of GitLab Inc., the DevOps platform. GitLab’s single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance.Sid’s career path has been anything but traditional. He spent four years building recreationalsubmarines for U-Boat Worx and while at Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid he worked on the Legis project, which developed several innovative web applications to aid lawmaking. He first saw Ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much that he taught himself how to program. In 2012, as a Ruby programmer, he encountered GitLab and discovered his passion for open source. Soon after, Sid commercialized GitLab, and by 2015 he led the company through Y Combinator’s Winter 2015 batch. Under his leadership, the company has grown with an estimated 30 million+ registered users from startups to global enterprises.Sid studied at the University of Twente in the Netherlands where he received an M.S. in Management Science. Sid was named one of the greatest minds of the pandemic by Forbes for spreading the gospel of remote work.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.
Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)

Maulik Majmudar is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder at Biofourmis. Maulik Majmudar attended Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School.

Investment focus

Medical, mHealth, Hardware
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Prevently — Prevently is a website that provides consumers with physician-reviewed health articles, physician-approved health products, health apps, and telemedicine consultations. These services centralize around an online patient profile that integrates data utilizing APIs from multiple personal health tracking devices.

Supriya Paul is the founder of John Talks.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Dating
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Styledotme — Mirrar is a Augmented Reality (AR) SaaS platform from Styledotme which is the world's first Real time AR platform for Jewellery shopping.
Trulymadly.com — Truly Madly is one of the best matchmaking app in India connecting singles across the country. Make friends, meet new people, or find your forever with the Top Dating App Online by Truly Madly.

Josh Felser is the Co-Founder of Climactic. He previously worked at State of California as a Task Force Member. Josh Felser attended Duke University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
The Happy Home Company — The Happy Home Company is your Personal Home Manager. Managing your home is expensive, complicated, and time consuming. They solve this problem by connect homeowners with an affordable Personal Home Manager, who is supported by powerful technology, and a trusted service network

Marc Tarpenning is a member of the advisory board at Clearpath Robotics , a manufacturer of unmanned vehicles for industrial research and development applications. He also provides services as an advisor to many other companies. Previously, he was a mentor at Greenstart.Marc is a Venture Partner at Spero Ventures. He was previously anentrepreneur in residence at Mayfield Fund before he joined Greenstart. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as the vice president for engineering at Tesla Motors. He also held executive positions at Packet Design, NuvoMedia, and Gemstar-TV Guide.Tarpenning holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Electric Vehicle, Renewable Energy, CleanTech
Series A, Seed, Series D
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Hylight — Hylight inspects energy infrastructures and provide solutions that makes societies resilient to the effects of climate change.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.

Yates is a managing partner for the Kayne Anderson Capital Advisor’s energy private equity activities. He is responsible for the origination and execution of private equity transactions in the energy industry.Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2001, Mr. Yates was a senior vice president at Stephens Inc., an integrated merchant and investmentbank.Mr. Yates earned a B.A. in Political Science in 1991 and an M.B.A. in Finance in 1994 from Rice University.

Investment focus

Energy, Podcast, Recruiting
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Digital Wildcatters — Digital Wildcatters is a community platform for the next generation of energy professionals. DW provides transformative in-person events, podcasts, and technology that enables professionals to keep up with the latest trends, build their network, and advance their career in energy.

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.

Mr. Fuchs has a deep understanding of marketing and sales, business development, finance and corporate strategy. Before joining NextBio, Mr. Fuchs was CFO of ForteBio, a private life science company. Previously, he has held Finance, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management positions at a number of private companies includingIPWireless and Lumitrend. Mr. Fuchs also held several senior positions with Becton Dickinson & Company including Vice President of e-Business, North American Business Leader, Vice President Worldwide Marketing, and Director of Corporate Planning. In addition, Mr. Fuchs was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where his client focus was health care and wireless communications. Mr. Fuchs is also a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business at The University of California at Berkeley. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University in the graduate engineering school. He holds an AB in Engineering Sciences with Honors from Dartmouth College and he received his MBA from Stanford University as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Investment focus

Human Resources, SaaS, Solar
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bluecrew — Bluecrew is the first hourly workforce-as-a-service provider: combining W-2 labor, a workforce management platform, and data + analytics for workplaces who have hourly workers and fluctuating demand.
Luminovo — We are building data-driven and collaborative EMS RfQ software that gives you a breakthrough competitive advantage by automating and streamlining your processes
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.

Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.Immelt has been named one of the World's Best CEOs three times by Barron's, and since he began servingas chief executive officer, GE has been named America's Most Admired Company in a poll conducted by Fortunemagazine and one of The World's Most Respected Companies in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times.Immelt was the chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!
Rx Redefined — Rx Redefined is a medical logistics platform that allows physicians to extend services to patients who require specific medical products. The company was founded in 2018 by Brandon Boots and Erik Smith and is headquartered in Oakland, California, United States.
Next Power 360 — NextPower360 offers the most advanced generator in the world for variable input and output applications such as wind power and electric vehicles.

Gregory M. Avis cofounded Summit Partners in 1984. Prior to Summit, he worked for McDonald & Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co.Greg has served as a director of many public and private companies. His past directorships include Digital Link Corporation (NASDAQ: DLNK), IMPAC Medical Systems (NASDAQ: IMPC), Integrated Systems (NASDAQ: INTS),NxTrend Technology (acquired by Infor Global Solutions), Powerwave Technologies (NASDAQ: PWAV), RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW, later acquired by Oracle), Splash Technology Holdings (NASDAQ: SPLH, later acquired by Electronics for Imaging) and TGV Software (acquired by Cisco Systems).He holds a BA in political economy from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.Greg is chair of the Williams College Board of Trustees, and serves on the boards of the James Irvine Foundation, Antioch College, New Profit and ARTSTOR. He has also served on the boards of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (chair), the National Outdoor Leadership School and the San Jose Repertory Theatre (chair). Greg teaches mathematics at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto.

Investment focus

CRM, SaaS, Solar
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sunrun — Sunrun is the leading home solar panel and battery storage company. Go solar for little to $0 down, lock in low energy rates. Get a quote today
PastureMap — Manage herd rotations effortlessly with PastureMap's web and mobile app, to see information about your ranch anytime, anywhere.
ASSOS of Switzerland — Visit the Official Store for ASSOS of Switzerland, engineering and designing cycling equipment and accessories for men and women since 1976.

Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

Atin Batra is the Founder & solo GP at 27V, where he's backing a group of thoughtful founders building the future of learning and labor (EdTech + Future of Work). 27V is the perfect marriage of Atin's passion for education, entrepreneurship and helping founders build 0->1. He has been a venture investor for 7 years, havingpreviously worked at a corporate accelerator and a deep tech VC firm. An ex-entrepreneur and an ultra-marathon trail runner, Atin lives by the maxim "company building, same as a life well-lived, is not a sprint, it's a marathon".

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Unit — Unit is the banking-as-a-service platform that lets you embed powerful financial features into your product. Build in minutes, launch in weeks.
Toggle — How will we build the next generation of cities and infrastructure when key construction methods have remained unchanged for a generation? As the built environment grows larger and more complex Toggle is introducing industrial robotics and automation to critical construction methods and materials. Starting with rebar for reinforced concrete Toggleis reinventing the way we build our world.
Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!

Angélica Fuentes Téllez is a Mexican business executive and was shareholder of Grupo Omnilife-Angelissima-Chivas, a multinational corporation based in Mexico composed of nutrition supplements company Omnilife, beauty and cosmetics brand Angelíssima, and the Mexican soccer team,

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Renewable Energy, Business Development
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

i(x) investments — i(x) investments is an entrepreneurial, multi-strategy impact investing platform that actively addresses key areas of human need.Founded in 2015, i(x) investments is a permanently capitalized holding company for investors who want to create long-term economic growth in combination with positive, measurable social impact. i(x) believes theworld's biggest problems are also the biggest market opportunities and invests in the areas of energy, water, food, technology, education, health, housing, access to capital and gender parity. The company uses a multi-strategy investment approach throughout the entire capital structure.

Tyson Trautmann is the Vice President of Engineering at Fauna. He attended University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Investment focus

Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

SMASHsolar — SMASHsolar breaks down barriers to solar for homeowners and contractors. The biggest barriers to solar adoption are cost and complexity. We have developed a simple, snap-together solar module that installs 2x faster than conventional solar, significantly reducing labor skill, labor cost and increasing crew throughput, which result in lowerinstallation costs. Since the SMASH system is easy to expand, homeowners can buy a what they need today and upgrade when they want more power.

Rob Stevens

Investment focus

CAD, Solar, Water
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system

Jamie Lee Managing Partner at Tamarack Global

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Mining
Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Moxion Power — Good Energy. Radical Power.
Aspen Creek Digital — Aspen Creek Digital is a developer of a renewable Bitcoin mining operator used to catalyze the decarbonization of power generation. The company supports renewable energy-based Bitcoin mining with a strategic mix of behind-the-meter and wholesale resources, resulting in a lower all-in cost of retail power helping users to get on-site renewableenergy and storage projects while also contributing to a greener future.It was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Reloadly — Reloadly makes it easy for developers to connect with Mobile operator services. We are disrupting a Trillion dollar industry! Mobile Operators are stuck in old school business models, where most of the world is moving to open source platforms for developers to build amazing products. Reloadly is bridging the gap between mobile operators anddevelopers, and at the same time creating new sales channels for the 816 mobile operators around the world.
Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!

Stephen Mandel is Managing Director at Lone Pine Capital, LLC

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Qorax Energy — To find out more about the distribution companies Qorax incubated, please visit: Altech - https://www.altech-rdc.com (DRC), HelloSolar - https://www.hellosolarint.com (Ethiopia), Enersom - https://www.enersom.us (Somalia),

Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.
Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

Mark Friedgan is the Co-founder and Executive Board Member of Eligo Energy.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Visibly — Purchase glasses or contacts, renew your prescription with our online vision test, or supercharge your business with all of the above.
YourMechanic — The most trusted mobile car repair service. Get an instant quote. All makes & models. 1 Year/12K mile warranty. No worries. No hassle. No over-charging. Available 7 days a week.
Solar Simplified — Solar Simplified is a platform that connects homeowners, renters, and businesses with local solar farms. We take the hassle out of supporting renewable energy by applying credits generated by a solar farm from your area to your bill, guaranteeing savings on your monthly bill, and supporting your every step along your solar journey!

Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Apps
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.

Kerim Baran is the Founder of SolarAcademy. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Email, Solar, Energy
Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

WiseStamp — WiseStamp lets professionals make a beautiful email signature and lets businesses create and manage email signatures for their entire organization
CivicSolar — With industry-leading service and equipment, Greentech Renewables helps solar contractors install top quality solar PV systems, gain competitive advantage and grow their business.

Richard Lowenthal co-founded ChargePoint in 2007 and operated as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. From 1998 until 2007, he was instrumental in starting several companies, including Lightera, Pipal Systems, and Procket Networks. Previously, Richard was in executive roles at Cisco, StrataCom, Stardent Computers, and Convergent Technologies.Richard is a former Mayor of Cupertino, California, and continues to be heavily involved in the non-profit world. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Apps, Power Grid, Energy Storage
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Rock Rabbit — We make the rebate process quick, accurate, and efficient so contractors and homeowners can focus on their projects.
Green Charge Networks — ENGIE in North America is an energy solutions company that provides customers carbon-neutral strategies and supports their renewable energy transition.

Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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