Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in United States in January 2026

Investor	Renewable Energy United States investments
Sam Altman	4
Tom Werner	4
Jackson Moses	4
Bill Gates	3
David E. Weekly	3
Patrick Collison	3
Sunmeet Jolly	3
Patrick Soon-Shiong	3
Bill Gates	3
Avtar Monga	2
Nat Friedman	2
Thomas McInerney	2
Surya Panditi	2
Ramez Naam	2
Marc Tarpenning	2
Lachy Groom	2
Dhruv Chitgopekar	2
Lachy Groom	2
Dr Ritesh Malik	2
Mark Cuban	2
Maulik Majmudar	2
Ashley Mayer	2
Luke Kupersmith	2
Ronald Conway	2
Sierra Peterson	2
Josh Felser	2
Swaroop Kolluri	2
Edward Kim	2
Daniel Gulati	2
Supriya Paul	2
Eugene Goldberg	2
Sytse Sijbrandij	2
Mark Tercek	2
Howard Wenger	2
David Marquardt	2
Nat Friedman	2
Swaroop Kolluri	2
Nat Friedman	2
Rayyan Islam	2
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	1
Rand Hindi	1
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	1
Ankit Kedia	1
Jamie Lee	1
Ariel Poler	1
Ross Chanin	1
Barney Schauble	1
Brice Scheschuk	1
Nipun Sahni	1
Sumant Sinha	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NOYACK — NOYACK builds agentic AI technology for wealth management, starting with NOYACK.ai—the first AI agent for financial literacy - and Prophit.ai , the first opensource AI agent for portfolio optimizations of ALL asset classes. The fintech platform uses autonomous AI to deliver personalized financial guidance and construct tax-optimized portfolioscombining traditional accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, HSAs) with private market investments in venture capital, fine art, and real estate for Millennials and Gen Z investors
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
Arcadia Medicine — Arcadia Medicine is a biotechnology company that creates psychedelic medicine to treat mental health issues.

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
Series A, Seed, 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.

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.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet (acquired by Employer.com): 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 AI, which was acquired by ActiveFence after last being valued at $137M. Spectrum AI 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 AI, 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, Founders Fund, a16z, Lightspeed, NEA, Quiet Capital, Susa Ventures, family offices, defense primes, and university endowments.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.

Investment focus

Aerospace, National Security, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Galadyne — Galadyne is redefining modern missile architecture through scalable liquid propulsion and full-stack vertical integration. This architecture restores speed, resilience, and industrial strength to U.S. defense by eliminating fragile energetic supply chains and enabling reliable capability for our allies.
Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

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 — Flexible onsite generation for data centers, utility, industrial & enterprise applications. Fuel-flexible, fast to deploy, high-efficiency, low NOx power.
Echodyne — Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne's patented technology and powerful software create a high-performance radar platform thatproduces security and machine autonomy solutions for government, defense, and industry.Echodyne was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.
TerraPower — Leading innovations in nuclear applications for reactor and storage technology, while advancing methods to transform the fight against cancer.

David E. Weekly is the Head of The Capital One Lab of Capital One. He previously worked at Medcorder as a Founder and CEO. David E. Weekly attended 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.

Patrick Collison is a CEO of Stripe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Antithesis — At Antithesis, we want to bring the confidence and productivity benefits of autonomous testing to your team. We have developed a platform that searches for bugs in your software, in a controlled environment where all bugs are reproducible. Our first offering finds fault tolerance bugs: failures of your software that occur under specific network, hardware or timing conditions.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

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

Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
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!

Patrick Soon-Shiong is the Executive Chairman of ImmunityBio. He previously worked at Wibbitz as a Board member. Patrick Soon-Shiong attended the University of the Witwatersrand.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, 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.
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.
Alyssum Therapeutics — Alyssum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing next-generation immunotherapies to modulate B cells.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TerraPower — Leading innovations in nuclear applications for reactor and storage technology, while advancing methods to transform the fight against cancer.
Inflection AI — Inflection AI is pioneering the future with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI that transforms interactions from transactional to reltational, creating enduring value for individuals and enterprises alike.
Nimbus Therapeutics — Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company. Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that is pioneering a new computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinicaldevelopment. We are designing highly selective and potent medicines to disrupt known drivers of serious diseases, including metabolic disease, cancer and immune-inflammatory disorders.

Avtar Monga - Chief Operating Officer @ IDFC Bank

Investment focus

B2B, Restaurants, Business Development
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ukhi — Ukhi is a material science company which manufactures green solution to plastics. We make biodegradable & compostable bioplastic granules using agri waste for shopping bags, garbage bags
Paymart India — Paymart India is a Merchants-enabled cash withdrawal platform .
AdvantageClub.ai — Advantage Club provides an AI-driven platform intended for driving employee engagement. It delivers programs that connect and benefit both the brands and an organization's clients/employees. The company intends to provide an end-to-end solution to facilitate meaningful client and employee engagement through exclusive privileges andrewards provided by its brand partners.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Medra AI — Building robotics to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. At Medra, our mission is to automate repetitive wetlab tasks so scientists can more easily collect data and run the experiments needed to make groundbreaking scientific discoveries.
Pincites — Pincites lets you to redline contracts faster and more consistently, right in Microsoft Word.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.

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, Switzerland

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Amperon — Our AI-powered demand forecasts help companies manage risk and navigate volatile energy markets.
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.
Distributed Energy Pte Ltd — 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.

Marc Tarpe is based out of Redwood City, California and serves as the Venture Partner of Spero Ventures and also serves as the Board of Director of Wattch. Marc previously served as Co-Founder of Tesla. Marc attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Drones, Renewable Energy, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series D
United States, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Telo Trucks — Say hello to TELO, the all-electric mini truck. Designed from the ground up for efficiency and practicality.
Tesla — Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes and businesses.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
Airbound — Welcome to Airbound, where we're reaching the unreachable with our zero infrastructure deliveries. Discover our innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable delivery systems.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

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.

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Portola — Portola develops the Tolan app, an AI companion that features animated alien personalities for conversational support. The platform matches users with a personalized virtual friend through a personality interview, then evolves that relationship via memory and daily reflection, helping users feel more grounded amid modern pressures. Tolan engages invoice-based chat and can analyze images, enabling natural, context-aware interactions.
Airbound — Welcome to Airbound, where we're reaching the unreachable with our zero infrastructure deliveries. Discover our innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable delivery systems.
Dot Product — AI coworkers for operations teams.

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

HiWi — HiWiPay offers secure & fast international B2B payment solutions built for Indian exporters. HiWipay is RBI-compliant cross-border platform to receive global payments.
Kluisz.ai — Kluisz.ai is an enterprise AI startup building an autonomous, AI-native private cloud platform designed to simplify and secure the operation of enterprise and AI workloads across hybrid, on-premise, edge, and sovereign cloud environments.
SaveSage Club — Credit Card Rewards and Loyalty Programs can be optimally utilized with SaveSage Club. Also, manage your multiple Credit Cards with ease.

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

ESAI — Join over 500,000 students crafting their story
Kind Designs — We specialize in Seawall Construction using advanced 3D-printing technology in Florida. Get a free consultation today!
Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple

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.

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 — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

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.

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, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
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.
Axle Energy — Axle's software dynamically gives flexibility to the electricity grid and adjusts energy usage to when it is cheapest and greenest.

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, Retail, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Analytics, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MacroX — We are a SaaS platform that uses AI and hundreds of alternative data sources to map the macroeconomy and society in real-time. Unlike 1 to 3 months lagged, inaccurate, and sparse government data that lack narrative, our information is real-time, 10% to 20% more accurate, granular at a city level, and rich in context.
Vendia — Vendia unifies all enterprise data to power secure, AI-driven outcomes with real-time control, centralized governance, and seamless data harmonization.
Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.

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.

Daniel Gulati is the Founder at Treble Capital.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Eucalyptus — Eucalyptus or 'Euc' for short, delivers high-touch, high-quality healthcare to patients around the world who want to live better, for longer.
Elephant Energy — We make it easy to upgrade to a Climate-Friendly Home
Elephant Energy — We make it easy to upgrade to a Climate-Friendly Home

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 — 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.

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.

Sytse Sijbrandij is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of GitLab. He previously worked at Comcoaster as a Founder. Sytse Sijbrandij attended the University of Twente.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Data Visualization
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a US solar technology company building high-performance perovskite tandem products. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of solar energy.
Mermaid Char — Mermaid Chart, founded by Knut Sveidqvist and Open Core Ventures, emerged from the Mermaid open-source project. Lead developers from Mermaid have joined, strengthening the project's connection. Mermaid Chart bolsters open-source Mermaid development, enabling professional usage, while maintaining open-source functionality. It supports Mermaidsignificantly, but also offers commercial services to fund project growth and expand the developer team.
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)

Mark Tercek

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Farming, Big Data
Seed, Series E
United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Terviva — TerViva partners with growers to raise organic pongamia trees, a legume tree crop that produces large quantities of alternative protein and vegetable oil.
Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
NCX — NCX democratizes access to natural capital markets by opening up participation to landowners of all sizes. Massive climate, community, and landscape impact is delivered by connecting every landowner to carbon credit buyers on its Natural Capital Exchange. Through rigorous data and science practices, NCX carbon buyers are making real, measurableprogress towards their sustainability goals.

Howard Wenger serves as SunPower president, regions and is responsible for the company’s global residential, commercial, utilities and power plants business, including sales, business development, customer operations, sales and finance operations, and engineering, procurement and construction. Wenger also serves as president of SunPowerCorporation, Systems, the company’s turn-key power systems group. Previously, he was SunPower president, utility and power plant (UPP), and from 2007 through 2009, Wenger served as president, global business units, where he helped grow SunPower’s sales more than 500 percent. Prior to the company’s acquisition of PowerLight Corporation in 2007, Wenger held positions at PowerLight as executive vice president and a member of its board, and as vice president, North American Business, for AstroPower, Inc (acquired by General Electric.) During his career in the solar and utility power field, Wenger has authored dozens of papers and public policies to mainstream solar power and developed software programs and tools still in use today. Wenger holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Solar, Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

OpenSolar — OpenSolar connects homeowners, solar professionals, and partners with free software to design, sell, and manage fast, accurate solar projects.
Station A — Station A helps real estate owners and long-term tenants rapidly identify and install solar, battery, and EV charging projects.
Pegasus Solar — Pegasus Solar provides advanced mounting systems and cutting-edge installation solutions to the solar industry.

A co-founder of August Capital in 1995, Dave's commitment to entrepreneurs and their market vision is reflected by his long-standing board relationships, he has served on more than 25 boards of directors during his 20 year venture capital career including Microsoft, Sun, Seagate, Adaptec, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).Priorto August Capital, Dave was a co-founder of Technology Venture Investors (TVI) in 1980 where he was involved in four highly successful funds that invested in more than 100 start-up and emerging growth companies. Among these early investments was Microsoft, where TVI was the sole investor and where Dave has been on the board of directors since 1981.Dave began his venture career at Institutional Venture Associates, where he spent a year after graduating from business school. Previously, Dave was a design engineer and development manager at Diablo Systems (acquired by Xerox) where he collaborated on and/or led various disk drive and printer programs.Dave received a BSME from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University. He also completed coursework for an MSEE at Stanford University. He has served as president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and is a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.

Investment focus

DevOps, Health Care, Cloud Data Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Quandl — The source for financial, economic, and alternative datasets, serving investment professionals.
Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
Gridtential Energy — Gridtential Energy or Gridtential. Silicon Joule technology transforms lead batteries into safe, long-lasting, high-power source of energy.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

XBOW — XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — AIUC certifies and insures AI agents to unlock secure adoption.

Swaroop 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 unifies all enterprise data to power secure, AI-driven outcomes with real-time control, centralized governance, and seamless data harmonization.
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.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

XBOW — XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — AIUC certifies and insures AI agents to unlock secure adoption.

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

Portfolio highlights

Onsite Pro — Join the green workforce America needs now
Coral Vita — Coral Vita's innovative coral reef restoration grows diverse, resilient corals to protect marine biodiversity and support communities dependent on healthy reefs
Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.

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.

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Twin — Agentic AI, made actionable.
Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Vahan — Vahan's AI-Driven virtual assistant helps field sales teams and frontliners do better work at scale. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track usage data that can be used for business intelligence. Their virtual assistant is completely customizable to align with employers' support, training, communication, and reporting needs.
Vahan.ai — Vahan uses Artificial Intelligence to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps
TechEagle Innovations — TechEagle is India's pioneer and lead manufacturer of long range, high Speed, heavy payload delivery Drone solutions. Founded in 2015 by IIT Kanpur alumni, It became one of the very first companies to receive approvals from DGCA, MoCA, AAI & MHA to conduct BVLOS trials for package delivery in India.

Ankit Kedia Founder at Capital-A.

Investment focus

Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
InfinityBox — InfinityBox is a platform for reusable packaging for plastic bottles.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.

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!

Ross is a repeat Internet entrepreneur with experience in public policy. He was a founder at Reputation.com, the world leader in online privacy & reputation management solutions. Reputation.com now serves customers in over 100 countries and is a 2012 World Economic Forum (Davos) Global Growth Company. Ross also previously served on thespeechwriting staff of a major presidential campaign. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School.

Investment focus

Training, Employment, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Greenwork — Join the green workforce America needs now

Barney Schauble joined Nephila in 2004 as a Principal. Mr. Schauble's primary responsibilities include investor relations, risk sourcing, and other business development projects, as well as portfolio management. Mr. Schauble began his career in New York in 1994 as a broker for Marsh, and later moved to Guy Carpenter (Marsh's reinsurancebroking subsidiary). Mr. Schauble left Guy Carpenter in 1996 to join Goldman, Sachs & Co as part of their new Risk Markets effort, which was focused on securitizing insurance risks and other areas of intersection between insurance and capital markets. He was transferred to London in 1999, where he co-headed the European effort, before returning to New York in 2002. His responsibilities as a Vice President in Risk Markets included client coverage, product development, syndication and distribution for a variety of structured products such as risk-linked securities, weather derivatives, and credit derivatives. Mr. Schauble joined XL Capital's Weather & Energy subsidiary in 2003, and was appointed head of marketing for the weather business. At XLWE he was responsible for managing a global team, originating weather risk management business and hedging XLWE's excess weather risk with insurance and capital markets counterparties. Mr. Schauble attended Harvard College and received his B.A. in Economics in 1994; he wrote his senior thesis to explore the concept of investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Riskpulse — Everstream Analytics transforms risk intelligence with AI-driven insights that enable businesses to build agile, risk-optimized supply chains.
CleanCapital — CleanCapital owns and operates 200+ solar and energy storage projects across the U.S. We connect investors to renewable energy opportunities and provide capital to developers.
Climate Alpha — Translate location analytics into financial impact.

Brice Scheschuk is a Co-founder, Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Globalive Communications / Wind Mobile. He has been with Globalive / Wind for eight years in a senior finance capacity and is responsible for all aspects of finance, facilities and business planning including direct responsibility for raising in excess of $1.2billion in capital. Brice is the Co-President of Brave Investment, an investment holding company focused on private and public company and fund investing and manages over $10 million in assets across a number of investment classes including alternative funds, private and public equity, venture capital, angel, real estate, CPC’s, SPAC’s and RTO’s. He is the Chairman and Director of Samba Days, a gift experiences company, and a past director of a number of public and private companies including Web Host Industry Review, iLookabout, Hy-Drive Technologies and Varicent Software. Brice is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and earned his designation at Coopers & Lybrand in 1997. A passionate entrepreneur and investor, Brice has been involved in some of the most exciting start-ups in Canada over the past 15 years.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dynami Battery Corp — Dynami supercharges current and future lithium battery chemistries through electrode micro-engineering.
SceneDoc — SceneDoc is public safety’s first all-in-one mobile software for data collection and retrieval. By modernizing with SceneDoc, agencies operate with higher levels of clarity and control, with fewer moving parts, capturing data and reporting at the point of need. SceneDoc is saving agencies an hour of paperwork per shift on average, resulting in lesstime reporting and more time in the community so officers can do what they do best.
Mayday — Time is your most valuable asset. Make sure you're spending it wisely.

Nipun Sahni

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Sumant Sinha is the Founder and CEO of ReNew, a wind energy firm based in India.From 2008 to May 2010, Sumant was the Chief Operating Officer of Suzlon Energy Ltd, the world's third largest renewable energy company (FY 2010 sales of $5 billion). At Suzlon, Sumant shared the CEO's responsibilities with Mr. Tulsi Tanti, the founderChairman and majority shareholder of the company. During this period, Sumant was directly running the finance, marketing, supply chain, and organizational transformation and integration initiatives of the company. Under his watch, Suzlon refinanced its entire outstanding debt worth $3 billion, raised additional funds of approximately $800 million, restructured $500 million of convertible bonds, generated an order book in excess of $2 billion, and turned the company around in an extremely difficult external operating environment.Prior to joining Suzlon, Sumant set up the Aditya Birla Group's venture in the retail sector in India, Aditya Birla Retail (ABRL) and was it's founder CEO. During a stint of 18 months he set up 600 supermarkets and 2 hypermarkets, hired over 12000 people and positioned ABRL as one of the leading retail operators in India.From 2002 to 2007, Sumant was the Group CFO of the Aditya Birla Group, one of India's largest and most diversified business groups (market cap of USD 25 bn). He was responsible for some of the largest acquisitions in India's corporate history.Sumant's areas of expertise are finance, business strategy, turn-arounds, start-ups and climate change issues.Sumant has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Masters degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He was a Dean's Fellow at Columbia, a National Talent Scholar and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Investment focus

B2B, Energy, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.
Baaz Bikes — ElecTorq Technologies operates as a shared mobility solutions startup. ElecTorq Technologies manufactures Baaz I, a solo self-ride electric scooter, which is expected to find a clientele in the country's shared mobility players such as Rapido, Yulu, Bounce, Zapp and Vogo.
Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.