Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in United States in November 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 in November 2024
Investor | Renewable Energy United States investments |
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Jackson Moses | 4 |
Sunmeet Jolly | 3 |
Tom Werner | 3 |
Bill Gates | 3 |
Bill Gates | 3 |
Ramez Naam | 3 |
Patrick Soon-Shiong | 3 |
David E. Weekly | 3 |
Ashley Mayer | 2 |
Patrick Collison | 2 |
Lachy Groom | 2 |
Supriya Paul | 2 |
Josh Felser | 2 |
Marc Tarpenning | 2 |
Nat Friedman | 2 |
Dr Ritesh Malik | 2 |
Nat Friedman | 2 |
Thomas McInerney | 2 |
Mark Cuban | 2 |
Sytse Sijbrandij | 2 |
Kittu Kolluri | 2 |
Maulik Majmudar | 2 |
Swaroop Kolluri | 2 |
Luke Kupersmith | 2 |
Sierra Peterson | 2 |
Eugene Goldberg | 2 |
David Marquardt | 2 |
Sam Altman | 2 |
Edward Kim | 2 |
Luigi Bajetti | 2 |
Surya Panditi | 2 |
Nat Friedman | 2 |
Dhruv Chitgopekar | 2 |
Rayyan Islam | 2 |
Chuck Yates | 1 |
Jack Fuchs | 1 |
Mark Goines | 1 |
Craig Winkler | 1 |
Richard Lowenthal | 1 |
Tobias Lütke | 1 |
Roshan Abbas | 1 |
Alex Robertson | 1 |
Ed Walters | 1 |
Barney Schauble | 1 |
John Collison | 1 |
Bootstrapped Debt Financing | 1 |
Jim Bochnowski | 1 |
Gregory Avis | 1 |
Brady Dougan | 1 |
Paula Mariwala | 1 |
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 private syndicate that provides its members exclusive access to leadingmulti-stage defense and frontier tech deals. Additionally, Jackson serves as a Senior Advisor to the founding teams of Castelion and Privateer Space.Before 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.Before 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.Before founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Before 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.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, National Security
- 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.
- Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery
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.
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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!
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.
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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.
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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 — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Series C, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
- Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
- Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.
Ramez Naam is Chief Futurist and Partner at Prime Movers Lab.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Ashley Mayer is the Operating Council at Mixing Board . Ashley Mayer attended Georgetown University.
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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.
Patrick Collison is the Co-Founder, CEO and Content Strategist of Stripe. He previously worked at Auctomatic as a Co-Founder. Patrick Collison attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
- The Bot Company — The Bot Company a household robot startup.
Lachy Groom - Co-Founder @ Physical Intelligence
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Nooks — Working with your team should be enjoyable & energizing. Nooks is the virtual office for your team to skip the fatiguing meetings and bring back impromptu collaboration & casual conversations.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Supriya Paul is the founder of John Talks.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Renewable Energy, Robotics
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Grid Status — Grid Status offers an open platform for understanding what is happening on the electrical grid. Grid Status provides organized and dependable data, allowing the next generation of energy innovators to focus on developing innovative solutions rather than maintaining their own complex data pipelines.
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- 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.
- The Hive Hostels — The Hive Hostels offers PG & Hostel accommodations that provide its community with the best co-living accommodation for our residents.
- First Coffee — First Coffee a specialty coffee brand, combines design, culture and a new customer experience, with premium coffee
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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)
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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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.
Maulik Majmudar is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder at Biofourmis. Maulik Majmudar attended Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School.
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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.
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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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.
Luke Kupersmith - President & CEO @ Lojistic
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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.
Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.
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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.
Eugene Goldberg
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Beacon AI — Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.
- 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.
Edward Kim
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Grid Status — Grid Status offers an open platform for understanding what is happening on the electrical grid. Grid Status provides organized and dependable data, allowing the next generation of energy innovators to focus on developing innovative solutions rather than maintaining their own complex data pipelines.
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Dhruv Chitgopekar
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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- 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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
- Butler — Streamline your workflow with AI-powered summaries, contextual chat, a native meeting bot and more, all in one place.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.
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- Digital Entertainment, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Dubdub.ai — Google translate for videos
- MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
- KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
Alex Robertson, lead investor and President of Tiger Management.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Mining, Jewelry
- Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eterneva — Heat, pressure, time, and carbon. That's what's needed for an Eterneva diamond to form. Cremated remains are made up of .0.5-4% carbon.
- 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.
Ed Walters is the General Partner at Allegory.
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- Software, Real Estate, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Estonia, Australia
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- Payourse — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Farm — Investing in farmland regeneration.
- Solid World — A DAO that will create new carbon projects
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.
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- Energy, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
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- Riskpulse — Everstream sets the world's supply chain standard, using predictive analytics, human insights, and eyes everywhere to make supply chains smarter.
- 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.
John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
Jim Bochnowski
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- Solar, Energy, Clean Energy
- Series A
- United States
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- Terrajoule — Terrajoule is a solar + storage solution that revolutionizes the cleantech industry.
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.
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- CRM, SaaS, Solar
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Switzerland
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- 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.
Brady Dougan is the Founder and CEO at Exos. He attended the University of Chicago.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Medical, Blockchain
- Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Humacyte — Humacyte is dedicated to revolutionizing regenerative medicine. We focus on creating universally implantable, bioengineered human tissues, with our flagship product being the Human Acellular Vessel (HAV). Our cutting-edge technology is currently being tested in clinical trials for various vascular applications. Founded in 2004 in Durham, N.C., our goal is to transform medical treatments and significantly improve patient outcomes through our innovative approach to bioengineering.
- Delta Mining — Bitcoin Mining and Colocation services, utilizing 100% green energy, operating in Paraguay and Brazil
Part of the founding team of Seedfund, Paula Mariwala is the Executive Director at Seedfund. She has over 20 years of experience with technology companies in USA and India. In her role as the Executive Director since inception of Seedfund in 2006, Paula has worked extensively with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India to source, evaluate andmentor start-up companies for Seedfund. She works closely with Portfolio companies to take them to their next stage of growth and has led investments in education, healthcare and mobile technology.Coming from a strong business background and a technocrat by profession, Paula has worked with companies like Photon Kinetics, Tektronix and Optivideo in USA and is Promoter and Director of The Hinditron Group of companies, one of India’s oldest technology company, where she has been responsible for managing the Telecommunication business of the Group and for driving new business initiatives. She is also an active angel investor, and has mentored and invested in several innovative companies across sectors.Paula holds an MS in Applied Physics from Stanford University, USA. She has several publications and patents to her credit in the fields of Astrophysics and Optical Communication.A Charter member of TiE, she is very active in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and is involved in various capacities with academic institutions and incubators. She is associated with professional organizations like IEEE (Life Member), Computer Society of India, Stanford University Alumni Association. Paula has a strong commitment and interest in education and also devotes time working with several schools and NGOs.
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- Internet of Things, EdTech, Toys
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
- Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
- Awaaz.De — Awaaz.De provides technology solutions and services for development sector organizations to connect with under served communities. It develops cost-effective, easy-to-use communication and data collection tools that work on mobiles and landlines, breaking language and literacy barriers. Awaaz.De clients use their applications for health, education,microfinance, and agriculture to increase the impact.Awaaz.De was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Ahmedabad, India.
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