Top 30 Oil and Gas Angel Investors in United States in October 2023
Top 30 Oil and Gas Angel Investors in United States in October 2023
| Investor | Oil and Gas United States investments |
|---|---|
| Nat Friedman | 2 |
| Ozzy Akay | 2 |
| Geoff Hicks | 1 |
| Donald R. Kendall | 1 |
| John Collison | 1 |
| Philippe Suchet | 1 |
| Ric Fulop | 1 |
| Naruhisa Nakagawa | 1 |
| Dylan Taylor | 1 |
| Erhan Bilici | 1 |
| Jake Zeller | 1 |
| Sunmeet Jolly | 1 |
| Raza Shaikh | 1 |
| bumpkins profile | 1 |
| Bob Greene | 1 |
| Louis Beryl | 1 |
| Erik Peterson | 1 |
| Ed Chandler | 1 |
| Travis Bradford | 1 |
| Anil Advani | 1 |
| Joel Moxley | 1 |
| Armando Pauker | 1 |
| Evan Brown | 1 |
| Bill Gates | 1 |
| Bill Wood | 1 |
| Raymond Tonsing | 1 |
| Lon Chow | 1 |
| Romesh Wadhwani | 1 |
| Abhi Desai | 1 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | 1 |
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Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- Echo Labs — Echo Labs is developing the first artificial intelligence capable of human-level transcribing.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Ozzy Akay
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- Manufacturing, Virtual Reality, Oil and Gas
- Series A, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aptera — Aptera Motors is engaged in designing, engineering, and assembling the most efficient transportation in the world. Aptera Motors, Corp. was formerly known as Accelerated Composites. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
- Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
- Immersed — We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.
founder of Hicks Oilfield
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- Analytics, Real Time, Oil and Gas
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Seismos — Discover Seismos Inc., a leading technology provider for the Oil & Gas industry. Our innovative suite offers non-invasive fracture property measurements and real-time analytics, empowering data-driven actions. Join thousands of U.S. plays benefiting from our award-winning solutions.
Donald R. Kendall - MD & CEO @ Kenmont Solutions Capital
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- Analytics, Real Time, Oil and Gas
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Seismos — Discover Seismos Inc., a leading technology provider for the Oil & Gas industry. Our innovative suite offers non-invasive fracture property measurements and real-time analytics, empowering data-driven actions. Join thousands of U.S. plays benefiting from our award-winning solutions.
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, Apps, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
- Terraform Industries — Terraform Industries manufactures carbon negative "natural gas" by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. Since a large fraction of natural gas is not burned but used industrially for products including fertilizer, plastics, pharmaceuticals, coatings and adhesives, our natural gas is net carbon negative.Terraform Industries is a bet oncheap solar, synthetic hydrocarbon supremacy, and hyperscale.The overarching goal is to zero out the net transport of carbon from the crust to the atmosphere and oceans as quickly as possible by displacing drilled natural gas production with direct atmospheric processing.
Philippe Suchet joined Spider Capital as Venture Partner in 2015.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Israel, France
Portfolio highlights
- Qwak — Build, deploy, maintain, and monitor ML models and features in a single platform.
- Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.
- Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Ric Fulop is the CEO and co-founder of Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3Dprinting an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. Prior to founding Desktop Metal in October 2015, Ric was a General Partner at North Bridge, a VC fund with $3 billion under management, for five years following a fifteen-year career as an entrepreneur. Fulop is the founder of six technology companies, including A123 Systems, Boston's largest IPO in the past decade and one of the world’s largest automotive lithium ion suppliers with revenue exceeding $500M in 2016. At North Bridge, Ric led the software and 3D investing practices, and was an early stage investor and board member in Dyn (acquired by Oracle for $600 million), Onshape, MarkForged, Salsify, Lytro and Gridco.Ric is a former Board Member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School where he was a Sloan Fellow.
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- Software, Virtual Reality, Hardware
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States
Portfolio highlights
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- Gridco — Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distributionbelow the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision.
- Vicarious Surgical — Vicarious Surgical, a next-generation medical robotics company, designs technology for minimally invasive surgery with a focus on abdominal access and visualization through a single port.
Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.
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- Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zeigo — Zeigo is a company formed by a team of like-minded clean energy & tech pioneers with a mission to help companies transition to a low carbon economy.
- Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
- Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.
Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.
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- Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
- Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
- Spaced Ventures — Spaced Ventures is a public investment platform for the space industry. Their platform gives direct access to investment deals and lets them back the hottest space startups. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Florida.
Risk Management professional, experienced in Stress Testing and Capital Planning. Economist, Investment Analyst, Financial Consultant. Interested in FinTech.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Nada — Finance, Invest and Bank your real estate.
- DigiBuild — DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology. It captures transactions from all of the different systems being utilized on the project and puts them into a filterable, searchable, and comparable project timeline to remove the waste and fraud for better data insights and decision making that will stopbudget overages.
- Upright — Meet Upright, the good for you go-to. Our first product is a category-defining high-protein, allergen-free Instant Oatmilk in three creamy, delicious flavors: original, vanilla, and chocolate. Each tasty cup of our oatmilk packs the same key nutrients as dairy, without the unwanted allergens or environmental impact.
Jake Zeller is a Venture Hacker at AngelList and investor in early-stage technology companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Fashinza — New Generation Supply Chain And Product Development Platform For Fashion Industry. No matter where you are! We provide one stop solution from design to delivery.
- dWallet Labs — dWallet Labs Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology, is building SingleWallet, the first interface to interact with dWallets on the Odsy Network. The mission of dWallet Labs is to build protocols and solutions on top of the Odsy Network.
- Kitchens Centre — Kitchens Centre offers turnkey solutions to cloud kitchens – right from providing commercial space and kitchen infrastructure to assisting with branding, order management, delivery, and maintenance services.
Founder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 40 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 in consulting services to Fortune 500companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- 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!
Raza Shaikh is the Managing Director of the Launchpad Venture Group.
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- SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gravyty — As your force for good, Gravyty is a leading engagement and fundraising technology provider for admission, alumni relations, career services, and philanthropic professionals. Contact us today to learn more about our online engagement and fundraising software.
- MarketMuse — Most content strategies are built on generic data and opinions. Our AI analyzes your entire website to give you personalized, objective insights so you can
- Kuva Systems — MultiSensor Scientific offers a non-thermal optical gas imaging camera platform for detection. Its services focus on gas detection, identification, and safety. The company is currently working on is developing a machine vision software and sensing platform for creating color images of gas leaks across leak inspection and gas safety industries.MultiSensor Scientific was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
- Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
Bob Greene is a co-founder of Contour Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist since the late 1980's. He has invested in all stages of venture capital across several industry sectors. Contour invests in seed and early stage technology companies in the northeast United States with a focus on the financial services, digital media andthe internet sectors.Prior to launching Contour, Bob was one of the three managing partners of Flatiron Partners. Located in New York City, Flatiron was a leading venture capital firm focused on the information technology sector. The firm backed over 50 companies with over $500 million of venture capital.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Estimize — Estimize is an online crowdsourcing platform that shares and reviews fundamental financial estimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and students. It acts as an online community and discussion forum for hedge funds and asset management professionals to interact and get a true view of marketexpectations. Estimize is also available on major financial research platforms such as Bloomberg, Quantopian, and more. The platform was launched in 2011 and its operations are based in New York, United States.
- TrialJectory — TrialJectory uses AI to match cancer patients with clinical trials that fit their exact cancer diagnosis. Named a TIME Best Invention of 2020, our service is 100% FREE for patients, and always will be. Get started, or share TrialJectory with someone in need!
- COMET — COMET is a cloud-based energy trading platform that automates RFPs, negotiation and execution of energy transactions across 16 asset classes, including Natural Gas, Electricity and complex LNG trades.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stelo Labs — Read the lastest on web3 security from Stelo
- Cashmere — Secure multisig solana wallet, built for teams. Send, receive, and grow your digital assets directly from your Cashmere Vault.
- Meez Culinary Solutions — Organize, Train, Cost, Iterate, Collaborate, and Share your recipes and process.
Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.
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- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- United States, Canada, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
- Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
- Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
- Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Edward Chandler is a founder and managing director of Portage Venture Partners, which manages the Portage, DFJ Portage, and Graystone Venture Funds. He currently manages the firm's investments in Aleri, Centerpost, Cythera, MobileAware, Pericor Science and Vbrick Systems.Prior to forming Portage and Graystone, Chandler was a founder andthe managing principal of Prairie Capital, a venture capital investment firm formed in 1990 to acquire a venture portfolio from the private equity investment subsidiary of Continental Bank. During his tenures at Continental, Prairie, and Graystone, Chandler has served as a director of HNC Software, Inc., Meridian Data, Inc., Worldtalk Communications, Inc., Iwerks Entertainment, Inc., and Datawatch Corp., as well as several other companies which are still privately held.He joined Continental Illinois' venture capital affiliates in 1984. From 1980 to 1982, Chandler was an Associate with the Boston Consulting Group.Chandler holds an MBA from Harvard University, where he graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar. He earned a BA in economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University.
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- Solar, Energy, CleanTech
- Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Solmentum — Solmentum is now Gen110.Founded in 2009 by University of Chicago graduates Jason Brown and Jasper Platz, Solmentum provides affordable metered electricity similar to your current utility company. However, unlike that company, who probably gets its electricity from coal or natural gas, Solmentum is able to provide its customers with clean solarenergy. Here’s how it works: If you qualify, Solmentum installs solar panels on your roof. Because of recent energy programs at both the State and the Federal level, this process requires only a minimal upgrade fee. Also, because of our partnership with SunRun, a leading financing company for residential solar power, Solmentum is able to set up financing, or leasing, options with well qualified buyers. Finally, after the panels are installed, you are able to buy clean solar electricity at a guaranteed rate. In the current market, where energy costs are on the rise and expected to keep climbing, having a fixed rate for your energy bill provides both savings and peace of mind. Since its inception, Solmentum has provided this peace of mind to more than 1,000 happy homeowners in the form of over 5MW of electricity. Although headquartered in San Francisco, Solmentum has expanded rapidly and now has offices in the San Jose, Bakersfield, and Orange County regions.
Travis Bradford is the Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is also a full-time Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, teaching energy and natural resource markets and innovation at SIPA, CBS, and the Earth Institute.Travis is also the founderand president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit organization focused on harnessing the power of the business sector to develop cost-effective and sustainable solutions in technologies, including energy, water, food, and recycling. Through the Institute, he helped launch many organizations, including Greentech Media and the Carbon War Room.Previously, Travis has been a professor at the University of Chicago and Duke University MBA programs, and has lectured on finance, entrepreneurship, and alternative energy economics at many leading universities in the U.S. His published works include “Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry”, in addition to dozens of global market research reports on all aspects of the energy industry.Travis earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgia State University in 1992 and an MBA in 1996 from the NYU Stern School of Business. In 2006, he received an MPA degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has previously worked at the Federal Reserve, as a partner at various public and private equity investment firms, and as a board member of numerous publicly traded, private, and non-profit firms in the US and abroad.
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- Solar, Energy, CleanTech
- Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Solmentum — Solmentum is now Gen110.Founded in 2009 by University of Chicago graduates Jason Brown and Jasper Platz, Solmentum provides affordable metered electricity similar to your current utility company. However, unlike that company, who probably gets its electricity from coal or natural gas, Solmentum is able to provide its customers with clean solarenergy. Here’s how it works: If you qualify, Solmentum installs solar panels on your roof. Because of recent energy programs at both the State and the Federal level, this process requires only a minimal upgrade fee. Also, because of our partnership with SunRun, a leading financing company for residential solar power, Solmentum is able to set up financing, or leasing, options with well qualified buyers. Finally, after the panels are installed, you are able to buy clean solar electricity at a guaranteed rate. In the current market, where energy costs are on the rise and expected to keep climbing, having a fixed rate for your energy bill provides both savings and peace of mind. Since its inception, Solmentum has provided this peace of mind to more than 1,000 happy homeowners in the form of over 5MW of electricity. Although headquartered in San Francisco, Solmentum has expanded rapidly and now has offices in the San Jose, Bakersfield, and Orange County regions.
Anil Advani is the Managing Partner of Palo Alto and San Francisco based law firm, Inventus Law. His practice focuses on representing early stage start-up companies, from 2-3 "guys in the garage" through the life-cycle of the venture, negotiating angel and venture financings, customer and licensing transactions, and mergers andacquisitions. He has also represented a number of angel investor groups. Over the last 12 years working at powerhouse law firms like Cooley Godward and Orrick Herrington, Mr. Advani has represented over 800 startups and founders (including many backed by the premier Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator), and been involved in almost 200 financing and M&A transactions valued at over $1 billion in aggregate.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- OptIQ — OptIQ is an artificial intelligence-driven platform that enables developers to manage cloud infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, logging, and cloud security compliance in a single platform without having core DevOps expertise.
- Evo Foods — EVO foods is creating India’s first 100% plant based liquid egg
- Ottonomy — Our fully autonomous robots can deliver food & beverages, groceries, and packages to curbside, last mile, and even indoor environments.
Joel Moxley - Patner @ Echelon
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- Software, Computer, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oseberg — Rapidly uncover leasing, drilling, enhanced completion, and acquisition opportunities with Oseberg. Oseberg aggregates state, federal, and county oil and gas records and delivers them via a suite of B2B SaaS products that enable our users to search, map, mine, and perform statistical analysis on every strand of data.
- Remedy — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- TO THE MARKET — TO THE MARKET is the turn key solution for ethical manufacturing and sourcing of apparel, accessories and home goods. We enable the supply chain of the future, in which retail manufacturing empowers people, protects the planet, and delivers quality products that result in a better bottom line.
Armando is a general partner with an investment focus in enterprise infrastructure (hardware, software, security) and cleantech. Prior to joining Apex, Armando served as Vice President of Networking Products for Cybernet Systems Corporation, a Linux-based software start-up. Previously, he was a senior product manager for Electronics for Imaging, adeveloper of high performance digital imaging servers. Armando also served as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked with clients in technology industries. Prior to Booz, Armando was a senior engineering manager at Tandem Computers, Inc., where he led product strategy, and hardware and software development in computer subsystems. Armando holds an MBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan, and he received his BS in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.Armando led Apex's investment in Illumitex and Suniva. He previously served on the boards of BrightCloud (acquired by Webroot), Initiate Systems (acquired by IBM), Informative (acquired by Satmetrix), Integrated Chipware (acquired by Serena), EVS (acquired by First American), and SiliconBlue (acquired by Lattice Semiconductor).
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- Software, SaaS, Open Source
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Binpress — Binpress helps developers build a profitable business from working on open-source projects. It brings the business model of open-source giants such as MySQL and Red-Hat to the long-tail of open-source projects with dual and commercial licensing, and through providing customization, integration and support services. At the same time, Binpressreduces risk and friction for businesses to adopt open-source, with permissive commercial licensing and with guaranteed support.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
- Visibly — Purchase glasses or contacts, renew your prescription with our online vision test, or supercharge your business with all of the above.
- Detective — Detective is a digital adoption platform that helps eliminate constant, repetitive questions, cut training and onboarding time, and increase overall adoption of the company's critical software.Trusted by thousands of users, Detective is the most effective way to enable the teams with the support and answers they need, where they need it whenthey need it.
Evan Brown is a Managing Director, Deputy COO at BMO Capital Markets. He attended Dartmouth College from 1991 to 1995.
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- Chemical, B2B, Agriculture
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
- Datasembly — Datasembly provides brands, CPGs & retailers with unmatched market intelligence - real-time data from every product, every store, every day.
- Gradient Health — One of the biggest barriers to accelerating AI development is access to large datasets of labeled pathologies.
Bill Gates is the founder, technology advisor, and board member of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. He served as chairman of the board until Feb. 4, 2014.On June 27, 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company tospend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He shares his thoughts about the foundation and other topics on Gates Notes, a website launched in January 2010. Gates continues to serve on Microsoft’s Board of Directors and as an advisor on key development projects. He is also the Founder of Breakthrough Energy.Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer – the MITS Altair.In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates’ foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.Under Gates’ leadership, Microsoft’s mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective, and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its industry-leading investment in research and development each year.In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com. Gates’ previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.In addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world’s largest resources of visual information – a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which invests in companies engaged in diverse business activities.Philanthropy is very important to Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, started a foundation in 2000 to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. To learn more about the foundation, visit www.gatesfoundation.orgGates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Gates is an avid reader and enjoys playing golf, tennis, and bridge.
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- Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Mainspring Energy — Local power generation for the net-zero carbon grid.
- Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
- Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Prior to founding Silverton Partners, Bill Wood began his venture career in 1984 as a founding partner of Austin Ventures which has since become one of the largest venture capital firms in the country.Bill is a past recipient of both the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Award and the Austin Technology Pillar Award, recognizing hislifetime contribution to the development of the Austin technology community.Bill received his BA from Brown University Phi Beta Kappa and his MBA from Harvard Business School.Bill sits on the board of Boundless Network, Javelin Semiconductor, Sailpoint Technologies, Silicon Labs, Tk20 and UnboundID.
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- SaaS, Cyber Security, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Stoplight — Using Stoplight you can create OpenAPI descriptions, documentation, mock servers much faster than other API tools, with no specialized knowledge required in one centralized platform.
- Praetorian — Proactive cybersecurity means your attackers never saw us coming. Come explore how we can help simplify and strengthen your security posture.
- MineralAnswers.com — MineralAnswers.com - The ultimate resource for mineral owners and oil and gas professionals to get answers to their oil and gas questions.
Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Japan
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- Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
- Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
- Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Lon Chow is a Partner at Method Capital. Lon Chow attended The Wharton School.
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- Health Care, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
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- New Era ADR — Disputes and litigation are a massive distraction and waste of money and time for you and your business. At least $200B is spent on litigation-related costs each year. New Era solves this. With our fully-digital platform and process, organizations and individuals get access to the most experienced arbitrators and mediators in the U.S. The result isfair, high-quality, and fast resolutions of your disputes, saving you up to 90% in legal fees and time, so you can focus on the things that matter in your life and your business.
- Regroup — Regroup provides telemedicine solutions to eradicate mental healthcare shortages across the USA. The company's services protect the privacy of patients and the confidentiality of personal health information with the help of an end-to-end encryption thus improving access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographic distances,restrictions on their mobility, transportation difficulties and the time and cost burdens associated with traveling to see a healthcare professional in person.
- Music Audience Exchange — MAX is powered by an insights engine that matches brands to artists and a proprietary marketing automation system for generating and distributing brand new music content to targeted audiences across audio, video, social, and live. The average American spends 35+ hours a week listening to music, which is no surprise because artists are constantlyreleasing new music and scheduling tours. People anticipate new releases, seek out live shows, and want to engage with their favorite artists on social — this creates a massive opportunity for marketers to brand the release of this new music.
Romesh Wadhwani founded Symphony Technology Group in 2002 for one reason: he is passionate about building companies. After a 30-year career as an entrepreneur in the enterprise software sector, Romesh launched STG to lend his expertise and passion to investing.Before starting STG, Romesh was the founder, chairman and CEO of Aspect Development,Inc. until 1999, when the company was acquired by i2 Technologies. For nearly a decade, Romesh grew Aspect Development into a leader in business-to-business commerce software, which culminated in the merger of Aspect with supply chain software company i2 Technologies. At that time, this combination was one of the largest enterprise software mergers.
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- Software, Analytics, Energy
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States
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- Nexant — Globally renowned energy efficiency experts providing unparalleled utility consulting and software solutions across the clean energy sector. Learn more:
- SafeGraph — SafeGraph curates the highest quality and most up-to-date Places data to help organizations understand dynamically changing market trends, power informative mapping applications, and analyze consumer behavior.
- Windfall — Modern Wealth Intelligence | Engage affluent households with actionable data you can trust
Abhi Desai
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- Drones, Sensor, Robotics
- Seed
- United States
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- Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician who was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He served twice as Leader of the Liberal Party, firstly from 2008 to 2009 when he was also Leader of the Opposition and a second time from 2015 to 2018. He was the MP for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2004 to2018.Turnbull graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, before attending Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law. For over two decades prior to entering politics, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, merchant banker, and venture capitalist. He served as Chair of the Australian Republican Movement from 1993 to 2000 and was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the 1999 republic referendum. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Wentworth in New South Wales at the 2004 federal election and was Minister for the Environment and Water from January 2007 until December 2007.After coming second in the 2007 leadership election, Turnbull won the leadership of the Liberal Party in September 2008 and became Leader of the Opposition. However, his support of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposed by the Rudd Government in December 2009 led to a leadership challenge by Tony Abbott, who defeated Turnbull by a single vote. Though initially planning to leave politics after this, Turnbull chose to stay and was later appointed Minister for Communications in the Abbott Government following the 2013 federal election.Citing consistently poor opinion polling for the government, Turnbull resigned from the Cabinet on 14 September 2015 and challenged Abbott, reclaiming the leadership of the Liberal Party by ten votes. He was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia the following day. At the 2016 federal election, Turnbull led the Coalition to victory by a single seat, the smallest majority since the 1961 federal election. In August 2018, a challenge by Peter Dutton led to two Liberal leadership spills. When the second spill motion passed on 24 August 2018, Turnbull did not contest the ballot and subsequently resigned as Prime Minister. Treasurer Scott Morrison defeated Dutton in the contest. Turnbull resigned from parliament on 31 August 2018, triggering a by-election in his former seat of Wentworth. The Liberal Party lost the by-election to independent candidate Kerryn Phelps, which resulted in the Coalition losing its majority in the House of Representatives.
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- Software, Cyber Security, Solar
- Series C, Series B, Seed
- Australia, United States, Germany
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- NexWafe — NexWafe will supply high quality wafers to solar cell producers .Their wafers will be fully compatible with common cell and module fabrication .They will be available at a fraction of the cost of standard wafers.
- GlassPoint Solar — GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.
- Advanced Navigation — Advanced Navigation provides industry-leading inertial navigation systems and robotics technologies for sea, land and air. Get in touch with us today.
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