Investors & Partners

Thank you to the investors and partners who actively engaged with our companies in nearly 800 meetings and introductions at the Investor & Partner Connect events on October 11, 12, 13 and 27.

The first three mornings on Zoom saw 68 companies meet 26 investors in 441 one-to-one meetings!
October 27 expects 50 companies meeting 40-50 investors in up to 350 live, in-person meetings in 2-1/2 hours!

Get invited to future events: fill out our Investor Interest Form.
Limited to professional or accredited investors, or corporate VCs, or tech scouts.

Investor & Partner Connect is generously supported by
First Republic Bank, "Banking Built for Innovators" out of Walnut Creek, CA.

Investors and partners are listed A-Z by company:

AGC -- Naoki Okahata

Angel investor -- Alexey Gavrilenya

Baker Hughes -- Ian Dunderdale

Blue Bear Capital -- Andre Chabaneix

Blue Bear Capital -- Hayley Nystrom

Cargill -- Nathan Noyes

Clean Energy Ventures -- Shanbor Gupta

Congruent Ventures -- Christina O'Conor

Daikin Industries -- Yuya Saito

Daikin Open Innovation Lab Silicon Valley -- Chun-cheng Piao

Dow -- Kathleen Jurman

Dow -- Liz Dhulst

E8 Angels -- David Benham

E8 Ventures -- Jean-Noel Poirier

Ecosystem Integrity Fund -- Sabin Ray

EDF -- Olivier Deneux

EDF Pulse Ventures -- Victoire DE MAUDUIT

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. -- Itaru Shiraishi

Energy Foundry -- Jason Blumberg

Energy Impact Partners -- Will Lipscomb

Evoqua Water Technologies -- Harshita Gogoi

Fontinalis Partners -- Amy Dai

Halftone Ventures -- Frank Bryan

InvestHK -- Kerry Bonner

JETRO -- Edward Ramsey

JETRO SF -- Misako Ito

Landmark Angels/Family Office -- William Podd

Mitsubishi Corporation Americas -- Norio Matsunaga

MUUS Climate Partners -- Kavita Patel

Narwhale Ventures -- Celine Schulze

Nayantara Sustainability Ventures LLP -- Pavan Manocha

Network VC -- Porter Wong

NextEra Energy Investments -- Enrique Ruiz

Nitto Innovations, Inc. -- Yoshi Shimizu

Pasadena Angels -- Jeff Chuang

Pasadena Angels -- Lawrence Uhl

Pasadena Angels -- Dave de Csepel

Pasadena Angels -- Mark Son

Pro Capital LLC -- Peter Lusk

Saint-Gobain -- Nicholas Deraney

Silicon Valley Bank -- Danny Donovan

Skyview Ventures -- Peter Nager

Skyview Ventures -- Wallace Kyle

SoCalGas R&D -- Alan Leung

Sony Ventures -- Ludovic Copéré

Starshot Capital -- Jeremy Brewer

Starshot Capital -- Sam Levac-Levey

Suburban Renewable Energy, LLC -- Douglas Dagan

TDK Ventures -- Yan Yan

Technip Energies -- Yu Huang

The Builders Fund -- Katharine Hawthorne

Upward Labs -- Rachel Dantess

Vectors Capital -- Philip Li

VertueLab -- Allison Arnold

Woodfield Renewable Partners, LLC -- Tyler Bonini

Our investors and partners don't just provide funding, they also provide opportunities for pilot tests, proof of concept programs, large challenge prizes, and, just as important, advice as to how emerging startups should position themselves to best work with funders to raise the financing they'll need to grow.

Shoutout to the team of finance and engineering volunteers, led by long-time CTO volunteer and mentor Josh Schein of GK Advisors.

Much appreciation to the developers of our sophisticated matching tool:
Amruta Joshi (2022), Nathan Destouches (2020-2022), Anthony Song (2020), Olivia Victorino (2020) and Heeju Son (2020-2021).

Thank you!