Investors & Partners

Thank you to the investors and partners who met with our companies in over 350 pre-scheduled or ad-hoc live meetings on 10/26.

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Limited to professional or accredited investors, or corporate VCs, or tech scouts.

Investors and partners are listed A-Z by company:
 

Active Impact Investments -- Sam Hasty

AIF/CEVG -- James Fritz

Amazon Web Services -- Lisbeth Kaufman

Angel -- Ivan Markman

Baltimore Aircoil Company -- JA Colantonio

Belayer -- Máire Walsh

Blue Bear Capital -- Hayley Nystrom

Brinc -- Janina Motter

Chemical Angels -- Damoder Reddy

CWP -- Henry Xue

Digital Garage, Inc. -- Kosuke Yusa

Dow -- Kathleen Jurman

E8 Angels -- David Benham

E8 Angels -- Philip Li

Earth Foundry -- Judy Li

Ecosphere Ventures -- Adil Jafry

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. -- Itaru Shiraishi

Energy Impact Partners -- Will Lipscomb

Energy Transition Ventures -- KYU HO SONG

EPRI -- Adi Mahan

Gigascale Capital -- Evaline Tsai

Halftone Investment Partners -- Frank Bryan

MA Renewables Solutions LLC -- Ashish Krishna

MA Renewables Solutions LLC -- Sumina Verma

NSF -- Linda Molnar

OpZoom LLC -- Ajo Fod

Orca Climate Fund -- Dee Zheng

Pasadena Angels -- Mark Son

Rhapsody Venture Partners -- Rebecca Wilson

Saint-Gobain -- Adarsh Sowcar

SoCalGas -- Joe Leiva

SoCalGas -- Siari Sosa

Sony Ventures -- Ludovic Copéré

VectorPoint Ventures -- Don Megrath

Whygrene -- James Kempf

WindSail Capital Group, LLC -- Andrew Chang

Our investors and partners don't just provide funding, they also provide opportunities for pilot tests, proof of concept programs, large challenge prizes, and, lso included, 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 volunteer interns and developers of our sophisticated matching tool:
Nathan Destouches (2020-2022, 2023), Amruta Joshi (2022-2023), Anthony Song (2020), Olivia Victorino (2020) and Heeju Son (2020-2021).

Thank you!