Investors & Partners
Investors and partners met with our companies in over 300 pre-scheduled or ad-hoc live in-person meetings on Wednesday 10/30.
Get invited to future events: fill out our Investor Interest Form.
Limited to professional and/or accredited investors, or corporate VCs, or tech scouts.
Investors and partners are listed A-Z by company:
Aligned Climate Capital -- Eric Lee
Bay Bridge Ventures -- Andrew Karsh
BHP Ventures -- David Li
Blue Bear Capital -- Andre Chabaneix
Bridgewest Ventures -- Kate de Ridder
Carbontech Development Initiative -- Jack Steele
Chloe Capital -- Christa Downey
Clean Energy Venture Group -- Martin Flusberg
Clean Energy Ventures -- Charlotte Kirk
CleanLeap -- Porter Wong
Coati Capital LLC -- Matt Muir
Columbia Technology Ventures -- Emma Spector
Columbia Technology Ventures -- Jim Aloise
Congruent Ventures -- Kevin Kopczynski
Dolby Family Ventures -- Usua Amanam
Dow -- Kathleen Jurman
E8 -- Philip Li
E8 Angels -- David Benham
Earth Foundry -- Sara Chamberlain
Ecosphere Ventures -- Adil Jafry
Gigascale Capital -- Kevin Zhang
Hitachi Ventures -- Grace Mathis
Incubatenergy Labs -- Erik Steeb (ret.)
Japan Energy Fund -- Satowa Kinoshita
JERA Ventures -- Masami Shibamoto
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center -- Brooke Nadeau
Obvious Ventures -- Anku Madan
Orca Climate Fund -- Dee Zheng
Pachamama Ventures -- Karen Sheffield
Pasadena Angels / TCA Venture Group -- Stan Tomsic
Reuseful Ventures -- Robert Suarez
Rhapsody Venture Partners -- Corrie Kavanaugh
SeaX Ventures -- Kid Parchariyanon
Skyview Ventures -- Mac Kyle
SoCalGas -- Joe Leiva
SoCalGas -- Flavio da Cruz
Sony Ventures -- Ludovic Copéré
The Roda Group -- Dan Miller
Translink Capital -- May Takahashi
VectorPoint Ventures -- Donald Megrath
(Plus additional ad hoc investors on the day)
Our investors and partners don't just provide funding, they also provide opportunities for pilot tests, proof of concept programs, large challenge prizes, and, also included, advice as to how emerging startups should position themselves to best work with funders to secure the financing they'll need to grow.
Note that Cleantech Open is neither a fund, investor, broker, nor finder and is simply arranging introductory meetings between startups and investors / partners. CTO does not take a commission, equity, nor a piece of any deal that may result from these meetings, nor does CTO have financial positions in any of these companies.
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 (2020-2024), Amruta Joshi (2022-2023), Anthony Song (2020), Olivia Victorino (2020) and Heeju Son (2020-2021).
Thank you!