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!