An entrepreneur’s pursuit of disruptive technologies can seem like a long, lonely road
About Clean Energy Ventures
Having started and run multiple companies ourselves, we understand what it is like to be a climate tech entrepreneur.
At Clean Energy Ventures we’re beating back climate change through energy innovation. We fund disruptive, capital-light technologies and business model innovations that can reshape how we produce and consume energy. Each startup we invest in has the potential to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions between our investment and 2050.
Since 2005, our leadership team has invested in over 40 climate tech startups alongside our angel-investor partners at the Clean Energy Venture Group, prominent venture capital firms, leading OEMs, global materials companies, oil majors, and more.
Beyond funding, we provide hands-on guidance through dedicated leadership coaching, strategic marketing, IP development and active board participation. Our collection of 19 Venture Partners guide our startups and enhance our value with their deep technical and operating experience.
We're honored to be members & partners
OUR TEAM
SUMMER 2024 INTERNS
Georgetown Business Student
Yale Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard MBA Candidate
Harvard MBA Candidate
Harvard MBA Candidate
VENTURE PARTNERS
Clean Energy Ventures has a deep bench of Venture Partners who, together with our full-time team, represent decades of combined clean energy operating and climate tech investing experience. Our Venture Partners assess, build and mentor management teams at our portfolio companies to help them scale. The team holds over advanced degrees from MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Yale and other leading academic institutions and has been instrumental in creating and supporting the clean energy ecosystem.
Former Leadership at GE, Siemens, Toshiba, ReGENco
Former FERC Commissioner, former Board Chair, PG&E
Attorney; Entrepreneur turned investor
Executive Director, CEVG; Former finance lead EDF, ABB & Wartsila
Former CEO, Locus Energy
Former CFO and Co-founder of Jetblue Airlines
Former Managing Director Warburg Pincus, CFO Dimensional Energy
Energy, Environment WASH Lead Scientist
Former Exxon Mobil Engineer & Director at Arcapita
ADDITIONAL VENTURE PARTNERS
Bill Brady, CEO/Founder Kula Bio, Monolith Materials, Mascoma Corporation, Cabot Corporation
Ben Chigier, Founder, Former CEO and Chairman of eScription
Gina Foote, Director of Impact Investments, Conservation Law Foundation
Kedar Gupta, CEO, GT Solar, ARC Energy, and SC Fluids
Bengt Karlsson, Co-founder of HKS, creator of ABAQUS software
Steve Kaufman, Former CEO, Avici Systems, Inc., Alteris Renewables, Vantage Lighting
John Keane, Jr., Founder, Former CEO, ArcStream Solutions
Laury Saligman, Entrepreneur; 25+ years sustainable business, marketing, natural systems
Jean-Noel Poirier, CEO Inventec Performance Chemicals; Global executive at Honeywell, First Solar
Wanda Reindorf, 20+ years Clean Energy/Sustainability sector. CFO, advisor, boards, lecturer
Adam de Sola Pool, former Chairman of the AmCham Energy & Environment Committee
Mitch Tyson, Co-Founder, NECEC; Former tech CEO, current board member, mentor, angel, lecturer
FIRM STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD
Our Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) advises the Fund on portfolio company strategy, emerging technologies, and industry trends. The former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, serves as Chairman of the Fund’s SAB along with Members Dr. Ellen Williams, former Chief Scientist for BP and director of the DOE ARPA-E program, J. Michael McQuade, former CTO of United Technologies Corporation, and Girish Nadkarni, former President of TotalEnergies Ventures and ABB Ventures.
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
Former Director of ARPA-E
Former President of TotalEnergies Ventures & ABB Technology Ventures
Former Senior Vice President, Science & Technology at United Technologies Corporation
OUR PARTNERS
The Clean Energy Venture Group is our sister organization of clean energy angel investors.
The Group is a collection of seasoned operating executives with strong capabilities in the energy and environmental sectors. They are angel investors who provide seed capital and management expertise to early-stage clean energy companies as former executives, operators, entrepreneurs, academics and investors in the energy sector.
CEV and CEVG support each other in sourcing, scouting and diligencing deals. We often co-invest.
