Last week was pretty exciting for Volta. On Friday they celebrated their first day of trading under their new stock symbol, VLTA. I was at the New York Stock Exchange with the cofounders, Chris & Scott, other board members and many of their employees. We were there for the first trade and the closing bell …
About 12 months ago the Energize team met Corey Capasso, the cofounder & CEO, of Urbint. He was raising a small, interim financing. We liked the company and we liked the management team’s practical approach to climate change mitigation. Urbint helps critical infrastructure providers asses and mitigate risk in their in-field project development. If you …
The final piece of the renewable generation puzzle lies in geothermal, hydro and nuclear power. The post below, released today, was written by Energize investors Tyler Lancaster and Mark Tomasovic. We are believers in the “electrification of everything movement” but far from ideological in our support of wind/solar/batteries. The fact is that the energy transition …
Shanu Mathew is a Chicagoan whose interests overlap with the Energize thesis. I’ve been fortunate to know Shanu for a couple years now. Most recently he was at First Eagle, integrating ESG risks into their credit evaluations. Earlier this year he made the jump to Lazard, where he is now Vice President of Sustainability & …
Many of the best technology companies are product led companies. Why? Successful product led companies build product roadmaps by listening to customer needs. By delivering a product that solves a real and present need, the technology company can find a way to capture a portion of the expanded value being created for their customer. On …
Energize has recruited a group of Summer Associates every year since 2017. We run a rigorous recruitment process and try to give the rising associates as real a full time investor experience as possible. This summer we had two MBA interns and one undergraduate intern. The effort and contribution from this year’s group has been …
The next generation energy software firms are going to look quite different than yesterday’s leaders. Aurora Solar is the pinnacle of the next generation and the company’s leadership understands the importance of our increasingly distributed energy landscape. As a result the firm has been investing heavily in building great software products to accelerate that future. …
This morning President Biden and a number of US automakers announced a target of 50% EV market share for new car sales by 2030. The target is voluntary … and mostly meaningless. Why? #1- Auto OEMs like Ford and GM were already spending towards that figure. GM has indicated a $30 billion budget for EV …
Energize runs our investment process by focusing on deep dives. We engage our broader network (many of which are LPs) to figure out what problems that they are trying to solve, and the location & scale of the budgets available to solve those problems. We use these unique insights to then identify and map market …
Earlier today I covered how Nozomi Networks raised a $100M pre-IPO round. As I wrote, that investment was an accumulation of years of market monitoring and research. Well, today Energize Ventures also announced our latest cybersecurity investment: we led the $30M Series B into Finite State. And like with Nozomi, our investment into Finite State …