The times they are changing… for the better. Late last week, Energize announced that we hired Lauren Densham as our Head of Impact and ESG. Lauren comes to us from KPMG, where she was most recently a Director of Infrastrucutre & ESG Strategy. In that role, Lauren brought a corporate strategy mindset to the public …
Over the past year, the markets have gone all-in growth and a “growth-at-all-costs” drove valuation multiples higher. Well, for a number of reasons, the market’s position on growth has somewhat broken free from that unconstrained mentality. Guggenheim releases a great monthly report on these market trends and the takeaways on the second page below show …
Funding news!! Links to the Press release and the Energize blog post, and the blog post on Why We Invested in pasted below. My two cents on the commentary: Two of the largest industries in the world are colliding: mobility and digitization. 40% of the cost of today’s cars are electronic systems and 90% of …
Earlier this week I flew down to the Nozomi Networks 2022 SKO (“Sales Kick-off”). The event, a 4-day gathering, including great talks from company and industry leaders. I was excited to be the voice of the investor and spoke to the company’s sales & marketing teams for about an hour. I really enjoy speaking to …
Tyler and I wrote an article today for Forbes on the solar software market: Here Comes the Sun: How Software Makes Solar Energy More profitable. The content is below for your readership as well. The first wave of solar innovation was focused on getting costs down. Now, the industry must look to software and automation …
On Friday Invenergy announced a $3 billion minority, growth equity investment from Blackstone. Existing capital provider, CDPQ, and Invenergy management retain majority control, and Invenergy’s management remain in control of all operational decision making. The press release can be found here. Invenergy was a founding partner to the Energize Ventures story. The Invenergy cofounders, Michael …
Earlier this morning Axios published an analysis on the ongoing consolidation in the climate modeling arena. You can find the article here. Energize made an investment in the space in early 2019 when we led the Series B in Jupiter Intelligence. Our belief then was that new climate modeling techniques, enabled by the newest data …
If you have followed this site, you have seen me post some positive endorsements about Ford. I’ve been quite consistent that I think they are the most proactive incumbent automotive OEM to pivot to the electric vehicle movement. In addition to taking their flagship vehicles and making them EVs (Ford F-150 and Ford Mustang) the …
Yesterday I wrote about the return profiles for emerging managers. That Pitchbook data showed how emerging, specialist managers outperformed the market. This morning one of my teammates shared an article about how LPs are thinking about Fund allocations in 2022. This data, shown below, indicates that LPs are looking to allocate more capital to emerging …
I saw an analysis recently on performance details around “Emerging Managers”. Emerging managers are investment firms, like Energize, that are in the first 3-4 flagship funds, and within 10 years of founding. Most of the below data came from Pitchbook, a data platform owned by Morningstar. The key takeaways are below: • Contrary to conventional …