Energize Capital
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Energize Capital is a multi-stage investor in asset-light technologies that advance energy, climate, and industrial sectors. It operates two strategies: Ventures for earlier-stage digital solutions and Endurance for control investments in mature software and services businesses.
Energize Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from Series A to buyout, in climate, energy, industrial and critical infrastructure. Its stated cheque size is $10-30M. $1.7B under management and 35 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We deploy capital through two distinct investment strategies that benefit from shared knowledge and networks.”
— Energize Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- climate, energy, industrial, critical infrastructure, decarbonization, grid technology, software, services
- Cheque size
- $10-30M
- Founded
- 2017
- Assets under management
- $1.7B
- Portfolio
- 35 companies
Team, as Energize Capital publishes it
- John Tough Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Member of Investment Committee
- Katie McClain Partner & COO, Member of Investment Committee
- Juan Muldoon Partner — Co-Head of Ventures
- Tyler Lancaster Partner — Co-Head of Ventures
- Kevin Stevens Partner — Co-Head of Endurance
- Lauren Densham Partner, Head of Portfolio Services & Impact
- Alan Glass Partner — Co-Head of Endurance
- Mark Tomasovic Principal — Endurance
- Eileen Waris Principal — Ventures
- Chris Bozzetti Controller
- Jeff Schmidt Head of Commercialization
- Meredith Breach Bos Principal — Endurance
Names and roles exactly as listed on energizecap.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 65 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- SE Ventures 4 shared companies: patch.io, finitestate.io, banyaninfrastructure.com, joltcharge.com
- Energy Impact Partners 4 shared companies: finitestate.io, urbint.com, emeraldai.co, sitetracker.com
- Frontline Ventures 2 shared companies: archiveresale.com, dronedeploy.com
- Accel 2 shared companies: arista.com, axle.energy
- Speedinvest 1 shared company: twaice.com
- UVC Partners 1 shared company: twaice.com
- SICTIC 1 shared company: beekeeper.io
- Alter Equity 1 shared company: elum-energy.com
- Cota Capital 1 shared company: elum-energy.com
- Kima Ventures 1 shared company: elum-energy.com
and 55 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Energize Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://energizecap.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://energizecap.com/about-usdescription, founded, stage_min, stage_max
- https://energizecap.com/teampeople
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