Energize Ventures is a venture capital fund that seeks investments in early and growth-stage technology companies to make energy and industrial companies more affordable, reliable, and secure. The firm is focused on the digital application layer of energy and industry and is seeking investments in companies operating in the data analytics, cybersecurity, energy storage, distributed energy resources, mobility and operational efficiency sectors. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Energize Ventures' investments include DroneDeploy, Volta Charging, Jupiter Intelligence, Nozomi Networks and SparkCognition.
Energize Ventures has raised a total of $150 million in a single venture fund, Energize Ventures Fund. This fund was announced on September 20, 2018 and raised a total of $150 million.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Aurora Solar is a San Francisco-based devloper of solar design, proposal, and sales software.
Sitetracker is a Palo Alto, California-based company.
Zededa is a San Jose based developer and provider of edge computing virtualization software and solutions.
People
John Tough
Managing Partner
Juan Muldoon
Partner
Katie McClain
Partner
Kelly Lassing
Marketing & Communications Specialist
Lori DeLuca
CFO
Steven Kirnbauer
Operations Manager
Tyler Lancaster
Associate