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Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures.
Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market. We deploy capital and leverage strategic tools to de-risk investments and accelerate time to market for the most promising emerging energy companies.
Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market. We deploy capital and leverage strategic tools to de-risk investments and accelerate time to market for the most promising emerging energy companies.
Overview
Location
United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employees
1-10
Founded date
2012
Investment Type
Venture Capital
Portfolio 2
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
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| Jan 9, 2020 | e-Zn, Inc. | e-zn.com | $3.4M | Canada, Ontario, Toronto |
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Dec 17, 2020 | Energy storage investments 2020: VC and equity firms put more than $500 million in these 25 battery startups | With U.S. energy storage growing a lot this year, and poised to accelerate next, conditions are fertile for VC investors to look for startup innovation.Source: Wood Mackenzie Here’s a long and incomplete list of where venture firms are putt... |
| Jun 21, 2020 | Energy investment roundup: $50M for drinking water from solar-powered ‘hydropanels’ | Despite this miserable year, renewable energy has seen a modest wave of VC and corporate investment in 2020. pv magazine has logged it here. The wave continues: Blackrock-led $50M gets water from a solar-powered panel Zero Mass Water raised... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | Updated: A roundup of venture capital funding in clean energy | Venture capital investors and their funds are still hungry for deals in cleantech and renewable energy. Although high-profile energy investments in today’s era have tended towards batteries and energy storage — here are some recent funding ... |
| May 12, 2020 | Ex-Tesla product exec raises $10 million for his mission to upgrade the lowly fuse box | Arch Rao closed the $10.1 million financing round for Span, his company pitching homeowners on an upgrade to the fuse box, in the middle of February. The company had already seen what was happening in China and had a sense of how tough thin... |
| May 12, 2020 | Span wins $10.2 million to modernize the home electrical panel, ease shift to solar, storage and EVs | Span just landed $10.2 million in venture capital to modernize and replace one of the more basic and ubiquitous pieces of home electrical hardware — the electrical panel. Span’s ambition is to “transform the electrical panel into an intelli... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | e-Zn raises $3.4 million seed round to bring its energy storage solution to market | Cleantech startup e-Zn, which has developed a inexpensive, renewable grid-scale energy storage solution using zinc metal, has raised an oversubscribed $3.4 million CAD seed round. This represents the first round of venture funding for the T... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | Battery roundup: funding for zinc-based storage, improved lithium-ion, new solid-state batteries | There’s been a marked improvement in battery performance over the last decade in the overcrowded and fast-moving energy storage market. This compels battery startup CEOs and their marketing departments to use aspirational language in order ... |
| Mar 22, 2019 | 11 Under-The-Radar Chicago VCs You Should Know About | In my most-recent Forbes article, I shared about 12 Chicago-based VCs that are behind hot startups both within our region, like G2 Crowd, and beyond, like SpaceX. These firms tend to get a lot of buzz and make national headlines, but they a... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Edison DC Systems Closes $1.3M Series A Round of Funding | Edison DC Systems, a Milwaukee, WI-based a developer of a power conversion system for use by data centers, closed a $1.3m Series A round of funding. The round was led by Chicago, IL impact venture fund Energy Foundry with participation from... |
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FAQ about Energy Foundry
When was Energy Foundry founded?
Energy Foundry was founded in 2012.
How many startups has Energy Foundry invested in?
Energy Foundry has 2 portfolio companies on Parsers VC, among them e-Zn, Inc..
What has the press written about Energy Foundry?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning Energy Foundry, among them “Energy storage investments 2020: VC and equity firms put more than $500 million in these 25 battery startups” (Dec 17, 2020) and “Energy investment roundup: $50M for drinking water from solar-powered ‘hydropanels’” (Jun 21, 2020).
Is Energy Foundry still active?
Yes, Energy Foundry is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 8, 2021.