Mike Jackson

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Investor and entrepreneur working with companies solving meaningful problems. @ Earthshot Ventures
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About Mike Jackson

I have been an investor, entrepreneur, board member, and advisor to companies in the clean energy, food & agriculture, buildings, mobility, and public safety sectors throughout my entire career. I've been fortunate to work with investors at all stages of startup growth - accelerators, seed, venture, and project finance - and try to bring this experience to helping companies scale.Prior to my current role, I was a partner at the Westly Group, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm in the clean energy sector with over $400m under management. I started at the Westly Group as an intern and worked my way up to partner in under five years with the firm. My 10 deals at the Westly Group have collectively raised over $1.1 billion in follow-on funding from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, BlackRock, Microsoft, Google, S2G Ventures, Index Ventures, DBL Investments, Patagonia, Brookfield Asset Management, Oxford Properties, Obvious Ventures, Playground Global, Prelude Ventures, and many others. This portfolio includes three successful acquisitions, one IPO, and five still active and growing companies.Before the Westly Group, I was co-founder and CEO of Village Green Energy, a retail and wholesale provider of renewable energy in voluntary and compliance markets. Before this, I was the Indian Program Research Coordinator at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, where I focused on the impact of changes to global energy markets on major developing economies.

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Earthshot Ventures

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Investor and entrepreneur working with companies solving meaningful problems.
Mike Jackson Work Experience Details
  • Earthshot Ventures
    Managing Partner
    Earthshot Ventures Sep 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    An early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change.
  • Kanin Energy
    Board Member
    Kanin Energy Mar 2022 - Present
    Calgary, Ab, Ca
    Kanin enables large industrial users to monetize their waste heat by providing end-to-end project development and financing to generate clean power. Our partners can reduce their carbon impact and don’t have to worry about efficiency projects that are “too small” for their core business.
  • Noteworthy Ai
    Board Member
    Noteworthy Ai Jun 2022 - Present
    New Haven, Connecticut, Us
    Noteworthy employs vehicle-mounted cameras and AI to help utilities collect and analyze data on distribution assets at-scale. By mounting on utilities’ existing fleet vehicles and through the use of proprietary AI, Noteworthy can increase situational awareness and realize cost savings and efficiencies across a variety of use cases including geolocation and asset inventory, asset inspection, vegetation management, 3rd party attachment compliance and unregulated lighting assessments.
  • Shimmerindustries
    Board Member
    Shimmerindustries Dec 2021 - Present
    New York, Us
    Shimmer Industries introduces Stellar™ and Parallax™ — the software system that will revolutionize controls for the lighting industry. This unique system – with its respective mobile apps – requires no hardware. With only a single, off-the-shelf chip, you can design seamlessly integrated lighting solutions for any application, across any platform.
  • Planet Fwd
    Board Observer
    Planet Fwd Jan 2024 - Present
    San Francisco, Us
    Planet FWD is the leading decarbonization platform for the consumer industry. Launched first for Food and Beverage companies, Planet FWD’s platform and team of climate scientists empowers consumer companies to reach their climate goals by helping them measure and reduce their carbon footprint. Leveraging the food & beverage industry’s most in-depth Life Cycle Assessment data and robust Scope 3 emissions modeling capabilities, customers can harness an understanding of their climate impacts and unlock a clear path to Net Zero. Planet FWD’s software platform is the only solution that can analyze how a company can reduce emissions by making specific changes to their ingredients, packaging, suppliers and farm-level practices.
  • Parade
    Board Observer
    Parade Jul 2023 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Parade is the leading capacity management platform for freight brokerages. Parade integrates with all of your existing tools and manages carrier relationships, availability, and pricing. Top freight brokerages build dedicated digital capacity and book more loads using Parade.
  • Derapi
    Board Observer
    Derapi Aug 2022 - Present
  • Village Global
    Network Leader
    Village Global May 2018 - Apr 2021
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Village Global is an early stage investment firm based in Silicon Valley backed by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and many others.In my role at Village Global, I source and evaluate early stage investment opportunities in energy, sustainability, food, and mobility. I am also honored to have the chance to mentor some of Village's existing portfolio companies around finance and business strategy.
  • Elemental Excelerator
    Investor In Residence
    Elemental Excelerator Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
    Honolulu, Hi, Us
    Elemental Excelerator is the leading growth accelerator for startups tackling climate change. Elemental funds 15-20 companies per year across energy, mobility, water, food & agriculture, and the circular economy to help deploy technologies and projects across North America and Asia Pacific.At Elemental, I worked intensively portfolio company CEOs to coach them through fundraising, acquisitions, business model design, and team construction. I also helped guide the organization’s sourcing efforts to attract the best young companies to the program each year.
  • Steelhead Peak
    Founder And Ceo
    Steelhead Peak Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
    Advisory services to early and mid stage companies and investors throughout the energy, sustainability, mobility, food & agriculture, health, public safety, and education sectors. Primarily assisted companies in their fundraising process - helping articulate an overarching strategy, developing clear and compelling decks and diligence materials, organizing an investor outreach funnel, and closing rounds. I also worked with a number of different investors to systemetize and scale their sourcing efforts.
  • Generate Capital Inc
    Developer In Residence
    Generate Capital Inc Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Generate Capital is the leading project finance investor for sustainable infrastructure. Generate works with companies across energy, water, agriculture, and mobility to help them achieve broad commercial deployment scale with access to non-dilutive project funding.At Generate, I worked closely with the senior team to source and evaluate promising new technology companies and market opportunities, particularly focusing on newly emerging sectors that will drive Generate's mid to long term growth.
  • Rapidsos
    Board Observer
    Rapidsos Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
    New York, Ny, Us
    RapidSOS shares life-saving data from 350 million+ connected devices with first responders to save lives.
  • The Westly Group
    Partner
    The Westly Group Mar 2014 - Sep 2018
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
    The Westly Group is one of the leading Silicon Valley-based venture capital firms in the cleantech sector, with over $400m under management. I started at the firm as an intern as we were raising our first fund and ultimately held every job at the firm before eventually becoming a partner during our second fund. My ten deals at the Westly Group have collectively raised over $2 billion in follow-on funding from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, BlackRock, Microsoft, Google, Thrive Capital, S2G Ventures, Index Ventures, DBL Investments, Patagonia, Brookfield Asset Management, Oxford Properties, G2VP, Obvious Ventures, Playground Global, Prelude Ventures, and many others. In addition to investing, I ran the inside sales process for the firm’s second fundraise, which raised $160 million from a wide range of institutional investors, strategic corporations, and family offices. In this capacity, I pitched prospective limited partners, wrote the private placement memorandum and fundraising deck, developed and managed a sales funnel in Salesforce with over 4,000 accounts, and maintained a diligence data room. The Westly Group was one of very few cleantech focused funds to successfully raise a large fund in the 2011-2014 time frame.In addition, I was honored to work with several of our portfolio companies as a board member and observer, helping companies navigate fundraising rounds, business pivots, team dynamics, and successful acquisitions.
  • The Westly Group
    Principal
    The Westly Group Jun 2011 - Mar 2014
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
  • The Westly Group
    Associate
    The Westly Group Mar 2010 - Jun 2011
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
  • The Westly Group
    Analyst
    The Westly Group Oct 2009 - Mar 2010
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
  • The Westly Group
    Intern
    The Westly Group Aug 2009 - Oct 2009
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
  • Simple Energy
    Board Member
    Simple Energy Jan 2014 - Sep 2018
    Simple Energy is one of the leading energy efficiency software companies serving the electric utility sector. The company successfully merged with Tendril in 2019 to form Uplight, and now serves more than 80 utilities worldwide.
  • Honest Buildings
    Board Observer
    Honest Buildings Jun 2013 - Sep 2018
    New York, Us
    Honest Buildings is the leading provider of construction management software, helping building owners ensure their projects are on-time and on-budget. Honest Buildings was successfully acquired by Procore in 2019.
  • Edeniq, Inc.
    Board Observer
    Edeniq, Inc. Jan 2013 - Sep 2018
    Visalia, Ca, Us
    Edeniq is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber.
  • Enerkem
    Board Observer
    Enerkem Jul 2011 - Sep 2018
    Montreal, Quebec, Ca
    Enerkem converts non-recyclable garbage into cellulosic ethanol, biomethanol and renewable chemicals.Enerkem operates a commercial-scale facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as well as an innovation centre in Westbury, Quebec, Canada. The company is currently developing several facilities around the world, to facilitate the transition to a circular economy.
  • Trove
    Board Observer
    Trove Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
    Oakland, California, Us
    Trove powers re-commerce software and logistics for innovative retailers, including Patagonia, REI, Nordstrom, and Eileen Fisher.
  • Village Green Energy
    Co-Founder And Chief Executive Officer
    Village Green Energy Jul 2007 - May 2009
    Village Green Energy is a retail provider of renewable energy certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets. We have a sourcing strategy unique to the industry that enables customers to participate in regulated carbon and energy markets, and force utilities to invest in and build cleaner energy technology.
  • Stanford University
    India Program Research Coordinator, Program On Energy And Sustainable Development
    Stanford University Sep 2005 - Jul 2007
    Stanford, Ca, Us
    The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development how international energy markets - coal, oil, and natural gas - impact energy systems in major developing countries - China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico. At PESD, I served as the India country director, overseeing and managing our group's research in India.During my time at PESD, I co-developed and taught a class with Professor David Victor. The class focused on the role of technology, fuel supply, and policy in India, and brought 15 students to India in the summer of 2007 to visit coal mines, oil refineries, off-grid solar installations, and a wide range of energy executives and regulators.

Mike Jackson Skills

Sharing Economy Cleantech Corporate Finance Angel Investing Start Ups Financial Modeling Clean Technology Business Development Business Formation Energy Fundraising Internet Of Things Seed Capital Strategy Entrepreneurship Socially Responsible Investing Investor Presentations Climate Change Financial Analysis Renewable Energy Energy Engineering Private Equity Business Strategy Energy Efficiency Due Diligence Venture Capital Mergers And Acquisitions Board Relations Venture Financing

Mike Jackson Education Details

  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Energy Engineering
  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Double Major In Biological Science And Earth Systems: Energy Science And Technology

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