Mike Jackson
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Investor and entrepreneur working with companies solving meaningful problems.
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- PBoard ObserverPlanet FWDJan 2024 - Current (1 year 5 months)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.
Board ObserverParadeJul 2023 - Current (1 year 11 months)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.- DBoard ObserverDerapiAug 2022 - Current (2 years 10 months)
- NBoard MemberNoteworthy AIJun 2022 - Current (3 years)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.
- KBoard MemberKanin EnergyMar 2022 - Current (3 years 3 months)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.
- SBoard MemberShimmerIndustriesDec 2021 - Current (3 years 6 months)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.
- EManaging PartnerEarthshot VenturesSep 2020 - Current (4 years 9 months)An early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change.
- GDeveloper in ResidenceGenerate Capital IncJul 2018 - Apr 2020 (1 year 10 months)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.
- Network LeaderVillage GlobalMay 2018 - Apr 2021 (3 years)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.
- EInvestor in ResidenceElemental ExceleratorNov 2017 - Aug 2020 (2 years 10 months)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.
- SFounder and CEOSteelhead PeakJan 2017 - Aug 2020 (3 years 8 months)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.
- Board ObserverTroveJun 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 9 months)Trove powers re-commerce software and logistics for innovative retailers, including Patagonia, REI, Nordstrom, and Eileen Fisher.
- Board ObserverRapidSOSJun 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years 4 months)RapidSOS shares life-saving data from 350 million+ connected devices with first responders to save lives.
- TPartnerThe Westly GroupMar 2014 - Sep 2018 (4 years 7 months)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 secon
- SBoard MemberSimple EnergyJan 2014 - Sep 2018 (4 years 9 months)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.
- HBoard ObserverHonest BuildingsJun 2013 - Sep 2018 (5 years 4 months)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.
- EBoard ObserverEdeniq IncJan 2013 - Sep 2018 (5 years 9 months)Edeniq is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber.
- EBoard ObserverEnerkemJul 2011 - Sep 2018 (7 years 3 months)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.
- TPrincipalThe Westly GroupJun 2011 - Mar 2014 (2 years 10 months)
- TAssociateThe Westly GroupMar 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year 4 months)
- TAnalystThe Westly GroupOct 2009 - Mar 2010 (6 months)
- TInternThe Westly GroupAug 2009 - Oct 2009 (3 months)
- VCo-Founder and Chief Executive OfficerVillage Green EnergyJul 2007 - May 2009 (1 year 11 months)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.
- India Program Research Coordinator, Program on Energy and Sustainable DevelopmentStanford UniversitySep 2005 - Jul 2007 (1 year 11 months)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.
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- Master's of Science, Energy EngineeringStanford UniversityJan 2004 - Dec 2005 (2 years)Pioneered a Master's Degree within Stanford's School of Engineering focused on clean energy technology. This degree served as a template for what is now the Program on Atmosphere and Energy: https://cee.stanford.edu/programs/atmosphereenergy
- Bachelor's of Science, Double Major in Biological Science and Earth Systems: Energy Science and TechnologyStanford UniversityJan 2000 - Dec 2004 (5 years)