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Energy Transition Ventures
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Energy Transition Ventures (ETV) is the first venture fund in Texas exclusively dedicated to investing in energy transition technologies. Founded by cleantech veterans Craig Lawrence and Neal Dikeman, ETV invests in early-stage startups in North America that are driving or benefitting from the energy transition off fossil fuels, across categories including distributed energy, electrification, mobility, resource efficiency, and enabling technologies. The firm leverages deep networks and operating experience across Silicon Valley and Texas energy markets to be highly selective, backing companies with advantaged technologies and strong teams positioned to disrupt the $500+ trillion global energy economy as marginal and average energy and CO2e prices enter a long-term deflationary trend.
Notable quotes
“In the near future, energy is going to be delivered and used completely differently. Marginal and average energy and CO2e prices are now on a long term deflationary trend. There are 500 multi-billion dollar energy companies globally, and massive portions of global GDP, that are going to get disrupted in the energy transition, from energy & power, transport, real estate, industrial to consumer to agriculture.”
“Texas is the energy capital of the world, and outside of corporate venture capital, there are not many venture funds in the state. So it makes sense to start an energy transition focused fund here as the latest wave of clean technology investing accelerates.”
“This is a unique opportunity — renewable energy is cheaper than traditional energy. This was the opposite 10 years ago.”
Team
Craig Lawrence
Partner
Q Song
Partner
Anouck Champsaur
Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)
Deb Merril
Advisor
David Niebauer
General Counsel
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gridsight | Series A | $5m | 2025-04-08 |
| Zeitview | Series D | $60m | 2025-03-05 |
| Dandelion Energy | Seed | — | 2024-10-24 |
| Ohmium | Series C | $250m | 2023-04-26 |
| RenewCO2 | Seed | — | 2022-09-20 |
| Resilient Power Systems | Seed | — | 2021-10-27 |
| Stormentum | Seed | — | — |
| ARIX | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Valor Equity Partners | 4 |
| Union Square Ventures | 4 |
| Upfront Ventures | 4 |
| Hearst Ventures | 4 |
| Euclidean Capital | 3 |
| TPG Rise Climate | 1 |
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