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We support ambitious founders building gigatonne-scale
climate solutions to decarbonize massive markets.
There is so much more to solving the climate crisis than solar panels and electric cars. Every single industry is or will soon be going through a radical transformation to decarbonize, survive, and thrive. We believe this is currently the single greatest opportunity for massive amounts of impact paired with tremendous financial returns.
We have deep knowledge and networks in the climate ecosystem. We helped start the Work on Climate community, the world’s largest and most active climate slack community, the Diamond List, an initiative that surfaces high-potential early-stage climate companies, and the Solutions board game, an educational tool about climate solutions endorsed by Paul Hawken himself.
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Partner
Managing Director Roda Group, 20+ years investing in climate
CIO for 30+ years, successful investor
Managing Partner Incubate Fund, leads Google Alumni startup events
20+ years of executive & investment experience
Former CSO of Unilever, VP of Coca Cola
Venture Investor, former Merrill Lynch banker
Leader of EU Google Alumni community
CEO of OTPP backed climate startup
Chief Innovation & Growth Officer for XPrize
Moonshot thinking has enabled tremendous innovation and the advancement of the human species. However, after humans first landed on the Moon, we did not stay there. What drove us to the Moon was fear, more than curiosity – the need to outcompete other humans. Once we had won the competition, funding was cut, and we packed up our bags and left, never to return.
Global challenges such as climate change require a new way of thinking. We need to create long-term, collaborative, sustainable solutions. We need to be more ambitious than moonshot thinking.
Every single industry on earth is being transformed by issues including climate change, cybersecurity, and an aging population. Innovating in these areas is not only an opportunity for monumental impact, but is also the economic opportunity of a lifetime. At Starshot Capital we are proud to support founders building high-impact high-growth businesses: those ambitious enough to change the world and improve the lives of millions of people.
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Jeremy is the founding Managing Partner of Starshot Capital, backing early stage high-impact high-growth companies. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for Work on Climate, the largest technical climate community in the world.
Prior to Starshot Capital, Jeremy led investment vehicles for the Google and Facebook alumni communities and did venture capital and private equity work for a large Canadian family office. He previously held product, data analysis, and anti-abuse roles across Google, Facebook, and Dataminr, spending his 20% time at Google with CapitalG, Google’s growth equity fund.
Jeremy graduated from Cornell University with a triple major with distinction.
Sam is a founding Partner of Starshot Capital. He is also the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Work on Climate, the largest technical climate community in the world.
Prior to Starshot Capital, Sam did venture capital and private equity work for a large Canadian family office and helped Jeremy evaluate investments for the Google alumni community. He previously worked at SpaceX on the Octaweb, at Tesla on the Powerpack Inverter prototype, and at Lilium Aviation on the fuselage design.
Sam graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from Dalhousie University where he was President of the Robotics team and recognized as a Sexton Scholar for outstanding academic achievement in engineering. He has also developed the Solutions board game: a climate education tool endorsed by key leaders in the climate movement.