Alistair Owen is a principal at VentureFriends who combines deep industrial engineering experience from BP with hands-on venture building at Deep Science Ventures, giving him an unusually complete operator-to-builder-to-investor background compared to typical principal-level VCs. He actually originated and built multiple CleanTech ventures himself before becoming a financial investor, while maintaining a dual focus on AI-enabled products and climate/industrial applications that reflects his technical product management experience.