Anna Trendewicz is a venture capital investor at Future Energy Ventures who combines a PhD in sustainable biofuels from the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory with operational experience across China's State Grid Corporation, European utilities like E.ON, and strategy consulting at McKinsey. She moved into VC specifically to direct more capital toward climate technologies after witnessing promising energy innovations struggle to find funding, and focuses on digital grid management, demand flexibility, and storage while serving on the board of portfolio company Dabbel.