Chris Sporck is a venture capital investor at Sum Ventures who combines deep power electronics and battery management engineering experience from Summit Microelectronics and Qualcomm with an active senior operating role as Director of the Battery Management Product Line at Monolithic Power Systems, where he leads a global team of 40+ engineers. He has personally invested in 30+ seed-stage startups and holds 20+ patents in battery management and power conversion, making him a domain expert in energy storage and power conversion who can provide both capital and hands-on technical expertise to founders in electrification and hardware-focused climate tech.
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Sum Ventures operates as a first-check venture fund with a portfolio where 40% of companies are founded by women and 50% by immigrants, and 53 other funds have followed them as first-money-in on deals including breakout companies like Brius, PlantSwitch, and Irrigreen. The fund's partners serve as actual board members and C-level executives at portfolio companies while leveraging deep corporate relationships, particularly with Siemens and Douglas Elliman, to structure strategic partnerships that unlock non-dilutive capital and follow-on funding.
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