Michael Matsumura's path into venture capital runs through physics, sustainable energy research, and hands-on work on renewable energy and geothermal district heating projects in the Netherlands, followed by strategic investing at SoftBank, giving him a background in climate investing that's grounded in real technical and energy-market experience rather than general tech finance. At Scrum Ventures he focuses specifically on decarbonization and sustainability, and he's become one of the fund's public voices on industrial decarbonization, arguing it has never attracted the capital its emissions level deserves and that climate solutions should come from everywhere, not just Silicon Valley.