Sara Chamberlain is a co-founder of Energy Foundry who built the specialized cleantech VC platform from scratch, bringing a builder's perspective rather than joining an established fund. She has over 15 years of experience working across utilities, government, and innovation initiatives, giving her a systems-level understanding of how climate technologies get adopted in regulated markets, and she focuses on backing complex hardware and infrastructure solutions like non-lithium storage and heating decarbonization rather than software-only climate plays.
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Energy, Climate, Cybersecurity, Materials, Deeptech / Hardware
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Seed - Series A
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$1M - $5M
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Energy Foundry was created by Illinois law and funded by mandatory utility contributions to commercialize smart-grid technologies, operating as a nonprofit that recycles all returns into new deals rather than distributing profits to traditional investors. The fund works directly with utilities like ComEd and Ameren to test portfolio company technologies in real utility systems, giving startups access to regulated infrastructure as testing environments while serving as the implementation tool for Illinois' grid-modernization policy.
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