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What does Breakthrough Energy invest in?
Breakthrough Energy invests most often at Venture and Series A (53% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Smartgrids, Grid and Co2.
Breakthrough Energy highlights
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50 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Series A: 53% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 16 rounds, median $11M
What they do
Filed 1 private fund offering with the SEC, the most recent in 2024-05From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $50M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- SmartgridsGridCo2
- Based in
- Kirkland, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first150 appearances
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43 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration11 named
CSCarmichael S. RobertsManager of the Managing MemberiFiling they signed
EJEric John TooneManager of the Managing MemberiFiling they signed
HHHasso Henry PlattnerMember of the Issuer's Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
JHJack Henry MaMember of the Issuer's Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
JDJohn Douglas ArnoldMember of the Issuer's Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
LJLouis John DoerrMember of the Issuer's Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
MDMukesh Dhirubhai AmbaniMember of the Issuer's Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
RHRodi Henry GuideroExecutive DirectoriFiling they signed
RMRodrigo M GuideroManager of the Managing MemberiFiling they signed
VHVinod Henry KhoslaMember of the Issuer's Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
WHWilliam Henry Gates IIIMember of the Issuer's Board of Directors (Chairman)iFiling they signed
We also hold 40 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$5.8Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Breakthrough Energy Ventures Management, L.P.
- SEC number
- CRD 325541