About
I am an investor and ecosystem builder within the broader climate/sustainability landscape. My North Star is understanding the capital stack for scaling and deploying climate solutions, as well as helping founders connect with the right capital providers.Before my career in investing, I spent six years working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. To break into the climate investing space, I worked with various climate incubators/accelerators and started two newsletters (The Impact and Innovate Climate, now consolidated and known as Climate Builders) outside of my day job.I'm always happy to connect with founders, investors, and ecosystem builders who are working on, investing in, or accelerating the deployment of climate solutions. If you reach out to connect, please include a note.You can also find me online: https://climatecapitalstack.com/https://climatecapitalstack.substack.com/*Daniel Kriozere, dba Climate Finance Partners, is a Registered Representative of Finalis Securitie…
Experience
Venture Partner
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Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.
Technology Scout
Venture For ClimateTech connects innovators with the tools, training, talent, and the non-dilutive funding necessary to begin building a company around their impactful ClimateTech solution. The program looks for entrepreneurs building early-stage climate tech solutions looking for support with product-market fit, market validation, hiring and investor readiness. Applications are open January through March.
Capital Advisory Consultant
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Climate Finance Partners helps accelerate the deployment of capital into climate. Climate Finance Partners, LLC offers securities through Finalis Securities LLC; Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction is located at 450 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017, 800-962-0418. Securities offered through Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC. Climate Finance Partners and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities.
Editor in Chief
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Demystifying the capital stack, mapping the ecosystem, and helping bridge connections to accelerate the deployment of climate solutions.
Consultant
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DK Venture Partners supports startups and capital providers in the climate ecosystem. Current contracts include: - Venture Partner with Anthropocene Ventures - Investor & Partner Manager with For ClimateTech - Entrepreneur in Residence with NYSERDA - Scout with Enduring Planet - Venture Partner with Climate Capital - Venture Scout with Alumni Ventures - Venture Scout with Wefunder Previous contracts include: - Principal with GoingVC Partners - Venture Scout with Prithvi - Venture Partner with Republic
Originator, Debt Investments
Originator for IFM Next Generation Infrastructure Credit investment strategy, which addresses the gap in climate finance for later-stage growth companies whilst generating mid-high teens gross returns for underlying investors.
Operations and Business, Business Analyst
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA
As a Business Analyst, I functioned as a Product Manager for on-site operations software: shipping, receiving, property re-use, refrigerant tracking and reporting, nuclear inventory acquisition and tracking. By gathering business requirements from many stakeholders and developing software requirements, I utilized agile development to iterate versions of software solutions to automate and streamline processes.
Nuclear Operations Safety Engineer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA
As a Nuclear Operations Safety Engineer, I managed yearly revisions and regulatory compliance of 200+ facility safety documents, which included walkthroughs of facilities with personnel, risk assessment and mitigation, and documentation of analysis. I also worked with the Innovation Partnership Office to analyze emerging markets to identify companies for IP tech transfer/licensing agreements, as well as conducting techno-economic analysis of scaling up a biochemical process from lab-scale to pilot-scale.
Co-Founder
The Impact is a weekly newsletter that provides analysis of emerging technologies, research, policy and trending news in the clean tech space in a short and informative way. The newsletter is written by analysts, founders and executives in the clean-tech industry with a mission to help inform and arm their readers with the tools to go out and make a climate positive impact. As the Co-Founder of The Impact, I focused on scale and growth, sponsorships and partnerships, and newsletter content.
Founder
Innovate Climate is an online community centered around a weekly newsletter that highlights startups to the broader climate and sustainability ecosystem. Innovate Climate's mission is to help startups succeed and create impact, specifically by providing visibility to others in the sector and facilitating introductions. As the Founder of Innovate Climate, I sourced startups, managed relationships, created content, and fostered partnerships within the ecosystem. Acquired by Impact Media Group, LLC in 2022.
Quality Engineer
FreshRealm · Ventura, CA
As a Quality Engineer, my primary responsibility was to conduct root cause analyses to identifying corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to decrease errors in production. This included developing metrics for KPIs to provide insight to the business and to clients, as well as industrial engineering and working with our software developers. During my time, I also established a new procurement and supply chain management system and facilitated start-up operations for our new Indianapolis facility.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of California, Davis
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
Professional Certificate, Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies
GoingVC
Sungkyunkwan University
Sustainable Energy Technologies (EMS 170)
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