LB

Leonardo Banchik

Deep-tech VC @ Voyager | ex-McK | MIT PhD

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Skills

Sustainable Investing
Clean Energy Technologies
Desalination
CFD
Research
Programming
Energy
Design of Experiments
Web Design
Foreign Languages
Machine Shop
Big Data
Matlab
ANSYS
C++
LaTeX
Visual Basic
Sustainability
Management
Data analysis

Work Experience

  • Investment Director

    2023

  • Board Observer

    2024

    Stealth Geologic Hydrogen Startup

2024

  • Board Director

    2024

    Stealth Critical Minerals Startup

2023

  • Board Observer

    2023

2022

  • Board Member/Observer

    2022

2023

  • Board Observer

    2023

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Selected angel investments: • Alcemy (Series A extension) • Aluminio (Pre-Seed) • Bedrock Energy (Seed) • Intramotev (Seed) • Lithos Carbon (Seed) • Lydian (Pre-Seed) • Molten Industries (Series A) • Peregrine Hydrogen (Seed - Advisor) • Savor (Seed) • Stealth Sodium Ion Battery Co (Pre-Seed) • Verse (Seed) • Windscape.ai (Pre-Seed) • YourStake (Seed)

2022 - 2023

  • Board Director

    2022 - 2023

2022 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

  • Partner, Global Climate Tech Head

    2021 - 2023

    Investing in climate tech startups (Pre-seed - Series A). $1.5B under management. Portfolio: • Aigen (Seed) - robots for regen agriculture • Arbor (Seed) - rocket science meets bio-energy carbon capture storage • Equilibrium Energy (Series A) - grid and utility-scale asset optimization • Found Energy (Pre-Seed) - aluminum as an energy carrier • Lydian (Pre-Seed) - sustainable aviation fuel and green chemicals • Navier (Seed) - next-gen hydro-foiling EV boats • Oneshot (Seed) - risk-free carbon offsetting • Skyven (Seed) - heat pumps for industrial heat decarbonization • Stepchange (Pre-Seed) - org and product carbon accounting for India