JB

James Boettcher

Co-founder & Venture Partner Anthropocene Ventures

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Board Member

    2024

    The role of CNICC is to facilitate policy, information, and technology exchanges among businesses, governments, and research institutions, helping Chinese enterprises adapt to the evolving international carbon emission regulations.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Proof is revolutionizing the future of power generation by replacing polluting diesel fuel motors/generators with zero emission fuel cells powered by circular economy fuels such as ethanol, methanol, ammonia and hydrogen. . Its fuel cell range extenders significantly reduce the size and cost of battery packs, accelerating the electrification of heavy-duty trucks. In stationary applications its Power Module generator provides clean reliable electricity for businesses and communities.

  • Co-founder & Venture Partner

    2021

    Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.

  • Senior Advisor

    2019

    HashKey Group is an end-to-end digital asset financial services group in Asia, offering new investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds and professional investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

  • Co-founder & Board Member

    2017

    Recycling agricultural wastes with an innovative Nature based Solution (Nb S) to help farmers sustainably intensify their operations and improve soil fertility for generations to come while sequestering large amounts of CO2.

  • Board Observer

    2012

    Picarro is a leading provider of solutions to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, trace gases and stable isotopes across many scientific applications, along with the energy and utilities markets.

  • Co-Founder & Chairman Investment Committee

    2006

    Leading US $ and RMB Venture Capital funds sponsored by CM Capital and strategic investors from Jiangsu Provence, China

  • Co-founder & General Partner

    1996

    Leading expansion stage venture fund; first fund is still in top ten of all time.

  • Investment Advisory Board

    1995

    A single family office with offices in Palo Alto and Hong Kong managing a foundation style portfolio https://www.ccapital.com/

2013 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2023

    Berkeley Earth is a source of reliable, independent, non-governmental, and unbiased scientific data and analysis of the highest quality. Our continued mission and responsibility is to deliver and communicate our findings to the broadest possible audience.