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Sam Runkle

Lumen Energy | Climate Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

  • Partnerships/BD + Enterprise Sales

    2023

  • Go-to-market

    2022

    We enable profitable decarbonization - with speed, precision, and value - across 100s to 1,000s of buildings at once. We built technology to make it simple for commercial real estate owners to evaluate, rank, select, then mass-deploy clean energy wherever it meets their carbon and IRR targets. Customers include Hines, Bridge IG, Nuveen, Tishman and many other CRE leaders. Backed by Lowercarbon, Designer Fund, Ajax Strategies, Climate Capital, Third Derivative

  • Partner, Syndicate

    2023

  • Principal

    2022

    Focused on built environment & energy. Led CC investments in: -Tangible Materials (Seed) -Gradient Comfort (Series A) -Ever.green (Seed) -Marathon Fusion (Pre-seed) -Electric Air (Seed) -Keeling Labs (Seed) -Upfront (Seed) -Zero (Seed) -Reflect Orbital (Pre-Seed)

  • Associate

    2022 - 2022

    Backing emissions reduction & adaptation since 2015. 100+ incl Mosaic, Weavegrid, BlocPower & Arcadia. Invest in the fund @ angel.co/v/l/PN41p Back the syndicate @ angel.co/s/climate-capital/dinwa More @ climatecapital.co

  • Scout

    2022

2021 - 2023

  • Climate Tech Fellow

    2021 - 2023

    ODCT + Build for Climate

2021 - 2022

  • Venture Fellow

    2021 - 2022

    Venture Fellow for the Green D Ventures fund of AV. We are a Venture Capital firm and community of Dartmouth alumni investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. We raise capital from Dartmouth alumni and friends of the community, and seek to invest primarily in alumni-led startups. We are private, for-profit, and not part of (but friendly with) Dartmouth. Every year, we build a portfolio of 20-30 companies spanning industry, stage and geography. We co-invest alongside established venture capital lead investors. We are an experienced, diverse community of 24,000 alumni with different backgrounds and reasons for joining. If you are interested in entrepreneurship or venture capital, let's connect. Learn more here: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/19/alumni-ventures-group-is-the-most-active-venture-fund-youve-never-heard-of/

2020 - 2022

  • Sustainability Lead

    2021 - 2022

  • Head of Sales

    2020 - 2022

    B2B SaaS backed by Susa Ventures, Struck Capital, Day One Ventures and others

2020 - 2020

  • Consultant

    2020 - 2020

2020 - 2020

  • Consultant

    2020 - 2020

2018 - 2020

  • Sustainability Lead

    2020 - 2020

  • Business Development Lead, Real Estate

    2019 - 2020

  • Real Estate Partnerships

    2018 - 2019

2017 - 2017

  • Business Development Associate

    2017 - 2017