About.

Managing Partner

Jimmy Jia

Jimmy is an innovation strategist with expertise in energy, infrastructure, carbon, and ESG. He consults with publicly listed companies, governments and financial firms on long-term strategies, including ESG, sustainability, and capital investments. He has been involved in several innovation ecosystems, including chairing the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest, board member at the CleanTech Alliance in Seattle, and chairing the Strategy Committee at the Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego. He is a Venture Partner at Pi Labs, focused on built environment innovation and ESG diligence. He has published two books and holds five patents.

Managing Partner

Evan Taylor

Evan is a serial deep technology innovator and business leader with global experiences, who works on projects beyond sustainability and toward restorative models inherently improving the environment and local ecosystems. Prior to science-focused entrepreneurship, Evan worked on over $4bn of private equity funded projects and investment across both project management and due diligence roles. He has been a startup advisor and EIR at the MIT Enterprise Forum, The Capital Network, UC Davis Venture Catalyst, Climate Haven, and Mass Challenge, and a Co-Investigator on over $27M of Dept. of Energy technology commercialization and scale up awards.

Operating Partner

Ibrahim Al Somali

Ibrahim brings over 20 years of experience in industrial operations, finance, and technology scale-up across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. He has restructured multiple intergenerational family-owned industrial and commercial businesses, brought multiple eco-focused industrial joint-ventures across borders for scale up with family offices, and sits on the Board of Ocean Builders.

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Senior Advisor

Stan Sakai

Stan Sakai has spent over 35 years in the technology centers of Boston, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul as a senior banker, investor and fund manager. He led for his institutions cross-border Nasdaq IPOs, M&A, JVs, debt underwritings and venture investments. For the past ten years he has been a private investor in clean energy companies.  He founded in 2017 and co-managed a Green Innovation Fund under the sponsorship of the Tsinghua University Science Parks for making investments in US clean energy startups, earning a substantial return for its LPs. He currently serves as a Partner of the Clean Energy Venture Group, a network of Clean Energy executives and financiers established for investing in innovative green tech companies in the US and Europe.

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