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Andrew Gollach

Partner at HAX

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Andrew Gollach is a Partner at HAX/SOSV, specializing in Deep Tech Venture Capital in New York City. With a background in Chemical Engineering and extensive experience in process engineering, he has successfully navigated roles at companies like LanzaTech and UOP, demonstrating expertise in areas such as venture capital, financial modeling, and market research. Gollach's career highlights include serving as a Partner at HAX/SOSV, focusing on investing in ClimateTech/CleanTech and DeepTech startups, and holding roles at LanzaTech and UOP as a Sr Global Services Engineer and Development Engineer, showcasing his proficiency in engineering and process safety.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

  • Associate

    2022 - 2022

    - On the investment team at HAX, SOSV's Engineering focused Deep Tech vertical. I manage our deal flow pipeline and due diligence process - I work with our portfolio companies on go-to-market, fundraising, financing and general strategy

  • Fellow

    2021 - 2022

HAX is SOSV's venture program for Hard Tech

  • Intern

    2020 - 2022

    Due Diligence: Lead volunteer team of MBA, Masters and PhD students in conducting business due diligence for Seed to Series A stage investments.

BlueTree Allied Angels is a regional group of accredited investors who invest in regional early-stage companies.

  • Summer Scholar - Technology-to-Market

    2021 - 2021

    Conduct market research and TEA/DCF modeling for breakthrough technologies in the maritime sector. Helped develop a business strategy for new technologies in the maritime logistics space centered around the use of green shipping corridors.

ARPA-E advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment.

  • Technical Service Manager

    2019 - 2020

    Developed technical sales proposals in support of account sales lead for catalyst sales in the distillate fuels space

ART Hydroprocessing is supplier of hydroprocessing catalysts and lubes and offers resid and distillate hydrotreating catalyst.

  • Sr Global Services Engineer/Process Engineer

    2018 - 2019

    LanzaTech is a leader in the circular economy with its waste to fuels/chemicals technology. To date, LanzaTech has raised over $350 million in VC funding. I served as the Chief Technical Advisor on LanzaTech's first commercial-scale plant located in Hebei, China. I was responsible for leading a team of international engineers in the checkout, commissioning, and plant startup activities. The facility is the first commercial deployment of LanzaTech's award-winning gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has raised over $150 million dollars since the facility came online.

  • Global Operations Engineer

    2015 - 2018

LanzaTech reduces emissions and makes new products for a circular carbon economy.

Raised $1,071,040,286.00 from US Department of Energy.

  • Field Advisor I/II

    2013 - 2015

    UOP LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc, a Fortune 100 company. UOP has over 100 years of experience as a leading process licensor, equipment, and catalyst & adsorbent supplier in the refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. As a Field Advisor in UOP's Field Operating Services (FOS) group, I travel to customer sites to provide a wide variety of services. FOS Technical Advisors assist our customers in new unit start-up, checkout, catalyst/adsorbent reloads, revamp, data collection, and other services. I have extensive training and experience across a wide range of UOP technologies. As a Chief Technical Advisor I travel to customer sites across the globe where I serve as the on-site contact for our customer and a liaison for UOP. I am responsible for leading a small group (1-4) of multinational and multicultural engineers in providing support and service to our customers. Hydroprocessing Project Experience: Checkout, loading, and commissioning on UOP Unionfining and Unicracking Process Units. Experience in Distillate Hydrotreating and 2 Stage Hydrocracking Locations: - Abu Dhabi, UAE (Technical Advisor/Chief Technical Advisor) - Cartagena, Colombia (Chief Technical Advisor) Aromatics Project Experience (Benzene & Xylene Production): Checkout, loading, and commissioning on a variety of UOP Aromatics technologies. Experienced in Extractive Distillation (Sulfolane), Liquid-Liquid Extraction (Sulfolane), Tatoray, Isomar, Parex and general fractionation. Locations: - Fujian Province, China (Assistant Advisor) - Yanbu, Saudi Arabia (Technical Advisor) - Singapore, Singapore (Chief Technical Advisor) - Incheon, South Korea (Chief Technical Advisor) - Mangalore, India (Chief Technical Advisor)

  • Development Engineer

    2011 - 2013

    Development Engineer - Hydroprocessing R&D - Worked on complex research projects with limited oversight - Proactively anticipate and prevent problems - Helped team deliver on-time results that contributed to a significant sale to a key customer

Honeywell Hometown is a not-for-profit organization that deploys the efforts of Honeywell India towards social responsibility interventions.

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