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Christian Garcia

Investor at Data Blanket

Bozeman, Montana

Overview 

Christian Garcia is a Venture Capital Investor and Partner at BEV in Bozeman, Montana, with a focus on investing in Series A and Seed stages within the ClimateTech/CleanTech sectors. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a background in Aerospace and Energy, Christian has successfully invested in and served on the boards of companies like Fleetzero and STOKE Space Technologies. Christian's career highlights include his role as a Partner and Managing Director at Breakthrough Energy, where he has made strategic investments in innovative companies like Heart Aerospace and ZeroAvia, showcasing his expertise in corporate finance and M&A within the technology and energy sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Partner, Managing Director - Ventures

    2017 - Current

  • Investor and Board Director

    2022

    Electrified marine shipping for sustainable supply chains

Fleetzero is building battery electric cargo ships to affordably decarbonize ocean freight.

Raised $15,500,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Founders Fund, Unpopular Ventures, McKinley Capital Management, Pioneer Fund, Apollo Projects, Y Combinator, MCJ and Cantos.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2021

    Fully-reusable fast cadence orbital access

  • Investor and Board Director

    2021

    Electrifying regional aviation

  • Investor and Board Director

    2021

    Geologic hydrogen

Koloma is a geologic hydrogen company that leverages technology and data to identify and commercialize geologic hydrogen resources.

Raised $386,399,925.00 from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Osaka Gas, Khosla Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund, United Airlines Ventures and K5 Global.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2022

    AI for wildfire fighting

Datablanket uses drone swarms and AI-driven software to empower wildfire fighters and improve the effectivity of wildfire fighting assets

Raised $4,160,000.00 from Kirsten Bartok Touw, Innovation Endeavors, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Moshe Lichtman, Dennis Muilenburg and Omer Bar-Yohay.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2021

    Pioneering the Carbon Neutral food category

Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half.

Raised $16,000,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Kevin Love, LeBron James, Mark Cuban, Global Brain Corporation, Tobias Harris, Craig Shapiro, Kirin Holdings, John Legend and The Norinchukin Bank.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

    Ultra-high resolution satellite imagery from very low earth orbit

Building satellites to capture the ultra-high resolution 10 cm visible imagery, co-collected with 2 m thermal imagery.

Raised $93,000,000.00 from Shield Capital, Initialized Capital, Booz Allen Ventures, Republic capital, Giant Step Capital, Y Combinator, Bill Perkins, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Cubit Capital and Jetstream.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2020

    Hydrogen powered flight

ZeroAvia develops hydrogen-electric powertrains for zero-emission aviation solutions.

Raised $293,950,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund, Summa Equity, NEOM Investment Fund, Horizons Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Scottish National Investment Bank, Airbus, National Wealth Fund and AP Ventures.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

    Sustainable and scalable protein platform

Nature's Fynd is a food company that makes nutritional vegan protein from a microbe.

Raised $509,559,546.00 from EDBI, Balyasny Asset Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Hongkou, Hillhouse Investment, SK Holdings, BAM Elevate and Blackstone Group.

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