Christian Garcia
Investor at Data Blanket
Bozeman, Montana
Overview
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.
Education
MBA
2004 - 2006
B.S., M.S.
1997 - 2002