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Colleen Konetzke

Principal at Ironspring Ventures

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Colleen Konetzke is currently a Principal at Ironspring Ventures in Austin, Texas, where she specializes in investing in Series A and Seed stage companies in sectors such as Logistics, TransportationTech, EnergyTech, and ClimateTech/CleanTech. With a background in consulting at Bain & Company and experience as a Founder and CFO at Feed the Front Line, she brings a strong leadership and strategic planning skill set to her role, making impactful investments in innovative startups.

Work Experience 

  • Principal

    2022 - Current

  • MBA Intern

    2022 - 2022

Leads and co-leads early stage investments, specializing in construction, manufacturing, transport & logistics, and alternative energy

  • MBA Intern

    2021 - 2021

G2VP invests in emerging technology companies that digitize traditional industries and drive market transformations.

  • MBA Intern, Strategic Planning, Growth & Innovation

    2021 - 2021

    Developed Edison’s latest perspective on hydrogen and CCUS technologies and how they may impact Edison and its businesses as well as its vision for how California reaches net zero by 2045

Edison International is a generator and distributor of electric power and an investor in infrastructure and energy assets.

Raised $550,000,000.00.

  • Senior Associate Consultant

    2019 - 2020

    Primarily focused on public utilities in a number of areas including: renewable energy development strategy, reliability improvement and distribution investment planning, and generation fleet transition for meeting net zero carbon goals

  • Associate Consultant

    2017 - 2019

  • Founder, Chief Financial Officer and Board Member

    2020 - 2020

    Founded a 501(c)3 nonprofit that uses donations to buy meals from local restaurants to keep them open, then delivers those meals to feed frontline workers and underserved communities during the pandemic; raised and managed over $1,000,000+ as the head of finance to serve 75,000+ meals

  • Project Coordinator, Multilateral Partnerships Team, Global Development Office of the President

    2019 - 2020

    Sponsored Externship Worked alongside a small, specialized team to support the foundation's partnerships with large UN organizations and develop concrete action plans to further those partnerships

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports initiatives in education, world health and population, and community giving.

  • Advisory Intern

    2016 - 2016

Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.

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