Colleen Konetzke
Principal at Ironspring Ventures
Colleen Konetzke
Principal at Ironspring Ventures
Austin, Texas
Overview
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.