Daniel Kriozere

Venture Partner

2022 - Current

Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.

Investor & Partner Manager

2023

Technology Scout

2021 - 2023

Venture For ClimateTech connects innovators with the tools, training, talent, and the non-dilutive funding necessary to begin building a company around their impactful ClimateTech solution. The program looks for entrepreneurs building early-stage climate tech solutions looking for support with product-market fit, market validation, hiring and investor readiness. Applications are open January through March. Scale For ClimateTech provides support to accelerate climate tech hardware manufacturing, while reducing risks, waste, and costs along the way. Any company with a climate technology that can benefit New York State is encouraged to apply, regardless of office location. The program looks for entrepreneurs building climate tech solutions looking for support with commercialization, manufacturing, and engineering design specifications. Applications are open September through November.

Managing Partner

2022

Climate Finance Partners helps accelerate the deployment of capital into climate. Securities offered through Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC. Climate Finance Partners and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities.

Founder

2021

DK Venture Partners supports startups and capital providers in the climate ecosystem. Current contracts include: - Venture Partner with Anthropocene Ventures - Investor & Partner Manager with For ClimateTech - Entrepreneur in Residence with NYSERDA - Scout with Enduring Planet - Venture Partner with Climate Capital - Venture Scout with Alumni Ventures - Venture Scout with Wefunder - Venture Partner with Republic Previous contracts include: - Principal with GoingVC Partners - Venture Scout with Prithvi

Operations and Business, Business Analyst

2019 - 2022

As a Business Analyst, I functioned as a Product Manager for on-site operations software: shipping, receiving, property re-use, refrigerant tracking and reporting, nuclear inventory acquisition and tracking. By gathering business requirements from many stakeholders and developing software requirements, I utilized agile development to iterate versions of software solutions to automate and streamline processes.

Nuclear Operations Safety Engineer

2017 - 2019

As a Nuclear Operations Safety Engineer, I managed yearly revisions and regulatory compliance of 200+ facility safety documents, which included walkthroughs of facilities with personnel, risk assessment and mitigation, and documentation of analysis. I also worked with the Innovation Partnership Office to analyze emerging markets to identify companies for IP tech transfer/licensing agreements, as well as conducting techno-economic analysis of scaling up a biochemical process from lab-scale to pilot-scale.

Co-Founder

2020 - 2022

The Impact is a weekly newsletter that provides analysis of emerging technologies, research, policy and trending news in the clean tech space in a short and informative way. The newsletter is written by analysts, founders and executives in the clean-tech industry with a mission to help inform and arm their readers with the tools to go out and make a climate positive impact. As the Co-Founder of The Impact, I focused on scale and growth, sponsorships and partnerships, and newsletter content.

Founder

2021 - 2022

Innovate Climate is an online community centered around a weekly newsletter that highlights startups to the broader climate and sustainability ecosystem. Innovate Climate's mission is to help startups succeed and create impact, specifically by providing visibility to others in the sector and facilitating introductions. As the Founder of Innovate Climate, I sourced startups, managed relationships, created content, and fostered partnerships within the ecosystem. Acquired by Impact Media Group, LLC in 2022.

Quality Engineer

2016 - 2017

As a Quality Engineer, my primary responsibility was to conduct root cause analyses to identifying corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to decrease errors in production. This included developing metrics for KPIs to provide insight to the business and to clients, as well as industrial engineering and working with our software developers. During my time, I also established a new procurement and supply chain management system and facilitated start-up operations for our new Indianapolis facility.

Associate Engineer

2016 - 2016

As an Associate Engineer, I discussed requirements with local air quality districts to successfully complete permit applications, which included calculations, dispersion models, and reports.