David Mount

Partner

2016 - Current

G2 Venture Partners is a venture and growth firm focused on emerging technologies driving sustainable transformation across traditional industries. We support entrepreneurs who are unlocking new paths to environmentally and socially responsible economic growth. Visit us at https://www.g2vp.com/.

Adjunct Professor

2018

Adjunct Professor at Stanford, co-teaching Stanford Earth's ENVRES221: New Frontiers and Opportunities in Sustainability. The course is an interdisciplinary exploration of how companies, government and non-profit organizations address some of the world's most significant environmental & resource sustainability challenges. Past speakers for the course have included Nancy Pfund (DBL Partners), Adam Lowry (Ripple Foods, Method), Kate Brandt (Google), Ryan Popple (Proterra) and Fran Weld (SF Giants). Each week we explore new frontiers and opportunities in clean tech, policy, energy, transportation, consumer goods, agriculture, food, and sustainable built environments with an experienced sustainability practitioner.

Visiting Instructor

2017 - 2018

Board Member

2024

Relay is a cloud-based technology platform that helps frontline teams improve communications, increase employee safety, and improve their productivity. Relay helps frontline teams digitally transform their operations with the modern tools which supports actionable real-time data needed to track performance and improve their operations. Software has not yet transformed the frontline world, and Relay is on a mission to change that.

Board Member

2022

AssetWatch is a leader in predictive maintenance solutions, providing a rapidly deployable, end-to-end remote condition monitoring service. Their solutions eliminate unplanned downtime and optimize operations for global manufacturers by simplifying the predictive maintenance process through a network of wireless sensors and communication hubs, cutting-edge software, and condition monitoring engineers. By combining an AI-powered risk engine with the prescriptive insights of a certified expert, AssetWatch gives more than just the standard "pass/fail". They truly are a partner in the journey, helping change the culture of maintenance and reliability teams from reactive to proactive.

Board Member

2021

AiDash uses high-resolution, multispectral imagery and SAR data from the world’s leading satellite constellations for our proprietary AI models which facilitate timely predictions for efficient asset operations and maintenance activities. Our application also enables industries to plan and prioritize the completion and audit of O&M activities effectively.

Board Member

2020

Board Member at Seegrid, the leading provider of connected self-driving vehicles for materials handling with nearly three million miles driven. The Seegrid Smart Platform combines flexible and reliable infrastructure-free vision guided vehicles with fleet management software for a complete connected solution. Seegrid accelerates Industry 4.0 and lean initiatives with incremental automation, helping companies achieve a truly connected enterprise and transform into smart factories of the future. G2VP led Seegrid's Series B, and I joined the board as a part of that investment.

Founder, Board Member

2014 - 2023

Element provides software for industrial organizations to more efficiently transform their diverse sources of IT/OT industrial data, empowering their teams to find new insights that improve operational performance, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of value, and cleaner, safer, healthier operations. Element AssetHub™ automates the data modeling, governance and quality burdens associated with OT real time data like PI and IP21 with IT systems like SAP, Maximo, Hexagon PPM and Aveva, freeing up time and resources to focus on analytical applications that improve business performance. Element’s industrial customers represent over $500 billion in revenue, $300 billion in fixed assets and 350,000 employees. For more information please visit: www.elementanalyics.com. Element is backed by leading financial and industrial investors including Kleiner Perkins, ABB, GE Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, Mitsui, Schneider Electric Ventures, and Blue Bear Capital. Element has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor for IoT Analytics, IDC Innovator in Analytics for Manufacturing, Forbes Top 25 IoT Startups to Watch in 2019, and by JMP Securities on their Efficient Fifty List. Co-founded the company with Sameer Kalwani and acted as CEO from founding through October of 2015 when Andy Bane joined to lead Element. I remain actively involved as a board member.

Board Member

2017 - 2021

Kespry enables enterprises to analyze and harness the value of the vast perception data they capture every day. Maintenance and reliability teams across industries rely on petabytes of photos, videos and infrared footage to identify and manage issues with physical assets and systems. Most organizations lack an effective way to organize and effectively leverage insights from that data given it’s typically spread out over multiple users and systems. Kespry Perception Analytics (KPA) combats this problem. Instead of manually reviewing multiple sources of visual and sensor-based data, KPA’s automation and ML capabilities organize that data and create a repository with holistic views of each asset. This enables teams to identify trends over time and proactively address issues to avert crises caused by problems such as corrosion and leaks. These capabilities are based on Kespry’s groundbreaking expertise in drone-based aerial intelligence serving more than 270 mining and aggregates companies, and the world’s largest insurers. Customers across North America, Europe and Australia rely on Kespry, including Colas, Fluor, Grinnell Mutual, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, Oldcastle, Shell, Titan America, XAP 360, and Zellstoff Celgar.

Partner

2008 - 2020

The Green Growth Fund at KPCB is a $1B fund dedicated to supporting sustainable technology businesses. The Green Growth team applies deep investing and entrepreneurial experience to help companies transform the economy and increase resource efficiency. We’ve invested in leading companies across the largest sectors of the economy, including transportation, industrial data and analytics, agriculture, digital energy, supply chain, and financial services.

Board Member

2012 - 2017

Choose Energy operated an online destination for consumers and small businesses to learn about retail energy options, select the most compelling retail energy plan, and enroll with new energy providers for electricity or natural gas. Choose Energy grew in to the second-largest online enrollment platform for residential energy, and was acquired by Red Ventures in June of 2017.