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Jane Woodward

Founder & Managing Partner of WovenEarth Ventures, and Founding Partner of MAP Energy

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Jane Woodward is the Founder & Managing Partner of WovenEarth Ventures and Founding Partner of MAP Energy, with a background in founding and leading successful ventures such as MAP Royalty, Inc. and serving on the boards of innovative companies like Fervo Energy and Stem, Inc. Woodward has made significant investments in companies like Molten Industries (Series A) and Magrathea (Seed), focusing on sectors like Manufacturing, EnergyTech, and ClimateTech/CleanTech in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2022 - Current

  • Founding Partner of MAP Energy

    2019

Map Energy is a securities brokerage firm that specializes in the investment and asset management of natural gas & renewable energy assets.

  • Founder & CEO of MAP Royalty, Inc.

    1989

  • Adjunct Professor

    1991

    https://understand-energy-course.stanford.edu https://scv.stanford.edu https://explore-energy.stanford.edu

  • Advisory Council Member, Precourt Institute for Energy

    2006

    https://energy.stanford.edu/about/about-us

Stanford Energy on energy research and education, from basic science and technology to policy and business.

  • Board Member

    2022

Ambient Fuels is a green energy developer that delivers green hydrogen solutions.

Raised $250,000,000.00 from Generate Capital.

  • Board Member

    2021

Fervo Energy develops clean energy technology to generate carbon-free energy from geothermal systems.

Raised $531,000,000.00 from DCVC, Capricorn Investment Group and Congruent Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2021

Project Canary is a B-Corp that reduces GHG emissions and impacts in the energy, waste, and agriculture sectors through sensor measurement.

Raised $121,120,000.00 from Citi Impact Fund, Quantum Energy Partners, Brookfield Growth, Energy Impact Partners, Insight Partners, Carica Sustainable Investments, CPP Investments and Frontier Venture Capital.

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Founder & Board Member

    2016

    Our mission is to unite and celebrate artist-explorer Tony Foster’s watercolor wilderness Journeys and inspire connection to art and the natural world. For more information about The Foster, please visit: thefoster.org

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