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Josh Felser

Founder of Climactic

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Josh Felser is a Climate Tech Investor in San Francisco, California, with a focus on enterprise solutions. He has co-founded successful ventures like Climactic and Freestyle Capital, and has made impactful investments in companies like Arrive Recommerce and ClimateAI. Felser's career highlights include serving as CEO of Crackle/Grouper and as Vice President at AOL, showcasing his leadership and strategic acumen in the digital media and technology sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder

    2021 - Current

    Climactic, founded by serial founders and longtime VCs, Josh Felser and Raj Kapoor, will seek to fund the startups developing the most impactful climate technologies sought after by the Enterprise in North America and Europe

Climactic VC invests in visionary founders solving our planet’s greatest challenges: battling climate change, achieving sustainability.

  • CoFounder

    2008

    Freestyle is a hands-on early stage VC investing in Internet and mobile startups.

Freestyle is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies.

  • Cofounder

    2013

    ClimateX sits at the intersection of technology and climate change. Our first product, #climate, is an app that aggregates the best climate change actions from leading nonprofits and matches them with social media Influencers. Our partners include the NBA, Guns N Roses, Mark Ruffalo, Al Gore, Evan Williams and many others. Our goal is to create action-oriented movements driven by amplification on social media.

  • Board Member, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    2010

  • Task Force Member

    2020 - 2020

    Helped start the Technology Solutions Group to help the State of California better source private company solutions to many of the challenges facing the State due to the COVID-19 crisis.

State of California is widely known for its pioneers and leaders in technology and film production.

  • EVP

    2006 - 2008

    Sony acquired grouper/crackle

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.

Raised $1,000,000.00.

  • CEO

    2004 - 2008

Crackle is a movie streaming website that enables users to watch free movies and television shows.

  • Vice President

    1999 - 2001

    AOL acquired spinner

AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.

Raised $1,000,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures and Google.

  • President

    1997 - 1999

    Spinner, launched 1996, was the first Internet music service. Sold in 1999 to AOL for $320mm and is now AOL Radio and the destination site www.spinner.com

  • Program Manager, Business Development

    1992 - 1994

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