Laurie Menoud
Venture Capital at At One Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director Board of Directors
2024 - Current
TEMO makes lightweight, rotational motors powered solely by electricity. Recreational boaters can power their dinghy or small sailboat quietly, and with no hydrocarbon leakage.
Director Board of Directors
2023
Orbillion develops truly scalable cultivated beef that is delicious and ultra-sustainable.
Orbillion Bio produces meat from the highest quality, heritage animals.
Raised $5,080,000.00 from At One Ventures, Earth Venture Capital, Metaplanet, Y Combinator and The Venture Collective.
Director Board of Directors
2023
With more wind and solar coming on the grid, longer duration storage than that provided by Li-ion batteries (2-4 hours) will be needed to shift excess production to times of demand. Inlyte has developed a low-cost, salt-iron battery for grid storage, well-suited for 4+ hour durations. This alternative chemistry is also fire-safe and does not rely on scarce lithium.
Founding Partner | Venture Capital
2020
Finding, funding, and growing teams catalyzing a world where humanity is a net-positive to nature. Investor: Avalo, Apis Cor, Ascend Elements, Climax Foods, Finless Foods, Helios, Modern Electron, Monarch Tractor, Noon, Orbillion, Precision AI, Puna Bio, SimpliFyber, Wild Earth. Board member: Avalo, Ascend Elements, Helios, Inlyte Energy, Noon Energy, Precision AI, Puna Bio, SimpliFyber. --- At One Ventures is a San Francisco-based Venture Capital firm founded by Tom Chi, co-founder of GoogleX. We invest in early-stage disruptive deep tech to reset existing industries toward a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
At One Ventures backs early-stage companies that are using disruptive deep tech to upend the unit economics of established industries.
Director Board Of Directors
2022
Helios is pioneering new chemical pathways for decarbonization of steel making, which accounts for 8% of global emissions, through direct reduction of iron ore using a recyclable reducing agent.
Director Board Of Directors
2021
Avalo has developed a novel AI platform to predict genes coding for climate-resilient traits, with high speed and confidence. It holds the promise of improving crop genetic diversity while preparing for a world with increasing climate destabilization.
Avalo is a plant biotech company using AI and evolution to make a more sustainable and resilient food system.
Raised $3,900,000.00 from IndieBio and SOSV.
Director Board Of Directors
2022
Simplifyber is reinventing how clothing is made with sustainable, additive manufacturing. Using a single-step process, it fully eliminates textile waste and water pollution from dyeing. The result is bio-based molded garments and accessories at cost parity with polyester.
Simplifyber is a creator of fully-molded garment and shoe uppers made directly from a cellulose-based liquid.
Raised $3,620,000.00 from Meliorate Partners, The W Fund, Plug and Play, Vishal Rao, Keeler Investments Group, Heritage Group, CapitalX, Techstars, The Helm and REFASHIOND Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Puna Bio develops biological (non-GMO) seed treatments based on the unique capabilities of 3.5 billion-year-old extremophiles from the highest and driest desert on Earth. This enables growing in degraded soils (acidic, UV-irradiated, salinated), conditions that are developing in one-third of the world’s agricultural land.
Director Board Of Directors
2020
Precision AI has developed a drone-based system that identifies crops and weeds and performs targeted herbicide applications. The result is a 95%+ reduction in input costs, saving farmers money while significantly reducing exposure to dangerous chemistry and runoff.
Board Observer
2020
Grid storage is essential to enabling society to replace fossil fuel generation with renewable generation at scale. Noon Energy is creating ultra-low-cost battery technology with superlinear economics and not limited by any rare earth materials.
Noon Energy develops a flow battery technology that enables economical long-duration energy storage.
Raised $31,224,999.00 from Aramco Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures.