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Leonardo Banchik

Investor at Voyager

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Leonardo Banchik is currently an Investment Director at Voyager Ventures, focusing on deep-tech investments in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in sustainable investing and clean energy technologies, he has led investments in companies like Equilibrium Energy and StepChange, showcasing his expertise in ClimateTech and CleanTech sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Investment Director

    2023 - Current

Voyager invests in early-stage climate technology companies in North America and Europe.

  • Board Observer

    2024

    Stealth Geologic Hydrogen Startup

  • Board Director

    2024

    Stealth Critical Minerals Startup

  • Board Observer

    2023

  • Board Member/Observer

    2022

Lydian Labs manufactures renewable energy equipment from industrial plants, landfills or directly from air.

Raised $65,000.00 from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and MassVentures.

  • Board Observer

    2023

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Selected angel investments: • Alcemy (Series A extension) • Aluminio (Pre-Seed) • Bedrock Energy (Seed) • Intramotev (Seed) • Lithos Carbon (Seed) • Lydian (Pre-Seed) • Molten Industries (Series A) • Peregrine Hydrogen (Seed - Advisor) • Savor (Seed) • Stealth Sodium Ion Battery Co (Pre-Seed) • Verse (Seed) • Windscape.ai (Pre-Seed) • YourStake (Seed)

Self Employed is a contracting company that provides independent contracting services.

  • Board Director

    2022 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

Equilibrium Energy is a Climate Generation power company focused on the creation and proliferation of clean energy.

Raised $72,000,000.00 from DCVC, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Valo Ventures.

  • Partner, Global Climate Tech Head

    2021 - 2023

    Investing in climate tech startups (Pre-seed - Series A). $1.5B under management. Portfolio: • Aigen (Seed) - robots for regen agriculture • Arbor (Seed) - rocket science meets bio-energy carbon capture storage • Equilibrium Energy (Series A) - grid and utility-scale asset optimization • Found Energy (Pre-Seed) - aluminum as an energy carrier • Lydian (Pre-Seed) - sustainable aviation fuel and green chemicals • Navier (Seed) - next-gen hydro-foiling EV boats • Oneshot (Seed) - risk-free carbon offsetting • Skyven (Seed) - heat pumps for industrial heat decarbonization • Stepchange (Pre-Seed) - org and product carbon accounting for India

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