Mike Jackson

Managing Partner at Earthshot Ventures

Managing Partner
2020 - Current
An early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change.

Board Observer
2023
Parade is the leading capacity management platform for freight brokerages. Parade integrates with all of your existing tools and manages carrier relationships, availability, and pricing. Top freight brokerages build dedicated digital capacity and book more loads using Parade.

Board Member
2022
Kanin enables large industrial users to monetize their waste heat by providing end-to-end project development and financing to generate clean power. Our partners can reduce their carbon impact and don’t have to worry about efficiency projects that are “too small” for their core business.

Board Member
2022
Noteworthy employs vehicle-mounted cameras and AI to help utilities collect and analyze data on distribution assets at-scale. By mounting on utilities’ existing fleet vehicles and through the use of proprietary AI, Noteworthy can increase situational awareness and realize cost savings and efficiencies across a variety of use cases including geolocation and asset inventory, asset inspection, vegetation management, 3rd party attachment compliance and unregulated lighting assessments.

Board Member
2021
Shimmer Industries introduces Stellar™ and Parallax™ — the software system that will revolutionize controls for the lighting industry. This unique system – with its respective mobile apps – requires no hardware. With only a single, off-the-shelf chip, you can design seamlessly integrated lighting solutions for any application, across any platform.

Board Observer
2024
Planet FWD is the leading decarbonization platform for the consumer industry. Launched first for Food and Beverage companies, Planet FWD’s platform and team of climate scientists empowers consumer companies to reach their climate goals by helping them measure and reduce their carbon footprint. Leveraging the food & beverage industry’s most in-depth Life Cycle Assessment data and robust Scope 3 emissions modeling capabilities, customers can harness an understanding of their climate impacts and unlock a clear path to Net Zero. Planet FWD’s software platform is the only solution that can analyze how a company can reduce emissions by making specific changes to their ingredients, packaging, suppliers and farm-level practices.

Network Leader
2018 - 2021
Village Global is an early stage investment firm based in Silicon Valley backed by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and many others. In my role at Village Global, I source and evaluate early stage investment opportunities in energy, sustainability, food, and mobility. I am also honored to have the chance to mentor some of Village's existing portfolio companies around finance and business strategy.

Investor in Residence
2017 - 2020
Elemental Excelerator is the leading growth accelerator for startups tackling climate change. Elemental funds 15-20 companies per year across energy, mobility, water, food & agriculture, and the circular economy to help deploy technologies and projects across North America and Asia Pacific. At Elemental, I worked intensively portfolio company CEOs to coach them through fundraising, acquisitions, business model design, and team construction. I also helped guide the organization’s sourcing efforts to attract the best young companies to the program each year.

Founder and CEO
2017 - 2020
Advisory services to early and mid stage companies and investors throughout the energy, sustainability, mobility, food & agriculture, health, public safety, and education sectors. Primarily assisted companies in their fundraising process - helping articulate an overarching strategy, developing clear and compelling decks and diligence materials, organizing an investor outreach funnel, and closing rounds. I also worked with a number of different investors to systemetize and scale their sourcing efforts.