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Murray McCaig

Managing Partner at ArcTern Ventures

Toronto, Ontario

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures

    2012 - Current

    ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Oslo investing globally in breakthrough technology companies, solving climate change and sustainability - we call it #earthtech.

  • Board Member

    2020

    Span is the home energy 'brain'. Span's smart electrical panel simplifies home electrification while enabling control of every energy load in the home.

  • Board Member

    2019

    Sheertex’s proprietary sheer knit utilizes ballistic-grade fibers to make ultra-durable sheer pantyhose and other products. The company’s product replaces the over 6 billion pairs of disposable sheers that go to landfill every year.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Scythe is accelerating the decarbonization of the global commercial landscaping sector with its autonomous electric mowers designed to tackle challenges in unstructured outdoor environments.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Xeal solves the poor reliability issue with EV chargers by enabling its chargers to operate and authenticate without an internet connection using its patented distributed ledger architecture. Its EV charging solution is well-suited to multi-tenant buildings who can earn more passive income.

  • Board Member

    2012

    GreenMantra converts waste plastic to high value synthetic wax using a patented thermocatalytic depolymerization process using small modular plants that can be based close to large customers or waste plastic sources.

  • Mentor: Toronto, Canada; Oxford, UK

    2018

    The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.

  • Chairperson

    2013

    MMB enables consumer device companies to 'smart enable' and connect their products to the rapidly growing smart home ecosystems.

  • Board Member

    2013

    SmarterAlloys is the world’s only company capable of programming multiple memories or pseudo elasticities into a single shape memory alloy (SMA). Smarter Alloys has commercial products in the medical, automotive, and industrial sectors.

  • Co-Chairperson

    2017

    Butterfield & Robinson designs and runs the world’s most immersive, inspiring and unforgettable journeys.

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