Nigel Carr
Director at Acario
Nigel Carr
Director at Acario
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director
2023 - Current
Founded in 2017, Acario Innovation is the Silicon Valley-based corporate venture capital and open innovation arm of Tokyo Gas. Acario is focused on funding market leading companies in the new energy economy and sustainability sectors, including mobility, energy storage, and next-generation customer and energy services.
Co-founder
2019
Rithron supports founding teams navigate the emerging plant based consumer products industry based on a unique blend of experience from mass market retail, the ag supply chain, product development, and custom manufacturing. Our ultimate goal is to help new brands develop and execute omnichannel strategies to achieve a lasting presence in the national marketplace.
Fellow
2014
Echoing Green is one of the first social impact venture funds in the United States. It was founded by growth equity firm General Atlantic in 1987. Since it's inception, the organization has invested over $50 million in 800 seed stage businesses and organizations around the world (in over 85 countries), including Teach for America, the One Acre Fund, SKS Micro Finance and City Year.
Investor
2021
Liatris is a building technology company that delivers the cleanest and fastest energy savings for businesses and consumers with novel, high performance insulation that is non-flammable, non-toxic and more environmentally friendly.
Investor
2014
Jetti is a technology-driven natural resources company. Jetti has developed a novel hydrometallurgical extraction method to unlock metals of value from mineral ores that were previously inaccessible to the global mining industry. The Jetti technology is especially effective in extracting copper from low-grade chalcopyrite, the world’s most abundant but trapped copper resource.
Principal
2020 - 2023
ADL works with corporate partners to launch start-ups and identifies and accelerates promising existing ventures. The team also develops and deploys new services and products. ADL shares a passion for building new ventures and internal business units. The company leverages tech strategy, venture formation and business development expertise that helps partners build on those core strengths to expand in old markets and enter new ones quickly.
Advisor
2020 - 2021
General Radar designs and builds uninterruptible 4D imaging mm-wave sensors featuring unique analog beamforming and code-division multiple access digital pulse compression to create a high resolution representation of the world around us at the cost of consumer electronics.
Founding Team & COO
2016 - 2019
Flow Kana is California's largest cannabis distributor and its #1 brand. The company owns and operates a full-suite of supply chain services on behalf of legacy farms in Northern California. I led operations as COO, creating and scaling core functions in the business through multiple rounds of investment, from Seed to Series B until we reached 300 employees. I also led our in-house product development and design team responsible for managing creative and the international supply chain for multiple brands.
Advisor
2016 - 2017
Vim (formerly BookMD) is a first of its kind marketplace for healthcare services, connecting companies and top-tier providers through an efficient, technology driven platform. With Vim, employers save on their healthcare spending while providing their employees with high-quality care and a modern experience.
Co-founder & CEO
2013 - 2016
Qorax (pronounced “ko-rah”) is a platform for home solar asset finance and distribution in high barrier to entry frontier markets like Somalia. Qorax built and scaled three locally branded companies in Somalia, Ethiopia and the DRC that established retail channels and financing mechanisms for residential clean power systems. The goal: identifying and pursuing hidden growth opportunities in the off-grid energy access sector with a focus on high quality and affordable consumer products.