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Pradeep Tagare

Investor Investments to enable a safe, clean, affordable energy future and meet climate change goals

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Pradeep Tagare is a seasoned venture capitalist in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in investments that drive a safe, clean, and affordable energy future to combat climate change. With a background in clean energy technologies and corporate venture capital, he has held leadership roles at National Grid and currently serves as a Board Observer at Modern Hydrogen, showcasing his expertise in fostering innovative solutions for decarbonization and energy transition.

Work Experience 

  • Board Observer

    2023 - Current

  • Board Member

    2023

HELIXintel creates a platform for inventory and task management to track equipment maintenance.

Raised $6,700,000.00 from Motivate Venture Capital, Munich Re Ventures, Stellifi VC and National Grid Partners (NGP).

  • Vice President and Head of Corporate Venture Fund

    2018

    Leading the Venture Capital investments team at National Grid Partners, the CVC arm of National Grid, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world operating in the UK and US. National Grid Partners invests in enterprise technology companies that disrupt the energy business to create a clean, fair, affordable, and safe energy future. Our portfolio includes: 1Touch Aporeto (acquired by Palto Alto Networks $150M) AutoGrid Carbon Lighthouse ClimaCell CNI Guard Copper Leaf Dragos Edcast Go Cardless Leap Omnidian Pixeom (acquired by Siemens) Risk IQ Sitetracker Sparkcognition Uniphore Urbint as well as the following Fund investments Energy Impact Partners Jerusalem Venture Partners IQ Capital IQ Capital Growth

Narragansett Electric is an electricity transmission and distribution service provider, as well as a natural gas distributor.

  • Limited Partner Advisory Committee Member

    2018

Energy Impact Partners is a collaborative strategic investment firm that invests in energy companies.

  • Board Member

    2021

TS Conductor specializes in high-performance conductors that increase the ampacity of electric transmission and distribution.

Raised $85,000,000.00 from Edison International, Gates Frontier Fund, Energy & Environment Investment, NextEra Energy, Wellington Management, Blue Earth Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Quanta Services and National Grid Partners (NGP).

  • Board Member

    2019

Uniphore provides conversational AI tools for speech recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis.

Raised $620,875,000.00 from GoldenArc Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund, March Capital, New Enterprise Associates and BAM Elevate.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Delivering easy building decarbonization for commercial real estate owners

Raised $67,100,000.00 from ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Incorta is a unified data and analytics platform.

Raised $192,617,491.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Ron Wohl, Wipro Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, National Grid, Titanium Ventures and Prysm Capital.

  • Limited Partner Advisory Committee Member

    2019

  • Angel Investor / Advisor

    2018

Vitrina A.I. is a SaaS platform for the video content industry to facilitate and enable cross-border transactions.

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