Tom Baruch
Founder of Baruch Future Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2010 - Current
Founder/MD of this venture capital and family office fund to address pain points in climate sensitive and resource limited markets. Current portfolio has 27 companies in sectors across energy, healthcare, food, water, air and else.
Baruch Future Ventures is a pioneering, climate-tech focused, family investment firm.
Advisor
2019
Board Member
2020
Foundation for Climate Restoration is creating an ecosystem that supports climate restoration.
Leadership Council Member
2016
Cyclotron Road is a fellowship program based in Berkeley, CA. As Cyclotron Road Fellows, leading technology innovators are embedded at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for two years while they advance a project with the potential for global impact. Since 2015, Cyclotron Road has awarded more than $13 million directly to 41 fellows, who have gone on to generate more than $50 million in early-stage funding to support their projects.
Advisor
2016
Humanity United is committed to building a world where modern-day slavery and mass atrocities are no longer possible.
Trustee Emeritus
2002
Becoming Trustee Emeritus in 2015
Chairman
2002 - 2020
Chairman of the Board
Codexis is a biosciences company applying synthetic chemistry technologies to create improved versions of small molecule therapeutics.
Raised $202,000,012.00 from Innovatus Capital Partners.
Partner Emeritus
2011 - 2015
Founding Partner of this $448m VC fund. Served as a director in several portfolio companies and a mentor to Formation 8 fund personnel.
Formation 8, a California-based technology investment firm, focuses on seed, early, and later stage venture investments.
Chairman
2006 - 2015
Intermolecular provides high productivity combinatorial (HPC) technology products and services for a wide range of industries.
Raised $73,167,999.00 from Symyx Technologies, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and Redpoint.