Tuan-anh Tran
Founder of Solano Energy
Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Asset-light energy company Solano powers the future through supplying affordable and accessible renewable electricity to everyone.
Venture Partner
2021
Deeptech Investor
2018 - 2020
Invested in founders to grow early-stage, breakthrough deeptech companies with planet-level impact. Examples of industries being disrupted: Food, Semiconductor, Energy, Space, Apparel, Plastics.
Alabaster is a start-up investor in founders to help them grow breakthrough companies that will make a positive, planet-level impact.
Venture Scout
2020
Part of pilot Explorer program to support the next generation of diverse technology investors in Australia and NZ. Working to find, fund and support great Aussie and Kiwi founders.
Venture Investor
2020
Redefine Meat is applying proprietary 3D printing technology, meat digital modeling, and advanced food formulations to produce animal-free meat with the appearance, texture and flavor of whole muscle meat.
Venture Investor
2020
Neptune Robotics builds underwater robots that clean ships at ports and anchorages, delivering the future of fuel efficiency in marine logistics.
Venture Investor
2020
Otter is an A.I. note-taking and collaboration app that lets you remember, search, and share your voice conversations.
Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share, and recall all meeting notes.
Raised $73,000,000.00 from Draper Associates, H. Barton Asset Management, Draper Dragon, Fusion Fund, Slow Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Spectrum Equity, Gutbrain Ventures, Horizons Ventures and Duke Angel Network.
Scaleup Mentor
2020
Mentor to the EnergyLab's Scaleup Program designed to multiply the impact of the world's most promising late-stage clean-energy startups. The program is run in partnership with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, APA, Powerlink, AusNet Services and Counties Power.
Venture Investor
2019
Advano develops advanced silicon anode material to make lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density for blue chip battery manufacturers and Tier 1 consumer electronics and automotive companies.
Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable silicon solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density.
Raised $46,273,400.00 from Boot64 Ventures, AAF Management Ltd., Y Combinator, Bradley Horowitz, Wavemaker Partners, Future Shape, DCVC, Thiel Capital, PeopleFund and New Orleans BioFund.
Venture Investor
2019
Manna is a Drone Delivery Service “in a box” that provides a guaranteed 3 minute delivery time to consumers in suburban and rural communities from every restaurant, convenience store and pharmacy in their neighbourhood.
Venture Investor
2019
NetSpark's groundbreaking filtering solutions protect users from inappropriate content on the Internet without compromising the online experience.