Wal Van Lierop

Founding Partner

2019 - Current

President & CEO

2001 - 2018

Founded in 2001, Chrysalix is an award-winning technology focused venture capital company with a long history of building and commercializing innovations for resource intensive industries: oil and gas, electric power and utilities, mining, chemicals and materials, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and mobility. We invest in innovations that can be enhanced by the application of intelligent systems such as artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), smart materials, machine learning, blockchain, 3D-printing and other frontier technologies.

Advisory Board Member

2019

The BC Cleantech Cluster Initiative brings together key sectoral groups to support the economic development of cleantech sectors across the Province and to put in motion a sustainable model to advance British Columbia's thriving sector.

Board Observer

2019

Enbala has developed the industry’s leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP) software, the number one choice in Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) and advanced planning and analysis.

Content Contributor

2018

Contribute articles regularly to Forbes on energy-related topics such as smart citites, nuclear fusion, industrial innovation and startup ecosystems.

Member Board Of Directors

2018

General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.

Member Board Of Directors

2015

Inventys has developed the VeloxoTherm™ process, a post-combustion CO₂ capture process that uses adsorbent structures.

Member Board Of Directors

2012

Axine Water Technologies has developed a low-cost, breakthrough solution for treating toxic organic pollutants in wastewater.

Co-Founder and Member of the Advisory Board

2007 - 2016

Co-founded SET Ventures together with Robeco, hired management team and assisted in starting operations. SET Ventures manages venture capital funds targeting the Energy Sector and invests in European early growth-stage companies that can impact the future of the energy markets worldwide.

Member Board Of Directors

2013 - 2015

Liquid Light was a New Jersey-based company that develops and licenses electrochemical process technology to make chemicals from carbon dioxide.

Board Observer

2010 - 2015

Bridgelux designs solid-state lighting solutions that are high performance, energy efficient, cost effective and easy to integrate.