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    Powerhouse Ventures

    Oakland, California, United StatesFounded 2013

    Powerhouse Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Oakland, California, backing founders building digital infrastructure to rapidly decarbonize global energy and mobility systems. It operates alongside Powerhouse Innovation, a consulting arm serving major energy and technology corporations.

    Their most common stage is seed (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $15.8M (across 42 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    45

    Fund Size

    $75M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    4

    Team

    Emily Kirsch

    Emily Kirsch

    Founder and Managing Partner

    Marie Thompson

    Marie Thompson

    Partner

    Kendall Cody

    Kendall Cody

    Marketing & Communications Director

    Gabe Cuadra

    Gabe Cuadra

    Principal

    Gabriel VanLoozen

    Gabriel VanLoozen

    Principal

    Shaandiin Cedar

    Shaandiin Cedar

    Principal

    Lucy Reading

    Lucy Reading

    Senior Associate

    Eric Zhang

    Eric Zhang

    Operations Associate

    Jasmine Sorrells

    Jasmine Sorrells

    Executive Assistant

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    48 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    ThinkLabs AI logoThinkLabs AISeries A$28MMar 2026
    CVector logoCVectorSeed$5MJan 2026
    thinklabs logothinklabsSeries A$28MJan 2026
    Class 3 Technologies logoClass 3 TechnologiesSeed$3.5MOct 2025
    Adopt AI logoAdopt AISeed$6MMay 2025
    CCheehoo Labs, Inc.Series A$10MApr 2025
    Presto logoPrestoSeed$15MFeb 2025
    Tyba logoTybaSeries A$13.9MFeb 2025
    EEnergetic CapitalSeed$15MOct 2024
    Sybill logoSybillSeries A$11MJul 2024
    ThinkLabs AI logoThinkLabs AISeed$5MMay 2024
    11BstoriesSeed$5.5MJul 2023
    Axiom Cloud logoAxiom CloudSeries A$7.4MJan 2023
    Granular Energy logoGranular EnergySeedJan 2023
    GAMURS logoGAMURSSeries A$12MOct 2022
    Liquid Instruments logoLiquid InstrumentsSeries B$28.5MSep 2022
    Granular Energy logoGranular EnergyPre-SeedJan 2022
    RenewaFi logoRenewaFiUnknown$3MJan 2022
    AmpUp logoAmpUpSeedSep 2021
    Toya logoToyaGrowth$4MSep 2021
    AArena Innovation Corp.Seed$5.2MJul 2021
    CComunixSeries A$30MJun 2021
    MasterClass logoMasterClassSeries F$225MMay 2021
    Podchaser logoPodchaserUnknown$4MJan 2021
    Recurrent logoRecurrentSeed$3.5MDec 2020
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    Top Co-Investors

    Active Impact Investments4 shared
    Wireframe Ventures3 shared
    Greycroft3 shared
    BoxGroup3 shared
    Incite2 shared
    Clean Energy Ventures2 shared
    Pear VC2 shared
    NVentures2 shared
    Seedcamp2 shared
    Revent2 shared

    Last updated: 7 September 2026