Matt EggersInvestor

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

I invest in outstanding climatetech companies.

I enjoyed every minute of 15 years in leadership roles in climatetech (and biotech) businesses spanning VP Sales at Tesla, VP Operations at Sunrun, GM Energy at Yardi Systems and launch PM for a new product at Genentech. But it's not my personality to do one thing. As a partner to founders, I get to be involved in many exciting moments of a company's journey. I love working with founders to help them build enduring, iconic, and profitable companies that will drive massive improvement in human civilization and for all life on earth.

I invest in climatetech because I'm passionate about not just disrupting the world, but improving it. I believe climate change is the greatest challenge human civilization has faced, and that the struggle to control fossil fuels is a major obstacle to worldwide peace and prosperity. I think harnessing the power of capitalism will lead to the most effective solutions so I approach these problems through business and technology. I also know that solving climate will have innumerable "side effects" which will improve life in vast and powerful ways...while nurturing the planet we all love and need.

Trivia: When I was kid, my phone number was just 4 digits. No kidding.

My background profile image is Professor Ed Hawkins' warming stripes covering1850 (left side of graphic) to 2020 (right side). Progression from blue (cooler than normal) to red (warmer than normal) annual temperature averages indicates long-term increase of average global temperature driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Follow me on twitter at @eggersmatt