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G2VP

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G2VP invests in emerging technology companies that digitize traditional industries and drive market transformations.

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01.01.2016

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For Profit

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Private

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The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Portola Valley, California. G2VP seeks to invest in sustainable ventures operating in the transportation, manufacturing, energy, agriculture, supply chain, and logistics sectors. By aligning companies, purpose, and profit, G2VP aims to unlock previously unidentified paths to sustainability and resource efficiency. The company supports entrepreneurs who are unlocking new paths to environmentally and socially responsible economic growth, tapping into global industries transitioning from traditional analog to digital processes, and sees tremendous opportunity for value creation and sector disruption.
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Daniel Oros
Daniel Oros

Daniel Oros

Daniel Oros joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2009. He is a member of the greentech team, where he focuses on investments in the Green Growth Fund. The Green Growth Fund focuses on adopting solutions to combat the world's climate crisis and using natural resources more efficiently. With over a decade of investment experience in energy, financial services, manufacturing, and logistics, Daniel Oros brings a unique skillset to G2VP. In 2009, Daniel joined Kleiner Perkins and led investments for the Green Growth Fund before co-founding G2VP. Daniel’s primary focus has been on rapidly growing technology companies in the industrial, consumer, and financial services sectors. Dan is a Board member at Fictiv, an observer at Turvo, and led G2VP’s investment in Carbon. He also serves as a Board member at Optoro, a Green Growth Fund portfolio company. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Daniel was a vice president at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group and a founding member of its alternative energy investing team, where he eventually led the team’s solar initiatives, where the portfolio included First Solar and SunEdison. Before joining the Special Situations Group, Daniel was an FX trader at Goldman Sachs, making markets in the euro and Swiss franc. Daniel holds a B.S. with distinction in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. An outdoorsman and conservationist, he serves on the board of the Ocean Conservancy and the Advisory Board at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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Benjamin Kortlang
Benjamin Kortlang

Benjamin Kortlang

Mr. Benjamin Kortlang is the Co-Founder and serves as Partner at G2VP. He serves as a Board Member at 1KOMMA5. He served as a Board Member at Crusoe Energy Systems. He serves as a Board Member at Scandit and at Enphase Energy. He serves as a Board Member at Arcadia, Luminar, and Sunfolding. He served as Board Member at Cenergistic. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as President at Opower. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, he co-led Goldman Sachs' alternative energy investing business, managing its multibillion-dollar portfolio of alternative energy investments, including First Solar, Horizon Wind Energy, and SunEdison. During his eight-year tenure at Goldman, he also led the private equity investment business within Goldman's special situations group and served as a vice president in Goldman's investment banking group with a focus on industrials and natural resources. Earlier in his career, he was an associate with A.T. Kearney, a global strategy and operations management consulting firm, and was a business analyst at National Australia Bank, working in strategic planning and macroeconomic forecasting. He holds a B.A. degree in economics and finance from RMIT University, a bachelor of commerce, and an honors degree in econometrics from the University of Melbourne, and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. [Source: Public Company Filing]

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G2VP
G2VP

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Benjamin Kortlang

Brook Porter
Brook Porter

Brook Porter

A respected investor, advisor and entrepreneur at the intersection of technology and sustainability, Brook Porter brings decades of energy, transportation and agriculture expertise to G2VP as a founding partner. Brook joined Kleiner Perkins in 2010, where he led investments within their Green Growth Fund in Farmers Edge (shares acquired), Turo, Uber, DJI and sits on the board of Proterra. A serial entrepreneur, Brook co-founded two sustainable transportation companies prior to joining Kleiner Perkins: Intelligent Energy, a fuel cell technology company, and Primafuel, a low-carbon fuels company. Brook’s roles in both companies ranged from R&D to leading engineering and operations to driving multiple financings for the company. Brook holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis in environmental technology. He is named on multiple U.S. and international patents in the field of renewable energy, and transportation. Brook is married and has both a daughter and a son. He enjoys skiing, cooking, triathlons, and adventurous travel.

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Brook Porter

David Mount
David Mount

David Mount

A seasoned investor at the forefront of the Internet of Things, energy and industrials markets, David Mount has spent his career advancing the ‘Industrial Awakening’ by supporting companies at the intersection of connectivity, advanced processing and traditional industry. Over the last decade, David led a number of successful investments as a Partner at Kleiner Perkins’ $1B Green Growth Fund, and, more recently, founded and incubated Element Analytics, a high-growth industrial software company. David has invested in OSIsoft (shares sold to SoftBank), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Opower (acquired by Oracle), SilverSpring Networks (SSNI), UpWind Solutions (acquired by Vestas) and Choose Energy (acquired by Red Ventures). Prior to Kleiner Perkins, David developed his principal investing expertise at Bain Capital Credit, a $20B structured finance unit of Bain Capital. There, David helped manage a traditional energy portfolio, which included exploration, production, refining, field services and specialty chemicals. His involvement in the firm’s consumer portfolio included investments in multinationals within the food, health and sustainable business sectors. David holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.S. in environment and resources and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He remains involved at Stanford as a guest lecturer and as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences.

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David Mount

Employee Profiles
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Ryan Popple

Ryan Popple

Partner

Jake Tauscher

Jake Tauscher

Partner

Monica Varman

Monica Varman

Investor

Daniel Oros

Daniel Oros

Partner

David Mount

David Mount

Partner

Benjamin Kortlang

Benjamin Kortlang

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Ben Kortlang

Ben Kortlang

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Brook Porter

Brook Porter

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