Cleaning Up. Leadership in an age of climate change.

Women Backing Winners - Ep18: Nancy Pfund

Episode Summary

How can venture capital be used to promote social change and environmental improvement? As a leading venture capitalist of her time and one of the early investors in Tesla, find out the drive behind Nancy Pfund’s incredible career, this week, on Cleaning Up. Nancy E. Pfund is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners, a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental, and economic returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. Nancy is also the Founder of DBL Investors. Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of several companies, including; Farmers Business Network, The Muse, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Off-Grid Electric, Primus Power, and, prior to their public offerings, Tesla Motors and Pandora. She also served on the board of SolarCity from 2008 until its acquisition by Tesla in December 2016, on both the audit and compensation committees, and chairing its corporate governance committee; Prior to founding DBL Investors, Ms. Pfund was a Managing Director in Venture Capital at JPMorgan, having started her investment career at Hambrecht & Quist in 1984. Previously, Ms. Pfund worked at Intel Corporation, the State of California, Stanford University, and the Sierra Club.

Episode Notes

Further reading:

 Official Bio 

http://www.dblpartners.vc/people/nancy-pfund/

Audio feature: smart finance for a sustainable food system (September 24th 2020) https://www.ft.com/content/ac7e52f5-245c-44b9-ba98-3aee3d899dd9 

The Impact 50 list (September 8th 2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2020/09/08/impact-50-investors-seeking-profit-and-pushing-for-change-diversified/#5ba25ff13bce 

Hawthorn Club Thought Leadership Series - Investing through Disruption (March 2020) https://vimeo.com/413647258 

She Made an Early Bet on Tesla. Here’s What Nancy Pfund Sees Now (August 9th 2019) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/she-made-an-early-bet-on-tesla-here-s-what-nancy-pfund-sees-now 

What impact investor Nancy Pfund is thinking about (August 2nd 2019) https://www.greenbiz.com/article/what-impact-investor-nancy-pfund-thinking-about 

Renewables Are Driving Up Electricity Prices. Wait, What? (March 12th 2015) http://www.dblpartners.vc/resource/renewables-are-driving-up-electricity-prices-wait-what/ Red, White and Green: The True Colors of America’s Clean Tech Jobs (September 2012) http://www.dblpartners.vc/2012/09/red-white-and-green/ 

What Would Jefferson Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America’s Energy Future (September 2011)

 https://www.earthtrack.net/document/what-would-jefferson-do-historical-role-federal-subsidies-shaping-america%E2%80%99s-energy-future 

THE 2017 INAUGURATION: Empowering a Clean Energy Nation (September 2016) http://www.dblpartners.vc/resource/the-2017-inauguration-empowering-a-clean-energy-nation/ General news about DBL

 http://www.dblpartners.vc/category/dbl-in-the-news/