Nomadic Venture Partners

Tem Tumurbat, a Mongolian-immigrant co-founder of a minority-owned climate tech VC, targets neglected high-emission sectors—mining, manufacturing, transportation—and brings rare full-stack mining and Resource Capital M&A experience returning hundreds of millions.

Materials chemist and Program Coordinator supporting the Mining Water Tech Pilot Pathway program. Earned a PhD in solar energy from UW-Madison, developed commercial batteries at Iontra, and consulted for early-stage startups.

IFC Nominee Director on the board of Uzbekistan's TBC UZ and former executive at Golomt Financial Group and the Development Bank of Mongolia. Founder of KITE Mongolia, a venture builder supporting Mongolia's startup ecosystem.

Sustainable finance and climate investment expert who has advised multilateral and public-sector banks on climate-related disclosures. Former principal at Rocky Mountain Institute and investment banker for energy and utilities clients.

Mining engineer and mineral economist, currently an investment committee member at Resource Capital Funds where he previously served as partner, investment team leader, and elected chair of the partnership. Has extensive mining project due diligence and board governance experience.

Immediate past president of the MacArthur Foundation, where she led programmatic focus areas including climate change. Former Chicago housing commissioner and CEO of Shorebank Chicago Companies.

Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and professor at Colorado School of Mines, and a former Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. An expert on energy and minerals security, policy, and investment with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics.

Leads resource mobilization, partnerships, and advocacy at the Green Climate Fund. Former first President of the UN Environment Assembly, Mongolian Minister of Environment and Foreign Affairs, and holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Cambridge.

Investor at Nomadic Venture Partners focused on deal sourcing, due diligence, and executing investments. Previously invested in early-stage regulated markets at K Street Capital and spent 14 years in tech, most recently as COO of digital infrastructure company Mirapath; holds an MBA from Chicago Booth.

Karen Law is an investor at Infinite Community Ventures, where she manages a fund investing across sustainability, equitable empowerment, and the arts. She brings over two decades of experience spanning research, engineering, consulting, and operations across government agencies, national laboratories, nonprofits, and private companies, including roles at Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Medallia. Law holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and serves on multiple boards and advisory roles focused on community development and leadership representation.