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Carmichael Roberts

Investor

Founder and Managing Partner at Material Impact · Investor at Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Boston

Writes $100K – $10M checks

About

Carmichael Roberts combines co-founding a specialized materials-focused venture firm with leadership at Bill Gates’s climate venture vehicle, using his bioorganic-chemist–turned-serial materials-entrepreneur background to assess hard-tech energy and infrastructure startups.

Invests in

AgTechBiotechClimate TechDeep TechFoodTechHardwareNew Materials

Experience

  1. Breakthrough Energy VenturesChief Investment Officer, Breakthrough Energycurrent2017 — presentGreater Boston Area
  2. Breakthrough Energy VenturesManaging Partner, Breakthrough Energy Venturescurrent2017 — present
  3. Material ImpactFounder and Managing Partnercurrent2016 — presentGreater Boston Area
  4. Zero Mass WaterDirectorcurrent2014 — present
  5. Soft Robotics Inc.Chairman Of The Boardcurrent2013 — present
  6. MC10 Inc.Co-founder and Chairman of the Boardcurrent2008 — presentGreater Boston Area
  7. 1366 Technologies, IncChairman Of The Boardcurrent2008 — present
  8. Diagnostics For AllCo-Founder and Chairman of the Boardcurrent2007 — presentCambridge, MA
  9. Arsenal MedicalCo-Founder and Lead Directorcurrent2005 — presentWatertown, MA
  10. Foro EnergyLead Director2009 — 2018
  11. Lyra Therapeutics (formerly 480 Biomedical)Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board2005 — 2018Watertown, MA
  12. North Bridge Venture PartnersGeneral Partner2007 — 2017Waltham, MA and Palo Alto, CA
  13. Surface LogixCo-Founder, President and CEO1999 — 2005Greater Boston Area
  14. Geltex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Business Development1998 — 1999Waltham, MA
  15. Dow Chemical Corp (formerly Union Carbide Corporation)Special Programs Manager reporting to EVP and GM of Performance Chemicals Business1995 — 1999Bound Brook, NJ

Education

  1. MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Management Track: New Product and Venture Development1998 — 2000
  2. Harvard UniversityNSF Postdoctoral Fellow1995 — 1996
  3. Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) 1995, BS 19901986 — 1990

Same school

Shared employers

Deals · 3

Soft Robotics Inc.Board seat

via Material Impact · filed Dec 2022 · $35.9M raise

DataculeBoard seat

via Material Impact · filed Dec 2021 · $650K raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Colleagues at Material Impact

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Christian GarciaChristina KarapatakiChristopher RivestCooper RinzlerDavid AdelmanDavid DanielsonDustin MoskovitzEric TooneGaëtan Bonhomme

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