About
Haley Prout is an Associate at Gigascale Capital who applies her background in hardware product engineering to assess the manufacturability of new technologies and customer insight behind them. Before Gigascale, she held climate and investing roles at DCVC, the Stanford Impact Fund, and in state government, developing investment theses on batteries and carbon removal. Earlier, she led orthopedic implant and surgical instrumentation development at Stryker. She holds an MBA–MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford and a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Invests in
Climate TechHardware
Experience
- Gigascale CapitalInvestorcurrent2025 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- State of MichiganMBA Fellow2024Lansing, Michigan, United States
- DCVCMBA Intern2023Palo Alto, California, United States
- StrykerPortfolio Manager2022Mahwah, NJ
- StrykerSenior Engineer2020 — 2022Mahwah, NJ
- StrykerEngineer2018 — 2020Mahwah, NJ
- University of Michigan Biomedical EngineeringResearch Assistant2016 — 2018
Colleagues at Gigascale Capital
Aaron Bernstein
Investor at Gigascale Capital
Evaline Tsai
Principal at Gigascale Capital
Janet Frishberg
Investor at Gigascale Capital
John Lilly
Investor at Gigascale Capital
Kevin Zhang
Investor at Gigascale Capital
Merrill Feather
Investor at Gigascale Capital
Mike Schroepfer
Founder, Partner at Gigascale Capital
Nicolina Quickert
Investor at Gigascale Capital
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Haley Prout?
- Haley Prout is an Associate at Gigascale Capital who applies her background in hardware product engineering to assess the manufacturability of new technologies and customer insight behind them. Before Gigascale, she held climate and investing roles at DCVC, the Stanford Impact Fund, and in state government, developing investment theses on batteries and carbon removal. Earlier, she led orthopedic implant and surgical instrumentation development at Stryker. She holds an MBA–MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford and a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
- Where does Haley Prout work?
- Haley Prout is Associate at Gigascale Capital.
- What does Haley Prout invest in?
- Haley Prout invests in Climate Tech, Hardware.
- Where did Haley Prout go to school?
- Haley Prout studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business (MBA/MS in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)); University of Michigan College of Engineering (Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering).
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