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Haley Prout

Investor

Associate at Gigascale Capital

Palo Alto, California, United States

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

  1. Gigascale CapitalInvestorcurrent2025 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  2. State of MichiganMBA Fellow2024Lansing, Michigan, United States
  3. DCVCMBA Intern2023Palo Alto, California, United States
  4. StrykerPortfolio Manager2022Mahwah, NJ
  5. StrykerSenior Engineer2020 — 2022Mahwah, NJ
  6. StrykerEngineer2018 — 2020Mahwah, NJ
  7. University of Michigan Biomedical EngineeringResearch Assistant2016 — 2018

Education

  1. Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA/MS in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
  2. University of Michigan College of EngineeringBachelor of Science in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Same school

Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,187

Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew

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Also attended University of Michigan College of Engineering15

Bob StefanskiManaging Director at eLab VenturesNATE REDMONDPartner at Alpha EdisonJoe TouGeneral Partner at Triptyq CapitalSoona AmhazManaging Partner at VOLT CAPITALChristina ZerkaInvestor at Forum VenturesNoah HanoverAnalyst at Reciprocal Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at State of Michigan1

Christina ZerkaInvestor at Forum Ventures

Also worked at DCVC42

Zachary BogueCo-Founder and Managing Partner at DCVC (Data Collective)Kevin NovakFounder at Rackhouse Venture Management LpJohn BrennanFounder & Managing Partner at Holly VenturesJocelyne CookeCFO at GFT VenturesMatt OckoFounder and Managing Partner at DCVC (Data Collective)James HardimanGeneral Partner at DCVC (Data Collective)

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Also worked at Stryker12

Todd PermanCEO & GP at Seed HealthcareMatt DaughertyDirector at Golden EagleBrad NelsonLife Science Tools & Dx at GENERAL INCEPTIONSuraj KholwadwalaInvestor at Sand Hill AngelsMelissa FensterstockCompany Building Advisor at Material ImpactJustin SeghersAssociate at Pact

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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