Where does Tom Biegala work?

Tom Biegala is Partner at Bison Ventures and Board director at Great Sky.

What check size does Tom Biegala write?

Tom Biegala typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.

Where did Tom Biegala go to school?

Tom Biegala studied at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (MBA); Cornell University (BS, Materials Science).

Tom Biegala

Investor

Partner at Bison Ventures · Board director at Great Sky

Seattle, Washington

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

About

Frontier technology investor and engineer with 20 years of experience across company lifecycles. Co-founded Bison Ventures after working on venture investments at Cascade Asset Management (which manages Gates Foundation and Gates family assets), and began his career as an engineer at Intel and solar photovoltaic university spinouts before moving into VC at Altira Group.

Contact· self-published, not guessed

t•••@bison.vcreveal

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechDeep TechEnergy

Board director at Great Sky

Intro paths

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Great Sky's investors · 6

Bison VenturesSeattle · since 2025 Matchstick VenturesMinneapolis · $500K – $1.5M checks Mythos Ventures Management, LlcSeattle · $100K – $2M checks Range VCDenver · $1M – $3M checks Service Provider CapitalVail Wireframe VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checks

Co-founders at Great Sky

Jeffrey ShainlineExecutive Officer, Director

Experience

Bison VenturesFounding Partnercurrent2021 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
Northwestern UniversityAdjunct Professorcurrent2022 — present
Cascade Asset Management CompanyVenture Capital Investor2013 — 2021
Altira GroupVenture Capital Associate2011 — 2013
EPIR Technologies (acq. by NASDAQ: DRS)Various Engineering Roles2008 — 2011
Blue Square EnergyVarious Engineering Roles2006 — 2008
Intel CorporationProcess Engineer2006
Lux ResearchSummer Associate2005

Skills & more

StrategyBusiness DevelopmentVenture CapitalCorporate DevelopmentFinancial ModelingEngineeringSemiconductorsStart-upsCleantechMergers & AcquisitionsRenewable EnergyDue Diligence

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Materials ScienceValuationNanotechnologyEntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyR&DDesign of ExperimentsSolar Energy

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Colleagues at Bison Ventures

Ari Wright

Principal at Bison Ventures

Ben Hemani

Founding Partner at Bison Ventures

Caleb Appleton

Partner at Bison Ventures

Ellie McDonald

Principal at Bison Ventures

Isadora Venturelli

EA + Ops Support at Bison Ventures

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Ari Wright

Principal at Bison Ventures

Ben Hemani

Founding Partner at Bison Ventures

Caleb Appleton

Partner at Bison Ventures

Investors connected to Tom in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Tom Biegala?: Frontier technology investor and engineer with 20 years of experience across company lifecycles. Co-founded Bison Ventures after working on venture investments at Cascade Asset Management (which manages Gates Foundation and Gates family assets), and began his career as an engineer at Intel and solar photovoltaic university spinouts before moving into VC at Altira Group.
Where does Tom Biegala work?: Tom Biegala is Partner at Bison Ventures and Board director at Great Sky.
What does Tom Biegala invest in?: Tom Biegala invests in AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Energy.
What check size does Tom Biegala write?: Tom Biegala typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
Where did Tom Biegala go to school?: Tom Biegala studied at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (MBA); Cornell University (BS, Materials Science).

Same school

Also attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management577

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Also attended Cornell University748

Doug LeonePartner at Sequoia Capital; former Global Managing Partner Jenny LeeSenior Managing Partner at Granite Asia Neeraj AgrawalGeneral Partner at Battery Ventures John ZimmerCo-founder of Lyft Michelle FernandesInvestor at Index Ventures Micah RosenbloomGeneral Partner at Founder Collective

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Shared employers

Also worked at Northwestern University71

Ashley PimlottMBA Venture Fellow at Cade Ventures Ted Ling HuFellow, Human Augmentation at Prime Movers Lab Renana AshkenaziManaging Partner at Grove Ventures Dan BrunnerAdvisor, Co-Founder and former CTO, Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Partner, Future Tech Partners at Overture Climate Jodi GoldsteinInnovation leader, board member, founder & investor, Co-Founder of Harvard Innovation Labs at XRC Grace WeinstockOperations and Impact at SUPPLY CHANGE CAPITAL

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Also worked at Altira Group5

Dirk McDermottManaging Partner at Altira Group LLC Sean EbertSenior Partner at Altira Group LLC J.P. BaumanPartner at Altira Group LLC Steve FosterVenture Partner at Piva Capital Cory SteffekPartner, Private Equity at Ara Partners

Also worked at Intel Corporation351

Jim GoetzPartner at Sequoia Capital Sundeep PeechuGeneral Partner at Felicis Ventures Karim FarisInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Viswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista Capital Job SimonVenture Partner and CTO at Monta Vista Capital Assaf ArakiInvestment Director at Intel Capital

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Also worked at Lux Research14

Peter HébertPartner and Co-Founder at Lux Capital Josh WolfePartner and Co-Founder at Lux Capital Bibi MasaraOffice Manager at Lux Capital Robert PaullCo-Founder and Venture Partner at Lux Capital Maryanna SaenkoCo-founder at Future Ventures Chris HartshornAdvisor at Chrysalix

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