Caen Contee

Serial Entrepreneur & Investor — Lime (Founding Team) | Deliberate Ventures

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Advisor & Investor
Apr 2022
elvah is leading the European e-mobility industry with top-tier B2B2C SaaS solutions. With the unique “elvah Score”, elvah transparently assesses the quality of the European charging network in 40+ countries in real time, directing EV drivers to the most reliable charging points. Known for being the most user-centric app in the EV Industry, elvah now offers this expertise and services to businesses eager to deliver the best charging experience. The goal: Accelerating Europes energy transition with trusted, customer-focused solutions.
Board Member & Investor
Feb 2022
Vässla offers high-end electric bikes. Presenting the Pedal, Vässla aims to replace heavy, non-environmental friendly vehicles with electric bikes – tailored to your individual needs. Built to last, Vässla represents a greener future and urban freedom for all by making premium e-bikes available for more people.
Founding Partner & Investor
Jan 2020
Ozone X is an early-stage venture capital firm purpose-built to invest in and scale mission-driven tech companies founded by women and under-represented founders. Investment areas include sustainability, health, education, and employment.
Co-Founder & Investor
May 2019
Charge Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRGE), consisting of a portfolio of global businesses with the vision of connecting people everywhere with communications and electric vehicle charging ("EV") infrastructure. We build infrastructures to move and connect people. We deliver seamless end-to-end solutions for EV charging infrastructures and 5G wireless intelligent networks. We’re a public company that shares our success with our shareholders.
Advisor & Investor
May 2019
End-to-end asset management platform for hospitals & clinics to reduce inefficiencies, over-ordering, and costs by as much as 30%. No more keeping track of assets via manual spreadsheets that are rarely updated. We are changing the game. By allowing clinical staff to locate assets in a matter of seconds with our platform, we are maximizing asset utilization while increasing productivity. By knowing how often and where they use inventory, they can also make better purchasing decisions. We can improve their bottom line by an average of $2M per facility by optimizing all these components into one simple experience.
Co-Founder/Advisor & Investor
May 2019
Charge Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRGE), consisting of a portfolio of global businesses with the vision of connecting people everywhere with communications and electric vehicle charging ("EV") infrastructure. We build infrastructures to move and connect people. We deliver seamless end-to-end solutions for EV charging infrastructures and 5G wireless intelligent networks. We’re a public company that shares our success with our shareholders.
Advisor & Investor
May 2019
Linear Labs, a smart electric motor company based in Fort Worth, Texas, created an entirely new and versatile electric motor system design that will redefine mobility (ie electric vehicles), HVAC systems and robotics, welcoming in a new era of smarter energy utilization. We designed our motors to deliver ultra high efficiency, with patented breakthroughs leading to 2x improvements in torque, further range and significantly lowered power consumption. Our "smart" motors have intelligent software and the worlds first electric transmission to adjust for changing conditions in real time. This means our efficiencies will compound as we customize motor settings to vehicle and usage needs. Were here to move the world efficiently. www.linearlabsinc.com
Co-Founder & Investor
May 2019
End-to-end asset management platform for hospitals & clinics to reduce inefficiencies, over-ordering, and costs by as much as 30%. No more keeping track of assets via manual spreadsheets that are rarely updated. We are changing the game. By allowing clinical staff to locate assets in a matter of seconds with our platform, we are maximizing asset utilization while increasing productivity. By knowing how often and where they use inventory, they can also make better purchasing decisions. We can improve their bottom line by an average of $2M per facility by optimizing all these components into one simple experience.
Advisor & Investor
Mar 2019
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2025
AsentPay
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sep 2025
2022
Advisor & Investor
Apr 2022
elvah is leading the European e-mobility industry with top-tier B2B2C SaaS solutions. With the unique “elvah Score”, elvah transparently assesses the quality of the European charging network in 40+ countries in real time, directing EV drivers to the most reliable charging points. Known for being the most user-centric app in the EV Industry, elvah now offers this expertise and services to businesses eager to deliver the best charging experience. The goal: Accelerating Europes energy transition with trusted, customer-focused solutions.
Advisor
Mar 2022
SVB is the financial partner of the innovation economy, helping individuals, investors and the world’s most innovative companies achieve their ambitious goals. SVB’s businesses - Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Private and SVB Securities - together offer the services that dynamic and fast-growing clients require as they grow, including commercial banking, venture investing, wealth planning and investment banking. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com/global. SVB Financial Group (SVB) (Nasdaq: SIVB) is the holding company for all business units and groups. © 2022 SVB Financial Group. All rights reserved. SVB, SVB FINANCIAL GROUP, SILICON VALLEY BANK, SVB SECURITIES, SVB PRIVATE, SVB CAPITAL and the chevron device are trademarks of SVB Financial Group, used under license. Silicon Valley Bank is a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary of SVB Financial Group.
Board Member & Investor
Feb 2022
Vässla offers high-end electric bikes. Presenting the Pedal, Vässla aims to replace heavy, non-environmental friendly vehicles with electric bikes – tailored to your individual needs. Built to last, Vässla represents a greener future and urban freedom for all by making premium e-bikes available for more people.
Advisor & Strategic Consultant
2022
Founded in 1999 as a division of SVB Financial Group, SVB Capital is a multi-strategy investment platform targeting the Innovation Economy with approximately $9.8B of assets under management across venture capital fund of funds, direct funds, and private credit funds. Uniquely positioned to access highly sought-after opportunities in start-up companies and venture capital funds, SVB Capital invests in fund managers and private technology and life science companies throughout the innovation economy around the world.  SVB Capital Management, LLC is an SEC registered investment adviser that provides advisory services to a variety of funds with different investment strategies and objectives, as well as risk tolerances. It is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of SVB Financial Group. All rights reserved. All SVB Capital Management, LLC trademarks, service marks and logos used in this material are trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks of SVB FG. SVB Capital Management, LLC is permitted to use such trademarks, service marks and logos under a non-transferable and exclusive license.
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