Carolin Funk, Ph.D.

Partner, Blue Bear Capital

📍 Berkeley, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Board Member, Investor
Oct 2025
Korial is the enterprise artificial intelligence platform that makes fully autonomous industrial operations possible – across any asset, any device, any environment, and any scale. By unifying robots, drones, sensors, and data into one AI operating layer, it continuously turns raw telemetry into verified insight and orchestrated action that improves safety, reliability and efficiency.
Board Member, Investor
Jul 2025
Splight uses real-time data and machine learning to add a reliable operational layer to grids, enabling 2x more transmission capacity. We solve the grids biggest problems faster and more efficiently than any other solution available today.
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2023
Skoon Energy is a pioneering online marketplace that is reshaping the clean mobile energy landscape. Our mission is to drive the global transition to sustainable energy by connecting energy providers and consumers through our data-driven software platform. By facilitating the efficient utilisation and distribution of clean mobile energy systems, we empower industries, film sets, and grid operators to make significant strides towards a cleaner future. At Skoon Energy, we understand the urgent need for flexible and accessible energy solutions. Our cutting-edge platform serves as a digital hub where energy providers can manage and share their clean energy systems, and consumers can seamlessly access and report on these resources to power their operations. By bridging the gap between supply and demand, we are paving the way for a sustainable energy ecosystem that unlocks clean energy, always.
Board Observer, Investor
Jan 2023
ChargerHelp! pioneers the future of EV charging with our innovative Reliability as a Service (RaaS) solution. Addressing core challenges in EVSE Operation & Maintenance (O&M), our data-driven approach maximizes charger uptime. Partnering with industry leaders and emphasizing community empowerment, were committed to elevating EVSE infrastructure reliability. Lets redefine the future of EV charging together. 🚗⚡
Board Member, Investor
Jun 2022
Lastwall is a leader in identity security and quantum resilience, trusted by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) since 2017 and the Government of Canada. With a mission to secure identity, strengthen critical infrastructure, and enable quantum-safe innovation, Lastwall is redefining identity security for the modern era - protecting defense, government, and critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats. Its advanced solutions integrate public key infrastructure (PKI), Zero Trust architecture, and quantum-resilient cryptography to deliver proactive, password-free authentication and future-proof security. As traditional security perimeters dissolve, identity has become the new front line of defense. Lastwall prevents credential-based attacks, post-breach lateral movement, and protects against emerging quantum threats, ensuring mission-critical systems remain secure. Learn more at www.lastwall.com
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2021
Improving the safety, reliability, and longevity of battery systems through cloud computing. Currently serving 5+ GWh of battery systems across the globe and actively monitoring 45+ BESS sites. Want to supercharge your battery performance and get a transparent view on your portfolio and warranties? Shoot us a message to find out how we can support your mission.
Board Observer, Investor
Jan 2021
Urbint uses AI and the latest industry science to identify threats to workers and infrastructure to stop safety incidents before they happen. Urbint surfaces risk at the point of work, enabling energy and infrastructure companies to prevent worker injuries and asset damages. Many of the largest energy and infrastructure companies in North America trust Urbint to protect workers, assets, communities, and the environment. 🚨 Important Alert 🚨 It has come to our attention that individuals may have received false job offers from an email ending in @urbintcareers.com. Please be advised that this address is not affiliated with Urbint. At Urbint, safety is at the core of our mission—not only in the services we provide but also in how we communicate. If you recently applied to Urbint and received correspondence from this email, do not respond. Instead, please report the sender to your email provider. Our official communications will come directly from our @urbint.com email addresses. Stay vigilant, and thank you for your attention to this matter.
Board Observer, Investor
Apr 2020
Datch is a platform that leverages AI to capture highly detailed, structured human-centric data while surfacing asset insights for decision-making and resource management. Our goal is to cut deep into the availability shortfall by providing the data and intelligence needed to decrease asset MTTR, increase MTBF, support better planning and allow for faster decision making. In order to support the asset availability goals across resource management, reporting, planning, scheduling, and reliability, the product is designed around a single value proposition: ”perfect data”. By perfect data, we mean complete, highly accurate, context rich reports coming in from the frontline, and perfect recall and distillation of data to the right people at the right time. Data capture is achieved through a combination of worker enablement capabilities, such as speech-to-text, real-time translation, and conversational AI, and data enrichment, through features that add context and guidance to transform the data as it’s captured. Data accessibility and asset insights are tools that are underpinned by generative search trained on the company’s document management system, work management history, and other language-rich data sources related to assets.
Board Member, Investor
Nov 2019
Copper Labs unlocks real-time data from existing electric, gas, and water meters wirelessly and at a fraction of the expense and effort of traditional smart meter deployments. Using this information, Copper Labs helps utilities across North America support a data-driven transition to a low-carbon economy, increase resilience in the face of a changing climate, improve equity, manage demand, and deliver an exceptional customer experience
Board Observer, Investor
Apr 2019
Raptor Maps is on a mission to make solar energy the smartest, most reliable, and most competitive source of electricity in the global economy. As the solar industry grows at an unprecedented pace, operational complexity and performance challenges are increasing, threatening to limit the financial and energy potential of solar assets. We solve these challenges by delivering the industry’s leading software for the modern solar owner. Raptor Maps orchestrates everything: we combine advanced analytics, machine learning, and automation to provide solar companies with the data, workflows, and tools they need to maximize energy yield, reduce operational costs, and improve worker safety. Our product suite includes: - Raptor Solar Platform: A powerful software solution that unifies data from SCADA systems, sensors, robotics, humans, and more into a precise digital twin of your solar assets, enabling streamlined collaboration and actionable insights. - Advanced Analytics: Pinpoint the root causes of underperformance with best-in-class machine-learning algorithms, helping teams identify issues like equipment defects, environmental challenges, and power losses. - Raptor Solar Sentry: An industry-first platform that integrates people and robotics to transform operations and maintenance workflows, driving double-digit financial gains for solar portfolios. Trusted by some of the world’s largest and most innovative solar owners, operators, and EPCs, Raptor Maps has digitized and optimized over 150 GW of solar capacity across 50+ countries. Founded by MIT engineers, Raptor Maps is dedicated to creating technology that empowers the industry to unlock its full potential. From small teams managing individual sites to global portfolios spanning continents, we’re helping solar companies drive results, reduce risk, and achieve their clean energy goals. Join us in revolutionizing solar operations. Learn more at www.raptormaps.com.
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2025
Board Member, Investor
Oct 2025
Korial is the enterprise artificial intelligence platform that makes fully autonomous industrial operations possible – across any asset, any device, any environment, and any scale. By unifying robots, drones, sensors, and data into one AI operating layer, it continuously turns raw telemetry into verified insight and orchestrated action that improves safety, reliability and efficiency.
Board Member, Investor
Jul 2025
Splight uses real-time data and machine learning to add a reliable operational layer to grids, enabling 2x more transmission capacity. We solve the grids biggest problems faster and more efficiently than any other solution available today.
2023
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2023
Skoon Energy is a pioneering online marketplace that is reshaping the clean mobile energy landscape. Our mission is to drive the global transition to sustainable energy by connecting energy providers and consumers through our data-driven software platform. By facilitating the efficient utilisation and distribution of clean mobile energy systems, we empower industries, film sets, and grid operators to make significant strides towards a cleaner future. At Skoon Energy, we understand the urgent need for flexible and accessible energy solutions. Our cutting-edge platform serves as a digital hub where energy providers can manage and share their clean energy systems, and consumers can seamlessly access and report on these resources to power their operations. By bridging the gap between supply and demand, we are paving the way for a sustainable energy ecosystem that unlocks clean energy, always.
Board Observer, Investor
Jan 2023
ChargerHelp! pioneers the future of EV charging with our innovative Reliability as a Service (RaaS) solution. Addressing core challenges in EVSE Operation & Maintenance (O&M), our data-driven approach maximizes charger uptime. Partnering with industry leaders and emphasizing community empowerment, were committed to elevating EVSE infrastructure reliability. Lets redefine the future of EV charging together. 🚗⚡
2022
Board Member, Investor
Jun 2022
Lastwall is a leader in identity security and quantum resilience, trusted by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) since 2017 and the Government of Canada. With a mission to secure identity, strengthen critical infrastructure, and enable quantum-safe innovation, Lastwall is redefining identity security for the modern era - protecting defense, government, and critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats. Its advanced solutions integrate public key infrastructure (PKI), Zero Trust architecture, and quantum-resilient cryptography to deliver proactive, password-free authentication and future-proof security. As traditional security perimeters dissolve, identity has become the new front line of defense. Lastwall prevents credential-based attacks, post-breach lateral movement, and protects against emerging quantum threats, ensuring mission-critical systems remain secure. Learn more at www.lastwall.com
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