Conor Clifford

Principal, Innovation Scouting & Co-Investment at E.ON

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Sep 2021
Uplink is building a decentralized telco network, tokenizing connectivity. Were building an ecosystem that empowers and incentivizes people to develop a farther, faster, and cheaper network. In return, Uplinkers are rewarded with ULX tokens, support the rapidly growing IoT market, and unlock new business opportunities.
Board Member
Apr 2021
DABBEL AI has developed a building automation software that achieves annual energy savings of 10 - 38 kWh/m², reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions and meeting the increasing demand for energy efficient buildings and certifications. The solution can be implemented in commercial buildings worldwide within a week without additional hardware. There are no upfront costs and the first results are reported within 4 weeks. The technology sits on top of existing Building Management Systems (BMS), transforming static control of BMS into highly demand-based, proactive control without additional hardware. The software is based on an advanced method of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and continuously optimises Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning (HVAC) systems. DABBEL AI is a global product that is used in 7 countries and managing 1.6 million square meters under control. Learn more about our happy clients and results on our website! www.dabbel.eu
Board Member
Jul 2018
Sight Machine is the data platform for manufacturing, unlocking plant data to help manufacturers improve profitability, productivity, and sustainability. Using Sight Machine’s common Data Foundation for operations and analysis, manufacturers can make better, faster decisions for improving production performance. Sight Machine’s streaming platform continuously analyzes all assets, data sources, and processes, from machine to enterprise level.
Board Observer
Feb 2018
Sight Machine is the data platform for manufacturing, unlocking plant data to help manufacturers improve profitability, productivity, and sustainability. Using Sight Machine’s common Data Foundation for operations and analysis, manufacturers can make better, faster decisions for improving production performance. Sight Machine’s streaming platform continuously analyzes all assets, data sources, and processes, from machine to enterprise level.
Board Observer
Oct 2016
SpaceTime Insight develops and delivers innovative advanced analytics and industrial internet of things applications for asset-intensive industries. With our software, customers reduce cost and risk, increase capital efficiency, pinpoint theft, spoilage, and shrinkage, lower the frequency and duration of service outages, optimize field crews and operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and more. They understand the entire breadth of their operations in motion, in context, and in real time, and generate greater returns at lower risk, lower cost, and greater speed. SpaceTime Insight’s software powers mission-critical systems for some of the largest companies around the world in diverse industries including utilities, shipping, manufacturing, and energy.
Board Observer
Oct 2016
Tendril merged with Simple Energy July 2019. For more information, go to: https://uplight.com/press-release. FirstFuel turns energy information into action by helping utilities deeply understand their business customers and their energy use. Armed with customer understanding, utilities can empower their business customers to make positive energy choices. Our 35+ utility clients become trusted energy advisors by delivering personalized service, products, and experiences. Our platform combines data science, building science, and software to analyze data from over 6 million business customer meters and deliver utilities a complete, contextual understanding of this key customer segment. For more information, please visit www.firstfuel.com and follow us on Twitter at @FirstFuelSW.
Board Observer
Sep 2015
AutoGrid builds software applications that enable a smarter distributed energy world. The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid has more than 7.6K megawatts of DERs under management with leading energy companies around the world. The world’s leading energy companies, including E.ON, Bonneville Power Administration, Florida Power & Light, Southern California Edison, Eneco, Portland General Electric, CPS Energy, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, NextEra Energy and CLEAResult, are using AutoGrid’s software to improve their operations, integrate renewables and drive deeper engagement with their customers. AutoGrid has been recognized for numerous prestigious industry awards including the Global Cleantech 100 (2019), Edison Awards (2018), Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer (2016), World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (2015), Red Herring Top 100 North America (2015), Industrial Innovation Company of the Year by the Cleantech Group and Green Product of the Year by the BIG Awards for Business Programs. AutoGrid is headquartered in Redwood City, California, but has rock star team members around the world.
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2022
Principal
Jun 2022
CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization with a vital purpose: to help provide a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement. To help maximize the CPP Fund for generations to come, we invest across all major asset classes: public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments. Commenting Policy Keep It Clean: Comments that include offensive, abusive, defamatory, obscene or inappropriate content will be deleted. Keep It Courteous: We do not permit personal attacks. Posts that attack representatives, including our Social Media Manager or other commenters, will be deleted. Keep It on Topic: Posts not relevant to the topic, or others’ comments, will be deleted. Keep Personal Information Private: Our social pages are public. For your own safety, do not post your personal information – or someone else’s. Such posts will be deleted. Keep it Spam-Free: Posts assumed to be spam will be deleted. Keep It Legal: Posts referencing illegal activity or ongoing legal matters, financial matters or internal business decisions will be deleted. Keep It Within Rules: We adhere to this social network’s Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. All comments are subject to those rules. Opinions expressed on these pages are those of their respective users only and do not necessarily reflect the views of CPP Investments, its management or employees. We are not responsible for the content of comments on this page, and disclaim any and all liability to the fullest extent permitted by law. Employees of CPP Investments, affiliated companies, representatives, dealers or agents, please note: Members of our Social Media Management team will handle any factual corrections and answer any comments as appropriate questions here. You are welcome to join the conversation but please disclose your affiliation with CPP Investments.
2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
Uplink is building a decentralized telco network, tokenizing connectivity. Were building an ecosystem that empowers and incentivizes people to develop a farther, faster, and cheaper network. In return, Uplinkers are rewarded with ULX tokens, support the rapidly growing IoT market, and unlock new business opportunities.
Board Member
Apr 2021
DABBEL AI has developed a building automation software that achieves annual energy savings of 10 - 38 kWh/m², reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions and meeting the increasing demand for energy efficient buildings and certifications. The solution can be implemented in commercial buildings worldwide within a week without additional hardware. There are no upfront costs and the first results are reported within 4 weeks. The technology sits on top of existing Building Management Systems (BMS), transforming static control of BMS into highly demand-based, proactive control without additional hardware. The software is based on an advanced method of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and continuously optimises Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning (HVAC) systems. DABBEL AI is a global product that is used in 7 countries and managing 1.6 million square meters under control. Learn more about our happy clients and results on our website! www.dabbel.eu
2020
Principal
Oct 2020
Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital and collaboration platform that brings together world-class start-ups and corporate partners to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures team advises to invest in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape and make our cities more sustainable. From its operational hubs in Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investment opportunities and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities. Please find our privacy policy here: https://fev.vc/privacy-policy/
2018
Board Member
Jul 2018
Sight Machine is the data platform for manufacturing, unlocking plant data to help manufacturers improve profitability, productivity, and sustainability. Using Sight Machine’s common Data Foundation for operations and analysis, manufacturers can make better, faster decisions for improving production performance. Sight Machine’s streaming platform continuously analyzes all assets, data sources, and processes, from machine to enterprise level.
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