Curtis Schickner

President & Global Head of Corporate Venture

📍 Baltimore, Maryland, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
VC🌍 United States
14
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Board Member
Dec 2023
Vartega is solving the worlds toughest advanced materials recycling challenges to create circular supply chains and enable a sustainable future. Our patented modular carbon fiber recycling process scales rapidly to address a gap in the composites supply chain. Its like a carbon fiber washing machine inside a shipping container. We deploy these units close to the source of composites scrap via our Hardware-as-a-Service subscription platform. Vartega’s carbon fiber and specialty thermoplastics are used in sporting goods, additive manufacturing, and vehicle lightweight.
Board Member
Mar 2023
Lingrove is a materials firm focused on decarbonizing the built environment with high performance, sustainable, carbon-negative products. Our signature ekoa® plant based composite replaces wood veneers, laminates, plastics, and panels in interior applications - cost effectively with a luxury look. Our sheer/transparent applications is used for hidden interfaces in automobiles, residential, and commercial lighting. Customized natural grain​ finishes Various beautiful finishes are available from a dark grain exotic finish or lighter soft​ wood. Ekoa® is translucent, accordingly a black or white substrate allows for a range of natural wood-esque looks. The color and fiber density is programmable whether a wood-like unidirectional grain or a 0/90 pattern—a bit like cross-hatching.
Board Member
Oct 2022
Lactips is a fast growing company based on a patented technology. Lactips offers a cold water soluble bioplastic (films, bags, cold hydrosoluble material for 3D printers, etc.) manufactured from milk proteins, instead of petrol. The solutions/products could be edible or inedible.! Lactips the milky way of the plastics
Board Member
Dec 2021
Founded in 2014, Insight M is a consultative methane emissions management company driven by our unwavering commitment to scientific rigor and overall customer success. We are the energy industry’s leader in high-frequency aerial methane detection. Our team is comprised of leading methane scientists, engineers, and strategists whose sole focus is to create evidence-based solutions that empower our customers to achieve operational excellence in methane management. We help oil and gas operators to take a pragmatic approach to reducing their emissions—helping them keep gas in the pipe and protect their brand from public and regulatory scrutiny. 
 Our work has saved our oil and gas customers over $500 million in gas value and mitigated over 140 billion cubic feet of methane from entering the atmosphere—equivalent to taking 54 million gas cars off the road for a year.
late stageOil and Gas
Board Member
Aug 2021
Andium is an end-to-end industrial IoT platform that brings intelligent software services down to the device layer, offering industries more flexibility, reliability, and scalability in monitoring and controlling their operations, regardless of cloud connectivity.
Investor
Aug 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.
Principal, Climate Investments
May 2021
Climate Investment is a US and UK-based independently managed specialist investor focused on accelerating capital-efficient decarbonization of heavy emitting sectors. Operational since 2017, its team of investment and technology professionals has built a portfolio of 40 technology and business model innovations across energy, transportation, buildings and industry. Collectively, its Catalyst portfolio delivered 95 MT CO2e of cumulative greenhouse gas reduction in the period 2019-2023. Climate Investment was founded by member companies of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (“OGCI”). They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development.  Visit www.climateinvestment.com
Board Member
Dec 2019
Vutility is the leading provider of scalable real-time, high-resolution, energy monitoring solutions, enabling businesses globally throughout the entire built world to optimize their energy consumption, improve operational efficiencies, and track and progress towards sustainability commitments. Using our innovative and proprietary IoT hardware and cloud data technologies, companies across a wide range of industries gain relevant and timely insights to meet key commercial and stakeholder goals.
Board Observer
Nov 2018
Qnovo develops intelligent lithium-ion battery management software and predictive analytics to improve battery performance in electric vehicles, fleets, energy storage systems and consumer devices with enhanced health and safety. By augmenting battery chemistry with computation and learning software, Qnovo enables batteries to safely charge faster with extended longevity. Qnovo was founded with the mission of reimagining one of the most basic foundations of mobility – the battery – and how it is charged. The leading vehicle OEMs, energy companies, storage trailblazers, and consumer electronics manufacturers count on Qnovo to help them solve the most demanding challenges facing their industries. Supply chain shortages, fossil fuel regulation, climate change, and faster business cycles are forcing the technology value chain to do more with less. As the industry pioneer in predictive battery management software, Qnovo is democratizing technology through safe and intelligent design.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Predictive Data Quality - The fast and elegant way to manage data. Owl automatically learns and suggests corrective actions to your data through observation. Owl reduces most of the manual human process of writing rules to manage datasets. Its machine-learning-first, rules-second based approach creates a practical use for machine learning.
Board Observer
Jul 2018
Sparkfund is an energy transition partner that works with utilities, leading energy brands, and commercial real estate owners to make the built environment a valuable extension of the grid. Sparkfunds embedded multi-tech project development, implementation, and financing programs transform buildings into profitable, resilient, and sustainable assets.
Board Observer
Apr 2016
PosiGen is the nations leading residential solar and energy efficiency provider. Our mission is to make solar energy affordable for homeowners of all income levels, while helping customers achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence through lower utility bills. PosiGen is a Certified B Corporation®, balancing purpose and profit.
Board Observer
Mar 2016
Cool Planet was founded in 2009 to commercialize a groundbreaking technology that produces engineered biocarbon and renewable, carbon negative fuel from biomass. The company is currently focused on deploying its proprietary Cool Terra® engineered biocarbon platform, which significantly improves soil health while sequestering carbon. With society demanding more food grown sustainably, the Cool Terra® engineered biocarbon platform contributes to a healthier planet that feeds more people and delivers higher grower profitability.
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2023
Board Member
Dec 2023
Vartega is solving the worlds toughest advanced materials recycling challenges to create circular supply chains and enable a sustainable future. Our patented modular carbon fiber recycling process scales rapidly to address a gap in the composites supply chain. Its like a carbon fiber washing machine inside a shipping container. We deploy these units close to the source of composites scrap via our Hardware-as-a-Service subscription platform. Vartega’s carbon fiber and specialty thermoplastics are used in sporting goods, additive manufacturing, and vehicle lightweight.
Board Member
Mar 2023
Lingrove is a materials firm focused on decarbonizing the built environment with high performance, sustainable, carbon-negative products. Our signature ekoa® plant based composite replaces wood veneers, laminates, plastics, and panels in interior applications - cost effectively with a luxury look. Our sheer/transparent applications is used for hidden interfaces in automobiles, residential, and commercial lighting. Customized natural grain​ finishes Various beautiful finishes are available from a dark grain exotic finish or lighter soft​ wood. Ekoa® is translucent, accordingly a black or white substrate allows for a range of natural wood-esque looks. The color and fiber density is programmable whether a wood-like unidirectional grain or a 0/90 pattern—a bit like cross-hatching.
2022
Board Member
Oct 2022
Lactips is a fast growing company based on a patented technology. Lactips offers a cold water soluble bioplastic (films, bags, cold hydrosoluble material for 3D printers, etc.) manufactured from milk proteins, instead of petrol. The solutions/products could be edible or inedible.! Lactips the milky way of the plastics
President & Global Head of Corporate Venture
Oct 2022
Mitsubishi Chemical Group aims to be a “Green Specialty Company” committed to solving social problems and to delivering impressive results to customers with the power of materials, under our Purpose that “We lead with innovative solutions to achieve KAITEKI, the well-being of people and the planet.” Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market (Code: 4188). For further information, please visit our website.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Founded in 2014, Insight M is a consultative methane emissions management company driven by our unwavering commitment to scientific rigor and overall customer success. We are the energy industry’s leader in high-frequency aerial methane detection. Our team is comprised of leading methane scientists, engineers, and strategists whose sole focus is to create evidence-based solutions that empower our customers to achieve operational excellence in methane management. We help oil and gas operators to take a pragmatic approach to reducing their emissions—helping them keep gas in the pipe and protect their brand from public and regulatory scrutiny. 
 Our work has saved our oil and gas customers over $500 million in gas value and mitigated over 140 billion cubic feet of methane from entering the atmosphere—equivalent to taking 54 million gas cars off the road for a year.
late stageOil and Gas
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