Grant Allen

Physical AI Growth Investments | ISQ InfraTech

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 36 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
36
Total investments
8
Early stage
10
Mid stage
9
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16y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor, Board Observer
May 2025
Pano AI (Pano) is the leader in early wildfire detection and intelligence, providing government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners with advanced tools and realtime situational awareness to quickly mitigate wildfire threats while protecting lives, property, and the environment. Pano combines advanced hardware, artificial intelligence, and software in a single integrated enterprise solution. Leveraging data and satellite feeds, as well as propriety imagery from a network of ultra-high-definition, 360-degree cameras atop high vantage points, Pano’s artificial intelligence model produces a real-time picture of threats in a geographic region and delivers immediate, actionable intelligence. Pano is based in San Francisco with a team of experienced technology professionals–from companies including Cisco, Tesla, Apple, Salesforce, and Nest–who are on a mission to give firefighters advanced tools to safeguard lives, communities, and the environment. Recently, Pano has been featured on Fox Business News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Morning Brew, and T&D World Magazine. Learn more at https://www.pano.ai/.
late stageFire Protection
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2024
Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond.
Investor
Jan 2024
Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Antora’s thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.
Investor, Board Observer
Dec 2023
Higharcs Homebuilding Cloud gives your homebuilding team the tools they need to design, estimate, sell, and build. Say goodbye to disconnected teams, outdated software, and repetitive manual work. Go to market faster than ever with one connected platform to design, estimate, sell, and build new homes and communities buyers love. Higharc is VC-backed and is led by a founding team that has launched products for Autodesk, EA, Nike, and Apple. We’re looking for world-class engineers and designers. See our open jobs: https://www.higharc.com/careers
Board Member
Aug 2023
We are Plotlogic, the world’s most innovative mining technology company. We make the mining industry more sustainable and efficient using sensors to scan all the rocks in your mine and tell you whats in them before you mine them, meaning you can efficiently handle and process all your rocks, boosting ESG and safety outcomes while cutting costs and greenhouse emissions.
mid stageMining
Investor
Feb 2023
Banyan Infrastructure is a project finance software platform designed to simplify, accelerate, and optimize sustainable infrastructure financing across the deal life cycle. Our solution oversees and automates the complex and time-consuming processes in the origination, portfolio, and compliance management of sustainable assets, which boosts profits per investment, increases deal velocity, and saves thousands of hours at every stage. Visit banyaninfrastructure.com or follow us on LinkedIn for more information.
Investor
Nov 2022
ChargeLab builds OCPP-compliant software for managing EV charging stations. We also offer affordable turnkey charging solutions including hardware, software, and installation for businesses and governments.
Investor
Aug 2022
Kojo is the leading materials procurement platform for trade and self-perform general contractors. By connecting office teams, field crews, the warehouse, and vendors on one all-inclusive procurement platform, contractors control their procurement process from takeoff to closeout, saving on material costs, reducing waste, and increasing productivity.
Investor
May 2022
Patch combines technology and carbon markets expertise to help companies build and execute their carbon credit strategies from end to end — channeling capital into critical climate solutions.
Board Member
Sep 2021
At WattBuy, we are focused on an ambitious vision: making cleaner, more affordable electricity accessible to every household. Our energy marketplace and platform provides actionable insights to millions of energy consumers by estimating their electricity usage, costs, and carbon footprint. We deliver these insights directly to consumers using WattBuy.com and through partnerships with leading enterprises in real estate, personal finance, and smart devices.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Fabric8Labs, Inc. is revolutionizing metal additive manufacturing with its advanced 3D printing technologies. Founded in 2015, the San Diego-based company is at the forefront of advanced manufacturing and is commercializing breakthroughs in material science and processing - reducing manufacturing costs and supporting significant advancements in material quality and manufacturing capabilities. Fabric8Labs is working to broaden the market for metal additive manufacturing across all industries.
Advisor, Investor
Oct 2020
At Formic, we make automation simple. Were dedicated to helping manufacturing businesses across the United States supercharge their productivity. Our cutting-edge robot fleet empowers factories to pack goods and stack onto pallets with confidence, savings, and simplicity that they cant find anywhere else. Our versatile robots play a role in producing a wide array of products you know and love - from delicious chocolate chip cookies and matcha powder to specialty chemicals and hardware fasteners, and more. Were on a mission to create a world of abundance through innovative automation solutions. Discover the impact of our technology at www.formic.co.
Investor, Advisor
Jul 2020
Station A is a technology company reimagining how clean energy is bought and sold. By combining proprietary technology and a team of experts, we help commercial real estate owners and occupants take swift action on their climate goals in the most cost-effective and transparent way. Our AI-powered platform analyzes and grades buildings to identify the best candidates for clean energy. The provider network on Station As marketplace then provides indicative pricing or fixed and firm proposals through a streamlined process. At Station A, we make climate action a no-brainer for everyone!
Investor and Board Observer
Mar 2020
Poka transforms manufacturing operations by empowering workers with real-time access to knowledge, digital tools and expert support. Our AI-driven platform integrates training, communication and troubleshooting to foster continuous improvement and operational excellence. Our mission is to bridge the skills gap, reduce downtime, and drive safety, performance and quality to new heights. Poka’s powerful analytics engine makes it easy to identify issues in production, leading to quick and focussed resolutions. In 2023, Poka was acquired by IFS, an enterprise software leader in Enterprise Asset Management, Field Service Management and ERP. Together, we help manufacturing companies optimize their people, assets and processes. Join us in shaping the future of work in manufacturing.
Investor and Board Observer
Oct 2019
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions develops and deploys cutting-edge battery inspection solutions for cell manufacturers. Leveraging advanced ultrasound sensing technology, innovative production-scale cell handling techniques, and proprietary AI-driven analytics, Titan’s IonSight system monitors cell morphology throughout production. This continuous feedback loop enhances product and process quality, contains and eliminates defective cells, and drastically reduces the overall cost of quality control.
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Board (18)
2025
Fund Partner
Aug 2025
I Squared Capital is a leading independent global infrastructure investor dedicated to the mid-market, managing more than $60 billion in assets. Founded in 2012, I Squared has evolved into one of the most diverse infrastructure investors in the world with investments across power & utilities; transportation & logistics; digital infrastructure; environmental infrastructure and social infrastructure, providing essential services to millions of people around the world. Today, our portfolio includes over 100 companies operating in more than 115 countries. Headquartered in Miami, the firm has a global team of more than 360 employees based across offices in Abu Dhabi, London, Munich, New Delhi, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei. Learn more at www.isquaredcapital.com.
Investor, Board Observer
May 2025
Pano AI (Pano) is the leader in early wildfire detection and intelligence, providing government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners with advanced tools and realtime situational awareness to quickly mitigate wildfire threats while protecting lives, property, and the environment. Pano combines advanced hardware, artificial intelligence, and software in a single integrated enterprise solution. Leveraging data and satellite feeds, as well as propriety imagery from a network of ultra-high-definition, 360-degree cameras atop high vantage points, Pano’s artificial intelligence model produces a real-time picture of threats in a geographic region and delivers immediate, actionable intelligence. Pano is based in San Francisco with a team of experienced technology professionals–from companies including Cisco, Tesla, Apple, Salesforce, and Nest–who are on a mission to give firefighters advanced tools to safeguard lives, communities, and the environment. Recently, Pano has been featured on Fox Business News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Morning Brew, and T&D World Magazine. Learn more at https://www.pano.ai/.
late stageFire Protection
Director (Nasdaq: HVIIU)
Jan 2025
Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII is a newly organized blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a business combination. We partner with all stakeholders, including founders, management, employees, directors, and shareholders to catalyze growth to help build enduring businesses that make positive and meaningful contributions to the world. We employ a partner centric model and strictly adhere to our core values of stewardship, transparency, integrity, and accountability. While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, we intend to focus on industries that complement our management team’s background, and to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and acquire a business, focusing on the industrial technology and energy transition sectors. We will seek to acquire one or more businesses with an expected aggregate enterprise value of $500 million or greater. Since 2014, our management team has announced, completed, or otherwise served as an advisor to 13 different business combinations with early- to late-stage industrial products and services companies, industrial technology and energy transition companies on six continents. Our management team is one of the most experienced SPAC sponsors and is a leader in the SPAC asset class.
2024
Board Member
Dec 2024
C-Motives mission is to create electric machines that directly lead to reduced carbon emissions through higher efficiency renewable generators applicable to the next generation of e-mobility vehicles and more efficient industrial torque motors. C-Motives unmatched torque, efficiency, and simplicity will lead to a new generation of applications that create more renewable power and waste less electricity. C-Motives motors run on the principle of electrostatic forces, also known as "static cling,"​ and stands to change the machines that shape and run our lives. Our motors produce torque by the same principle of rubbing a balloon on a head of hair. And just like hair doesnt heat up with the balloon, our motors produce torque with nearly zero loss, versus using copper coils wound around steel with rare earth permanent magnets.
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2024
Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond.
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