James Boettcher

Co-founder & Partner Mingxin Capital Global Biotech Fund

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Mar 2021
We are revolutionizing power generation using readily available renewable fuels. Proof Energy fuel cell and catalytic heater range extender products enable heavy-duty vehicle electrification.
Co-founder & Board Member
Apr 2017
We help farmers improve yields and margins with organic solutions produced from farm wastes. Here’s how. Plants are really solar powered biochemical factories. Photosynthesis uses solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant polymers comprised of cellulose and lignin. These structures don’t just give plants their shape and ability to stand upright. They are also the source of an array of natural biochemicals that plants produce to defend themselves against stresses from nutrient imbalances, temperature extremes, drought, pathogens and pests. Corigin unravels these plant structures into organic biomolecular solutions and soil amendments that help farmers increase yields and soil fertility while reducing chemical, fertilizer and water use. The process is carbon negative, and perhaps the most sustainable process on Earth.
Board Member
Feb 2013
As the world’s only independent, non-governmental source of comprehensive environmental data and analysis, our impact is fundamental: Our global warming and air pollution data sets and research inform high-level policy decisions, support academic research, provides inputs for education, and serve as an impartial source of data and research for the world’s leading media outlets.
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Board Observer
Aug 2012
Our products are used in a wide variety of applications including research for air quality, greenhouse gas, and fugitive emissions measurements, energy exploration and distribution, and supply chain integrity. Deployed on all seven continents in places as diverse as the Greenland Ice Cap, The Eiffel Tower, NASA aircraft and Pacific Gas & Electric’s natural gas leak detection vehicles, our solutions are unparalleled in their precision, ease of use, portability and reliability. Our products are designed and manufactured at our Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. headquarters and exported to countries worldwide. Our technology is based on dozens of patents related to cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS)
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2021
Board Member
Mar 2021
We are revolutionizing power generation using readily available renewable fuels. Proof Energy fuel cell and catalytic heater range extender products enable heavy-duty vehicle electrification.
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Jan 2021
Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.
2017
Co-founder & Board Member
Apr 2017
We help farmers improve yields and margins with organic solutions produced from farm wastes. Here’s how. Plants are really solar powered biochemical factories. Photosynthesis uses solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant polymers comprised of cellulose and lignin. These structures don’t just give plants their shape and ability to stand upright. They are also the source of an array of natural biochemicals that plants produce to defend themselves against stresses from nutrient imbalances, temperature extremes, drought, pathogens and pests. Corigin unravels these plant structures into organic biomolecular solutions and soil amendments that help farmers increase yields and soil fertility while reducing chemical, fertilizer and water use. The process is carbon negative, and perhaps the most sustainable process on Earth.
2013
Board Member
Feb 2013
As the world’s only independent, non-governmental source of comprehensive environmental data and analysis, our impact is fundamental: Our global warming and air pollution data sets and research inform high-level policy decisions, support academic research, provides inputs for education, and serve as an impartial source of data and research for the world’s leading media outlets.
mid stageResearch
2012
Board Observer
Aug 2012
Our products are used in a wide variety of applications including research for air quality, greenhouse gas, and fugitive emissions measurements, energy exploration and distribution, and supply chain integrity. Deployed on all seven continents in places as diverse as the Greenland Ice Cap, The Eiffel Tower, NASA aircraft and Pacific Gas & Electric’s natural gas leak detection vehicles, our solutions are unparalleled in their precision, ease of use, portability and reliability. Our products are designed and manufactured at our Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. headquarters and exported to countries worldwide. Our technology is based on dozens of patents related to cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS)
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