Kevin Deneen

CEO, Co-Founder @ Moterra Campervans | Former VC @ SE Ventures ($1bn+ AUM)

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Investor, Board Member
Aug 2019
Natel Energy’s mission is to expedite the energy transition with modern hydropower that supports biodiversity and healthy rivers. Our hydropower engineering solutions include fish-safe design, validated by CFD modeling and scale-model testing. Our proprietary RHT runner design is optimized for hydropower sites up to 35m/115ft of head. Our project development team finds and develops existing hydropower projects at which to deploy our technology. Natel operates as a distributed team, with a home office in a repurposed hangar on the former Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatelEnergy Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natel_energy/
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Volta is now JOLT. We’ve combined the best of both worlds to create the world’s most powerful data-led DOOH and EV charging network. The U.S. footprint spans 4,500+ premium digital out-of-home screens integrated with electric vehicle charging stations, strategically located where people live, move, and spend time. We help forward-thinking brands connect with high-value urban audiences through impactful creative, precise targeting, and measurable outcomes — with programmatic and direct buying options available.
Investor, Board Observer
Jul 2018
Qmerit simplifies the adoption of electrification products for residential and light commercial markets. A leader in green energy transformation, the company provides value-driven services throughout the renewable energy equipment implementation lifecycle, from system planning, contractor selection, installation oversight and ongoing maintenance. Combining the company's digital managed services platform, nationwide network of certified electrical contractors and white-glove concierge services, Qmerit delivers customers an unmatched quality experience when installing electric vehicle charging stations, battery walls and microgrid solutions.
Board Member
Jun 2018
Clockworks Analytics is an essential smart building intelligence platform that helps facilities professionals and their service providers gain visibility into the biggest issues affecting building energy consumption, indoor air quality and equipment health. The company’s “Clockworks” technology provides the most comprehensive and accurate building diagnostics in the industry, analyzing millions of data points and providing root cause analysis and automated measurement and verification. With a building analytics platform connected to 420 million square feet of property across every building type on four continents, Clockworks Analytics is the most widely utilized cloud-based building analytics platform in the world. www.clockworksanalytics.com
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Element powers digitally-enabled operations for the Industrial Enterprise. Tackling one of the most critical gaps in Industrial IoT –– the fact that 95% of data across the Industrial Enterprise is unusable because it’s fragmented and disconnected –– Element Unify breaks through the data silos by bringing IT and OT data and teams together for the first time on a single solution. With Element Unify, IT and OT teams can collaboratively make data-driven operational and business decisions around rich, contextualized metadata, while ensuring scale, reliability and security. Industrial Enterprises can see up to a 300% increase in time to insight, reduced organizational fragmentation, and a 100% increase in data usability with Element. Element's customers represent over $500 billion in revenue, $300 billion in fixed assets, and 350,000 employees. Element is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Investor/Advisor
2018
Board Observer
Feb 2016
ENTOUCH is the leader in energy management as a service and smart building technology. The company’s turnkey solution optimizes operations while reducing energy usage to drive profitability for multi-site businesses. ENTOUCH is the only provider that owns its entire technology stack and can take over heterogeneous systems and manage them from a single cloud solution. It leads the industry in speed and quality of deployment and the ENTOUCH.360 service has earned a 100% renewal rate. For more information about ENTOUCH, visit www.entouchcontrols.com. Vision Improving the planet and improving your profits, one building at a time. Mission We create a path to a healthier planet by delivering sustainability solutions that reduce energy usage, drive profitability, and simplify facility management for multisite operators. Specialties IoT, Smart Building Solutions, HVAC & Lighting Control, Enterprise Energy Management, Refrigeration Monitoring, Facilities Intelligence, Energy Management as a Service (EMaaS), Global Sustainability Solutions, Environmental Social Governance, Socially Responsible Investing, Corporate Social Responsibility
Board Observer
May 2015
EcoFactor is transforming how homes use energy by applying advanced analytics to connected devices in the home. EcoFactor’s cloud-based application actively manages thermostats on occupants’ behalf in intelligent ways that improve comfort while helping them save time, energy and money. Utilities, home service providers and homeowners rely on EcoFactor for demand response, energy efficiency, and HVAC performance monitoring services. For more information, visit www.ecofactor.com.
Experience · 13 entries
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2019
Investor, Board Member
Aug 2019
Natel Energy’s mission is to expedite the energy transition with modern hydropower that supports biodiversity and healthy rivers. Our hydropower engineering solutions include fish-safe design, validated by CFD modeling and scale-model testing. Our proprietary RHT runner design is optimized for hydropower sites up to 35m/115ft of head. Our project development team finds and develops existing hydropower projects at which to deploy our technology. Natel operates as a distributed team, with a home office in a repurposed hangar on the former Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatelEnergy Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natel_energy/
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Volta is now JOLT. We’ve combined the best of both worlds to create the world’s most powerful data-led DOOH and EV charging network. The U.S. footprint spans 4,500+ premium digital out-of-home screens integrated with electric vehicle charging stations, strategically located where people live, move, and spend time. We help forward-thinking brands connect with high-value urban audiences through impactful creative, precise targeting, and measurable outcomes — with programmatic and direct buying options available.
Principal
Jan 2019
SE Ventures is a new €500M venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, CA created in close partnership with Schneider Electric. SEV provides risk capital to big ideas and bold entrepreneurs who can benefit from Schneider’s energy and industrial expertise, global reach and ready customer access. Learn more at se.com/ventures.
Principal
Jan 2019
SE Ventures is a $1B+ specialist VC firm backed by Schneider Electric. We invest in bold entrepreneurs driving the future of energy and industrial intelligence. Beyond capital, our global team of operating partners unlock commercial opportunities for our portfolio by leveraging the GTM power and customer ecosystem of Schneider Electric.
2018
Investor, Board Observer
Jul 2018
Qmerit simplifies the adoption of electrification products for residential and light commercial markets. A leader in green energy transformation, the company provides value-driven services throughout the renewable energy equipment implementation lifecycle, from system planning, contractor selection, installation oversight and ongoing maintenance. Combining the company's digital managed services platform, nationwide network of certified electrical contractors and white-glove concierge services, Qmerit delivers customers an unmatched quality experience when installing electric vehicle charging stations, battery walls and microgrid solutions.
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