Kurt Scherer

Managing Director, C5 Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Nov 2022
The Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation (DIMF) is a tax-exempt non-profit educational foundation. Our vision is to create an operationally transparent, ethical, and fiscally solvent foundation distributing scholarship funds to the families of Defense Intelligence officers killed in the line of duty. We support all elements of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, to include the: Defense Intelligence Agency National Security Agency National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Reconnaissance Office Service Intelligence Components Combatant Commands Our staff and board members are current and former intelligence officers dedicated to honoring the memory of those who gave the last full measure.
Board Member
May 2022
Kevala revolutionizes the energy market with data-driven insights, combining advanced grid mapping and proprietary analytics. Our platform empowers new market entrants to identify optimal distributed asset locations, while providing utilities and policymakers with decision support to navigate the complexities of the rapidly evolving grid. With comprehensive data on local electrical distribution, demographics, building characteristics, and environmental indicators, Kevala serves as the trusted decision engine for the energy+ economy in the United States.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
X-energy is delivering the next generation of carbon-free energy by reinventing nuclear power. We believe in leaving a cleaner planet for our children and grandchildren, while continuing to provide sufficient and affordable power to sustain growing populations around the world. That is why we have reinvented nuclear power, with a unique combination of proven technologies and new innovations, to meet our current and future needs. X-energy manufactures fuel that seals uranium particles in a protective coating, which makes meltdown impossible and retains the waste inside forever. We also design plants that unlock the fuel’s potential in a process that’s as clean as wind or solar. When combined, the result is reliable carbon-free baseload power, produced more safely and affordable than ever before and available anywhere, at any time.
Investor
Dec 2020
Axiom Space is a human space exploration company, building era-defining space infrastructure and delivering technology-driven solutions that will empower civilization to transcend Earth. Beginning with Axiom Station, successor to the International Space Station, the company is pioneering a next-generation orbital settlement that will foster groundbreaking innovation and research in microgravity and drive the global space economy of tomorrow. Today, guided by the vision of leading humanitys expansion off planet, Axiom Space is the principal provider of commercial human spaceflight services and developer of advanced spacesuits for the Moon and beyond. Connect with us: instagram.com/axiom.space/ twitter.com/axiom_space facebook.com/axiomspace/ youtube.com/axiomspace
Board Observer
May 2020
RapidSOS is the leading public safety AI company that unlocks mission-critical intelligence for first responders and security teams – enabling faster, smarter and more accurate emergency response. RapidSOS connects every device, agency, company and community in a network that defends against the unexpected.
late stagePublic Safety
Investor
Dec 2019
Enveil is a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Enveil’s business-enabling and privacy-preserving capabilities change the paradigm of how and where organizations can leverage data to unlock value. Defining the transformative category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions for secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization protect data while its being used or processed. Customers can extract insights, cross-match, search, and analyze data assets at scale without ever revealing the content of the search itself, compromising the security or ownership of the underlying data, or exposing their interests and intent. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer founded by U.S. Intelligence Community alumni, Enveil is deployed and operational today, revolutionizing data usage in the global marketplace.
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2023
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Jan 2023
Hazelcast modernizes applications with a unified real-time data platform to act instantly on streaming data to create new revenue streams, mitigate risks and operate efficiently. Top brands trust Hazelcast to simplify real-time architectures for next-gen applications requiring high-performance at scale, security, and resilience. Unlock instant action. Visit www.hazelcast.com.
2022
Board Member
Nov 2022
The Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation (DIMF) is a tax-exempt non-profit educational foundation. Our vision is to create an operationally transparent, ethical, and fiscally solvent foundation distributing scholarship funds to the families of Defense Intelligence officers killed in the line of duty. We support all elements of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, to include the: Defense Intelligence Agency National Security Agency National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Reconnaissance Office Service Intelligence Components Combatant Commands Our staff and board members are current and former intelligence officers dedicated to honoring the memory of those who gave the last full measure.
Board Member
May 2022
Kevala revolutionizes the energy market with data-driven insights, combining advanced grid mapping and proprietary analytics. Our platform empowers new market entrants to identify optimal distributed asset locations, while providing utilities and policymakers with decision support to navigate the complexities of the rapidly evolving grid. With comprehensive data on local electrical distribution, demographics, building characteristics, and environmental indicators, Kevala serves as the trusted decision engine for the energy+ economy in the United States.
2021
Board Observer
Oct 2021
X-energy is delivering the next generation of carbon-free energy by reinventing nuclear power. We believe in leaving a cleaner planet for our children and grandchildren, while continuing to provide sufficient and affordable power to sustain growing populations around the world. That is why we have reinvented nuclear power, with a unique combination of proven technologies and new innovations, to meet our current and future needs. X-energy manufactures fuel that seals uranium particles in a protective coating, which makes meltdown impossible and retains the waste inside forever. We also design plants that unlock the fuel’s potential in a process that’s as clean as wind or solar. When combined, the result is reliable carbon-free baseload power, produced more safely and affordable than ever before and available anywhere, at any time.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
Axiom Space is a human space exploration company, building era-defining space infrastructure and delivering technology-driven solutions that will empower civilization to transcend Earth. Beginning with Axiom Station, successor to the International Space Station, the company is pioneering a next-generation orbital settlement that will foster groundbreaking innovation and research in microgravity and drive the global space economy of tomorrow. Today, guided by the vision of leading humanitys expansion off planet, Axiom Space is the principal provider of commercial human spaceflight services and developer of advanced spacesuits for the Moon and beyond. Connect with us: instagram.com/axiom.space/ twitter.com/axiom_space facebook.com/axiomspace/ youtube.com/axiomspace
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