Leonardo Banchik

Partner @ Voyager | Deep-Tech & Climate VC | MIT PhD | ex-McK

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
Subsea Geothermal
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Sep 2025
We convert brines to battery materials to unlock global energy abundance.
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Jul 2024
Clean steel startup based in Oakland, CA
mid stageManufacturing
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Jul 2024
We are building the future of Electric Powertrains and Motors. No Rare-earth dependence, Super compact, 10X simpler Manufacturing and Hardware + Software layers under one roof. For Small Electric Mobility, our Electric Engine will make it spacious, affordable and low risk. For Fans, Pumps and Industrial Automation applications, our EC motors will make them efficient and compact. Started by repeat founders and industry veterans from Apple, Lucid and Tesla.
Board Observer
Jun 2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Board Observer
Jun 2024
Addis Energy is scaling a new ammonia production pathway that revolutionizes the century-old chemical production process. By targeting iron-rich resources in the subsurface, Addis is forging a new method for chemical synthesis: injecting engineered fluids that harness the chemical & thermal potential of the earth to produce clean ammonia. This transforms ammonia synthesis into a net energy positive process without any CO2 emissions and enables producing ammonia cheaper than traditional methods.
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Apr 2024
Cache Energy is a heat electrification and long-duration energy storage company. Our solution helps customers meet their heat electrification and energy resiliency goals while reducing energy costs through price arbitrage across days, months, or seasons.
Board Observer
Nov 2023
We make battery-equipped appliances in order to make all of our homes better places to live.
Board Observer
Nov 2023
At Arbor, we’re sustainably powering the present while erasing emissions of the past. Our innovative system transforms organic waste into clean, reliable electricity while capturing carbon dioxide at scale. Founded by space tech veterans who pivoted from building technology to explore new planets to protecting our own, Arbor leverages cutting-edge aerospace technology to tackle climate change. Our mission is to bring gigawatts of clean, dependable baseload power online while removing gigatons of legacy carbon emissions. Earth is the most important spaceship we’ll ever have, and we’re dedicated to restoring its balance. Drawing on our team’s deep aerospace expertise, we’ve created a power system that meets today’s demands while repairing yesterday’s damage. Arbor’s engine, fueled by organic waste, improves on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) using advancements in oxy-combustion, supercritical turbomachinery, and additive manufacturing. The system turns waste—like overgrown brush, crop residues, and food waste—into clean power, reducing wildfire risks and landfill emissions. The captured CO2 is permanently stored deep underground, where it mineralizes into rock, ensuring it never returns to the atmosphere. At Arbor, we envision a future where human progress and environmental stewardship work in harmony to power our world and bring the planet into balance. We’re proudly backed by climate-focused investors including Gigascale Capital, Voyager Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Cantos Ventures.
Board Member/Observer
May 2022
Were hiring! Visit lydianlabs.com. Lydian is on a mission to decarbonize the aviation industry and enable energy resilience. We make modular, turnkey plants to produce low-cost synthetic aviation fuel, made from CO2.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Equilibrium Energy is building the operating system for tomorrow’s power company. Our AI-native PowerOS platform, powered by Connective Intelligence™, breaks down data and system silos to unlock true portfolio optimization and integrated, enterprise-wide command. More than a technology provider, we stand side by side with power leaders to help accelerate innovation and amplify your team.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Subsea Geothermal
2025
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Sep 2025
We convert brines to battery materials to unlock global energy abundance.
Board Member | Finance Committee
Jan 2025
NCSE promotes and defends accurate and effective science education, because everyone deserves to engage with the evidence. For over 40 years the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has worked to ensure evidence-based science is taught in public school science classrooms. Focused initially on preventing creationism from being taught alongside or instead of evolution, the organization added climate change to its mission in 2012 when it became clear that politicization of the topic was affecting how it was being taught. NCSE is unique in its recognition that societally, but not scientifically, controversial topics are challenging to teach. For these topics, accuracy alone is not enough to change minds. NCSE helps train teachers and community volunteers in proven approaches that are effective in helping learners overcome even deeply held misconceptions. NCSE played a key role in several crucial legal battles that affirmed teaching creationism in public schools is unconstitutional and continues to help local communities block legislation and other efforts allowing or encouraging teachers to miseducate students on these critical topics.
2024
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Jul 2024
Clean steel startup based in Oakland, CA
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
Jul 2024
We are building the future of Electric Powertrains and Motors. No Rare-earth dependence, Super compact, 10X simpler Manufacturing and Hardware + Software layers under one roof. For Small Electric Mobility, our Electric Engine will make it spacious, affordable and low risk. For Fans, Pumps and Industrial Automation applications, our EC motors will make them efficient and compact. Started by repeat founders and industry veterans from Apple, Lucid and Tesla.
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