Vincent Lui

Investor | Advisor | Operator | ClimateTech, Critical Minerals Sustainability

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
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2024
Princeton NuEnergy Inc. (PNE) is an innovative U.S.-based clean-tech company, spun out from Princeton University in 2019, and reaching commercial production in 2023. We are revolutionizing the material supply chain with our patented low-cost process for producing high-quality cathode active materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. We recycle lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles, consumer electronics, energy storage batteries, and manufacturing scrap. Our primary product: directly re-usable Cathode and Anode materials at 99.99% purity – produced at half the cost of virgin material production with zero waste!
Investor
2024
Phoenix Tailings is pioneering the future of clean mining and metals production. We are dedicated to building the world’s first fully clean mining and refining company, producing the critical metals needed for the next generation of technology and infrastructure. By harvesting valuable materials directly from mining tailings, we eliminate waste streams while creating a sustainable and domestic supply of rare earths and other essential resources. We are already commercially shipping rare earth metals and alloys to magnet customers today, proving both the scalability and impact of our approach. Our breakthrough refining model provides a clean and reliable supply chain, empowering industries from defense and aerospace to electric vehicles, renewable energy, and medical technologies. Phoenix Tailings has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023, demonstrating our leadership in bringing sustainable solutions to market.
mid stageMining
Investor
Mar 2023
Data sharing is a huge challenge for data & AI teams in financial services because 2/3rds of the world has passed privacy laws. Our AI Programmable Synthetic Data Platform makes data sharing instant and safe by anonymising sensitive real data into privacy preserving synthetic data that looks, feels and behaves just like real data. As synthetic data belongs to no real individuals, it can be shared globally with 100% compliance while putting data privacy first. Were hiring for AI researchers, engineering and business roles at https://tinyurl.com/betterdatajobs.
Investor
2023
Nth Cycle is a metal refining company. We work with scrap recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical metals from industrial scrap, low-grade ore, and refining waste. Our patented electro-extraction technology, The Oyster — an alternative to hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy — enables customizable, clean, and consistent recovery of the critical metals for the energy transition. Learn more at nthcycle.com.
late stageMining
Investor
Dec 2021
IronYun® is a US company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. IronYuns SIA award-winning Vaidio AI Vision Platform offers more than 30 advanced AI video analytics functions to bring intelligence and accuracy to existing camera and video infrastructures. The open Vaidio Platform is built on evolved and field-proven artificial intelligence to offer greater accuracy, alert speed, functionality and cost efficiency. Our mission is to build a safer, smarter world by helping our customers improve security, safety, health, and operational efficiency.
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2024
General Partner
Jan 2024
CarbonN Venture Partners is an early stage climate tech VC based in Silicon Valley. Our mission is to accelerate the commercialization of breakthrough technologies in the mitigation, adaptation and reversal of the effect of climate change, and to positively impact billions of people within this generation.
Investor
2024
Princeton NuEnergy Inc. (PNE) is an innovative U.S.-based clean-tech company, spun out from Princeton University in 2019, and reaching commercial production in 2023. We are revolutionizing the material supply chain with our patented low-cost process for producing high-quality cathode active materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. We recycle lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles, consumer electronics, energy storage batteries, and manufacturing scrap. Our primary product: directly re-usable Cathode and Anode materials at 99.99% purity – produced at half the cost of virgin material production with zero waste!
Investor
2024
Phoenix Tailings is pioneering the future of clean mining and metals production. We are dedicated to building the world’s first fully clean mining and refining company, producing the critical metals needed for the next generation of technology and infrastructure. By harvesting valuable materials directly from mining tailings, we eliminate waste streams while creating a sustainable and domestic supply of rare earths and other essential resources. We are already commercially shipping rare earth metals and alloys to magnet customers today, proving both the scalability and impact of our approach. Our breakthrough refining model provides a clean and reliable supply chain, empowering industries from defense and aerospace to electric vehicles, renewable energy, and medical technologies. Phoenix Tailings has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023, demonstrating our leadership in bringing sustainable solutions to market.
mid stageMining
2023
Investor
Mar 2023
Data sharing is a huge challenge for data & AI teams in financial services because 2/3rds of the world has passed privacy laws. Our AI Programmable Synthetic Data Platform makes data sharing instant and safe by anonymising sensitive real data into privacy preserving synthetic data that looks, feels and behaves just like real data. As synthetic data belongs to no real individuals, it can be shared globally with 100% compliance while putting data privacy first. Were hiring for AI researchers, engineering and business roles at https://tinyurl.com/betterdatajobs.
Investor
2023
Nth Cycle is a metal refining company. We work with scrap recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical metals from industrial scrap, low-grade ore, and refining waste. Our patented electro-extraction technology, The Oyster — an alternative to hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy — enables customizable, clean, and consistent recovery of the critical metals for the energy transition. Learn more at nthcycle.com.
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