Mark Hartney

Breakthrough Energy Ventures

📍 Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
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Powerhouse Ventures Investor
Jan 2019
Securing our energy abundant future requires a complete transformation of our global systems. Our purpose is to create a sustainable energy future through innovation. <o> Powerhouse Innovation is a best-in-class consulting firm that partners with leading corporations, investors, and utilities to source and evaluate disruptive startups shaping the future of energy and industry. Our clients are the worlds leaders in energy and industrial innovation—including Google, DNV, Mitsui, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and more. https://powerhouse-innovation.co/ <o> Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups developing innovative software across energy, mobility, and industry. We are backed by some of the world’s largest corporations in energy, utilities, automotive, finance, and tech—including Constellation, American Electric Power, Microsoft, UBS, Toyota, TotalEnergies, and more. https://powerhouse-ventures.co/
Board Member
Jan 2014
New Energy Nexus (NEX) is the world's leading ecosystem of funds and accelerators supporting diverse clean energy entrepreneurs to thrive, from emerging tech through to clean energy distribution and adoption. New Energy Nexus builds ecosystems and runs programs that are locally tailored to support the specific needs of entrepreneurs in that region: providing accelerator services, capital, mentoring, skills, and networks to help clean energy entrepreneurs thrive. We know that getting the right resources to entrepreneurs at the right time will unlock the clean energy solutions the world needs to tackle climate change. NEX started in Silicon Valley and now has programs and partners across 10 countries that we’ve identified as most strategic for clean energy development. Since 2004, NEX has accelerated 650 startups, leveraged over US$1.5 billion in investment, and supported more than 3,000 entrepreneurs. And that’s just the start. We have an ambitious goal to reach 100,000 entrepreneurs by 2030 - a solutions movement that benefits 100% of the population in the shortest time possible.
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2019
Powerhouse Ventures Investor
Jan 2019
Securing our energy abundant future requires a complete transformation of our global systems. Our purpose is to create a sustainable energy future through innovation. <o> Powerhouse Innovation is a best-in-class consulting firm that partners with leading corporations, investors, and utilities to source and evaluate disruptive startups shaping the future of energy and industry. Our clients are the worlds leaders in energy and industrial innovation—including Google, DNV, Mitsui, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and more. https://powerhouse-innovation.co/ <o> Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups developing innovative software across energy, mobility, and industry. We are backed by some of the world’s largest corporations in energy, utilities, automotive, finance, and tech—including Constellation, American Electric Power, Microsoft, UBS, Toyota, TotalEnergies, and more. https://powerhouse-ventures.co/
2018
Principal
Sep 2018
Breakthrough Energy backs companies developing the next generation of clean energy solutions. We invest in bold ideas, fund breakthrough technologies, and shape markets to accelerate innovation across the five major sources of emissions—manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings. Founded by Bill Gates, Breakthrough Energy supports companies at every stage, from early discovery to large-scale deployment, using technology, policy, and market-driven solutions to make clean energy affordable and scalable.
2014
Board Member
Jan 2014
New Energy Nexus (NEX) is the world's leading ecosystem of funds and accelerators supporting diverse clean energy entrepreneurs to thrive, from emerging tech through to clean energy distribution and adoption. New Energy Nexus builds ecosystems and runs programs that are locally tailored to support the specific needs of entrepreneurs in that region: providing accelerator services, capital, mentoring, skills, and networks to help clean energy entrepreneurs thrive. We know that getting the right resources to entrepreneurs at the right time will unlock the clean energy solutions the world needs to tackle climate change. NEX started in Silicon Valley and now has programs and partners across 10 countries that we’ve identified as most strategic for clean energy development. Since 2004, NEX has accelerated 650 startups, leveraged over US$1.5 billion in investment, and supported more than 3,000 entrepreneurs. And that’s just the start. We have an ambitious goal to reach 100,000 entrepreneurs by 2030 - a solutions movement that benefits 100% of the population in the shortest time possible.
2008
3D@Home Consoritum
Founder and Managing Director
Feb 2008
1992
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
Fellow
Sep 1992