Morgan Defoort

Managing Principal, Factor[e] Ventures

📍 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
VC🌍 United States
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Mar 2021
SENTRY is a biological activity and water quality monitoring sensor platform. The SENTRY platform is a unique bio-electrode sensor technology that provides real-time microbial performance monitoring in anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment systems.
Board Member
Jan 2020
60Hertz is the first maintenance software purpose-built for Distributed Energy Resources. 60Hertz is a tech start-up work order management platform that unites monitoring with work orders to grow revenue by economizing work and increasing asset uptime. Our platform facilitates smart servicing for solar, BESS, microgrids, fleets of diesels, and more. 60Hertz enables maintenance personnel to achieve their full potential and assets their full useful life.
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Mar 2017
Odyssey’s mission is to radically accelerate capital deployment into distributed energy to get more projects built, faster. Odyssey brings together solar companies and financiers through a technology platform to streamline solar financing through every phase of the process, from origination and due diligence to credit underwriting, procurement, portfolio tracking, and asset management, reporting & compliance. For financiers, Odyssey increases velocity and reduces the cost of financing solar. For solar companies, Odyssey streamlines access to capital across the capital stack, from long-term financing accessed through the platform to short-term credit embedded in Odyssey’s procurement platform to alleviate working capital constraints for EPCs and developers.
Board Member
Jan 2017
UL Solutions HOMER software delivers industry-leading system simulations, optimization, sensitivity analysis and best-in-class storage models across three categories of hybrid systems: islanded microgrids, grid-connected distributed generation, and front-of-the-meter utility-scale storage and hybrid systems. Visit www.ul.com/homersoftware to learn more about HOMER Pro, HOMER Grid and HOMER Front modeling and optimization software, download complimentary trials, sign up for training and more.
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May 2016
Waste Enterprisers Holding is the U.S. parent of Pivot Works Ltd., a start-up waste-to-energy company that converts human waste into solid fuel for cement plants and other industries. Revenue generated from the sale of fuel is used to cover the treatment and conversion costs of the waste – meaning we’ve devised a sanitation system that actually pays for itself. Our mission is to eliminate dumping of human waste, and the public health and environmental threats that go with it. We recently commissioned a Pivot Works plant in Kigali, Rwanda and are developing a pipeline of opportunities across East Africa, India, and Latin America. We foster a hands-on, action-oriented work environment; we take pride in risk-taking, experimentation and creativity; we expect hard work, honesty and integrity; we strive for ambitious, high-impact results; we have fun.
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2021
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Mar 2021
SENTRY is a biological activity and water quality monitoring sensor platform. The SENTRY platform is a unique bio-electrode sensor technology that provides real-time microbial performance monitoring in anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment systems.
2020
Partner
Mar 2020
Equator is a venture capital firm with teams in Nairobi, Lagos, London and Colorado that targets technology-enabled, early-stage ventures in energy, agriculture and mobility that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa and supporting inclusive economic growth.
Board Member
Jan 2020
60Hertz is the first maintenance software purpose-built for Distributed Energy Resources. 60Hertz is a tech start-up work order management platform that unites monitoring with work orders to grow revenue by economizing work and increasing asset uptime. Our platform facilitates smart servicing for solar, BESS, microgrids, fleets of diesels, and more. 60Hertz enables maintenance personnel to achieve their full potential and assets their full useful life.
2017
Board Member
Mar 2017
Odyssey’s mission is to radically accelerate capital deployment into distributed energy to get more projects built, faster. Odyssey brings together solar companies and financiers through a technology platform to streamline solar financing through every phase of the process, from origination and due diligence to credit underwriting, procurement, portfolio tracking, and asset management, reporting & compliance. For financiers, Odyssey increases velocity and reduces the cost of financing solar. For solar companies, Odyssey streamlines access to capital across the capital stack, from long-term financing accessed through the platform to short-term credit embedded in Odyssey’s procurement platform to alleviate working capital constraints for EPCs and developers.
Board Member
Jan 2017
UL Solutions HOMER software delivers industry-leading system simulations, optimization, sensitivity analysis and best-in-class storage models across three categories of hybrid systems: islanded microgrids, grid-connected distributed generation, and front-of-the-meter utility-scale storage and hybrid systems. Visit www.ul.com/homersoftware to learn more about HOMER Pro, HOMER Grid and HOMER Front modeling and optimization software, download complimentary trials, sign up for training and more.
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