Sam Smith-Eppsteiner

AI for the real world

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 United States
8
Total investments
4
Early stage
2
Mid stage
1
Late stage
6y
Years active

Portfolio

8 investments · sorted by recency
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Investor
Jul 2024
Cadstrom is on a mission to eliminate respins for electrical engineers - our customers save time, spend less, and get to market faster.
Investor, Board Member
Jul 2024
First Street™ is the standard for climate risk financial modeling. Using transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies they calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for every property around the globe and make it available for consumers, industry and government.
Investor, Board Member
Feb 2024
ElectronX (EXI), the first U.S.-regulated, direct-access power derivatives market, is the energy exchange created to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With locations in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is helping to expand the nations power grid by building the financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to support increased investment in energy generation, renewable resources, and battery storage technology. ElectronX is proud to be supported by premier venture capital, quantitative trading, and global energy firms including Innovation Endeavors, DCVC, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures, XTX Markets, Five Rings, NGP, GTS, Amplo, BoxGroup, JACS Capital, and Lightning Capital. For more information, please visit electronx.com.
Investor, Board Member
2023
Optimls Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) platform empowers asset managers, investors, and consultancies to create and optimize cost-effective, reliable decarbonization strategies that meet Net Zero CO2e and financial targets. The AI-powered platform bridges the gap between the asset, portfolio, and sustainability levels, simplifying a managers complex decision-making when decarbonizing and prioritizing investment in assets and portfolios. Moreover, Optiml’s Decision Intelligence develops renovation action plans on the component & system level, considering individual targets, as well as ensuring regulations and certifications are met. With optimization technology, energy simulation, and improvements in data quality, the platform makes redundant the high-cost process of recurring building audits and corresponding manual efforts. In 2024, Optiml won the European PropTech Innovation Challenge by the Urban Land Institute and the ZIA PropTech of the Year award for its industry changing solution. © OPTIML AG
Investor, Board Member
2022
We are Plotlogic, the world’s most innovative mining technology company. We make the mining industry more sustainable and efficient using sensors to scan all the rocks in your mine and tell you whats in them before you mine them, meaning you can efficiently handle and process all your rocks, boosting ESG and safety outcomes while cutting costs and greenhouse emissions.
mid stageMining
Investor, Board Member
2021
Machina Labs unlocks manufacturing with AI & Robotics. Machinas Robotic Craftsman is introducing unseen flexibility and agility to the centuries-old manufacturing industry, enabling rapid iteration and innovation to design, engineering, and production. Machina helps leading companies quickly and affordably turn great ideas into reality.
early stageManufacturing
Investor
2021
Fero Labs is the only AI-powered Profitable Sustainability Platform with real-time production predictions you can confidently explain and act upon to cut costs and emissions in your ever-changing production environment. Manufacturers sit on a disconnected goldmine of production data and knowledge. Augmented by Fero Labs AI, cross-functional teams can work together to make better use of raw and recycled materials, production time, and energy supplies. With white-box ML, confidence bands on every prediction, and real-time explanations about your live production anomalies, your production knowledge will increase exponentially. Using Fero Labs AI, teams can work 90x faster, using simulated predictions or live optimizations. They can explore root cause analyses in seconds, and make continuous process improvements with confidence that drive Profitable Sustainability. Activities that would typically take your team weeks or more, can now be accomplished together in hours or less. Fero Labs was recently recognized as a 2024 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Together well build a sustainable tomorrow. See a live demo today: https://www.ferolabs.com/get-in-touch
Investor, Board Member
2020
FutureProof is a venture-backed insurtech startup on a mission to create the climate-smart insurer of the future. Were a small team with a big vision. When we started FutureProof, we were motivated by the fact that the climate price signal is broken: the true cost of climate risk is not currently reflected in the financial system. This leads to mispricing and systemic risk, as well as to a lack of financial incentives for investment in adaptation and resilience. We believe that aligning incentives through insurance pricing will be crucial to the solution. Insurers need new technology to manage climate- and weather-related financial risk. We are building these solutions.
early stageInsurance
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2024
Investor
Jul 2024
Cadstrom is on a mission to eliminate respins for electrical engineers - our customers save time, spend less, and get to market faster.
Investor, Board Member
Jul 2024
First Street™ is the standard for climate risk financial modeling. Using transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies they calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for every property around the globe and make it available for consumers, industry and government.
Investor, Board Member
Feb 2024
ElectronX (EXI), the first U.S.-regulated, direct-access power derivatives market, is the energy exchange created to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With locations in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is helping to expand the nations power grid by building the financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to support increased investment in energy generation, renewable resources, and battery storage technology. ElectronX is proud to be supported by premier venture capital, quantitative trading, and global energy firms including Innovation Endeavors, DCVC, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures, XTX Markets, Five Rings, NGP, GTS, Amplo, BoxGroup, JACS Capital, and Lightning Capital. For more information, please visit electronx.com.
2023
Investor, Board Member
2023
Optimls Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) platform empowers asset managers, investors, and consultancies to create and optimize cost-effective, reliable decarbonization strategies that meet Net Zero CO2e and financial targets. The AI-powered platform bridges the gap between the asset, portfolio, and sustainability levels, simplifying a managers complex decision-making when decarbonizing and prioritizing investment in assets and portfolios. Moreover, Optiml’s Decision Intelligence develops renovation action plans on the component & system level, considering individual targets, as well as ensuring regulations and certifications are met. With optimization technology, energy simulation, and improvements in data quality, the platform makes redundant the high-cost process of recurring building audits and corresponding manual efforts. In 2024, Optiml won the European PropTech Innovation Challenge by the Urban Land Institute and the ZIA PropTech of the Year award for its industry changing solution. © OPTIML AG
2022
Investor, Board Member
2022
We are Plotlogic, the world’s most innovative mining technology company. We make the mining industry more sustainable and efficient using sensors to scan all the rocks in your mine and tell you whats in them before you mine them, meaning you can efficiently handle and process all your rocks, boosting ESG and safety outcomes while cutting costs and greenhouse emissions.
mid stageMining
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