Sandy Reisky

Founder, Board Director, Apex Clean Energy

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Board Member
Jan 2021
Founded in 2016 and based in Charlottesville, VA, Lumin® is the pioneer and market leader for responsive load control, adding exceptional value to residential microgrids by balancing the needs of energy storage and multiple power sources (traditional electrical grid, solar PV, backup generator). The Lumin platform is an addition to a standard electrical panel and makes ordinary circuits smart and responsive. Lumin helps homeowners automatically or manually control their home’s microgrid and enhance and protect their investment in solar PV, energy storage, and more. The Lumin solution is valued by homeowners, solar + storage installers, utilities, and home builders. Learn more at luminsmart.com.
Board Member
Jun 2019
Pearl Certification makes high-performance home value visible to benefit homeowners and the contractors, builders, raters, and real estate professionals who serve them. Pearl Certification is dedicated to transforming the national housing market for good. We help homeowners while simultaneously partnering with businesses and public entities to build a market that rewards energy efficiency. This holistic approach increases both the supply of and demand for sustainable, energy-efficient housing, from now on. How do we achieve this? We qualify an elite network of contractors and real estate professionals. These professionals improve home performance and ensure these homes are properly marketed and valued. Together, we empower homeowners to increase the efficiency, health, comfort and resilience of their homes over time. Homeowners maximize the value of their high-performing homes at the time of appraisal for refinance or sale. Misson Pearl Certification makes our global community a better place by giving homeowners tools to improve the health, comfort, efficiency, resilience and value of their homes. Vision Pearl Certification is the global standard for high-performing homes. Services We provide third-party certification, homeowner information, business-building resources and more.
Board Member
Sep 2016
Apex Clean Energy was founded with a singular focus: to accelerate the shift to clean energy. Through origination, construction, and operation of utility-scale wind, solar, and storage facilities, distributed energy resources, and green fuel technologies, Apex is expanding the renewable frontier across North America. Our mission-driven team of more than 300 professionals uses a data-focused approach and an unrivaled portfolio of projects to create solutions for the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking customers. For more information about how Apex is building the energy company of the future, visit apexcleanenergy.com.
Lead investor
May 2007
We are experts in enabling ultra-sensitive immunoassays for research and clinical use with over 35 years of experience on the front line of infectious disease pandemics. Detection and monitoring of Low Abundance Proteins (LAPs) is a vital tool in the war against disease and viral pandemics past, present, and future. Our recently patented BOLD technology platform and Exazym® reagent kits deliver a life science tools breakthrough that enables ultra-sensitive signal amplification for any ELISA immunoassay. This technology has the potential to revolutionise the field of immunoassay, allowing for more accurate and reliable results. BOLD is a cost-effective solution that can be used in a variety of settings, from research laboratories to clinical diagnostics requiring no extra hardware or software. Advances in medical science are making more and more diseases treatable. And access to these treatments is increasing around the world. But to get the most from treatment researchers, doctors and patients also need access to accurate medical diagnostic tests. That’s our focus. We began this work in 1984 when a team of leading virologists from Uppsala University in Sweden founded Cavidi. For over two decades we have been devoted to developing innovative solutions for the health and life science sector to give doctors in every part of the world the tools they need. Our customers include hospitals, patient clinics, private laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry and research institutions worldwide. Cavidi is ISO9001 certified for quality management systems.
Founder, Board Member
Mar 2007
C-Power delivers the products the marine economy needs to change the ocean from a power desert into a power- and data-enriched environment. As a worldwide leader in wave energy systems, C-Power is developing reliable, sustainable, cost-effective energy generation and storage solutions that are easy to transport and deployable anywhere in the world for a wide range of applications benefitting critical industries such as offshore energy, defense and security, aquaculture, science and research, and communications. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, with product development in Corvallis, Oregon, the C-Power team brings more than 150 years of successful management, operating and engineering experience. Learn more at cpower.co or connect with us here on LinkedIn.
Founding Investor, Board Member
Feb 2007
In June 2011, Axio Power was 100% acquired by SunEdison, a wholly owned subsidiary of MEMC (NYSE ticker: WFR). Axio Power was founded in 2007 by a group of renewable energy veterans with a singular vision: to accelerate the adoption of utility-scale solar power. At Axio Power, we develop, finance, and construct large-scale solar projects that provide reliable sources of clean, renewable energy during peak demand. Its good for the environment, good for business and good for the grid.
Experience · 9 entries
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2021
Board Member
Jan 2021
Founded in 2016 and based in Charlottesville, VA, Lumin® is the pioneer and market leader for responsive load control, adding exceptional value to residential microgrids by balancing the needs of energy storage and multiple power sources (traditional electrical grid, solar PV, backup generator). The Lumin platform is an addition to a standard electrical panel and makes ordinary circuits smart and responsive. Lumin helps homeowners automatically or manually control their home’s microgrid and enhance and protect their investment in solar PV, energy storage, and more. The Lumin solution is valued by homeowners, solar + storage installers, utilities, and home builders. Learn more at luminsmart.com.
2019
Board Member
Jun 2019
Pearl Certification makes high-performance home value visible to benefit homeowners and the contractors, builders, raters, and real estate professionals who serve them. Pearl Certification is dedicated to transforming the national housing market for good. We help homeowners while simultaneously partnering with businesses and public entities to build a market that rewards energy efficiency. This holistic approach increases both the supply of and demand for sustainable, energy-efficient housing, from now on. How do we achieve this? We qualify an elite network of contractors and real estate professionals. These professionals improve home performance and ensure these homes are properly marketed and valued. Together, we empower homeowners to increase the efficiency, health, comfort and resilience of their homes over time. Homeowners maximize the value of their high-performing homes at the time of appraisal for refinance or sale. Misson Pearl Certification makes our global community a better place by giving homeowners tools to improve the health, comfort, efficiency, resilience and value of their homes. Vision Pearl Certification is the global standard for high-performing homes. Services We provide third-party certification, homeowner information, business-building resources and more.
2016
Board Member
Sep 2016
Apex Clean Energy was founded with a singular focus: to accelerate the shift to clean energy. Through origination, construction, and operation of utility-scale wind, solar, and storage facilities, distributed energy resources, and green fuel technologies, Apex is expanding the renewable frontier across North America. Our mission-driven team of more than 300 professionals uses a data-focused approach and an unrivaled portfolio of projects to create solutions for the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking customers. For more information about how Apex is building the energy company of the future, visit apexcleanenergy.com.
2015
Founder
Jun 2015
A nonprofit working to inspire, empower, and equip everyday people to take action on clean energy.
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