Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Mike Jackson has been an investor, entrepreneur, board member, and advisor to companies in the clean energy, food & agriculture, buildings, mobility, and public safety sectors throughout his entire career. He now plays the role of investor, teacher, and connector to startups and investors solving meaningful problems in these industries.

Prior to his current role, Mike was a partner at the Westly Group, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm in the cleantech sector with over $400m under management. Mike started at the Westly Group as an intern and worked his way up to partner in under five years with the firm. Mike’s 10 deals at the Westly Group have collectively raised over $1.5 billion in follow-on funding from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, BlackRock, Google, Thrive Capital, S2G Ventures, Index Ventures, DBL Investments, Patagonia, Brookfield Asset Management, Oxford Properties, Obvious Ventures, Playground Global, Prelude Ventures, and many others. His portfolio includes three successful acquisitions, one IPO, and five still active and growing companies.

Before the Westly Group, Mike was co-founder and CEO of Village Green Energy, a retail and wholesale provider of renewable energy in voluntary and compliance markets. Before this, he was the Indian Program Research Coordinator at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, where he focused on the impact of global energy markets on energy decisions within

Mike holds an MS in Energy Engineering and a double BS in Biological Sciences and Earth Systems, all from Stanford University.

After living 18 years in the Bay Area, he now lives in Portland, OR with his wife and three young children.