Alfie Baker

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Principal, Sunbird Venture Partners - energy · hardware · venture capital

Sunbird Venture Partners
Dublin, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)
8+ years experience
Durham University
English, French
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in climate. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing. Most at home with climate tech and hardware.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in climate
  • Questions about climate
  • Second opinions on energy decisions
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
energyclimate techhardwareventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into seed climate in India and SEA

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate, fintech
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Dublin, Ireland · remote OKclimate techventure capitalenergy

Experience

  1. Principal
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Sunbird Venture Partners · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Sit on 5 boards.
  2. Associate Partner
    Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
    Salesforce · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 6.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 24 a week to 3.
  3. Business Analyst
    Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
    Ryanair · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Moved 93% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Business Analyst
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
    Standard Chartered · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 6.
    • Took payment success rates from 94.1% to 96.1%.

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Education

  1. Durham University
    BA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2018

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