Elena Morales

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Angel Investor at Independent · Climate · venture capital, energy

Independent
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
Booth School of Business
English
AdvisingInvesting
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Overview

I invest in climate, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 44 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 7 boards. Before that: Accenture and Starbucks. I read too many books about cities.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on climate
  • Founders building in climate
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
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Skills
hardwareenergyventure capitalclimate tech
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for founders preparing a seed round: climate and energy

Topics
climate, climate tech, hardware
Format
Office hours
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

17 years of climate. One call a month or async reviews.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKclimate techventure capitalhardware
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InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in seed climate founders across India and SEA

Cheque size
$100k-$500k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Climate, climate
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Typically lead or co-lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKenergyclimate techhardware
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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    May 2023 - Present
    Independent · 3 yr 5 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 27 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Nov 2021 - May 2023
    Accenture · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new growth customers from 11 days to 2.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
    Starbucks · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took platform activation from 35% to 47% in three quarters.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new platform customers from 15 days to 1.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
    Reddit · 2 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Led or co-led 10 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
  5. Senior Product Manager
    Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
    Nike · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Ran 143 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Grew care revenue from $8 million to $49 million ARR.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. MIT
    SB, Economics
    2004 - 2008

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