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Alyssa Spagnolo

Growth & Strategy Lead at Banyan Infrastructure

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Alyssa Spagnolo is a Climate Finance professional in San Francisco, specializing in accelerating the transition to renewable energy. With experience as Growth & Strategy Lead at Banyan Infrastructure and as a Climate Tech Fellow at On Deck, she has demonstrated expertise in venture capital investment and strategic leadership in the sustainability sector. Spagnolo has held key roles such as Venture Capital Investor at OMERS Ventures and Co-Founder & COO at eno, showcasing a track record of successful entrepreneurship and investment in impactful companies focused on renewable energy and sustainability.

Work Experience 

  • Growth & Strategy Lead

    2022 - Current

    Working on accelerating the deployment of renewable energy. My role spans GTM Strategy, Product Strategy, Product Marketing, Corporate Development, and Strategic Partnerships.

Banyan Infrastructure is a project finance software platform designed to standardize and accelerate sustainable infrastructure financing.

Raised $33,200,000.00 from Elemental Impact, VoLo Earth Ventures, Energize Capital, SE Ventures and Ulu Ventures.

  • Climate Tech Fellow

    2022 - 2022

    Climate Tech Fellow in On Deck Climate's 4th Cohort

On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.

  • Venture Capital Investor

    2018 - 2022

    OMERS Ventures is a $750m transatlantic fund with offices in San Francisco, Toronto and London. Led full cycle investments in Series A – Series C technology companies, including sourcing, market research, due diligence and post investment support. One of the founding team member that launched the firms United States office and investment strategy, and leader the Insurtech vertical investment practice in the United States.

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2018

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2018

  • Venture Capital Investor

    2017 - 2018

    Led full cycle investments in North American technology companies in the Seed –Series A stage across Enterprise Software, Marketplaces and Consumer companies. Was the second non-partner hire for the first time $100M fund.

  • Co-Founder & COO

    2016 - 2017

    Eno is an over-ear headphone that reads your brain activity and uses real time auditory coaching to help you focus (https://enophone.com), raised $1.5M on Kickstarter. Gained acceptance into two world renowned accelerators, The Next 36 (www.nextcanada.com) and HAX Accelerator (www.hax.co). Secured institutional investment, and catalyzed the team to move to Shenzhen, China, the manufacturing capital of the world.

  • Entrepreneur

    2016 - 2016

HAX is SOSV's venture program for Hard Tech

  • Entrepreneur

    2016 - 2016

    Selected to be part of the 2016 cohort for The Next 36 from among 1000+ candidates. The Next 36 is a high profile startup incubator located in Toronto, in which contestants are prompted to start a business over the course of 8 months.

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