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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 

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Foundation Capital

  • Director of Accelerator Programs

    2025 - Current

    Leading the Build Accelerator Program, working with early stage founders

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.

foundationcapital.com
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Banyan Infrastructure

  • Head of Growth and Strategy

    2022 - 2025

    Banyan Infrastructure is a Climate Fintech working on accelerating the deployment of capital into renewable energy. My role spanned GTM Strategy, Product Strategy, Corporate Development, Partnerships, ++ more

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.

banyaninfrastructure.com
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OMERS Ventures

  • Venture Capital Investor

    2018 - 2022

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

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Clearcover

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

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Acerta

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2021

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#paid

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2018

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Rose Rocket

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2018

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ScaleUP Ventures Inc.

  • 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.

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eno

  • 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. Accepted into two 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. Exited the company to Moonshot LA. The company is still operational today!

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HAX

  • Entrepreneur

    2016 - 2016

    Selected to participate in the largest hardware accelerator globally. Located in Shenzhen, China.

HAX is SOSV's venture program for Hard Tech

hax.co

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