Brook Porter
Founder of G2 Venture Partners
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Observer
2025 - Current
Lumafield is an accessible X-ray CT platform that gives engineers better insights into product development and manufacturing.
Raised $67,500,000.00 from Shane Neman, Spark Capital, Lux Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Future Shape and DataCollective.
Board Member
2021
Trove, commanding 75% of U.S. branded resale, empowers brands like Patagonia and Michael Kors to launch, manage, and scale resale programs
Raised $152,500,000.00 from G2 Venture Partners, Prelude Ventures, ArcTern Ventures, Global Brain Corporation, 31Ventures and Wellington Management.
Board Observer
2021
Pivot Bio is an agricultural tech company improving the microbiome by taking nitrogen from the air and making it available for plants.
Raised $616,896,489.00 from G2 Venture Partners, Prelude Ventures, Rockefeller Capital Management, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Tekfen Ventures, Roger C. Underwood, Bunge Ventures, Generation Investment Management and Continental Grain Company.
Partner and Co-Founder
2016
At G2VP, we invest in emerging technology companies that digitize traditional industries and drive market transformations. Tapping into global industries from transportation, energy and agriculture to manufacturing and logistics, G2VP was founded around a multi-trillion-dollar trend: the digitization of industry. As this trend takes root, and industries worldwide transition from traditional analog to digital processes, G2VP sees tremendous opportunity for value creation, economic growth, and sector disruption. By aligning companies, purpose and profit, we aim to unlock previously unidentified paths to sustainability and resource efficiency. Visit us at http://www.g2vp.com/.
G2VP invests in emerging technology companies that digitize traditional industries and drive market transformations.
Board Member
2015
Turo is a peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace where customers can book vehicles from a community of local hosts.
Raised $570,067,273.00 from Irving Investors, G Squared and SharesPost Investment Management.
Board Member
2014
Board Observer
2014
Co-Founder
2004
-Co-founder of in-home services company for families with children who have autism or related developmental delays -Developed business plan, corporate strategy and economic projections for initial financing -Established business system infastructure, email and database management, billing systems, and website
Partner
2010 - 2020
Former Kleiner Perkins Senior Partner in the Green Growth Fund. Board member/observer for the following companies: Amprius - Silicon anode innovation for Li-Ion batteries DJI - Consumer robotics / drone manufacturer INRIX - Traffic data provider to auto OEMs Proterra (Nasdaq: PTRA) - Largest EV municipal transit bus manufacturer in North America Renmatix - Cellulosic sugar production from biomass via supercritical hydrolysis Turo - peer-to-peer car sharing platform, putting 1B cars to better use Uber (NYSE: UBER) - Disruptive collaborative transportation and urban logistics provider Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) - Distributed power generation using Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) Chargepoint (NYSE: CHPT) - leading mfg of EV charging infrastructure Amyris (Nasdaq: AMRS, 2010) - synthetic biology pioneer Luxvue (Acquired 2014) - low power microled displays Orcan Energy - Modular organic rankine cycle generators Farmers Edge (Shares acquired 2017, TSX:FDGE) - satellite imagery informed fertilizer recommendations Siluria (Acquired 2019) - NG to chemicals catalyst Served as Technical Advisor to KP Partner, Vice President Al Gore.
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Exec. Vice President and Co-Founder
2006 - 2010
Founder and Exec. Vice President of Primafuel - a biofuels technology and infrastructure company. Successfully commercialized bolt-on biofuel processing technology to increase profits and decrease carbon footprint of ethanol production by extracting high-value compounds from waste streams. Also developed large-scale biofuel infrastructure projects in California.