James Boettcher
Co-founder & Venture Partner Anthropocene Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
The role of CNICC is to facilitate policy, information, and technology exchanges among businesses, governments, and research institutions, helping Chinese enterprises adapt to the evolving international carbon emission regulations.
Board Member
2021
Proof is revolutionizing the future of power generation by replacing polluting diesel fuel motors/generators with zero emission fuel cells powered by circular economy fuels such as ethanol, methanol, ammonia and hydrogen. . Its fuel cell range extenders significantly reduce the size and cost of battery packs, accelerating the electrification of heavy-duty trucks. In stationary applications its Power Module generator provides clean reliable electricity for businesses and communities.
Proof Energy is revolutionizing renewable power generation using existing fuels.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from Anhui Zhonghuan Environmental Protection Technology.
Co-founder & Venture Partner
2021
Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.
Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm.
Co-founder & Board Member
2017
Recycling agricultural wastes with an innovative Nature based Solution (Nb S) to help farmers sustainably intensify their operations and improve soil fertility for generations to come while sequestering large amounts of CO2.
Co-Founder & Chairman Investment Committee
2006
Leading US $ and RMB Venture Capital funds sponsored by CM Capital and strategic investors from Jiangsu Provence, China
Co-founder & General Partner
1996
Leading expansion stage venture fund; first fund is still in top ten of all time.
Investment Advisory Board
1995
A single family office with offices in Palo Alto and Hong Kong managing a foundation style portfolio https://www.ccapital.com/
Senior Advisor
2019 - 2024
HashKey Group is an end-to-end digital asset financial services group in Asia, offering new investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds and professional investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
Board Member
2013 - 2023
Berkeley Earth is a source of reliable, independent, non-governmental, and unbiased scientific data and analysis of the highest quality. Our continued mission and responsibility is to deliver and communicate our findings to the broadest possible audience.
Board Member
2007 - 2021
PCH is the leading asset light "supply chain as a service" company serving top consumer brands globally enabling them to monetize their brands through creating/selling products and shipping directly to customers.
PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from LFX Venture Partners, Chris Burch, Northbrooks Investments, Burch Creative Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cross Creek and Triangle Peak Partners.