Kareem Dabbagh
Managing Partner at VoLo Earth Ventures
Jackson, Wyoming
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
2020 - Current
VoLo Earth provides first-in funding and hands-on leadership to companies that are unlocking an economic-led transformation of the rapidly-evolving global energy economy.
VoLo Earth Ventures is an early Stage investor invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds.
Strategic Advisor
2018 - 2021
Product- and business-focused advisor.
Software for the modern solar provider
Raised $2,900,000.00 from Advanced Industries Accelerator (AIA) Program.
Founding Advisor
2019 - 2020
Product- and business-focused advisor, member of founding team.
Advisor
2019 - 2020
Product- and business-focused advisor.
VP Business Development
2016 - 2019
Bringing a revolutionary, completely passive solar tracking actuator, the HelioDrive, to market.
Technical Consultant
2016 - 2019
Providing technical support to the Shine Community Solar and Sunshine for Mines initiatives.
Manager
2017 - 2018
Product Management and Development for the Shine Community Solar initiative.
Carbon War Room is an organization focused on promoting environmental friendly business solutions.
Founding Advisor, Product Development
2013 - 2016
Member of founding team with an early focus on product development of Aurora's cloud-based solar design automation platform. Worked closely with the engineering team to automate residential and commercial engineering design, remote site analysis, performance, proposals, shade reports, and more.
Director of Sales and Engineering Quality
2015 - 2016
Led Aurora's sales, business development, support, and training efforts worldwide. Spearheaded technical product development specific to solar design and engineering.
Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Raised $523,470,493.00 from Emerson Collective, Energize Capital, Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, Lux Capital and Fifth Wall.
Design & Field Operations Manager
2011 - 2013
Focus was on risk management and quality in the areas of system design and installation, and equipment and procurement.
Sunrun provides residential solar electricity, storage solutions, and clean energy services to homeowners.
Raised $4,879,461,000.00 from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and SunShot Initiative fund.
Residential Engineering Manager
2008 - 2010
Managed a team of PV system designers in the engineering department.
PV Designer, Sr PV Designer
2007 - 2010
Designed residential and commercial PV systems.
Research Assistant
2004 - 2006
Performed research under Dr Ken Minschwaner using NASA data. Developed interactive graphs using IDL (Interactive Data Language) to help in determining global weather patterns and generating global warming hypotheses.
Supplemental Instructor
2003 - 2003
Graded student's homework and was present in Trigonometry 104 class as an assistant to the professor. Also held Algebra and Trigonometry tutoring sessions for students once a week.
Research Intern
2001 - 2002
Designed a housing unit for the pressure system in the SERTS (Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Research Telescope & Spectrograph) telescope.