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Kareem Dabbagh

Managing Partner at VoLo Earth Ventures

Jackson, Wyoming

Overview 

Kareem Dabbagh is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at VoLo Earth Ventures in Jackson, Wyoming, with a background in renewable energy and sustainability. Notable highlights include serving as a Founding Advisor at Skyhook Solar and contributing as a Technical Consultant and Manager at Rocky Mountain Institute.

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.

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