Murray Mccaig
Managing Partner at ArcTern Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures
2012 - Current
ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Oslo investing globally in breakthrough technology companies, solving climate change and sustainability - we call it #earthtech.
Board Observer
2024
Hyperlume is using micro-LEDs to develop the future of ultra-low power optical networking interconnects for data centers to meaningfully reduce energy consumption while meeting growing data transfer rates.
Board Member
2024
Zoomo is a global provider of eBikes and other electric micro-mobility solutions 'as-a-service' for last-mile delivery companies and gig workers.
Board Observer
2022
Scythe is accelerating the decarbonization of the global commercial landscaping sector with its autonomous electric mowers designed to tackle challenges in unstructured outdoor environments.
Scythe is a robotics company that develops autonomous machines for maintaining off-road environments.
Raised $70,770,994.00 from Alumni Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, ArcTern Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, True Ventures and Inspired Capital Partners.
Board Member
2020
Span is the home energy 'brain'. Span's smart electrical panel simplifies home electrification while enabling control of every energy load in the home.
Span develops residential energy storage devices that provide renewable electricity and charging services for electric vehicles.
Raised $229,800,000.00 from Wellington Management, Fifth Wall, Amazon Alexa Fund, Congruent Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, Munich Re Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, noa, FootPrint Coalition and Angeleno Group.
Co-Chair
2017
Butterfield & Robinson designs and runs the world’s most immersive, inspiring and unforgettable journeys.
Board Member
2012
GreenMantra converts waste plastic to high value synthetic wax using a patented thermocatalytic depolymerization process using small modular plants that can be based close to large customers or waste plastic sources.
Board Member
2013
SmarterAlloys is the world’s only company capable of programming multiple memories or pseudo elasticities into a single shape memory alloy (SMA). Smarter Alloys has commercial products in the medical, automotive, and industrial sectors.
Mentor: Quantum Program
2018
The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.
Board Member
2013 - 2017
Hydrostor develops low-cost grid-scale energy storage, using proprietary underwater compressed air (UWCAES).