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Murray Mccaig

Managing Partner at ArcTern Ventures

Toronto, Ontario

Overview 

Murray McCaig is the Managing Partner at ArcTern Ventures, focusing on Impact and ClimateTech investments. He is an Olympian and has successfully founded and led startups, showcasing a strong track record in the venture capital industry. McCaig's notable achievements include co-founding ArcTern Ventures and investing in companies like Trove at Series E, demonstrating his expertise in driving growth and innovation in the Impact and ClimateTech sectors.

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).

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