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Rachel Slaybaugh

Investor at DCVC

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Rachel Slaybaugh is a Climate Tech Investor at DCVC in San Francisco, California, with a background in nuclear engineering and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has served as a Board Member for Fervo Energy and Fourth Power, and has made investments in companies like Verdigris Technologies and Brimstone. Highlights of Rachel's career include serving as a Division Director at Berkeley Lab and being a Committee Member for a study on advanced nuclear reactors in the US conducted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

  • Principal

    2022 - 2023

    I focus on climate tech at DCVC where DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar global problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. We are a Deep Tech venture fund with over $3.5 billion under management.

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using deep tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.

  • Investor Board Member

    2024

  • Independent Board Member

    2022 - 2024

Radiant develops portable nuclear microreactors as clean energy alternatives.

Raised $153,819,987.00 from Union Square Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, Also Capital, McKinley Capital Management, DCVC, Felicis, Andreessen Horowitz, Boost VC and Decisive Point.

  • Commissioner

    2024

    Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy https://www.scsp.ai/fusion/

  • Board Member, People and Culture Committee Chair

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2024

Fervo Energy develops clean energy technology to generate carbon-free energy from geothermal systems.

Raised $531,000,000.00 from DCVC, Capricorn Investment Group and Congruent Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2023

Equilibrium Energy is a Climate Generation power company focused on the creation and proliferation of clean energy.

Raised $72,000,000.00 from DCVC, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Valo Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2023

Fourth Power is an energy storage startup that uses thermal batteries.

Raised $19,000,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, DCVC and Black Venture Capital Consortium.

  • Board Observer

    2022

Brimstone is a hardware cleantech startup that aims to reduce CO2 emissions through innovative technologies.

Raised $244,000,000.00 from US Department of Energy.

  • Board Member and co-founder

    2020

    Founding Board Chair through 01/2023; Board Member 01/2023 through 12/2025 https://www.goodenergycollective.org/

  • Committee Member, Study on Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the US

    2020 - 2022

  • Division Director

    2021 - 2021

    • Source and select ∼10 hard tech innovators per year for a 2-year fellowship program to turn their technology concept into a product with a positive societal impact (∼$6M/year) • Fellows embed at LBNL where we support their technical development and collaborations • Responsible for outcomes, safety, and reporting to Department of Energy and LBNL leadership • Coordinate closely with Activate.org leadership in co-running the program

Berkeley Lab is a national laboratory that creates advanced new tools for scientific discovery.

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