Shawn Xu
Partner at Lowercarbon Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Let's unf*ck the planet. If you're working on slashing emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, or mitigating climate disasters, I'd love to be your first believer.
Chief of Staff
2022 - 2023
Investor at Lowercarbon Capital, a multibillion dollar early stage venture fund exclusively focused on climate tech. Absorbing as much as I can from Chris Sacca, Crystal Sacca, and Clay Dumas.
Lowercarbon Capital funds research and invests in technologies that reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.
Term Member
2025
Term Member for the Council on Foreign Relations, America's preeminent foreign policy think tank. Nominated by OpenAI's Kevin Weil and Andela's Christina Sass.
Council on Foreign Relations operates as a non-partisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.
Raised $2,312,565.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Partner
2021 - 2022
Founding Partner at On Deck's venture fund + accelerator. Invested in 150+ companies across 20+ countries. Partnered up with Erik Torenberg to build the best founder community in the world.
Investor
2019 - 2021
First senior associate hired at the firm. Mentored by Mike Maples and Ann Miura-Ko. Founder of the Anchor List. Obnoxious cheerleader for Hadrian, Emotive, Living Carbon, Popshop, and others!
Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.
Forbes 30 Under 30
2020 - 2021
Selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for the Venture Capital category.
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.
Managing Partner
2018 - 2019
Led investment teams in Philadelphia and San Francisco. 25+ investments made across various verticals. Learned the ropes from Josh Kopelman and Phin Barnes at First Round Capital.
Partner
2017 - 2018
Selected as an Investment Partner at the Dorm Room Fund, now a $12M+ venture fund backed by First Round Capital, Marc Andreessen, and others that invests in student-founded startups.
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Intern
2018 - 2019
Intern during business school. Explored a novel investment thesis and evaluated early stage companies at the seed, series A, and series B stages. Served as a sounding board for Talia Goldberg.
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
International Expansion
2016 - 2017
Took point on country launches at Square. Worked with an incredible team to introduce our core products to markets in Europe.
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
International Expansion
2015 - 2016
Developed the global expansion strategy for Vungle, the leading in-app video adtech platform. Launched 7 markets in East & Southeast Asia. Acquired by Blackstone for $780M.
Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.
Raised $25,500,000.00 from Seven Peaks Ventures, AngelPad, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Aol Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures and Uncork Capital.