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Tara Bansal

Founder of Maslow's Lab

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Tara Bansal is currently a former Venture Capitalist at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, where she served as an Investment Principal and Company Builder. With a background in consulting at McKinsey & Company, she has expertise in ClimateTech/CleanTech sectors and has a track record of building successful startups like Maslow's Lab. Tara Bansal's career highlights include founding Maslow's Lab as a startup advisor and serving as an Investment Principal at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, focusing on Series B, Series A, and Seed stage investments in ClimateTech/CleanTech sectors.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2024 - Current

    DeltaTerra is a hedge fund that bridges climate-related physical hazard risk and capital markets mispricing.

  • Advisor

    2024

    Operating partner to climate visionaries

  • Investment Principal & Company Builder

    2019 - 2024

    Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an early-stage multi-billion dollar VC firm investing in companies that develop breakthrough innovations to mitigate climate change and move the world to net-zero. Our investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and others. https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/ As an Investment Principal, I supported $150M+ of investments for a dozen companies across AI/robotics for climate, carbon removal, agtech, and climate adaptation. I served as board observer and board director for companies ranging in stage from Seed through Series B and helped spin-up companies from ideation to pre-seed launch in our in-house NewCo Factory.

  • Consultant

    2017 - 2019

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

  • Research Lead

    2015 - 2016

  • Research Assistant

    2014 - 2014

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