Wal Van Lierop
Founding Partner at Chrysalix Venture Capital
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2025 - Current
Founding Partner
2023 - 2024
Founding Partner and Executive Chair
2020 - 2022
Managing Partner
2017 - 2019
President & CEO
2001 - 2018
Founded in 2001, Chrysalix is an award-winning technology focused venture capital company with a long history of building and commercializing innovations for resource intensive industries: oil and gas, electric power and utilities, mining, chemicals and materials, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and mobility. We invest in innovations that can be enhanced by the application of intelligent systems such as artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), smart materials, machine learning, blockchain, 3D-printing and other frontier technologies.
Member YVR Energy Advisory Council
2024
Advisor to CEO and Board
2020
Advisory Board Member
2019
The BC Cleantech Cluster Initiative brings together key sectoral groups to support the economic development of cleantech sectors across the Province and to put in motion a sustainable model to advance British Columbia's thriving sector.
Content Contributor
2018
Contribute articles regularly to Forbes on energy-related topics such as smart citites, nuclear fusion, industrial innovation and startup ecosystems.
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.
Member Board Of Directors
2018
General Fusion is a globally leading developer of fusion energy: making clean, safe, abundant and affordable power available whenever and wherever customers want it. This may be the only viable technology to help us round out the clean energy supply necessary for a successful energy transition. While for a long time fusion was a dream always 20 years out in the future, now General Fusion is poised to achieve two major milestones in 2005 and 2006. That should put the company on a path to deliver the first commercial fusion power plant to the grid by the early to mid 2030s.
Member Board Of Directors as Observer
2015
Svante is a global unicorn in CO2 capture. They make filters and machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions (point of source carbon capture) and the air (direct air carbon capture). Their proven carbon capture technology is based on unique solid sorbents — and it’s scalable, eco-friendly, and commercially available today.
Member Board Of Directors
2012
Axine Water Technologies has developed a low-cost, breakthrough solution for treating toxic organic pollutants and PFAS in wastewater. Especially PFAS are drawing a lot of attention and are positioning Axine for a successful exit in the very near term
Co-Founder and Member of the Investment Committee and GP Board of SET-1
2007
Co-founded SET Ventures together with Robeco, raised Euro50M, hired management team and assisted in starting operations. SET Ventures manages venture capital funds targeting the Energy Sector and invests in European early growth-stage companies that can impact the future of the energy markets worldwide.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
Power electronics company sold for Cnd$1.3Bn to Infineon. Biggest exit in Chrysalix' history