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WE INVEST IN DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE.




WE FUND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION.




DIGITAL, TO US, MEANS SOFTWARE AND SIMPLE HARDWARE.






BUOYANT INVESTMENT THESIS


DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE:

We invest in software and simple hardware that helps adapt to and mitigate the
impacts of climate change.
FINANCIAL
IMPACT
+
CLIMATE
IMPACT
OUR FOCUS
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
food &
agriculture
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
MOBILITY
climate
intelligence
WATER
ENERGY
Early Stage
Seed & Series A
Climate Impact
Mitigation & Adaptation

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OUR APPROACH


WE’RE HANDS-ON PARTNERS.

As a 100% woman-owned firm, we believe in building high-performing, diverse
teams.

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Our mIssion:


INVEST IN AND ACTIVELY SUPPORT FOUNDERS CREATING HIGH IMPACT DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE, WHILE DELIVERING EXCEPTIONAL OUTCOMES FOR
OUR STAKEHOLDERS.

Our calling is to create a climate-resilient world where current and future
generations flourish and nature is restored.
Our Core Values
OUR LIMITED PARTNERS
Buoyant is proud to work with some leading corporations and institutions as
investors.

OUR PORTFOLIO


WE INVEST IN DIGITAL-FOCUSED, DIVERSE TEAMS ON A MISSION TO ADDRESS CLIMATE
CHANGE, TODAY.

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BUOYANT FOUNDERS


BUILT BY FOUNDERS, FOR FOUNDERS.

MEET THE TEAM



AMY FRANCETIC

Managing General Partner
Co-Founder

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25 years in energy + tech. Founded two companies, sold one, advising fellow
founders, & serving on boards of directors along the way.

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ALLISON MYERS

General Partner
Co-Founder




Business exec. & entrepreneur with a passion for bold climate solutions.

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The Buoyant team has deep expertise in energy transition and supporting
ambitious startups that are tackling existential climate issues. They have been
invaluable in connecting us with financiers and asset owners in the
utility-scale solar ecosystem, so we can power their digital transformations and
build and maintain more solar assets.”
“
Nikhil Vadhavkar
CEO, Raptor Maps
The team at Buoyant is far more than your typical VC. Even before the docs were
finalized, they got heavily involved in helping with lead generation, partner
introductions, and strategy alignment. Invaluable at board meetings, and always
ready to review investor materials, as well as refine messaging and provide
feedback on all aspects of the business. Couldn't be happier to have them on my
team.”
“
Alexander Gershenson
CEO, SupplyShift
We are so grateful for the Buoyant team's commitment to supporting Beni! They
played a huge role in syndicating our round, bringing in new investors and
helping us structure our approach. We could not have had a successful (and
oversubscribed) round without them. I am excited to continue to work with Amy &
Allison as fellow female leaders in climate tech.”
“
Sarah Pinner
Co-Founder & CEO, Beni
Amy and the team at Buoyant have brought invaluable knowledge of the US climate
space to FloodFlash. This has been vital as our business has expanded to a new
continent from our beginnings in Europe. I feel Amy’s support in the boardroom
where she is a clear and challenging voice of leadership, and in the market as a
source of new leads, information, and customers.”
“
Adam Rimmer
Co-Founder & CEO, FloodFlash





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Amy Francetic is co-founder and Managing General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, a
new venture fund in Chicago with $81M AUM that invests in digital climate
solutions for energy, transportation, agriculture, water, and the built
environment.

Her career spans over 20 years of high technology entrepreneurship, private
equity, and research. Amy previously founded and led Energize Ventures, a $165mm
venture fund that invests in digital energy technologies.

She also co-founded and served as CEO of technology accelerator Evergreen
Climate Innovations (formerly Clean Energy Trust,) which has invested in over 40
early-stage clean energy companies across the Midwestern US. She now serves as
Chair of its Board of Directors. Amy also held roles at private equity firm MVC
Capital, and at Stanford Research Institute where she worked on an early version
of the voice recognition technology that became Siri. Earlier in her career, she
was co-founder and CEO of a consumer technology company that was funded by
Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, and that she sold to the Danish toy company,
Lego Systems. Amy also helped fundraise for mobile gaming company, GluMobile, on
whose board she served until it went public on the NASDAQ.

In addition to the Evergreen Climate board, Amy serves on the boards of Buoyant
Ventures portfolio companies FloodFlash, ReelData, Beni, and Raptor Maps.  She
also serves on the Advisory Board for the WISER Institute at the Illinois
Institute of Technology. In 2020 Crain’s recognized her for the third time as
one of Chicago’s Top 50 Technology Leaders. In 2019 she was honored by
Streetwise as one of the “20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans.” In 2015 she was an
Emerging Leader at the Chicago Council for Global Affairs. In 2014 she was
awarded the Corporate Citizen of the Year Award from the Executives’ Club of
Chicago, and Leading Woman in Technology from the Illinois Technology
Association. Amy is a regular lecturer in energy and entrepreneurship at
Northwestern University and the University of Chicago’s Law School. She has a BA
from Stanford University.

Amy lives in Lake Forest, IL with her husband and two teenage daughters.
Allison Myers is a co-Founder and General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, an
early-stage venture
fund focused on digital solutions for climate.

Allison spent almost a decade as an executive at Accenture Strategy developing
transformational strategies for large corporations in the energy, mobility, and
built environment.
Her work focused on customer, regulatory, business model, and innovation
strategies
leveraging digital technologies to drive speed and scale. As a leader within her
practice, she
published thought capital and oversaw Accenture Strategy's MBA internship
program.

Allison started her career at a healthcare start-up, acquired by Walgreens
focused on aligning care
costs with care complexity.
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Allison received her BA from Dickinson College and her MBA at the University of
Michigan,
where she was an Associate for the Michigan Social Venture Fund. In 2021 she was
a Chicago
Council for Global Affairs Emerging Leader. Today Allison sits on the board of
Michigan Climate
Venture, a student-run climatetech fund at the University of Michigan.
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Allison lives in Denver and spends her free time enjoying the outdoors in every
season.