AMY FRANCETIC

Managing General Partner at Buoyant Ventures

Amy’s goal is to accelerate renewable energy innovation. She is an essential link between research and consumers. Thanks to her investments, more green companies are succeeding and our energy market is taking on a new shape. She is the finance angle of the triangle of innovation, policy, and finance.

Amy has an impressive history of clean energy innovation leadership. She was the founding Executive Director of Clean Energy Trust in Chicago which she built into one of the leading cleantech accelerators in the country.

Amy founded Buoyant Ventures, a venture fund focused on digital climate solutions in North America. Previously she found and led Energize Ventures, a $165mm venture fund that invests in digital technologies that optimize energy equipment and infrastructure. Before Energize, she served as co-founder and CEO of Evergreen Climate Innovations.

“Policy is a really important factor because the energy industry is regulated, and what that means is it conforms to a set of rules at the state and federal level that policymakers agree on. So people, residents, can say we want more clean energy, we want our state, our town, even at the city level, we want our city to be more active, to do more to make this happen.”