Investing to Elevate Humanity and Planet Earth
PlanetaryVC, founded by Ramez Naam, is a venture capital firm investing in the technologies for human and planetary flourishing - AI, positive and fundamental uses of compute, climate tech, clean energy, energy storage, electrification of mobility and industry, the future of water and agriculture, and the technologies to boost human innovation and collective intelligence, halt the climate crisis, boost resilience, and insure human flourishing on a cleaner, safer, more prosperous planet Earth.
Ramez Naam
Founder and Managing Partner
Ramez Naam has spent the past decade investing in AI, climate, and energy technologies, and speaking around the world on the future of intelligence, humanity, energy, transportation, climate change, and natural resources.
Ramez is a computer scientist and futurist who has long explored the future of technology and human capabilities in his work in the tech sector and his multiple award-winning books.
Ramez was one of the first to forecast the incredible price decline in clean energy. His seminal 2011 Scientific American article, “Smaller, Cheaper, Faster” observed that the cost of solar power was dropping exponentially and would eventually be lower than that of any other energy source. He’s since detailed the exponential trends in wind power, energy storage, and electric vehicles and their disruptive impact on virtually every sector of the global economy. He remains one of the most accurate forecasters of clean energy technology on the planet.
Ramez is also the co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University and the author of the award-winning Nexus science fiction trilogy and the seminal non-fiction book, The Infinite Resource, which explored the power of technology to increase human prosperity on a sustainable planet.
Before turning to investing, he spent 15 years in tech, including 13 at Microsoft where he led major projects in AI, internet search, email, and browsing.
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