Victoria Beasley

General Partner at Gigascale Capital

Reviewed Updated Jul 22, 2026

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Location Menlo Park, California
Check Size $100K-$5M
Last Verified Investment Estes (Emergence from stealth (Gigascale participant)) — Jul 21, 2026
Social LinkedIn
Stage Focus
pre-seed seed series-a
Sector Focus
climate-tech energy deeptech hardware grid-infrastructure mobility food-agriculture carbon-management materials industrial

Background

Victoria Beasley is a founding partner and General Partner at Gigascale Capital, an early-stage climate technology firm launched in 2023 by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer 12. She co-founded the firm with Schroepfer and Evaline Tsai and, per Gigascale’s team page, co-leads firm strategy with Schroepfer, oversees firm operations, and manages both the investment and platform teams 1. Gigascale announced a $250M Fund I on June 1, 2026 after operating for two years as Schroepfer’s personal investment vehicle 3.

Prior to Gigascale, Beasley was a General Partner at Prelude Ventures, a climate-focused fund with approximately $1.5B in AUM, where she led 12 investments spanning energy, mobility, food and agriculture, carbon management, and materials and industrials 1. She joined Prelude in 2016 4. Earlier in her career, Beasley was Head of Finance at Suniva, an early-stage solar manufacturer, where she helped raise $105M in equity to fund global manufacturing expansion 1. She also founded an agriculture supply chain company, worked on climate change strategy at Boston Consulting Group, and interned at d.light, the off-grid solar company 1.

Beasley grew up in rural North Carolina in a family of hog farmers before moving into climate tech 45. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford, and a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1.

Stated Thesis

Beasley publicly describes her focus as backing deep-tech founders building “scalable, practical climate solutions” 1. Writing in CleanTechnica in March 2024, she framed her hardware conviction as follows:

“Everything under the hard tech umbrella — hardware, deep tech, and science-driven innovation — is now commanding attention.” 6

She has said the best pitches she sees start with a user-discovery insight rather than a technology insight:

“The best pitches start with ‘I visited dozens of target users and realized that the real pain point or gap in the market is X.’” 6

In a Canary Media profile published February 23, 2024, Beasley described her core belief and current mandate:

“I believed early on that there was a massive business opportunity in transitioning every industry on the planet toward sustainability.” 5

She characterized Gigascale’s current work as “investing in early-stage climate companies that are using mostly hard tech to take on the biggest decarbonization opportunities” 5.

Inferred Thesis

Beasley’s disclosed investment record is small enough that percentages would be misleading; the analysis below is qualitative.

  • Sector concentration: Deep-tech and hardware climate solutions dominate. At Prelude, her disclosed board-level investments included recreational-vehicle electrification (Lightship), enterprise carbon accounting SaaS (Persefoni), and branded resale infrastructure (Trove) 789. At Gigascale, her board-observer roles concentrate in physical climate infrastructure: heat-pump sales enablement (Arch), CO2-to-chemicals electrolysis (Dioxycle), magnesium battery systems (Estes), residential energy retrofits (Homeboost), and Light Energy 1101112.
  • Stage: Pre-seed through Series A, occasionally Series B. Beasley led Lightship’s $23M Series A (2022-07-12) 7 and Prelude’s participation in Persefoni’s $101M Series B lead alongside TPG (2021-10-28) 8. At Gigascale she participates in seed and Series A rounds 1011.
  • Check size: Historical range at Prelude spanned $100K-$5M across pre-seed through Series B+ 13.
  • Geography: US-based deep-tech climate companies, with some cross-Atlantic exposure (Dioxycle is French-American) 11.
  • Founder profile: Preference for founders drawn from at-scale hardware and energy operators. Lightship’s founders came out of Tesla 7; Estes’ team came from Tesla, Sila, and Cummins 12.
  • Co-investor patterns at Gigascale: Frequent co-participation with Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, DCVC, BMW iVentures, Fortescue Capital, Baukunst, Coatue, Floodgate, MCJ Collective, ReGen Ventures, True Ventures, and Incite.org across her Gigascale portfolio companies 10111214.

Note: this analysis is based on a limited set of publicly disclosed board seats and observer roles; Gigascale has invested in 25+ companies, most of which are undisclosed 3.

Portfolio

Focused on companies where Beasley personally held a board seat or board observer role, per firm disclosure and press announcements.

At Gigascale Capital

Company Year Stage Source
Arch 2024-02-15 Seed ($6.2M; participant alongside Coatue, Floodgate, ReGen, MCJ Collective) 10
Dioxycle 2023-07-26 Series A ($17M; participant; co-leads Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe) 11
Estes 2026-07-21 Emergence from stealth (Gigascale disclosed as backer alongside BMW iVentures, Fortescue Capital, DCVC, Baukunst) 12
Homeboost 2024-10 Seed ($4M; lead group: True Ventures, Gigascale, Incite.org) 14
Light Energy ~2024 (Gigascale portfolio disclosure) Undisclosed 1

At Prelude Ventures (selected)

Company Year Stage Source
Persefoni 2021-10-28 Series B ($101M; co-led by Prelude Ventures and TPG’s The Rise Fund) 8
Lightship 2022-07-12 Series A ($23M; led by Beasley/Prelude Ventures; Beasley joined board) 7
Trove 2023-08-10 Series E ($30M; participant; co-leads Wellington Management, ArcTern Ventures) 9

Note: Public reporting also attributes leadership of investments in Lime, Living Carbon, AMP Robotics, and ClearMetal to Beasley during her Prelude tenure 413, but primary press release confirmation for those specific deals could not be located as of this profile’s research date.

In Their Own Words

“Everything under the hard tech umbrella — hardware, deep tech, and science-driven innovation — is now commanding attention.” — Victoria Beasley, CleanTechnica op-ed, March 5, 2024 6

“The best pitches start with ‘I visited dozens of target users and realized that the real pain point or gap in the market is X.’” — Victoria Beasley, CleanTechnica op-ed, March 5, 2024 6

“Companies will benefit from investors who can coach and mentor as their teams will inevitably need to develop management skills on the fly.” — Victoria Beasley, CleanTechnica op-ed, March 5, 2024 6

“I believed early on that there was a massive business opportunity in transitioning every industry on the planet toward sustainability.” — Victoria Beasley, Canary Media profile, February 23, 2024 5

“Follow the people. Ultimately, success in both life and business is about the people you surround yourself with.” — Victoria Beasley, Canary Media profile, February 23, 2024 5

“Climate companies are, fundamentally, companies like any others. They don’t just need technical engineers and scientists; they also need marketers, finance managers, software developers and HR teams.” — Victoria Beasley, Canary Media profile, February 23, 2024 5

“I think I’m a really good dot-connector and ‘what-if’ analyzer, both of which are crucial in advancing early-stage companies.” — Victoria Beasley, Canary Media profile, February 23, 2024 5

What Founders Say

No independently sourced founder testimonials found.

Connections

  • Board Director, Persefoni (2021–) — joined the board on the Series B round Prelude co-led with TPG’s The Rise Fund 8.
  • Board Director, Lightship (2022–) — joined the board on the $23M Series A she led 7.
  • Board Director, Trove — Prelude Ventures board seat noted in firm biography 1.
  • Board Observer, Arch, Dioxycle, Estes, Homeboost, Light Energy — Gigascale portfolio company observer roles 1.
  • Prior Board Observer at Prelude, Pivot Bio, Ripple, Natron Energy — per Gigascale firm biography 1.
  • Co-founding partner of Gigascale Capital with Mike Schroepfer and Evaline Tsai (2023) 12.
  • Stanford GSB (MBA) and Stanford Environment and Resources (MS) alumna; UNC Chapel Hill (BS Biology) alumna 1.
  • Prior employer: Boston Consulting Group (climate strategy), Suniva (Head of Finance, solar manufacturing), d.light (intern) 1.

Sources

  1. Gigascale Capital team page, “Victoria Beasley,” accessed July 2026. https://gigascale.com/team/victoria-beasley/↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  2. CNBC, “Former Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer launches climate investment firm,” May 2, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/former-facebook-cto-mike-schroepfer-launches-climate-investment-firm.html↩↩

  3. BusinessWire, “Gigascale Capital Raises $250 Million Fund to Back Companies Rebuilding the Physical Economy for Climate Impact,” June 1, 2026. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260601079849/en/Gigascale-Capital-Raises-$250-Million-Fund-to-Back-Companies-Rebuilding-the-Physical-Economy-for-Climate-Impact↩↩

  4. “ClimateTech with Kentaro,” Episode 1: “Prelude Ventures’ Victoria Beasley,” February 21, 2022. https://climatetech.libsyn.com/1-prelude-ventures-victoria-beasley↩↩↩

  5. Canary Media, “Charging Up: This Birkenstock-wearing venture capitalist means business,” Maria Virginia Olano and Eric Wesoff, February 23, 2024. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/workforce-diversity/charging-up-this-birkenstock-wearing-venture-capitalist-means-business↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  6. CleanTechnica, “Why One Climate Tech Investor Is Betting On Hardware,” by Victoria Beasley, March 5, 2024. https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/05/why-one-climate-tech-investor-is-betting-on-hardware/↩↩↩↩↩

  7. Lightship, “Announcing Our Series A,” July 12, 2022. https://www.lightshiprv.com/journal/announcing-our-series-a↩↩↩↩↩

  8. TechCrunch, “Climate accounting platform Persefoni raises $101M Series B led by Prelude and TPG,” October 28, 2021. https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/28/climate-accounting-platform-persefoni-raises-101m-series-b-led-by-prelude-and-tpg/↩↩↩↩

  9. BusinessWire, “Trove Announces $30 Million Series E Funding,” August 10, 2023. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230810325585/en↩↩

  10. TechCrunch, “Arch has a plan to help HVAC contractors install more heat pumps,” February 15, 2024. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/arch-heat-pump-seed-round/↩↩↩↩

  11. Dioxycle press release, “Dioxycle raises $17m to turn CO2 emissions into sustainable chemicals,” July 26, 2023. https://dioxycle.com/dioxycle-raises-17m-to-turn-co%E2%82%82-emissions-into-sustainable-chemicals/↩↩↩↩↩

  12. GlobeNewswire, “Estes Emerges from Stealth Shipping Magnus Battery System, Unveils Levius, a Full-Stack Magnesium Processing Platform,” July 21, 2026. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/21/3330551/0/en/Estes-Emerges-from-Stealth-Shipping-Magnus-Battery-System-Unveils-Levius-a-Full-Stack-Magnesium-Processing-Platform.html↩↩↩↩

  13. VCSheet, “Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) VC Breakdown & Contact,” accessed July 2026. https://www.vcsheet.com/who/victoria-beasley↩↩

  14. Palo Alto Today / national coverage, “HomeBoost Raises $4M in Seed Funding,” October 2024. https://www.finsmes.com/2024/10/homeboost-raises-4m-in-seed-funding.html↩↩