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Francesca Whitehead

Investment Team at Fifth Wall | Previously at GS, KKR, & G2VP | Fortune 40u40

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $12,500,000.00

Work Experience

2022

  • Vice President - Investment Team

    2022

    Closed transaction experience: - SolarCycle (solar panel recycling) - series A (co-lead), AssetCo equipment financing (solo investor), and convertible note (co-lead) - Soly (pan-European solar, batteries, & home energy management installation) - series B (co-lead) - Purpose Green (one-stop shop for all types of commercial real estate's decarbonization retrofitting) - series A (lead) - Cyclic Materials (rare earth materials recycling) - series A (non-lead) and series B (non-lead) - Icon (3D printing home builder) - series D - AssemblyOSM (multi-storey modular construction in NYC) - convertible note - Woltair (heat pump procurement and installation marketplace) - series A (co-lead) and working capital facility (solo investor), convertible note (co-lead) - nZero (carbon accounting) - series A (co-lead) - Ever/Body (D2C expert provider of Botox and fillers) - series C - HeyDay (expert facials & personalized treatments) - series C Board member: Solarcycle, EcoCart, Assembly Board observer: Soly, Woltair, nZero, HeyDay Other actively managed positions: Icon, Clarity AI, Cambio, Ascend Elements, Cyclic Materials, Aescape, Everbody, Blank Street - Moved to London and started our European climate tech practice, and invested in 3 companies within the first 12 months - Manage all the day-to-day operations/interactions/requests for our legacy retail fund - Directly involved with 2024/2025 fundraising process and continue to manage those LP relationships

  • Co-Founder

    2019

    We are a global community of 100+ pre-GP professionals seeking to support impact solutions across all stages to build a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow. https://www.northstar-collective.org/

2018

  • External Speaking Engagements

    2018

2020 - 2022

  • Growth Equity Investor - Climate Tech

    2020 - 2022

    Closed transaction experience: Oyster series C (digital PEO), Trove series D (B2B resale), Pivot Bio series D (synthetic nitrogen replacement), ProducePay series B (fintech for growers) Board observer: Sunfolding, Trove, Pivot Bio

2018 - 2020

  • Private Equity Associate - Global Impact

    2018 - 2020

    - Closed transactions & board observer: Graduation Alliance (Growth buyout of a dropout recovery platform)

2016 - 2018

  • Investment Banking Healthcare Coverage Associate

    2018 - 2018

  • Investment Banking Leveraged Finance Analyst

    2016 - 2018

    Presented New Story to the Goldman Sachs partnership committee and won 2nd place out of ~70 applications globally in the GS Analyst Impact Fund competition and secured a $75K grant for New Story and an additional ~$30K in funding from select partners

2015 - 2015

  • Investment Banking Structured Finance Summer Analyst

    2015 - 2015

  • Summer Intern

    2014 - 2014

2012 - 2013

  • Waitress/Bartender

    2012 - 2013

2011 - 2011

  • Sales Assistant

    2011 - 2011

    Member of the team that opened the flagship store in Hong Kong