KD

Kareem Dabbagh

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at VoLo Earth Ventures

Jackson, Wyoming

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner

    2020

    VoLo Earth provides first-in funding and hands-on leadership to companies that are unlocking an economic-led transformation of the rapidly-evolving global energy economy.

2018 - 2021

  • Strategic Advisor

    2018 - 2021

    Product- and business-focused advisor.

2019 - 2020

  • Founding Advisor

    2019 - 2020

    Product- and business-focused advisor, member of founding team.

2016 - 2020

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2020

    Product- and business-focused advisor.

  • VP Business Development

    2016 - 2019

    Bringing a revolutionary, completely passive solar tracking actuator, the HelioDrive, to market.

  • Technical Consultant

    2016 - 2019

    Providing technical support to the Shine Community Solar and Sunshine for Mines initiatives.

  • Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Product Management and Development for the Shine Community Solar initiative.

2013 - 2016

  • Founding Advisor, Product Development

    2013 - 2016

    Member of founding team with an early focus on product development of Aurora's cloud-based solar design automation platform. Worked closely with the engineering team to automate residential and commercial engineering design, remote site analysis, performance, proposals, shade reports, and more.

  • Director of Sales and Engineering Quality

    2015 - 2016

    Led Aurora's sales, business development, support, and training efforts worldwide. Spearheaded technical product development specific to solar design and engineering.

2011 - 2013

  • Design & Field Operations Manager

    2011 - 2013

    Focus was on risk management and quality in the areas of system design and installation, and equipment and procurement.

2007 - 2010

  • Residential Engineering Manager

    2008 - 2010

    Managed a team of PV system designers in the engineering department.

  • PV Designer, Sr PV Designer

    2007 - 2010

    Designed residential and commercial PV systems.

2003 - 2006

  • Research Assistant

    2004 - 2006

    Performed research under Dr Ken Minschwaner using NASA data. Developed interactive graphs using IDL (Interactive Data Language) to help in determining global weather patterns and generating global warming hypotheses.

  • Supplemental Instructor

    2003 - 2003

    Graded student's homework and was present in Trigonometry 104 class as an assistant to the professor. Also held Algebra and Trigonometry tutoring sessions for students once a week.

  • Research Intern

    2001 - 2002

    Designed a housing unit for the pressure system in the SERTS (Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Research Telescope & Spectrograph) telescope.