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Murray Mccaig

Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures. #ClimateTech. Olympian. Startup Founder/CEO.

Toronto, Ontario

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures

    2012

    ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Oslo investing globally in breakthrough technology companies, solving climate change and sustainability - we call it #earthtech.

  • Board Observer

    2024

    Hyperlume is using micro-LEDs to develop the future of ultra-low power optical networking interconnects for data centers to meaningfully reduce energy consumption while meeting growing data transfer rates.

2024

  • Board Member

    2024

    Zoomo is a global provider of eBikes and other electric micro-mobility solutions 'as-a-service' for last-mile delivery companies and gig workers.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Scythe is accelerating the decarbonization of the global commercial landscaping sector with its autonomous electric mowers designed to tackle challenges in unstructured outdoor environments.

2020

  • Board Member

    2020

    Span is the home energy 'brain'. Span's smart electrical panel simplifies home electrification while enabling control of every energy load in the home.

  • Co-Chair

    2017

    Butterfield & Robinson designs and runs the world’s most immersive, inspiring and unforgettable journeys.

  • Board Member

    2012

    GreenMantra converts waste plastic to high value synthetic wax using a patented thermocatalytic depolymerization process using small modular plants that can be based close to large customers or waste plastic sources.

  • Board Member

    2013

    SmarterAlloys is the world’s only company capable of programming multiple memories or pseudo elasticities into a single shape memory alloy (SMA). Smarter Alloys has commercial products in the medical, automotive, and industrial sectors.

  • Mentor: Quantum Program

    2018

    The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.

2013 - 2017

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2017

    Hydrostor develops low-cost grid-scale energy storage, using proprietary underwater compressed air (UWCAES).