Jason Blumberg

Building Earth's Future! Jason is Co-founder & Managing Director of Earth Foundry, where he sets the firm’s vision, leads its investment activities, and advises its entrepreneurs. Earth Foundry is an early-stage venture capital fund that has backed some of the most transformative cleantech and energy companies, cutting gigatons of CO2 and billions of pounds of plastic. Ranked as one of the top cleantech VC firms in the US and world, Earth Foundry partners include leading corporations and research institutions. For the last decade plus Jason has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, teaching MBAs and PhDs how to turn science into high growth businesses. Jason is a Board member for an array of high growth companies and is on the Advisory Boards of leading research intuitions and innovation hubs. Jason frequently speaks on energy, climate, cleantech and innovation. He has been featured by numerous media outlets (TV, Print & Radio) including NBC, New York Times. Entrepreneur, PBS, Forbes, Jerusalem Post, Chicago Tribune, INC and Bangkok Post. NBC named him one its top “Eco-preneurs” and WGN as their “Entrepreneur of the Week.” Earlier in his career, Jason co-founded Energy Results, where he was the company’s CEO. At Energy Results he built a leading residential energy business, which gained market traction and was adopted by industry leaders such as Best Buy. Before co-founding Energy Results, Jason worked at McKinsey & Co. where he was a member of the firm’s Energy & Climate Change leadership teams. Before this Jason worked for the CEO of GVW Holdings, an industrial and transportation platform of The Carlyle Group, where he led direct investments and was an active Board Member of GVW’s portfolio companies. Prior to working with GVW, Jason served as Vice President of Corporate Development at The Interpublic Group. Jason’s other experience include working for Sterling Partners and the Transaction Advisory Group at Arthur Andersen. He earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, receiving the Dean’s Award of Distinction and a BA from Michigan State University. Specialties include: Venture Capital, Impact Investing, Climate, Cleantech, Energy, Resource efficiency, Circular Economy, Innovation.