Alita Carbone
CN > CHI > PDX > MSP > SF
Investor // emerging VC fund manager
Capital entrepreneur // start-up founder & operator
Community & systems builder // world traveler
Daughter & friend & vizsla-mother // adventurer
Welcome to my (still in-progress) virtual space for sharing personal and external resources, content, and communities using capital and innovation for wealth, health, and happiness.
I'm passionate and committed to using my time, skills, resources, and networks investing, managing, influencing, and following all things finance, capital, and innovation for human, animal, and planetary health.
I also love science, learning, building businesses and learning about companies, finance, dogs and animals, hiking, and being in nature.
Current Engagements
Juno's Favorites
Single-ingredient, intentionally-sourced functional nutrition and supplement brand designed for maximum digestibility, bioavailability, wellness, and happiness.
Backed by science and inspired by thousands of personal and professional hours studying canine health after loss of rescue pup Miso following a devastating battle with invasive aspergillosis.
Impact Science Ventures
1st institutional checks (pre-seed, seed, Series A) into scientific industrial technology revolutionizing $T global industries across energy, manufacturing, materials, and agriculture.
Incubated at Activate and partner to companies such as Brimstome, Antora, Fervo, and Aralez Bio.
GP / LP Sustainable Finance Toolkit
Compiling and sharing resources for investors and asset owners raising, deploying, and managing capital for innovation across technology, energy, industrial, and infrastructure technologies.
Alita's Job Board
From corporate boardrooms to corporate product divisions and start-ups developing breakthrough technologies, sustainability and climate risk is now core to nearly every type of company, job, asset class, and investor role.
To help support the green transition and my communities, I have set up infrastructure to better scale the collection of open roles and resources for job seekers across sustainable finance and investing that naturally come across my desk from my first and second-ring networks.
UChicago Alumni in Sustainable Finance & Technology
Active investors, donors, executives, founders, and leaders working globally and locally across systems, organizations, institutions, and asset classes to facilitate the transition to abundant renewable energy systems, low-carbon economies, sustainable production and consumption cycles, and waste, pollution, emissions, and toxicity reductions.
About
Alita Carbone is currently an investor at emerging VC fund manager ISV supporting extraordinary early-stage founders and teams commercializing science-based technologies across energy, manufacturing, materials, and agriculture.
With founding roots at Activate, one of the world's premier deep tech accelerators. ISV’s three-year old Fund I consists of 2 unicorns and has invested in market leaders such as Antora (zero-emissions industrial heat), Brimstone (industrial material breakthrough in alumina and cement), and Fervo Energy (24/7 geothermal energy).
Prior to joining ISV, Alita helped lead a $22M Series A2 financing while Senior Director of Corporate Strategy at Claros Technologies, a University of Minnesota spin-out company commercializing technology for PFAS destruction in industrial wastewater.
Alita served on the investment team that led the Series A financing in Claros, a venture capital / growth equity emerging fund manager in Portland, Oregon called 3x5 Partners with over $400M+ raised across 3 funds and dozens of SPVs.
While at 3x5 Partners and prior to its acquisition by American Century Investments (an amazing outcome for an emerging fund manager), Alita invested in passionate entrepreneurs developing innovative healthcare and climate solutions for human (life sciences, medical devices and diagnostics) and planetary health (energy, ag, water, waste & recycling, grid tech). Select activities while on the team at 3x5 Partners include investmentsin Enzic, Koya, Fervo, and SOURCE and liquidation events such as Pfizer's acquisition of Amplyx Pharmaceuticals (2021) and Roche's acquisition of Good Therapeutics (2022).
Alita started her career as an Investment Banking Analyst (SERIES 63/79 certified) at William Blair in Chicago in the industrials coverage group after graduating from the University of Chicago with General and Departmental Honors.
Disclaimer
My mission is to catalyze and support financial literacy, access to capital and innovation, and economic prosperity and independence- not to provide investment advice.
This website exists for educational and informational purposes. The information provided herein reflects the views of Alita Carbone alone and is for informational purposes only. It should not be construed as investment advice and does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement of any specific investment, strategy, or financial product. The views expressed do not reflect the opinions of any other individual or organization. You should consult with a qualified financial advisor or conduct your own research before making any investment decisions. Past performance is not indicative of future results, and all investments carry risks, including the potential loss of principal.