Gaëtan Bonhomme, PhD

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Co-founder of Kurion (VC-backed Cleantech Startup) from 2008 to 2016. Now investor in Climate Tech at Breakthrough Energy Ventures in Europe. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) invests in companies that leverage innovative technologies to help address climate change.

Experience

  • Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) invests in companies that leverage innovative technologies to help address climate change. Backed by many of the world’s top business leaders, BEV has more than $1 billion in committed capital to support bold entrepreneurs building companies that can significantly reduce emissions from agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation. The fund was created in 2016 by the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

  • DJ MicroLaminates, Inc (8 yrs 6 mos)
    • Member Board Of Directors
      Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

    • Senior Advisor
      Feb 2018 - Jun 2018 · 5 mos

      DJ MicroLaminates is a material science company that markets innovative dry film photoresist materials for semiconductors and wafer level packaging processes, MEMs and BioMEMS, microfluidics structures, medical devices and displays.

  • Kurion Veolia (11 yrs 1 mo)
    • Technical Advisor
      Jun 2016 - Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • Chief Technology Officer
      Sep 2014 - Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 5 mos

      Won 1B JPY award for Advanced Detritiation System Program Led Technical Due Diligence during Acquisition Acquired by Veolia in March 2016

    • Co Founder
      Jan 2009 - Jan 2020 · 11 yrs 1 mo

      Isolating Waste from the Environment Lead Fukushima Task Force Project: design, fabrication, startup of the Kurion water decontamination system at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan

  • Angel Investor at GigaSyma, Dropel, ATSP Innovations, Velocity, RockBot, Snakt, DJ Microlaminates
    2010 - Dec 2019 · 10 yrs

    Invested as an angel in a few companies

  • Co-Founder at Snakt, Inc.
    2014 - 2017 · 3 yrs