Vikas Gupta

Venture Capital Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Venture Capitalist at Shell
    Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

    Corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Shell plc. Established in 1996, it's one of the oldest and most active corporate venture funds in the energy sector. Its primary purpose is to identify, invest in, and help scale innovative deep technologies and business models that align with Shell's strategic priorities, particularly accelerating the global energy and mobility transformation towards lower emissions

  • Investor at Ammobia
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    Startup developing a revolutionary, low-cost process for producing clean ammonia using materials science and catalysis, essentially a "Haber-Bosch 2.0" that runs at much lower pressures and temperatures, making it modular, flexible, and compatible with renewables for decarbonizing fertilizer, shipping, and industry

  • Investor at GridX, Inc.
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    GridX’s Enterprise Rate Platform helps Utilities and Energy Suppliers to develop new products and business models to achieve their clean energy goals; quickly operationalize new offerings in their billing and settlement processes; and better engage with their customers for broader program adoption.

  • Investor at AI Library
    Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Provides a comprehensive suite of tools and services to create AI agents that can engage in human-like conversations over both chat and phone. Their focus is on empowering users to build these autonomous agents quickly and efficiently, often without extensive coding knowledge. It has the biggest catalog and awesome list of AI tools and colabs for working with graphics, design and art. Explore Generative AI possibilities and use cases.

  • Board Member at Mainspring Energy
    Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Designs, manufactures, and delivers innovative, fuel-flexible linear generators for on-site power generation. Can operate on natural gas, biogas, impure hydrogen, ammonia and mix of fuels. Their core product is the Mainspring Linear Generator, a new category of power generation technology that provides reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean electricity for commercial and industrial businesses, data centers, utilities(peakers), and microgrids (EV Charging)