The Batteries Included Fund
We invest early in clever energy storage.
Portfolio
Thesis
Team
Portfolio
- B2U Energy Storage Solutions: B2U runs the largest 2nd-life EV battery power plant in the US.
- Copper: Charlie is an induction range with a battery inside.
- Flux Hybrids: The Flux team adds batteries and electric drivetrains to existing lightweight trucks.
- Accelerate Wind: AW’s building wind turbines that you can add to existing roof-top solar.
- Edge Energy: Edge builds gear that provides reliable three-phase power from a single phase grid connection.
- NeoCharge: NeoCharge’s smart 240V splitters and software help EV drivers manage charging without running new wire.
- Aptera Motors: Aptera’s solar-charged, electric 3-wheel motorcycles are cheaper & faster to build and own than full-size cars.
- Corridor Ventures
- Popwheels
Thesis
More like a thesis-while-you-fly-it. Here’s how it’s evolving…
Team
GP - Matt Candler
I’m Matt Candler. Thanks for being here.
I spent 25 years helping people launch better schools and learning tools at places like KIPP, New York City Charter Center, and 4.0. 18 years ago, I started moonlighting as an electric motorcycle designer; my bikes have been on TV and in books on the future of transportation.
That led to my first angel investment in B2U, operator of the largest 2nd-life EV battery power plant in the US.
Since then, I’ve steered our small family office investing towards energy storage and other electrification opportunities. As an educator first, I remain obsessed with the human behavior change part of the energy transition.
As a resident of New Orleans and native of Atlanta, I’m super curious about the energy transition in the South — from the SE Battery Belt, to natural-gas-heavy utilities courting data centers, to Louisiana’s leadership in hydrogen, to resiliency and adaptation on the gulf coast.
This summer I got a little more organized and focused the investing I’m doing here - as The Batteries Included Fund.
Energy-curious family office LPs
Our small family office has the capacity to join in follow-on rounds. I’m interested in talking to family offices like ours:
- based in the Southeast Battery Belt,
- navigating the hand-off of wealth to a new generation, and
- up for co-creating wealth in the electrification of most of our traditionally fossil-fueled economy.