Gabriel Kra is the Managing Director and co-founder of Prelude Ventures. See sector focus and contact routes.
Gabriel Kra is the Managing Director and co-founder of Prelude Ventures, a San Francisco-based climate venture capital firm he launched in 2013 after nearly 25 years as an investor, entrepreneur, and scientist. His investment thesis focuses exclusively on early-stage startups across the climate economy, including energy, mobility, food and agriculture, and carbon removal. Prelude Ventures deploys roughly $2 billion exclusively for the Simons family to back these early-stage companies, though Kra’s specific check size and lead/follow behavior are not publicly detailed. Kra serves on the boards of notable portfolio companies including Ripple Foods, Natron Energy, Sense Labs, and PLANT PV. He is driven by a lifelong commitment to fighting climate change, sparked by early work with Greenpeace and at Yellowstone National Park. While Kra has no widely cited public writing, his distinctive point of view centers on overseeing the firm’s investments across a broad range of new energy innovations.
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