After a 7-year stint with Qualcomm Ventures, Carlos Kokron has joined French utility giant Schneider Electric's CVC unit as general partner.
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Carlos Kokron has joined the CVC arm of French utility company Schneider Electric, SE Ventures, as general partner.
This comes after nearly 13 years working in corporate venturing for the US fabless semiconductor multinational Qualcomm. Kokron joined the company in 2012 as vice president and managing director, responsible for ventures and new business development for the Latin America region. In 2018, he moved to Qualcomm Ventures, the CVC arm, where he led the Americas investment team.
His role as an investor with Qualcomm Ventures meant taking a board seat on a number of portfolio companies, including Span, which makes home energy storage systems, and AiFi, a company using an AI-powered retail platform. He also took part in GCV’s podcast in 2022.
With SE Ventures, he joins a fund sized at over $1bn, with more than 35 portfolio companies around the world, most of which are in the US. It invests in climate and industrial technology startups.
Last year, SE Ventures participated in the $53m series B funding round for Higharc, a homebuilding automation platform provider, and the $59m series C round for AiDash, which uses AI to make critical infrastructure industries climate resilience.
Deepak Prasad has moved up to the position of director at Qualcomm Ventures. He joined the CVC in January 2020, reaching his most recent position of senior investment manager within his first year.