Eric Toone, who previously led the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke, and David Danielson, a precourt energy scholar at Stanford, have joined Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), a venture fund aimed zero-carbon energy startups, has hired the first two employees for its science team since the $1bn vehicle was launched in December 2016.
Eric Toone, who had led the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke University, and David Danielson, a Precourt Energy Scholar at Stanford University, are now executive managing director and science lead and managing director for science, respectively.
Both had been founding or first employees in 2009 for the US Department of Energy’s…
