Chris Sacca is the co-founder of Lowercarbon Capital, backing the world's most ambitious and scalable decarbonization solutions across energy, industrial materials, transportation, carbon removal, and advanced manufacturing. The portfolio spans countless companies, each proving to the world that hard-tech climate solutions are just good business.
Alongside his wife, Crystal, Chris also co-founded Lowercase Capital, best known for its very early investments in Uber, Twitter, Instagram, Twilio, Docker, Optimizely, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Stripe, making it one of the most successful venture funds in history.
The performance of the Lowercase funds vaulted Chris to the number-two spot on the Forbes Midas List, and landed him a place on Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list before he shifted in 2017 from broad-based venture capital to focus on climate innovation, philanthropy, and creative pursuits.
Before becoming an investor, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google, where he founded and co-led the Access division. His projects included Google's multi-billion-dollar initiatives for the 700MHz and TV white-spaces spectrum, culminating in Google's $4.7 billion bid in the FCC spectrum auction. Chris oversaw billions of dollars of global energy projects and co-led the siting and acquisition of groundbreaking data centers in Oregon, Georgia, and the Netherlands. Chris helped expand the company's global fiber-optic and undersea cable footprint, drove many of Google's business development and M&A transactions, and was a founding team member of the company's New Business Development division. In recognition of his accomplishments, Chris was among the first Google employees ever to receive the Google Founders' Award, the company's highest internal honor.
Earlier in his career, Chris practiced law at Fenwick & West, representing startups, venture firms, and multinational corporations in financings, M&A, and licensing deals, and later held executive roles, including General Counsel and Head of Corporate Development, at one of the world’s largest streaming and digital media companies, Speedera Networks, later acquired by Akamai.
For almost 20 years, Chris has been a fixture on television, radio, podcasts, in magazines and newsprint, and across social media. He joined the cast of Shark Tank for two Emmy Award-winning seasons, and has appeared as himself on the ABC series Alex, Inc., and on Showtime’s Billions. Chris has been featured on major business and news television shows around the world, and has been interviewed for a multitude of print articles and podcasts on investing, entrepreneurship, culture, and the future of technology and AI.
Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as a Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he majored in Humanities in International Affairs and was both an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar and a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar.
During his studies, Chris attended universities in Ecuador, Ireland, and Spain, and worked in El Salvador while in law school. Long before any of that, beginning in seventh grade, Chris attended night school at the State University of New York at Buffalo for six years of college mathematics, where he discovered that technology, computers, and innovation would become lifelong passions.
He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, served as an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and an MIT Enterprise Forum Global Trustee, and was named to the Atlantic Council Vanguard 25. Chris is also a Trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation, the team that puts the "Team" in Team USA.
Chris lives with Crystal and their three daughters in Montana. When not working to unfuck the planet, Chris is an avid alpine and nordic skier, kitesurfer, recovering Ironman triathlete, average-proficiency crossword puzzler, beginner guitarist trying to keep up with his kids, intermittent helicopter pilot, underwhelming pickleball player, collage and found-materials artist, and once bicycled coast-to-coast across the United States.
