Victor "Vic" Pascucci III

Managing General Partner, Co-Founder

Victor Pascucci III is the Managing General Partner and Cofounder of Energy Capital Ventures® (ECV). The only early-stage venture capital fund dedicated the sustainability, resilience and digital transformation of the natural gas industry. In addition to this unique thesis which makes ECV advocates for what it has defined as Green Molecules™ innovation, ECV further differentiates itself with a customized engagement and deep integration with its corporate limited partners. Vic is accountable for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the firm. He has led and managed venture investments in numerous multi-billion-dollar companies and category defining leaders including Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), ID.me, MX, Extend, Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), TRUECar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Next Insurance, Care.com (NYSE: CRCM) and Clearcover. He has achieved a top-decile investment track record. Vic has over 20 years of experience in venture capital and financial services encompassing over $750 million in VC and M&A transactions. Vic is on the board of Cemvita, Actual, Osmoses, Furno, Sapphire Technologies, Highwood Emissions, Vertus Energy (Supervisory Board), Gold Hydrogen and ID.me. Vic also serves as a Strategic Advisor to IA Capital.
Prior to Energy Capital Ventures®, Vic was the Managing Partner of lightbank where he responsible for leading investments in Clearcover, Extend, Upfort (f/k/a Paladin Cyber Security) and BillTrim. At lightbank, Vic served on the boards of Sprout Social (NASDAQ: SPT), Snapsheet, CarLease.com, Hatch Loyalty (acquired by Mobivity), Udemy, Ionic, Blueprint, Hireology, NuBundle, Fooda and BenchPrep. Prior to Lightbank, Vic built and led USAA’s $330 million corporate venture capital program. At USAA, Vic directed investments and served on the boards of Narrative Science, TRUECar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Care.com (NYSE: CRCM), ID.me, Automatic Labs (acquired by Sirius XM), Prosper Marketplace, Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), MX, Roost, Cartera Commerce (acquired by Ebates/ Rakuten), Roostify, RepairPal, Saffron Technologies (acquired by Intel Corp.), CafeX, MindMeld (acquired by Cisco) and VAST (acquired by Vroom). He also held responsibility for USAA’s M&A, joint ventures and intellectual property transactions. While at USAA, Vic served as a Strategy & Transformation Executive where he architected a multi-year, cross-functional, multi-billion-dollar digital enterprise-wide transformation plan. Originally, Vic was counsel to USAA’s CIO, CTO, CISO, Chief Fraud Officer and Head of Business Operations. After USAA, he was an Investment Director/Partner with Munich Re Ventures in San Francisco where he was responsible for their investment activities in insurtech including Trov, Super, Slice Labs and Next Insurance.
Vic’s early career includes leadership positions in Chicago start-ups and law. Within the Chicago tech community, he is a board member of ChicagoNext and P33. Vic served as chairman of the National Venture Capital Association’s (NVCA) Education Committee for the Corporate Venture Group and served on the Board of Advisors for the NVCA. Vic has been featured in Andrew Roman’s best-selling book “The Masters of Corporate Venture Capital.” He has consulted and advised multiple corporations on innovation, venture capital and corporate venture capital.