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Amy Francetic

Amy Francetic

Co-founder and Managing General Partner at Buoyant Ventures

Director
Updated Nov 9, 2026·Latest SEC filing Nov 2, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Amy Francetic

Amy Francetic is co-founder and Managing General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, a venture firm that invests in the intelligence layer for the physical world. She serves on the board of HData, Buoyant's portfolio company that sells software and AI for energy regulatory filings. She also sits on the boards of Hammerhead, ReelData and Ocient. She chairs the board of Evergreen Climate Innovations. She is on the advisory board of the WISER Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

She founded and led Energize Ventures, a $165M fund for digital energy technologies. She co-founded and was CEO of Evergreen Climate Innovations (formerly Clean Energy Trust). She also worked at MVC Capital and at Stanford Research Institute. She joined the Aurora Solar board in 2019 and served on the board of Glu Mobile until it went public. She has a BA from Stanford University.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Amy Francetic in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

HData, Inc. Current
Co-Founder, Buoyant Ventures and director
2025 – Present · Lockport, IL
HData sells software that helps energy companies, regulators and others search and work with energy regulatory filings.
Buoyant Ventures Current
Co-founder and Managing General Partner
Evergreen Climate Innovations (formerly Clean Energy Trust) Current
Co-founder and CEO
Chair of the board
Hammerhead Current
Board member
ReelData Current
Board member
Ocient Current
Board member
WISER Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology Current
Advisory board member
Aurora Solar
Board member
From 2019
Energize Ventures
Founder
MVC Capital
Stanford Research Institute
Glu Mobile
Board member

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Amy Francetic works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

HData, Inc. · Form D, Nov 2, 2026
Hudson Hollister
Hudson Hollister
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and director
Yuval Lubowich
Yuval Lubowich
Co-Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer
Rajesh Choudhary
Rajesh Choudhary
General Counsel
John Fein
John Fein
Managing Partner, Firebrand Ventures and director

Sources

  1. SECHData, Inc. Form D, filed Nov 2, 2026
  2. PressAurora Solar Series A release, Feb 4, 2019