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Shayle Kann

Shayle Kann

Partner at Energy Impact Partners and director at Koloma.

DirectorRoles at 3 startups
Updated Nov 8, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 19, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Shayle Kann

Shayle Kann is a Koloma director and an Energy Impact Partners partner who leads its Frontier Fund’s climate technology investments. Koloma searches for and produces naturally occurring hydrogen found underground. Kann is also a non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. He serves on the PRIME Impact Fund Investor Advisory Council and hosts the climate technology podcast Catalyst. He is an external director at Nitricity, which develops plant-based fertilizer for farmers.

Previously, Kann built and ran GTM Research, the market intelligence arm of Greentech Media. He continued running the business through and after its 2016 acquisition by Verisk Analytics. He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar who studied renewable energy project finance in Australia. He also worked at Conservation Services Group and the California Public Utilities Commission.

Experience

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

Voya Energy Current
Founding Investor and Board Director
2025 – Present
Heron Power Current
Investor and Board Observer
2025 – Present
Elementl Power Current
Investor and Board Director
2024 – Present
Koloma, Inc. Current
Director
2023 – Present · Denver, CO
Koloma uses proprietary data and analytical tools to find and produce underground natural hydrogen.
Ceibo Current
Investor and Board Director
2023 – Present
Cyclic Materials Current
Investor
2023 – Present
Rondo Energy Current
Investor
2022 – Present
Sublime Systems Current
Investor
2022 – Present
Nitricity Inc. Current
External Director
Director
2021 – Present · Fremont, CA
Electric Hydrogen Co. Current
Investor and Board Director
2021 – Present · Natick, MA
Form Energy Current
Investor and Board Observer
2020 – Present
RapidSOS Current
Investor
2019 – Present
Energy Impact Partners Current
Partner
Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy Current
Non-Resident Fellow
Catalyst Current
Host
PRIME Impact Fund Investor Advisory Council Current
Member
Boston Metal
Investor and Board Observer
2021 – 2025
Greentech Media (acquired NASDAQ: VRSK)
Senior Vice President, Head of GTM Research (now Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables)
2010 – 2017
Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Australian National University
U.S. Fulbright Scholar
2008 – 2009
GTM Research
Conservation Services Group
California Public Utilities Commission

Key Colleagues at Startups

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

Koloma, Inc. · Form D/A, Oct 19, 2026
Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson
CEO & Founder, director
Duane Dickson
Duane Dickson
Board of Directors
Lisa Stewart
Lisa Stewart
Board of Directors
Christian Garcia
Christian Garcia
Board of Directors
Charles Griffie
Charles Griffie
Board of Directors
Nitricity Inc. · Form D/A, Oct 28, 2025
NP
Nicolas Pinkowski
Chief Executive Officer and director
JM
Joshua McEnaney
Executive officer and director
TE
Tony Etnyre
Director
Electric Hydrogen Co. · Form D, Oct 23, 2023
RG
Raffi Garabedian
Chief Executive Officer and director
MD
Margaret Deane
Executive officer
DE
David Eaglesham
Executive officer and director
RH
MH
PG
Peter Gajdos
Director
DS
DW
Derek Warnick
Executive officer
DD
GK
Gabriel Kra
Director

Shayle Kann in the News

Sources

  1. SECKoloma, Inc. Form D/A, filed Oct 19, 2026
  2. SECNitricity Inc. Form D/A, filed Oct 28, 2025
  3. SECElectric Hydrogen Co. Form D, filed Oct 23, 2023
  4. P4Nitricity about page