Daniel Oros

With over fifteen years of investment experience in energy, manufacturing, financial services, and logistics, Dan Oros brings a unique skill set to his role as a founding partner at G2 Venture Partners. Dan has spent his investment career guiding industrial and energy technology companies on their journey from product and sales inflection point to sustainable long-term growth. Dan sits on the board of G2 portfolio companies Fictiv and Turvo, and led the investment in Carbon.

Previously, Dan led investments for the $1B Kleiner Perkins Green Growth Fund. His Green Growth Fund portfolio investments included Spruce Finance, Optoro, Redaptive, and Gen110 (acquired by Solar Universe).

Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Dan was a vice president at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group and a founding member of its alternative energy investing team, where he eventually led the team’s solar initiatives. As an investor in First Solar and SunEdison, Dan had a front-row seat at the beginning of the US solar energy boom that continues today. Before joining the Special Situations Group, Dan was an FX trader at Goldman Sachs, making markets in the euro and Swiss franc.

Dan holds a B.S. with distinction in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. An outdoorsman and conservationist, he also serves on the board of the Ocean Conservancy and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.