A venture firm running the Augur Energy AI Funds out of Calgary and San Francisco. It invests at pre-seed, seed and Series A in AI infrastructure and the applications built next to it.

Graeme Harrison

Partner at Augur VC & Simply Silicon

Investing where energy and AI meet

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Augur invests early in the intersection of energy and AI: AI that runs the world's energy systems, and the energy infrastructure that runs AI.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024[2]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on energy as the primary input for AI (09:27)Episode} Graeme launched Augur Energy AI Fund I in April 2024, investing from pre-seed to Series A.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024} Fund I backed Pano AI, Daedaline and HyLight, before the word neocloud existed.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024[3]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on Fund I predating the term neocloud (30:05)Episode} Fund II holds Simply Silicon, InferX, ThermAI and Beyond Reach Labs.^{[4]Augur VCAugur VC websiteCompany} Augur works out of Calgary and San Francisco.^{[4]Augur VCAugur VC websiteCompany} The fund also gave him a platform to incubate Simply Silicon, the operating company he now runs, which deploys air-gapped inference networks for major North American cities.^{[5]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on running Augur VC and Simply Silicon (07:16)Episode[6]Simply SiliconSimply Silicon websiteCompany} Its Calgary site is a downtown district heating plant with 12 megawatts of unused electrical capacity.^{[7]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on the Calgary district heating plant site (40:09)Episode[6]Simply SiliconSimply Silicon websiteCompany}

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Inside Deep Tech Investing: A Masterclass From Both Sides of the Table | Graeme Harrison
May 21, 20261h 17m
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Graeme Harrison is a founding investment partner of Augur VC, an early-stage fund investing at the intersection of energy and AI.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024} He was previously president of Harvest Builders, the Calgary venture studio.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024[8]Calgary.techHarvest Builders appoints Graeme Harrison as PresidentPress, Dec 12, 2022}

A venture firm running the Augur Energy AI Funds out of Calgary and San Francisco.^{[4]Augur VCAugur VC websiteCompany} It invests at pre-seed, seed and Series A in AI infrastructure and the applications built next to it.^{[4]Augur VCAugur VC websiteCompany[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024}

Two directions of the same trade: AI solutions that strengthen and balance energy infrastructure, and the energy infrastructure that powers the next wave of AI.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024} Graeme's framing at the fund's launch was that energy AI is the next trillion-dollar market.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024}

Fund I companies include Pano AI for wildfire detection, Daedaline for energy infrastructure M&A and HyLight for methane monitoring by autonomous airship.^{[1]Augur Capital Management (via Cision Newswire)Augur Launches Inaugural Energy AI Fund: Advancing the AI to power energy, and the energy to power AIPress release, Apr 8, 2024} Fund II includes Simply Silicon, InferX, ThermAI and Beyond Reach Labs.^{[4]Augur VCAugur VC websiteCompany}

The operating company Graeme incubated out of the fund and now runs.^{[5]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on running Augur VC and Simply Silicon (07:16)Episode} It deploys air-gapped inference networks for major cities across North America, starting from a downtown Calgary district heating plant with 12 megawatts of unused electrical capacity.^{[6]Simply SiliconSimply Silicon websiteCompany[5]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on running Augur VC and Simply Silicon (07:16)Episode[7]Deeptech DecodedGraeme Harrison on the Calgary district heating plant site (40:09)Episode}