Maya Bhat, PhD

Investor at Clean Energy Ventures · Joined 2026

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Biography

Maya Bhat is an Investor at Clean Energy Ventures, which she joined in March 2026. She works on scaling businesses that address global energy needs, applying technical expertise to de-risk hardware development for climate solutions. She was previously on the commercial team at Electric Hydrogen, where she worked on technoeconomic modelling, durability analysis and financing product design, and she has also founded an energy storage startup and held earlier venture capital roles. Her doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon used machine learning and high-throughput experimentation to accelerate the discovery of hydrogen catalysts. She holds dual bachelor's degrees from Claremont McKenna College and Columbia University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and is originally from Singapore.

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2026
Joins Clean Energy Ventures as an Investor (announced March 18, 2026)

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