General Partner at Engine Ventures · Joined 2018
View Live Interactive Profile →Michael Kearney is a General Partner at Engine Ventures, focused on climate change and the deployment of breakthrough technologies. He joined The Engine in 2018 as a Partner and was promoted to General Partner in 2023. He was the first employee at Ambri, a grid scale energy storage startup, where he led market and business development, and later served as Executive Director of the MIT Roosevelt Project, studying energy transition pathways toward a clean energy economy. He has published research on energy economics and innovation policy in peer reviewed journals and co-founded Blueprint, by The Engine, a program for early stage tough tech founders. He serves on the boards of Addis Energy, AtmosZero, Blue Energy, DG Matrix, Genomines, Mantel, Osmoses, Pascal, Sora Fuel, and VEIR. He holds a BA from Williams College and an MS and PhD from MIT.