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Investor profile

Mark Paris

Managing Partner, Third Sphere

About

Mark Paris brings deep asset-backed lending and credit-structuring expertise to climate investing at Third Sphere, where he runs the credit platform rather than focusing solely on equity investments like most climate VCs. His career path from co-head of Debt Capital Markets at Citi to leading climate-focused lending platforms gives him hands-on experience as both an operator and investor in distributed energy and urban climate solutions. Mark Paris brings deep asset-backed lending and credit-structuring expertise to climate investing at Third Sphere, where he runs the credit platform rather than focusing solely on equity investments like most climate VCs. His career path from co-head of Debt Capital Markets at Citi to leading climate-focused lending platforms gives him hands-on experience as both an operator and investor in distributed energy and urban climate solutions.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Climate
Energy
Transportation
Proptech
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$200K - $20M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA