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stoney blue, Managing Partner, thirdsphere

Stonly Blue is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Third Sphere, and a leading early-stage climate investor according to Fortune Magazine. His fund is backed by Citigroup and other global financial institutions, as well as Japanese firms including Takenaka Group. Stonly is motivated by the financial opportunity and long term benefits of decarbonization and increased resilience of society. Stonly's investment highlights include a pre-seed investment in Mill, founded by the founders of Nest (now Google Home), and a pre-seed investment in Future Motion, makers of the globally popular and category defining electric micro mobility device, Onewheel.

He previously helped BMW build and run the URBAN-X accelerator. In his early career, Stonly was an entrepreneur with a number of exits including to NetApp.