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Lawrence Wall

Venture Fellow
Austin, Texas

Lawrence is a member of the Texas McCombs MBA Class of 2024 concentrating on Venture Capital/Private Equity Finance, and Strategy and Innovation. He is passionate about building businesses that achieve positive environmental and social change and is excited to be interning with Energy Transition Ventures through the McCombs Venture Fellows program. He is an active member of the McCombs CleanTech Group, Graduate Consulting Club, and MBA Tech Club.

Prior to McCombs, Lawrence lived in San Francisco and gained diverse functional experience at three startups, ranging from Series A to post-IPO stage. Lawrence most recently worked at Samsara (NYSE: IOT), where he was a Sales Planning and Strategy Manager focused on scaling go-to-market strategies for new product categories. Previously, Lawrence was a Program Manager at Casper working with teams of designers and engineers to develop new consumer products. He started his career at Beepi, a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling used cars, where he joined as the 30th employee and scaled their operations network. 

Originally from Birmingham, AL, Lawrence graduated from Davidson College with a B.A. in History. In his spare time, he enjoys road cycling and finding the perfect cup of coffee.


Craig Lawrence has served in venture capital, engineering, product, and executive roles across his 25 year career.

Craig led energy investing at leading Silicon Valley venture fund Accel Partners during the heart of the “first wave” of cleantech venture capital. During that period, Accel had one of the highest success rates in cleantech of any major Silicon Valley VC, investing in early stage cleantech companies, with exits from SunRun (NASDAQ: RUN), now the leading residential solar provider in the US, and OPower (NYSE: OPWR, acquired by NYSE:ORCL), the leading energy efficiency software and service provider to utilities.

Craig has held senior executive roles at leading companies driving the energy transition, including Vice President of Products at energy analytics software startup Treverity, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at SolarBridge Technologies - one of the leading residential solar inverter manufacturers (acquired by NASDAQ:SPWR), and General Manager of Residential Solar at SunEdison, one of the pioneers in solar project development and financing.

Craig began his career as a design engineer, and then served as a Practice Lead at IDEO, a global design, engineering and innovation firm helping clients across multiple industries launch innovative products and services. Craig created and led IDEO’s energy practice, advising many of the leading energy tech startups on their product launches.  Craig is an inventor on patents ranging from portable fuel cells to office furniture. Craig holds a B.S. in Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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Led product management for the world’s first high volume AC module, acquired by SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR)

Over $250M in sales

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Industrial Design at IDEO for Bloombox, the world’s best selling fuel cell product

Over $1B sales, IPO (NYSE: BE)

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Industrial Design at IDEO for Bloombox, the world’s best selling fuel cell product

Over $1B sales, IPO (NYSE: BE)