Virya

Sid Jain, the founder and managing partner, leads investment decisions at Virya. He previously worked at Energy Impact Partners, where he focused on early-stage climate and industrial technology. The firm's Tulsa base and Jain's network in both coastal venture and middle-American industry inform its sourcing and diligence process.

Virya sources deals by embedding itself in the US industrial corridor, using Tulsa's proximity to manufacturers, energy infrastructure operators, and regional research institutions. The firm's April 2025 partnership with the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology formalizes one such origination channel by providing early access to local clean-energy innovators. Jain's position outside the coastal venture mainstream gives the firm visibility into founders and technologies that San Francisco or Boston firms often encounter only after syndication.

The firm targets pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, entering when companies are moving from lab-scale or early pilot toward commercial demonstration. Its confirmed investments — including Antora Energy and Brimstone Energy — follow this pattern of early engagement ahead of industrial-scale deployment.

Virya explicitly focuses on industrial technology and does not invest in consumer software, fintech, or traditional software-as-a-service. Its narrow mandate excludes climate categories that depend primarily on carbon credit markets or behavior-change nudges, concentrating instead on sectors where physical process innovation directly reduces industrial emissions.