Primary industry: Energy | Secondary industry: Chemicals
Brandy Kinkead is a chemist, entrepreneur, and technology leader with nearly two decades of experience developing and commercializing hard and deep technologies, with a focus on clean energy and advanced materials. As a founder and former CTO, she has led technology from fundamental research through scale-up and commercial demonstration – acting as a bridge between business, science and engineering. Most recently, she scaled hydrogen storage technology by more than 6 million times from bench scale to a commercial demonstration while working to establish product-market fit. Brandy has built and managed multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers, led complex technology-development projects, supported customer discovery and pilot deployments, and raised more than $10 million in equity and $8 million in non-dilutive funding. Her experience also spans intellectual property strategy, technology roadmapping, techno-economic analysis, grant financing, and investor engagement. She advises hard and deep-tech founders on team growth and management, product-market fit, project execution, fundraising, IP strategy, and scaling complex technologies from technical validation toward commercial deployment.
