SEABRIGHT Ventures
Investing in the US middle market, with a focus
on life sciences and clean tech
SEABRIGHT Ventures
Investing in the US middle market, with a focus
on life sciences and clean tech
In Search
In Clean Tech and Climate Tech
In Clean Tech and Climate Tech
We typically back searchers who adhere to the traditional search model (as defined in the Stanford studies) but are also keen to branch out and support less traditionally typical search fund leaders: women, people of color, later career searchers would be just three examples.
In Clean Tech and Climate Tech
In Clean Tech and Climate Tech
In Clean Tech and Climate Tech
At a high level, we focus on products and services that can scale to substantially and swiftly help diminish global emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG) and help accelerate the transition to a green economy. More specifically, this includes solutions to increase energy efficiency, to move to clean and renewable energy sources, and to speed the broad adoption of zero emission transportation.
In Biotech / Pharma Services
In Clean Tech and Climate Tech
In Biotech / Pharma Services
We believe that the flow of innovation and risk capital to this sector has only begun. While we are not likely to be able to pick the drugs/products that will succeed, we see enormous value in providing high-quality, efficient, science-driven services to those developing these products and services from scratch.
About the founders
Sandy Paige
Sandy Paige
Sandy Paige
Sandy was most recently CEO of Explora BioLabs, the dominant provider of Vivarium-as-a-Service(TM) in the US nationwide. Explora provides pre-clinical vivarium facilities and regulatory management services, as well as pre-clinical contract research to leading research groups in San Diego, San Francisco and Boston. Explora was acquired by
Sandy was most recently CEO of Explora BioLabs, the dominant provider of Vivarium-as-a-Service(TM) in the US nationwide. Explora provides pre-clinical vivarium facilities and regulatory management services, as well as pre-clinical contract research to leading research groups in San Diego, San Francisco and Boston. Explora was acquired by his Search Fund, Seabright Fund, in 2018; Seabright Fund exited the investment to Charles River Laboratories in 2022.
Sandy was also Director of International Sales & Distribution at The Jackson Laboratory, based in Sacramento, CA where he focused on expanding global relationships and distribution for JAX Mice & Clinical Research Services. During his time in Sacramento with JAX, he served both as Director of Business Development and as Senior Site Director while the team closed down one site and simultaneously opened a much larger facility on budget / schedule. Sandy was intimately involved with operations/financing growth at JAX West, strategic planning and was Chairman of JAX West's IACUC Committee. Prior to joining JAX, he was General Manager of Knight-Celotex, a 24/7/365 construction products manufacturing plant in Lisbon Falls, ME. He previously served as VP of Administration for the Neptune Regional Transmission System during its development stages and subsequent $650 M project financing. Earlier in his career, Sandy acted as financial analyst and controller for Cianbro Development Corporation and Atlantic Energy Partners, a subsidiary of The Cianbro Companies, and held positions in corporate marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor and as personal assistant to Governor Angus King (I) of Maine. Sandy received a BA from Middlebury College in Vermont and an MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts.
Meg Arnold
Sandy Paige
Sandy Paige
Meg's career and expertise include incubating startup and early stage companies; working with entrepreneurs as they built, funded, and grew their businesses; championing innovation-led regional economic development; building and sustaining cross-sector collaborative partnerships; shaping strategic direction and organizational growth strat
Meg's career and expertise include incubating startup and early stage companies; working with entrepreneurs as they built, funded, and grew their businesses; championing innovation-led regional economic development; building and sustaining cross-sector collaborative partnerships; shaping strategic direction and organizational growth strategies; and engaging with public policy at the state and federal levels.
Since 2012, she has increasingly done the above with an exclusive focus on the clean tech sector, based on her convictions both that the climate crisis must be our collective top priority and also that private-sector-led innovation and action is an indispensable component of the solutions and changes we need.
Prior to Seabright, Meg was Senior Vice President, Market Transformation at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), the highly-respected nonprofit building an inclusive green economy in the LA region; previous to that, as Interim CEO and then Strategic Advisor at Valley Vision in Sacramento, she spearheaded that organization’s growing emphasis on the clean economy. As the Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance’s (SARTA) longest-serving CEO, Meg managed its CleanStart program working with clean tech entrepreneurs, and earlier helped launch the UC Davis tech transfer office’s entrepreneur support services via the long-ago UC Davis CONNECT.
Meg has been California-based for 20+ years, and earlier in her career worked from posts including Toronto, New York, London, and Stockholm. Her undergraduate degree in English is from Cornell University, and her MBA is from the University of San Francisco.