Jamie James

Managing Partner

Jamie has been a sustainability professional for three decades – in sustainable forestry, biodiversity conservation and real estate development and construction.  As Managing Partner at Greensoil PropTech Ventures, Jamie participates in investment lead generation, deal structuring and investment decisions – focusing on young companies addressing the challenge of decarbonizing the built environment.  He is a past or present board member of a number of cleantech start-ups, including: Luum.io, SensorSuite, ElectrIQ Power, Goby, Carbon Cure, Oxygen8, Miru Smart Technologies, BuildingsIoT, and Intelligent City.  

 For over a decade prior to joining Greensoil, Jamie was the lead sustainability advisor to Tridel, one of Canada’s largest vertically integrated highrise developers, where he contributed to the company’s transition to becoming a leading and award-winning green builder.   Jamie was a Partner in the Windmill Development Group during the six years when the firm successfully developed LEED-Platinum certified mixed-used buildings and communities across Canada.

 Jamie began his career as a venture capitalist when he launched 350 Capital, one of the first sustainable proptech focused funds in 2009 where he managed successful investments in dPoint Technologies (energy recovery ventilation technology) and Carbon Cure (low carbon concrete).  

 In 2011, Jamie founded Tower Labs @MaRS, a technology accelerator that manages in-situ pilot and demonstration projects of green building technologies in large buildings in Toronto.  Innovation demonstration projects include: electrochromic windows, water and air heat recovery systems, energy storage, residential net-zero energy systems, VRF systems, concrete carbonization, advanced thermal performance cladding systems, low voltage DC-power distribution and other micro-grid enabling technologies.  

 Jamie has a masters in environmental science from the Yale School of the Environment and has had stints at Columbia’s Earth Institute, the UN Development Programme and on the board of the Canada Green Building Council.  

 He resides in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and three children.