Investing
Mike
Schroepfer
Schrep has a 25-year track record in technology and science as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor who's identified major technical disruptions and scaled companies that capitalize on those trends. He founded Gigascale Capital in 2023 to put his time, expertise, and resources behind the next trillion-dollar companies delivering climate impact at scale.
Before Gigascale, Schrep spent more than 16 years as CTO of Meta, where he scaled products from tens to billions of users, built tens of millions of square feet of data centers, shipped first-of-a-kind consumer hardware, led the Engineering team from 150 to 35,000, founded the AI Research Lab in 2013, and ran the acquisitions of both Oculus and Instagram. He remains involved with the company in an advisory capacity as a Senior Fellow focused on AI and technical talent.
Beyond Gigascale, Schrep serves on public, private, and non-profit boards, including CZI Biohub and Castilleja. Since 2020, he’s been an active angel investor in energy and industry, with investments in Heirloom Carbon, Bedrock Energy, and Aigen. His philanthropic work includes founding Additional Ventures, the Carbon-to-Sea Initiative, and Outlier Projects, which fund research and policy to accelerate climate progress.
Earlier in his career, Schrep led engineering at Mozilla and founded a Sequoia-backed startup that successfully exited during the dot-com bust via a Sun Microsystems acquisition. Schrep has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford.
