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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / ESP Investment Advisors LLC
ESP Investment Advisors LLC
Corporate venture · probableDallas, TXenergyspectrum.comSEC registered investment adviserone firm, 2 filing advisers
This firm files as 2 advisers on energyspectrum.com: ESC Investment Advisors LLC. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
Empowering Energy Infrastructure Investment
corporate parent: Energy Spectrum Securities Corporation
Importance
41
elevated
Active deployment
4
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
6
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Dallas, TXadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 5956 SHERRY LANE, SUITE 1400, Dallas, TX, 75225adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 214-987-6100adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 26, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 3 (3 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $1.0Badviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $1.0Bthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 16
- Owners on Schedule A
- Energy Spectrum Securities Corporation (Member), E; Energy Spectrum Capital Viii LP (Member), E; Energy Spectrum Viii LLC (General Partner), F
- business email
- ir@energyspectrum.comenergyspectrum.compublished by the subject
- business email
- info@energyspectrum.comenergyspectrum.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 214-987-6100adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
1 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- climate, energy, logistics
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- north america
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 100%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 1
Funds and vehicles
3 reported, 1 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Spectrum Partners Viii LP | Fund | 2018 form d first sale | Harvest | $1.2B Mar 27, 2024 | 81 | $968M of $1.3B | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Energy Spectrum Partners VII LP | Fund | 2014 form d first sale | Harvest | $698M Mar 27, 2024 | 94 | $1.2B of $1.2B | Nov 13, 2014 |
| Energy Spectrum Partners VI LP | Fund | 2010 form d first sale | Harvest | $34.5M Mar 27, 2024 | 58 | $869M | Apr 13, 2011 |
| Energy Spectrum Partners V LP | Fund | 2019 adv first reported | Wound down | $14.2M Sep 27, 2019 | 38 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
25 current, 1 departed
Peter Haggerty
AssociateAssociate
Jim Benson
Managing partnerFounding Partner &
Jim Spann
Managing partnerFounding Partner &
Mark Honeybone
Managing partnerManaging Partner
Peter Augustini
Managing partnerManaging Partner
Tom Whitener
Managing partnerFounding Partner
Alison Fischer
PartnerPartner &
Austin Lutz
PartnerManaging Director
Elizabeth Henning
PartnerManager of Financial Reporting
James Patrick Benson
PartnerShareholder · since Oct 1, 1997
James William Spann
PartnerShareholder · since Oct 1, 1997
Thomas Oliver Whitener
PartnerShareholder · since Oct 1, 1997
Alison Kara Fischer
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer · since Jul 1, 2018
Becky Geiger
Platform and operationsExecutive Assistant &
Chris Stewart
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer
Elizabeth Ashley Deluca
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer · since Jan 1, 2023
Pat Crawford
Platform and operationsExecutive Assistant –
Terry Lowry
Platform and operationsController
Benjamin Hoyle Davis
Vice presidentSenior Vice President · since Jul 1, 2018
Chandler Andrew Phillips
Vice presidentVice President · since Jul 1, 2018
Mark S. Honeybone
Vice presidentSenior Vice President · since Jul 1, 2018
Michael Charles Mayon
Vice presidentVice President · since Jul 1, 2018
Michael Patrick Mitchell
Vice presidentVice President · since Jan 1, 2019
Pete Smith
Vice presidentVice President
Peter W. Augustini
Vice presidentSenior Vice President · since Jul 1, 2018
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- Leland Berry White · Shareholder · Oct 1, 1997 to Mar 29, 2019 Inference
Investments on record
1 edges, 1 companies, 0 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Library Ave Consulting | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
2 disclosed
Timeline
6 dated events
- May 1, 2020Elizabeth Ashley Deluca joined Schedule A of ESP Investment Advisors LLC as Compliance Officer
- Mar 25, 2020Energy Spectrum Partners V LP no longer reported on Form ADV by ESP Investment Advisors LLCFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceEnergy Spectrum Partners V LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2019Leland Berry White (Shareholder) no longer on Schedule A of ESP Investment Advisors LLC
- Jan 1, 2019Michael Patrick Mitchell joined Schedule A of ESP Investment Advisors LLC as Vice President
- Dec 27, 2018ESP Investment Advisors LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 27, 2018Energy Spectrum Partners Viii LP first reported on Form ADV by ESP Investment Advisors LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $726,666,667Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactEnergy Spectrum Partners Viii LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Corporate venture (probable, 80%, cls-1)corporate parent: Energy Spectrum Securities Corporation
Evidence
54 observations from 3 sources