What is Sharon Creek Ventures?

Sharon Creek Ventures is a founder-led energy advisory and venture studio that helps difficult energy companies and infrastructure projects move toward contracted, financeable, and buildable reality.

Who does Sharon Creek Ventures work with?

The firm works with energy founders, developers, and boards that need operator-level help with commercialization, project development, capital strategy, governance, or execution.

What energy areas is Sharon Creek focused on?

Current efforts include woody waste-to-fuel, nuclear fuel refinement, and agricultural waste-to-fuel. Broader interests include grid-scale storage, niche solar, electrofuels, and industrial AI. These areas of interest are not representations of current client engagements.

Is the Sharon Creek fund currently investing?

No. Sharon Creek Ventures is raising and forming a fund intended to invest development capital. The fund is not represented as closed or actively deploying capital.

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Energy advisory · Venture studio · Fund in formation

Turning visionary energy projects into reality.

Founder-side execution from interconnects, feedstock, and offtake through capital and tax credits—so ambitious energy infrastructure can get contracted, financed, and built.

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Advise

Capital strategy

Fundraising narratives, investor readiness, and disciplined growth plans.

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Govern

Board leadership

Founder-aligned guidance through critical operating and financing decisions.

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Build

Venture studio

New companies formed from scratch around high-conviction energy opportunities.

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Invest

Development capital

A fund in formation to back businesses where experience and capital compound.

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Founder proof · Synthica St. Bernard

One difficult project. Nine years from concept to commissioning.

Sam Schutte helped originate the St. Bernard concept, then led Synthica Energy as CEO and co-founder through the siting, financing, construction, and commissioning work required to make it real.

The result was a large-scale organics-to-energy facility designed for approximately 190,000 tons of food-derived feedstock each year. That is the operating experience Sharon Creek brings to projects where every constraint has to resolve together.

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Aerial view of the Synthica St. Bernard organics-to-energy facility near Cincinnati — Synthica St. Bernard · Designed for approximately 190,000 tons of annual feedstock capacity

2019

Site

An industrial parcel near Cincinnati aligned feedstock sources, transportation, gas infrastructure, and the controls needed for an urban setting.

Financing

Capital

Utility-backed project financing and a contracted route to market helped turn a development thesis into a financeable project.

2023

Construction

The project broke ground in July 2023, beginning the work of turning years of commercial and technical development into a physical facility.

2025

Commissioning

First feedstock arrived and commissioning began in May 2025—roughly nine years after Sam Schutte began work on the original concept.

This project record reflects Sam Schutte’s prior work as CEO and co-founder of Synthica Energy. Sharon Creek Ventures is a separate, independent firm.

Pursuing opportunities where complex energy systems can become enduring businesses.

Sharon Creek is pursuing opportunities across the nuclear renaissance, waste-to-fuel pathways, grid-scale storage, and industrial AI—areas where founder experience can help turn difficult infrastructure concepts into durable companies.

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Nuclear renaissance

Pursuing opportunities across small modular reactors, nuclear projects, and the nuclear fuel supply chain.

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Woody waste to fuel

Helping turn difficult woody residuals into useful low-carbon fuels.

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Agricultural waste to fuel

Building pathways from agricultural residues to scalable energy products.

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Grid-scale storage

A broader area of interest across the evolving energy system.

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Industrial AI

Applying intelligence where infrastructure and operations meet.

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At this time, due to outstanding obligations, Sharon Creek Ventures is not pursuing or engaging in U.S.-based anaerobic digester development.

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Clear answers about Sharon Creek.

A concise reference for founders, partners, investors, and research assistants evaluating the firm.

What is Sharon Creek Ventures?: Sharon Creek Ventures is a founder-led energy advisory and venture studio that helps difficult energy companies and infrastructure projects move toward contracted, financeable, and buildable reality.
Who does Sharon Creek Ventures work with?: The firm works with energy founders, developers, and boards that need operator-level help with commercialization, project development, capital strategy, governance, or execution.
What energy areas is Sharon Creek focused on?: Current efforts include woody waste-to-fuel, nuclear fuel refinement, and agricultural waste-to-fuel. Broader interests include grid-scale storage, niche solar, electrofuels, and industrial AI. These areas of interest are not representations of current client engagements.
Is the Sharon Creek fund currently investing?: No. Sharon Creek Ventures is raising and forming a fund intended to invest development capital. The fund is not represented as closed or actively deploying capital.

Turn your energy visions into reality.

Bring Sharon Creek in when the project needs more than advice—when interconnects, contracts, capital, incentives, and execution all have to come together.

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