VC Eclipse Hires T. Rowe Vet Fath After Tesla, Rivian Bets (1)

Aug. 5, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

Eclipse, a venture capital firm focused on startups in real-world industries like manufacturing, has hired longtime T. Rowe Price Group Inc. investor Joe Fath as partner and head of growth.

Palo Alto, California-based Eclipse confirmed the hire in a statement on Tuesday.

Fath spent more than 20 years at T. Rowe, starting in 2002 as a research analyst covering sectors like airlines and shipping, before managing the firm’s US Growth Stock Fund, which he scaled from $57 billion to over $150 billion in assets.

“I have been a builder of companies, over time,” Fath said in an interview with Bloomberg ...

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