We are thrilled to unveil Part 11 of our ongoing series: “20 Women Leading the Charge in Climate Tech.”
In this latest edition, we shine a light on the tireless efforts of women globally who are at the forefront of the fight against climate change. But our celebration goes beyond just applauding women founders and investors. We’re acknowledging the significant strides women make in championing sustainability.
To play our part in promoting the climate tech ecosystem, we focus on women holding the reins, be it as founders, investors, in academia or as community builders. Through this series, we showcase the women not only developing transformative solutions for climate change but also those who power its adoption and financing. These trailblazers fuel our passion for pushing the boundaries of climate innovation, setting in motion a ripple effect that empowers more women in the climate tech arena!
For more useful resources on female founders and investors in climate tech, we recommend taking a look at our first editions of Women Driving the Future of Climate Tech: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 & Part 10. As this is our 11th installment, we now have 220 women driving the future of climate change, so we invite you to check out our full running list of all 220 women.
If you know of any female-led teams doing or funding climate-positive work, we hope you share it with us in this form.
FOUNDERS & CEOs
Company Mission: Sunrun’s mission is to lead the transition toward a sustainable future by providing clean, locally-generated, affordable, and reliable energy to millions of families across America. As a leading provider of clean energy as a subscription service, Sunrun aims to reduce emissions for both their customers and themselves, contribute to environmental stewardship, and offer innovative solutions like solar-plus-storage systems.
Company Mission: Kadeya redefines hydration with high-quality, low-impact drinks. Their network of low waste vending stations provides purified water and flavored drinks in infinite, eco-friendly bottles. Kadeya’s system reduces carbon emissions and plastic waste, promoting a sustainable, healthier way to stay hydrated.
Company Mission: Clearly is a B2B SaaS platform that empowers fleets and cities to achieve net-zero emissions by providing transparent and actionable data insights. Their trip-level data enables organizations to track emissions, optimize decarbonization projects, and verify carbon reduction.
Company Mission: 2S Water provides real-time monitoring solutions for metals in water, helping industries optimize processes, reduce costs, and maintain compliance. Their AquaValid technology delivers immediate, actionable data, enabling operators to make informed decisions that prevent costly inefficiencies and environmental breaches.
Company Mission: Peoples Energy Analytics addresses energy insecurity by providing analytics-driven solutions focused on targeting and assisting individuals who may be overlooked. Their mission is to dramatically reduce energy insecurity by working alongside utility companies to accurately identify households in need of financial assistance, segment them across key demographic categories, and approach them with direct support opportunities.
6. Haley Marie Keith
Co-founder & CEO
Company: MITO Material Solutions
Climate Action Area: Manufacturing
Company Mission: MITO Material Solutions is revolutionizing the materials industry with its innovative hybrid additive technology. As a next-generation company, MITO tackles industry-wide challenges by providing micro-sized solutions that enhance the performance of materials, making them stronger, more durable, flexible, and sustainable.
Company Mission: Their mission is to provide high-quality feed and supplies for your animals while promoting sustainable practices. We believe that caring for your pets and livestock should also mean caring for the environment.
8. Brittany Ferguson
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Company: InfinaVero
Climate Action Area: Agriculture Bio Tech
Company Mission: InfinaVero focuses on removing methane from the atmosphere to avoid the collapse of regional food systems vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The captured methane produces a carbon-negative natural soil nutrient alternative to organic and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.
Company Mission: Rock Rabbit simplifies the process of future-proofing homes by providing AI-powered solutions that make accessing rebates and financing for home electrification fast and easy for homeowners, contractors, and incentive providers.
Company Mission: Foodsteps is on a mission to empower the food industry to accelerate its journey to net zero. Their specialised food sustainability platform and in-house experts provide instant access to industry-leading data and insights that food services companies and food manufacturers can trust to accurately measure, reduce and report their environmental impact.
11. Kristeen Reynolds
Co-founder & Principal Scientist
Company: Drinkicks
Climate Action Area: Circular Economy
Company Mission: DrinKicks repurposes food waste and recycled materials into sustainable shoes. DrinKicks also has a strong emphasis on educating consumers about the power of the circular economy.
Company Mission: Yook provides an easy-to use and -integrate software to calculate + communicate product carbon footprints for brands and retailers. Unlocking product carbon data to drive meaningful impact.
Company Mission: VERDE Nanomaterials is producing affordable cellulose nanofibers from waste feedstocks to enable sustainable materials in the circular bioeconomy.
INVESTORS
Company Mission: Operator Exchange brings together an accomplished group of 20+ tech executives based around Europe and Silicon Valley who’ve founded or built fast-growing startups before. Investment themes: Financial empowerment, sustainable fashion, circular economy, energy transition, undercapitalized founder profiles.
Company Mission: HG Ventures is the corporate venture investing arm of The Heritage Group, expanding upon and leveraging our 90-year track record of building diverse and successful companies in sustainability, environmental services, energy, transportation infrastructure, and specialty chemicals.
16. Cheshta Balwani
Angel Investor / Clean Transportation and Distributed Energies Solution
Firm: Black & Veatch
Company Mission: Creating new possibilities for humanity through delivering innovation in infrastructure.
Company Mission: Climate change is water change. It is the medium through which we will feel the effects of a warming earth. It is our responsibility to manage Earth’s most precious resource, now more than ever. Burnt Island Ventures finds, funds, and supports the best founders in water.
Company Mission: Capturing the Climate opportunity in Insurance industry.
Sourcing and Investing in InsurTech Startups, mainly focusing on innovative solutions addressing Climate change-related risk, Disaster and Catastrophe insurance.
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ACCELERATORS & THINK TANKS
Company Mission: Dena is a centre of excellence for the applied energy transition and climate protection. They work with stakeholders from across all sectors, on both a national and international level. As a think tank, they study the challenges of building a climate-neutral society and they develop solutions for climate neutrality and put them into practice.
GET ACCESS TO THE FULL RUNNING LIST DATABASE OF AMAZING WOMEN IN CLIMATE TECH
The database is accessible to the members of our community as part of other exclusive content we provide to them. We have also have databases of climate tech VCs, accelerators, startups and more. Learn more about the membership options here.
Want to learn about more amazing women in Climate Tech?
Check out the previous posts in this series.
