Go Christophe and Tender Food!
Did you know that the meat and dairy industry produces more emissions than transportation? In our newest series, Tomorrow’s Menu, 2023 The James Beard Foundation semi-finalist Chef Douglass Williams spoke to Tender Food’s CEO Christophe Chantre about their plant-based pulled pork. #Food #Sustainability #PlantBased
Andee is amazing! Work for her! Boston-area ag + climate companies... 😎
We're hiring! If you're excited about engineering non-model organisms, have experience with filamentous fungi, are knowledgable about CRISPR and/or RNAi, and want to be a part of a team bringing synbio to outdoor environments, we want to talk!
Thank you SO much Extantia, esp Carlota, for including me! Being a startup founder/CEO is a super-lonely experience. It's got perks, obviously! (see below) But at the same time it's *incredibly* isolating. Give your neighborhood startup founder a hug next you see them - they're prob terrified and scared to admit it to themselves or anybody else. Hence there's no better medicine for the soul than time with other founders and with an investor like Extantia who's committed to our success, both as companies and as people. 💗 Fellow climate founders, I can't recommend Extantia more highly. And I promise I was also saying that *before* they wined and dined me in Majorca for a weekend! Many thanks to the partners and broader team of Extantia for making this happen, and hoping on another opportunity together in the future. 🙏
✨What happens when you mix the audacity of pioneers with the charm of Mallorca? You get DREAM by Extantia – an event that brought together our portfolio CEOs in an exclusive setting in Mallorca. Our recent gathering was filled with inspiring conversations and bonding experiences! 🌎 The goal of DREAM was to offer a platform for our CEOs to connect, share, learn from each other, and grow. From heart-pumping outdoor activities to enlightening peer-to-peer "a-ha" moments, the energy was truly inspiring. We covered key topics like hiring and retaining talent, leadership, stakeholder management, and scaling. We hope our CEOs left the summit with practical advice and new skills to elevate their companies to the next level. 🙏 Thanks to the founders and CEOs who joined us and made DREAM an event to remember – Chris Tolles Gary Urb, PhD Stephan Herrmann Felix Fischer Amir Shiner Timur SİRMAN Maximilian Fries Doron Tamir Rotem Arad Florent Héroguel Llŷr Anwyl and Dainis Kruze. 🚀 A special shout-out to our guest speakers Lubomila Jordanova, Dr. med. Eckart von Hirschhausen, Andreas M. Rickert, Leonidas Kikis. We're thankful for the time you shared with us! We can't wait to continue this journey together and see the impact of the connections sparked in Mallorca!
Team! Katie is the bomb! Work at Microsoft!!!!
I am hiring for Carbon Removal Program Managers at Microsoft! I am seeking candidates committed to maximizing positive impact by procuring high-quality CDR credits. I encourage applicants with experience (1) managing complex diligence processes, and (2) improving CDR project quality, to apply for the role: https://lnkd.in/gK8_gZJz
It's hard to overstate how important Running Tide has been, and will continue to be, in the CDR and NbS conversations. It is so easy to shit on hard/uncertain things from outside the ring - those voices are usually best carefully considered and then 95% ignored. RT shutting down will scare fair-weather funders and folks new to the venture game. Meh. Others will know that this is entirely predictable. It's how high-growth, VC-backed companies work. Anybody working on multigenerational problems need not freak out that RT is closing. It's no secret that CDR is unfathomably hard - open-systems/nature-based stuff prob doubly so. We're trying to solve a problem nobody in the world has ever made a dent in despite decades of evidence. Anybody not baking that into their models already is asleep at the wheel. I admire you, Marty Odlin! I tell my 8 y o all the time that courage isn't the opposite of fear. Rather, it's when we're scared that we even have the *potential* to be brave. You embody that every day. You hold that paradox, and you've inspired so many. 💓 Any founder/CEO working in this space must be capable of the same. Avoid the urge to net out hope and fear. Feel them both, deeply, every day. Face the abyss and do so while holding the hand of somebody you trust. Be hard in the right ways and soft in the right ways. Marty, I'm SO grateful to have learned so much from you and your team. You have a big heart and a big brain. SO excited to see what you do next. SO thrilled for the legion RT alums having impact elsewhere (including at Yard Stick!). This ain't failure, y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Running Tide was built for our kids. We started Running Tide to restore balance to our planet by partnering with nature to heal the ocean and fix our climate for future generations. That is the victory condition. In the past seven years, the urgency of our mission has only increased. Unfortunately, today we are beginning the process of shutting down Running Tide’s operations because we are unable to secure the right kind of financing to continue our work with the urgency it requires. While this is incredibly disappointing, I can’t help but be proud of the work we have done as a team. We did the thing. We grew oysters, we removed carbon, and we increased the world's understanding of the ocean. Starting a company of any kind is a hopeful act. Starting a company with the explicit goal of restoring nature and healing the ocean requires hope for the future and humility in the face of the complexity and the scale of the problem. I still have hope. The victory condition remains the same. So grab a shovel, we still have work to do.
Such a unique company! Genuinely innovative approach and *world-class* people. If I had didn’t have a job, I would be tempted to apply for this. If you are interested in the intersection of agriculture, climate change, and land management/ownership, you should work at Fractal!
Building a farmer- and climate-centered model of farmland investing to drive returns and impact
I'm hiring a Chief of Staff / Biz Ops Lead to help scale Fractal as we launch our first capital vehicle and accelerate capital deployment to farmers! This person will work across the business on key projects to help our fantastic team level-up the most important things we're working on. If you're someone passionate about climate, finance, investing, or agriculture and wants an opportunity to build something that matters, apply below. I really hope we can give someone a chance that not only changes our business, but the career growth and trajectory of someone who will make an impact! *While we are a remote-first company overall, this role will be in San Francisco*
Give it up for Jakob, Stefan, and the whole Seqana team! Congratulations, so excited to see y’all grow and thrive. 👏
🌾 🌱𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝗮𝗻𝗮! 🌱 🌾 Seqana has successfully raised a €2.1M Seed round to revolutionize carbon farming on a global scale! 💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: ✅ Funding Partners: HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and Counteract lead the round, with continued support from ReGen Ventures ✅ Innovative Technology: Our ML models, powered by satellite imagery, cut soil carbon measurement costs by up to 50%. ✅ Global Impact: With over 5 million hectares analyzed, we're driving scalable, comparable MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) for carbon farming. 🌱 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗜𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: Seqana's mission is to empower the agrifood sector and voluntary carbon markets by making carbon farming a cost-effective and scalable solution for climate change mitigation. Our work aligns with the European Union's carbon removal certification framework, paving the way for significant advancements in sustainable agriculture. 🤝 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Axel Stepken: Former CEO of TUEV SUED Stefan Gross-Selbeck: Former MD and co-founder of BCG X Klaus Kunz: Former VP, Head of ESG at Bayer Ben Brandt: COO of Ledgy "𝙎𝙚𝙦𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙞𝙡 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚-𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨." - Matt Isaacs, Managing Partner at Counteract Join us as we take this monumental step towards a sustainable future! 🌍🌿 Press Release 👉👉👉 https://lnkd.in/ehv78-vQ 🔗 Learn more about Seqana and our groundbreaking work: Seqana | International Soil Carbon Industry Alliance (ISCIA) #ClimateTech #CarbonFarming #SustainableAgriculture #SoilCarbon #Innovation #TechForGood #InvestmentNews #ClimateChange #Seqana
Thank you Brandon, Erika, and the whole Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund team for joining our Series A last year! Proud to be featured in the company's 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report. 🤝 (Direct link here for convenience: https://lnkd.in/d-xzgi_K)
There is no issue today that connects everyone on the planet more than the impact of climate change. The Microsoft Sustainability Report published this week makes it clear — the journey to achieve our commitments around carbon, water, waste, and land are both a formidable challenge and a profound opportunity. I'm proud of the ambitious action we’ve taken across Microsoft, including how the team identified 80 discreet metrics to help us measure and manage our carbon footprint. At the same time, carbon remains an area where we are not yet on track as our investments in AI infrastructure have changed the calculus for what it will take to bring our scope 3 emissions in line with our goals. We remain committed to achieving all our goals and are intensively engaged to identify and pursue additional breakthroughs for Microsoft, our customers, and the world. We hope our transparency provided in this report will spark new ideas and foster innovation. One thing remains clear: our shared future depends on all of us succeeding together. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/e4ExuV4z
People, work at Pillar VC! Yard Stick has nearly a dozen institutional investors and only ONE of them is not exclusively climate-focused. That's Pillar, because they are the bomb. As a PBC, "Climate Impact Above All Else" as our number one core value, yadda yadda, we take shared mission/incentives seriously and don't invite non-climate-first investors onto the cap table lightly. Pillar has been a world-class supporter of me as a person and Yard Stick as a company since literally day one. (Day negative 180 or so, honestly, since Tony Kulesa and Josh Moser and Jamie Goldstein where there long before Yard Stick was even a thing!) They walk the walk of founder support, community-building (esp in Boston), and zero bullshit. Only a small % of what they've done for me/us is shareable publicly - buy me a beer sometime and I'll tell you the rest! If you want to work at a VC with soul *and* rigor, I can't recommend them more highly.
We’re hiring at Pillar VC! Come join a team of people who are lucky to support some of the most talented founders in the world in turning their ideas into pillar companies 🚀 - Chief of Staff - Full-Stack Developer - Office Manager
Climate pre-founders in the Boston area, come hang with me and the inimitable Christina Chang!
Considering founding a climate startup in Boston? 🌎 Join our intimate dinner on Wednesday, June 5th featuring Chris Tolles. ✨ Applications due Thu May 30th!
“based in Boston” 😎😎😎 Congrats Malak!
I’m excited to share that I recently joined the investing team at Lowercarbon Capital. I’ll be based in Boston and focused on industrial decarbonization—but really all things climate! 🌎 Thrilled to be spending this next chapter working with an incredible team to back ambitious climate startups that use technology to build a better future.
