Redwood Climate Office Hours on August 24
This event is open to anyone who is interested in climate software startups. If you are a Redwood developer or entrepreneur who’s starting a climate company or would like to apply for the Redwood Startup Fund , this event is especially for you.
We hope to see you there!
Event Registration and Details
- Wednesday, August 24th
- 11am to 12:00pm (PDT)
- YouTube LIVE on the RedwoodJS Channel
Free Registration
About Redwood Climate Office Hours Event
Github co-founder Tom Preston-Werner has announced the Redwood Startup Fund , focused on ideation stage climate startups that use the RedwoodJS app framework as a primary component in their stack. As part of the fund launch, we are hosting a panel-style discussion, hosted by Tom Preston-Werner and David Price. Our panelists are investors and climate startup founders who will be sharing their experiences and answering any questions that can help others in their own climate startup journey.
Meet our Hosts and Panelists
Our Hosts
Tom Preston-Werner is cofounder of Preston-Werner Ventures. Tom started his first business, Gravatar, in 2003 and sold it to Automattic in 2007. Since then he’s created many open source projects that have changed the way developers work and are used in millions of open-and closed-source projects. Tom is also known for cofounding GitHub which was bought by Microsoft in 2018. Tom is currently the cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Chatterbug.
David Price is Developer in Residence at Preston-Werner Ventures, focusing on the alignment of innovation and human flourishing. He supports general initiative and Hypothesis projects with an eye towards technology ethics, team formation, and expansion of product benefits across stakeholders. David has experience across industries as a multi-disciplinary entrepreneur.
Our Panelists
Amy Francetic is co-founder and Managing General Partner of Buoyant Ventures , a new venture fund in Chicago that invests in digital climate solutions for energy, transportation, agriculture, and the built environment. Her career spans over 20 years of high technology entrepreneurship, private equity, and research. Amy previously founded and led Energize Ventures, a $165mm venture fund that invests in digital energy technologies. She also co-founded and served as CEO of technology accelerator Evergreen Climate Innovations (formerly Clean Energy Trust,) which has invested in dozens of early-stage clean energy companies across the Midwestern US. She now serves as Chair of its Board of Directors. Amy also held roles at private equity firm MVC Capital, and at Stanford Research Institute where she worked on an early version of the voice recognition technology that became Siri. Earlier in her career, she was co-founder and CEO of a consumer technology company that was funded by Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, and that she sold to the Danish toy company, Lego Systems. Amy also helped fundraise for mobile gaming company, GluMobile, on whose board she served until it went public on the NASDAQ.
Ben Wolkon is the Manager of Sustainable Investments at MUUS Asset Management Co. , specializing in deal sourcing, due diligence, transactions, governance and operations for clean energy and technology companies, ranging from early stage startups to publicly listed corporations. Since joining MUUS in 2016, Ben has created an investment portfolio of companies that are playing a major role in decarbonizing the economy of the future. His areas of focus include solar energy, energy efficiency, fintech solutions for sustainability, energy access in developing countries, and next generation clean energy breakthroughs. Ben is part of the Climate Pathways Project, a collaboration between MUUS, MIT and Climate Interactive to bring groundbreaking climate change solutions simulation modeling to the highest levels of political and business leadership. The project has engaged approximately 100 US Governors, Senators and Members of Congress, as well as countless business leaders, with the En-ROADS model. Prior to joining MUUS, Ben worked as a commercial solar energy developer in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Participating
This event will be hosted on RedwoodJS YouTube channel. Once registered, you’ll receive a link and calendar invite with the event details. You’ll be able to view the live stream and participate by chat.
Day-of: How to access the Redwood Climate Office Hours Event
On the day of the event, you’ll access the Redwood Climate Office Hours via RedwoodJS YouTube channel. You can also access event details Luma here. You will see a large JOIN button on the page one hour before the event starts.
Resource
For support resources to learn about intersections between software and climate entrepreneurship, refer to this Google document: