Issue #13 (Dispatch Goods, ISeeChange, Starfire)
Meet the best women-led climate tech companies.
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Featured Companies
Dispatch Goods
Single-use packaging waste is one of the planet's most urgent problems. Restaurant takeout packaging is a top contributor to packaging waste. Photo Credit: Dispatch Goods
Dispatch Goods is creating the infrastructure in order to provide the reverse logistics for reuse, starting with restaurant delivery and takeout. The missing link to a circular system for brick and mortar companies is the reverse logistics --- a system of collection, processing, and redistribution of reusable packaging. Dispatch Goods partners with restaurants and food delivery apps to provide reusable packaging for customers, and then handles the reverse logistics, making reuse easy and delightful. Dispatch Goods has run pilots/partnerships with Doordash, Imperfect Foods, Yelp, Google, and more. They work with over 30 Bay Area restaurants and have saved over 100,000 items from the waste stream since August, 2020.
CEO and Founder: Lindsey Hoell
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Stage: Pre Seed
Asks for Help: Introduction to Jeffrey Hollender from Seventh Generation and someone from ChowNow (partnerships or social impact/sustainability lead).
ISeeChange
Photo credit: ISeeChange
ISeeChange is a socially networked almanac for the 21st century. Communities need better climate data and coordinated efforts to make climate investments because 1) the data used to model risk and impacts is inaccurate; 2) ground truthing models are costly, inefficient, and ad hoc; and 3) resident participation is mandated but inadequate and inequitable. ISeeChange is a climate data and engagement platform for cities, engineers, utilities, and the public to develop climate solutions together. They track impacts, validate models, design solutions, and learn through crowd-sourced data and dialogue.
ISeeChange has active clients in Miami, Boston, and New Orleans. They were awarded MIT Solve AI for the Betterment of Humanity Prize 2019, recently won the Exelon 2c2i competition, and was a 2021 Finalist in the Techstars Sustainability Supply Chain Challenge.
CEO and Founder: Julia Kumari Drapkin
HQ: New Orleans,
Stage: Seed
Asks for Help: The ISeeChange team welcomes conversations with impact and climate tech investors and is currently hiring a Senior Project Manager to join their growing team.
Starfire Energy
Photo credit: Starfire Energy
Starfire Energy has developed several novel technologies that represent a patented process for synthesizing 100% carbon-free ammonia from water, air and renewable energy sources. In the last several years ammonia and hydrogen have gained a great deal of momentum as the green fuels of the future. The challenge is that the way ammonia has been produced over the past century uses fossil-based fuel for both power and as a feed stock for hydrogen. Traditional process methods require steady operating states that are incompatible with the inherently variable power of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
Even the smallest scale Starfire Energy ammonia plant represents the displacement of more than 20,000 tons of CO2 each year.
Starfire Energy just closed a funding round led by AP Ventures and included New Energy Technologies, Chevron Technology Ventures, Osaka Gas USA, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
COO and Founder: Jennifer Beach
HQ: Aurora, CO
Stage: Series B
Asks for Help: Starfire Energy is seeking to consult with a chemical plant sales expert. They are also seeking to grow their staff, so please visit their careers page for more information.
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