Issue #4 (Ignitia, EVmatch, Renewal Mill)
Meet the best women-led climate tech companies.
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Companies
Credit: FINCA Ventures 2019 Medium post. Photo Credit: Ignitia
Ignitia Tropical Weather Forecasting
Based in Stockholm, Ignitia provides accurate, hyper-local tropical weather forecasts to smallholders via SMS to reduce risk and loss for better harvests. Farmers can sow, fertilize and harvest at optimum times, maximizing precious resources and reducing risk across the farming cycle in the tropical belt. To date, Ignitia has over 1.3M subscribing farmers in five African countries with 2019 USD $1.1M revenue and plans to enter Brazil to expand its market footprint.
Co-Founder & CEO: Liisa Smits
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
EVmatch
EVmatch is a peer-to-peer network for electric vehicle (EV) charging that harnesses the power of sharing to immediately create more reliable charging options. Through EVmatch, individuals and business owners rent out their private charging stations, earning money and supporting more EVs on the road. EV drivers leverage the sharing economy to easily find, reserve, and pay for charging with a few quick clicks on the EVmatch web and mobile (iOS and Android) applications. EVmatch’s network immediately provides improved charging access and will later be leveraged to provide grid services, including demand response and energy storage. Evmatch is a current MergeLane portfolio company.
Founder & CEO: Heather Hochrein
HQ: Redwood City, CA
Renewal Mill
Named a World Changing Idea by Fast Company, Renewal Mill is an award-winning, next-generation ingredient company that fights climate change and global food loss by upcycling byproducts from food manufacturing into premium ingredients and plant-based products. Renewal Mill is building a new circular economy of food that’s better for the people and the planet. Their flagship ingredient is organic okara, a high fiber, high protein, gluten-free flour made from the nutritious soybean pulp leftover when you make soymilk. Renewal Mill can be found in 85+ markets in California. Renewal Mill is a Techstars alum, backed by Closed Loop Fund and top culinary leaders, and won the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Future Food Disruptor of the Year award.
Founder & CEO: Claire Schlemme
HQ: Oakland, CA
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