CWSF - Climate Tech x AI Lunch
Virta Ventures and SVB is excited to co-host a SF Climate Week lunch discussion on Climate Tech x AI with panelists from early stage climate tech companies Tyba, Fleet and Fractal. We will be discussing how climate tech startups are leveraging the latest AI advances in their core products, business operations, and more. What are the challenges and opportunities for AI in climate tech? What sub-sectors within climate tech are most ripe for adoption of AI?
Speakers:
Russell Sprole, Founder & Managing Partner of Virta Ventures
Michael Baker, Co-Founder & CEO of Tyba
Emma Fuller, Co-Founder of Fractal Agriculture
Shaurya Saluja, Co-Founder & CEO of Fleet
About:
Virta Ventures is an early stage climate tech fund focused on B2B equity-light business models that are digitizing and decarbonizing four critical sectors - energy, mobility, the built environment, and agriculture.
Tyba provides SaaS software for operating and developing energy storage and renewable power plants. Their software platform enables traders and owner/operators to implement proprietary forecasting and dispatch strategies and bring new power plants to market. Founded in 2020, Tyba has assets under management in California and Texas, and is helping companies develop across US and international markets.
Fractal Agriculture is a farmland investment platform that aligns capital with farmers to drive regenerative agriculture adoption and differentiated, resilient returns and scale.
Fleet is building the first employee-centric, holistic mobility platform designed to power the next generation of smart commuting. By automating the work of entire transportation teams and packing the expertise of commute planners into a simple, plug-and-play solution, Fleet makes it easy to design, launch, and manage smarter, impactful commuter programs all in one place. Fleet is reinventing commuting benefits and bringing big-company superpowers to everyone.
Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, remains a leading partner of choice for the innovation economy. SVB’s Climate Tech & Sustainability practice, has, since 2009, been home to the market’s most experienced climate tech bankers and lenders. SVB helps innovators across the U.S. and with diverse business models to plan for and implement tailored treasury- and debt capital solutions to increase our clients chances of success.