Powering Change: The Next Wave of Women-led Climate Finance
Join us for an energizing discussion on how strategic investments and capital in sustainable technologies reshape our economy. In this dynamic event, experts Aury Cifuentes, Faye Walsh Drouillard, Karen Sheffield, Alexandra Trabulsi, and Catherine Kauffelt, moderated by Reetu Gupta, will share their insights on the transformative potential of climate finance across impact and venture investing. Discover how innovative technologies and forward-thinking investment strategies drive financial returns and power a greener, more resilient future.
Learn firsthand how doubling down on sustainable technologies can create meaningful impact, mitigate risks, and unlock untapped market opportunities. Through engaging conversation and real-world case studies, our experts will explore actionable strategies, emerging trends, and investors' critical role in advancing the climate agenda.
Meet Your Hosts:
How Women Invest - How Women Invest is an early-stage venture firm and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of over 20,000 women. Female founders are a force to be reckoned with and are part of an untapped venture capital landscape. We will invest in U.S.-based, female-led, and female-majority-owned companies in most industry sectors with an emphasis on climate & the future of work. With 40% of companies founded by women, generating 26% greater returns, and yet only 2% of venture backing, How Women Invest focuses at the intersection of this opportunity to create ecosystem change. Ready to pitch to our team? Feel free to submit your application here: https://www.howwomeninvest.com/pitch
The Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) -Headquartered at the University of Zurich, CSP is a non-profit that develops and teaches science-backed tools through immersive impact learning programs that enable (ultra-)high net wealth investors and philanthropists to accelerate sustainable development using all of their assets. To date, CSP has empowered 500 ultra-high net wealth investors (UHNWIs) and 10,000 wealth managers, and helped mobilize up to $32 billion toward environmental and social impact. CSP’s flagship offering is the Impact Investing for the Next Generation program, now in its 10th year. Other core offerings include our ACCELERATE Level 2 programs on systemic investing and multi-capital approaches.
Pachamama Ventures is a venture capital firm accelerating climate tech companies delivering solutions for a more equitable world. Pachamama Ventures Fund I is a SF-based $5M pre-seed & seed stage venture fund to back exceptional founders building breakthrough climate tech companies with more than just capital. Founders can submit their company for investment consideration here.
The Clean Table brings together leaders from public and private spheres to create connections by solving the problems of funding, developing, testing, and deploying clean technology revealed in project focused discussions about the challenges and successes in moving technology demonstrations and capital forward. This is a effort launched by Reetu Gupta in partnership with Daybreak Labs.
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
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