🔥 Fireside Chat: Building & Making an Impact in Climate Tech w/ Dawn Lippert and Austin Blackmon

​🌱 Interviewed by Candice Ammori, attend this session to learn about Dawn's background in building Elemental Excelerator and Earthshot Ventures and her take on opportunities to make impacts in the climate tech space. 

About the Speakers
Dawn Lippert is Founder and CEO of Elemental Excelerator, a global climate technology investor and non-profit impact organization. Under Dawn's leadership, Elemental has invested in more than 130 startups in the energy, mobility, water, circular economy, and agriculture sectors, and those companies have gone on to raise over $7 billion in follow-on funding to date. Dawn has shared insight on climate investing and the energy transition in the Economist, Bloomberg TV, Axios Pro, TED, Yahoo! Finance Live, Canary Media, and more. 

In addition to leading Elemental Excelerator, Dawn serves as Founding Partner of Earthshot Ventures, a $80 million venture fund spun out of Elemental in 2021. Dawn is also Director of Innovation and Community at Emerson Collective, the investment and philanthropic platform led by Laurene Powell Jobs, where she advises on climate work and investing.

​Austin Blackmon brings a background spanning finance, climate tech, and public service. Prior to Earthshot, he ran operations for TerraVerde and Soligent. He was also Boston’s Chief Sustainability Officer, setting the strategy for how the City reduced emissions and prepared for climate change.

​About the Interviewer

​Candice Ammori advises climate tech startups and was most recently the Founding Director of On Deck Climate Tech where she built a startup ecosystem and invested in climate tech companies. In the last year, she brought together 750+ people from across the global climate tech ecosystem, from policy experts to investors and founders, and helped talented folks start dozens of impactful organizations. Before that, her career spanned finance, data science, VR, cloud computing, and running a local business. She has a grad degree in statistics (focused on the ethics of AI) from the University of Michigan.