Ezra's Climate Finance Bootcamp
Join the Ezra team for their Climate Finance Bootcamp to help founders/CEOs think about when - and how - to raise credit financing.
Producing and deploying climate technology is capital-intensive. Oftentimes for climate companies, financing the climate solution is critical to adoption to make it affordable through turning the capex investment into a financial product. Most climate founders need to use credit at some point in order to grow their business without using expensive equity. In this workshop, we will cover some of the key questions that climate founders have about raising credit, including:
Why should I think about raising credit?
What are the different kinds of credit financing available to my climate company?
When should I think about raising credit?
What do I need to do in order to raise credit?
What are lenders looking for when assessing my climate company?
We will also provide an opportunity for questions from participants.
Ezra Climate is a credit platform for climate companies, brought to you by the team behind Mosaic. We help climate companies raise and deploy credit capital for a variety of purposes, including customer financing, working capital, and more. We also build embedded finance solutions, such as customer leases to help your company scale.
Your facilitators from Ezra will be:
Dan Rosen - Ezra CEO and Unreasonable Mentor and former Board Member
Dan is a serial entrepreneur and investor with 20 years of experience leading clean energy companies and initiatives. He currently serves as CEO of Ezra, a fintech enabled asset management firm. Ezra’s mission is to radically accelerate financing to scale climate solutions. Read more here
Christin Price, VP of Finance
Christin is Ezra’s VP of Finance. She has a decade of experience leading strategy, finance, and operations functions at venture-backed companies, ranging from pre-seed to Series D. She credits her strong quantitative foundation to her early career as an economic consultant supporting RMBS litigation. In 2016, Christin joined the tech ecosystem as a co-founder of Neat Capital and then an early employee at Point; both startups focused on reinventing the residential mortgage experience. In 2018, Christin made her second career pivot, moving from fintech to SaaS. She joined a B2B business intelligence and analytics platform called Mode as the first finance hire. During her tenure, she grew the finance org to a team of four, led four annual planning cycles, raised $57M, and was promoted to executive leadership. Read more here
Mairi Roberston, Venture Development Manager
Mairi is our Venture Development Manager, helping Ezra’s companies to build and scale. Prior to Ezra, Mairi worked at McKinsey in London and New York, working on climate finance with clients across energy, heavy industry, and finance. She has also worked at an education venture incubator and as a journalist. Originally from Australia, Mairi has a Master of Public Policy from Harvard and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford.