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Elemental Impact

Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor in climate technologies with deep community impact.

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elementalimpact.com

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Investing, Startups, Impact

Nicole Sturzenberger

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I am a Development and Communications professional with 15+ years experience raising funds for mission-driven organizations.

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Elemental Impact + Earthshot Ventures + Emerson Collective

Avra van der Zee

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Climate Investor; COO of Elemental; Strategic Advisor & Board Member

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Investor and entrepreneur working with companies solving meaningful problems.

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Partner, Earthshot Ventures

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Obvious is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, purpose-driven entrepreneurs reimagining trillion-dollar industries. Our three investment pillars are planetary, human, and economic health. Obvious has over $1 billion AUM. Andrew brings to Obvious Ventures a lifelong passion for building companies around sustainable systems and people power. Prior to Obvious, Andrew focused for over a decade on clean technology and clean energy solutions. He started down the clean tech path co-founding Energy Innovations in 2003, which he grew from a business plan to a major solar developer serving customers like Google, Disney, Sony Pictures, and British Telecom. After selling the company to Suntech in 2008, Andrew served as Chief Commercial Officer at Suntech as well as Vice President of Global Product Strategy. During his tenure, Suntech became the largest solar company in the world. After leaving Suntech, Andrew spent two years as Vice President of Distributed Generation for Nextera Energy, the largest clean energy developer in the US. Before his clean tech career, Andrew spent a decade building companies in the early days of “Web 1.0.” In 1998 Andrew co-founded Bigstep.com, an e-commerce platform designed to serve the needs of small businesses entering the Internet age. He has been supporting the enterprising ideas of people power ever since. A graduate from Dartmouth College, Andrew lives in Burlingame, CA with his wife and three children. When he's not helping to build early stage companies, Andrew builds wooden boats and furniture. Andrew was born in New York City and spent his formative years on an avocado ranch in Ojai, California.

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Startup builder & systems thinker helping AI companies go to market, scale partnerships, and build traction ecosystems. Currently leading business development and AI strategy at Aclima, a pioneer in hyperlocal environmental data. Previously, I co-founded Third Derivative, the world’s largest climate tech accelerator (RMI + New Energy Nexus), where I led the design of a global commercialization program uniting 225+ startups, $7B in venture capital, and corporate partners like Netflix, FedEx, Microsoft, and Shell. I'm the author of Accelerate This!, a guide to startup innovation structures—sponsored by The World Bank, ADB, and WWF—and lecture at Singularity University on energy futurism and climate technology. I specialize in: - AI & climate commercialization - Partner GTM & ecosystem building - Innovation programs (accelerators, prizes, venture studios) - Early-stage storytelling & traction strategy 📚 Explore my open-source curriculum on innovation here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mHj6rm_7pMThv6dcemgfpF8k1j5Cq7BiW33yAOo8WC0/edit?usp=sharing 📖 Book: Accelerate This! → https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-This-Startup-Accelerators-Entrepreneurship/dp/1723026700/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= and download a PDF here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbdv0c2smr33dtp/Accelerate_This%21.pdf?dl=0