Streetlife Ventures

🌎 How can we shift the narrative from climate doom and gloom to agency and optimism? By celebrating the climate founders and funders who are deploying creative solutions in our very own streets and neighborhoods! 🏘️ And what a bash it was, with a packed house at our #ClimateTechDemoNight this week! We showcased an huge array of climate innovations coming to life right here in New York City: 💎 Aether: Sequestering carbon into diamonds 🏢 mimic systems: Reducing building energy use through solid-state heat pumps 🏗️ Pathways: Reducing emissions from new building materials 🏙️ Thalo Labs: Decarbonizing buildings by capturing GHG in real time 🌲 Vibrant Planet: Responding to wildfire and climate risks in real time At Streetlife Ventures, we are proud to be a part of this special community, investing at the intersection of #cities x #climate and building the world we want to live in. We invest in early stage startups and help founders access non-dilutive capital, deploy and de-risk products in real-world urban test beds, and accelerate commercialization. If you’re just getting started on your journey, please drop us a line: https://lnkd.in/gXNVqk-D A special thanks to all our partners in (good) crime: Climate Tech Cities, Amazon Web Services (AWS), NYU Tandon Future Labs, Techgrok, and SOSV. It takes a village - or a city, as we often say! If you’re keen to get more involved in the climate tech community in NYC and beyond, please join us: https://lnkd.in/eeReZKrC This is #ClimateIndustrialism in action - we wouldn't have it any other way! #ClimateAction #ClimateTech #ClimateJobs #ClimateCommunity #ClimateInvesting #SustainableCities #VentureCapital #Technology #Entrepreneurship #EnergyTransition #UrbanResilience #NetZero #GreenFuture

🙋🏻♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋♀️ #GirlPower on the rise! We've got big news to share at Streetlife Ventures today! Our Co-Founders and Managing Partners Laura Fox and Sonam Velani were selected for Recast Capital's inaugural Accelerate Program, receiving a $100k grant to build our fund, professional development resources, and an incredible community of rockstar women VCs! Accelerate launched on #internationalwomensday2023 and helps drive the success of women-led, early stage venture capital funds. It's funded by the fantastic team at Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company. Women in VC invest in 2x as many women entrepreneurs, who then hire 6x as many women on their teams. At Streetlife, we're excited to support the next generation of women building solutions at the intersection of #cities x #climate. Together, we transform our communities. 💚 In addition to joining this 100% female group, the 2023 cohort is composed of inspiring GPs from: 🇺🇸13 states across the U.S. 🌍36% first-generation U.S. citizens 🏳️🌈8% LGBTQIA community 💰83% raising Fund 1 🗣53% solo GPs We're lucky to join so many amazing friends and collaborators: Tessa Flippin at Capitalize VC, Jennifer Kan, PhD at Climate Capital, Rebecca Gevalt at Dcode Capital, Jenny Fielding at Everywhere Ventures (The Fund), Connie Bowen at Farmhand Ventures, Kathryn Finney at Genius Guild, Ariane Tom, PhD at Kaleida Capital, Batchimeg Ganbaatar at Nomadic Venture Partners, Erica Wenger 🏕️ at Park Rangers Capital 🏕️, Jenny He at Position Ventures, Rachel ten Brink at Red Bike Capital, Tahira Dosani at ResilienceVC, Shayna Harris at Supply Change Capital, Sydney Thomas at Symphonic Capital, Stephanie Campbell at The Artemis Fund , Brita Rosenheim at Vita Vera Ventures, and many more! We need more women in decision making roles across the industry and Recast is working to solve that issue. Thank you to Courtney Russell McCrea and Sara Zulkosky for leading this work and being on this journey with us as we bring Streetlife Ventures to life! https://lnkd.in/gvSvhnsY #womensupportingwomen, #womeninventure, #emergingmanagers, #diversitymatters, #equityforall #climateaction