Streamline Climate

We're building the fastest #climatetech proposal writing experience ever made. to streamline your government workflows for RFPs and Grants. Let's navigate #IRA, #CHIPS, #BIL funding faster to accelerate the #climate transition ?? Interested in learning more? Check out our new website ??

One of the most overwhelming parts of building in #climate is constructing a "capital stack". Unlike building in SAAS, in #climatetech you need to fund physical "stuff" and returns on investments take longer-- this means you can't only rely on VCs and need to get creative. Daniel Kriozere put a panel together this week to demystify this, bringing together companies from across the stack: from where we at Streamline Climate sit with grants, to VC funding, to equipment financing with Luc Gerdes and Camber Road, etc.. ( ?? See the chart below for how it all fits together ) Having a full capital stack represented on a panel meant we could explore when and why each capital sources was relevant. A lot of climate tech is early and unproven, making traditional funding harder to access and you need to combine multiple. Financing these "first of a kind" #FOAK projects requires a larger risk appetite which fewer lenders have. Some of the key takeaways shared: 1) Match the type of capital to the specific business function. Ex: if you need expensive equipment, consider equipment financing rather than operating off of your balance sheet 2) These capital sources are not competing against eachother, rather they are collaborating. For example, the best time for Venture Debt is right after raising a VC round. 3) This is hard. There is no one-size-fits-all. --- ?? Shoutout to the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub for hosting us. They're bringing the sf climate ecosystem together - thanks for all the awesome work done by Matthew Joehnk and Duncan Logan

Last week, I had the opportunity to present in front of MBA students at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business has part of a Navigating Climate Finance event. I always get so much satisfaction sharing the work we're doing at Streamline Climate, and my journey to joining the team, with folks who are curious-- whether that's a close friend, a candidate, or a room of MBAs. Regardless of the context, however, my favorite part is when others share their projects and personal journeys with me in exchange. At Berkeley, I heard from students who are actively searching for grant funding to finance their climate startups; who quit their corporate job to transition into a higher-impact role within the climate space; who have been in the trenches of helping local governments pursue climate adaptation grants for their communities; and so many more. I was reminded of just how many critical players need to come together to fund the full ecosystem of climate solutions, and how much opportunity there is to move the needle for folks who are just getting involved in the space. Thanks so much to Vivaan Patel from Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) and Daniel Kriozere from Anthropocene Ventures for hosting; to the other speakers, Kelly Cook, Lara Pierpoint, and Troy Ault for giving awesome presentations; and to all the students who stuck around to chat about climate grants post-event-- Angela Y. Sean Shitamoto Sofia Trexler Nidhi Upadhyaya Vanessa H. Moe Ghaffarian Johann von Sothen to name a few! ??

Streamline Discover is officially out of Beta ??

Thanks Bain Capital Ventures & Headline for including us in the 2024 Vertical SaaS 50 ?? Lots of exciting updates coming soon ??

Last week Stonly Blue and I lead an AI workflows workshop at the Third Sphere conference in Tulsa and here are just some of the questions we answered: - can you make yourself "more leveraged" by automating tasks? A: yes! - what automations should you build in house versus buy? A: buy if you can - what to look for in AI tools you buy? A: privacy & how they do model training We went into everything from prompt engineering to building lightweight agents with Zapier to some of the work we've been doing at Streamline Climate. ?? One thing to remember with all of these AI-powered-workflows -- speaking as the founder of one -- is that you are the driver in these interactions. In our case, Streamline's ability to help is extremely limited if you have no grant strategy or ideas for your business. Workflow automations help you double down on something that works. -- Huge shoutout to the wonderful team at Atento Capital (especially Vondell J. Burns ??) that hosted us, planned tours, and exposed us to the exciting happenings in town (including Tulsa Tough ??♀?!!). Lots of dreaming along with action. I wouldn't be surprised if Tulsa, which was once "the oil capital of the world", became the "energy capital of the world." Also shoutout to the Third Sphere team for bringing such a good crew together - Miela Mayer, Shaun Abrahamson, Stonly Blue, Zeev Krieger ?? If you want to recreate the workshop, check out Stonly's post here: https://lnkd.in/gU_8aqN5

Just got off a call with Streamline Climate and I have to say, VERY cool tool for those looking to apply to grants. It's the chat.gpt of grant management. https://lnkd.in/gUCM_abP #streamline

It's SF #Climate Week ??! 100+ folks kicked off the week strong with THE climate week run this morning. Shoutout to Emily Moini from our team and our co-host Olivia Heitz from Banyan Infrastructure who led the way ??♀? Additional shoutouts to A Runner's Mind and ASICS Corporation for the coffee, donuts, vibes, and demo shoes ?? We'll be around events all week - come say hi ??

#SFClimateWeek is coming ?? Our coming out of stealth moment for Streamline was hosting our "Diverse Capital Stack" event at SFCW last year with Pear VC (photos below!). At that point it was just Douglas Qian, Dhen Emmanuel Padilla and I. This year we're back with 2x the team... and 4x the events ??. At Streamline Climate we work across the climate sector and I'm excited for the opportunity to bring several communities together-- across crazy outdoorsy runners to financiers to electrification folks to machine learning people. ??♀? Monday: Run! https://lnkd.in/gQxM2dFq We have 200+ attending and partnering with Banyan Infrastructure and A Runner's Mind to make this possible. We'll have special surprises -- something to try on (hint: ASICS Corporation) and to keep (hint: ?? Nicole Kelner) for the first 100. ??Tuesday: EV Happy Hour https://lnkd.in/gKFJcqQ5 Together with Kieran White from Curo and Vince Wong from ElectricFish, we're bringing together innovators across EVs and EV Charging. Space is limited so register asap ?? ?? Wednesday: Financing CDR https://lnkd.in/gxB3u3yv A series of conversations around carbon dioxide removal and how to get it funded, with speakers across the funding stack, and experienced founders speaking about their learnings. Shoutout to Andy Rapista in pulling this crew together and Mercury and Fifty Years for sponsoring! Come hear from the team Elemental Excelerator, Tenzin Seldon from Pulse Fund, Melissa Zhang from Azimuth Capital, Grant Canary from Mast Reforestation, Shelley Golan from Mercury, Luc Gerdes from Camber Road, Tom Green from Vesta, PBC, Mira Nagarajan from Origen, and Leo Hyoungkun Park, PhD from Capture6 ?? ?? Thursday: Today's ML solutions https://lu.ma/aiforclimate With all the hype in #generativeAI we wanted to make space to speak about machine learning's potential in tackling climate change. We'll be hearing about Diego Saez Gil's story in building Pachama, Emmalina Glinskis' experience at Floodbase, and Peetak Mitra's lessons from Climate Change AI and more recently at Excarta. (Thrilled to rope in a good friend and Climate + AI advocate Rohan Nuttall to moderate ??). This is made possible by Pear VC and Mercury ?? ---- Finally... if you're overwhelmed by the full SFCW event list, I made a quick list of events for those of us more introvert-inclined. Here's my Climate Week Plan: https://lnkd.in/g7zJsN9e

We're excited to be co-hosting "Amped Up Affair," and EV Happy Hour with our friends at Curo and ElectricFish! The event will be hosted on Tuesday, April 23rd -- one of so many great events upcoming as part of #SFClimateWeek. ???? https://lnkd.in/g6sfQS22