Our Climate Community

Our spaces and programs are brought to life by exceptional people focused on solving the climate crisis and its many related social and environmental challenges.

Climate Ventures startups and organizations are part of a community of climate entrepreneurs and innovators plugged into the Social Innovation Canada and Foresight networks.

With accelerators, the national Community of Innovators, peer circles, socials, workshops, online groups and advisors, we spark valuable connections and collaborations.

Meet the Climate Ventures community:

CCTO provides a safe space for people to express concerns about climate change while gaining tools to reduce their carbon footprint and finding renewed motivation to act on climate change.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 13: Climate Action
CarbonGraph is a platform that lets companies calculate and share the carbon footprint of their products with the aim of making carbon emissions transparent across supply chains.
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption & Production
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 17: Partnerships For The Goals
CERT Team
CERT is a carbontech company that converts CO2 into chemical fuels and feedstocks using water and electricity.
SDG 7: Affordable & Clean Energy
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 13: Climate Action
Photo of three people from ChargeLab.
ChargeLab builds an open software platform for managing electric vehicle charging stations. Our platform leverages intelligent charging to improve how we move, work, and live.
SDG 7: Affordable & Clean Energy
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 13: Climate Action
Photo of Chelsea Longaphy from Purpose Capital.
Chelsea helps institutional clients implement impact investment strategies. Previously, she worked on CSI’s Community Bond offerings and with the investment research arm of Corporate Knights.
A photo of Andrew Rettig working at Climate Ventures
Alumni

Choice Drive 100

Andrew Rettig
Choice D90 promotes vehicle drivers' awareness of how a 100 km/hour highway speed significantly reduces their carbon emissions while driving. A speed of 120km/hour increases GHG by over twenty per cent.
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption & Production
SDG 13: Climate Action
Headshot of Chris Caners.
Currently serving as General Manager of SolarShare, Chris is a professional engineer with more than a decade of experience in renewable energy, GHG emissions verification and management, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability.
Alumni

City of Toronto

Renee Ball is a Research Assistant at the City of Toronto's Economic Development and Culture division, which supports the growth of various priority sectors, including The Green Sector.
SDG 6: Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 7: Affordable & Clean Energy
SDG 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
Advisor

Claire Dixon

Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Climate Ventures & Foresight
Claire has a unique ability to distill complex and disparate information into clear, concise insights. She brings 20+ years of strategy and operations experience in strategic consulting and senior operational roles. Claire holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a MEng/MA from Cambridge University.
Clean Nature developed and proposes guiA, an innovative and effective smart decision-making tool to prepare, intervene and adapt road-salt spreading more efficiently while reducing costs and environmental impacts.
SDG 6: Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
Alumni

Climate Response

Climate Response is a new organization in development to promote pragmatic vision of a global democratic civilization to save humanity from the climate crisis.
SDG 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
Headshot of Kathy Porter.
Alumni

CO2Velo

Kathy Porter, Jacqui Gingras
Imagine Getting Paid to Cycle! CO2Velo sells locally based carbon offset credits to emitters, using the funds to provide financial incentives for people to cycle.
SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 13: Climate Action