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:

Community Garden App is building the world's first custom software for community garden management. We make administering a garden easy.
SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 15: Life On Land
Advisor

Craig Hutchison

Craig has been the Senior Marketer on many of Canada’s biggest brands including Joe Fresh (since launch), President’s Choice, noname, WESTON bakeries, and Mr. Christie's cookies. He is an expert in all aspects of marketing and brand building. Craig loves to mentor and is keen to learn new businesses.
Dave Borins is the Director of Community Renewable Energy Projects at Bullfrog Power, Canada's leading green energy provider. Dave helps the Bullfrog Power community provide funding to non-profits, First Nations, Co-ops and Municipalities who are building wind, solar and run of river hydro projects across Canada.
Headshot of David Ing.
Advisor

David Ing

David advises on systems approaches to designing solutions that will scale to enterprise and multinational success. His 2018 book on Open Innovation Learning builds theories on cases gathered during his 28-year career at IBM.
Shot of Leor Rotchild.
DIG (Do It Green) is a registered B Corp delivering environmental programming for large special events including zero-waste management, clean power and potable water solutions.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption & Production
SDG 13: Climate Action
Digital Carbon Bank provides blockchain-based voluntary market carbon offsets that tie cryptocurrency to specific emission-reducing projects. Hard-tech measurement technologies and GHG accounting are used to validate emission reductions.
SDG 7: Affordable & Clean Energy
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 17: Partnerships For The Goals
Dominic Bortolussi.
Dominic is the founder of TWG - an award winning software company based in Toronto + NYC, founder of Caravan Ventures - a collective of experienced entrepreneurs investing in the next generation of startups, and …
Dunya Habitats team at the CSI Climate Ventures space
Dunya Habitats is an agritech startup, based in Canada, that delivers year-round sustainable farming solutions to optimize crop production in any climate condition, with the use of hydroponics and data analytics.
SDG 2: Zero Hunger
SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
Headshot of Dylan.
Dylan is a lawyer at Fasken in Toronto, practicing corporate/commercial litigation with a focus on corporate restructurings, creditors’ remedies and directors’ liability.
Alumni

EAIGLE

EAIGLE is an Intelligent Video Analytics Platform based on machine learning and artificial intelligence for freshwater monitoring, automation and control, and sustainable operation in aquatics through real-time occupancy monitoring.
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 13: Climate Action
Econse is a Canadian water tech company building decentralized solutions to stop water pollution, slow the effects of climate change, and help industries and communities grow sustainably.
SDG 6: Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 13: Climate Action
ESI provides a hyperlocal, AI-powered environmental and meteorological monitoring solution that offers a low-cost, easy-to-deploy tool to manage environmental impact and sustainability objectives.
SDG 6: Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 15: Life On Land