New York Climate Week 2025
Our Elemental and Earthshot Ventures team will be in New York to connect with new and old friends, and share our latest insights on investing in catalytic ways, deploying projects, and designing meaningful local partnerships. Here’s a selection of venues where you can connect with us.
Hosting
Climate Week Kickoff Gathering
September 21 | 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Invite only
Elemental Impact and Earthshot Ventures will host an invite-only gathering to kickoff New York Climate Week. This event brings together philanthropy, investors, and entrepreneurs for a focused conversation on what’s next in innovation and infrastructure. Elemental will share more on our catalytic capital tool, the Development-SAFE—a twist on the financing tool to support FOAK projects and early commercial deployment—and we’ll spotlight one of Earthshot Venture’s newest AI investments.
Co-hosted by Earthshot Ventures and Planeteer
Female Founders & Funders
September 23 | 1 – 3 p.m.
Earthshot Ventures and Planeteer, in partnership with Elemental, are hosting a gathering with curated networking for women building and investing in climate technologies.
Keynote Interview
Heatmap House: Up Next in Climate Tech
September 24 | 3 – 5 p.m.
Dawn Lippert, Elemental CEO and Founder and Earthshot Ventures Founding Partner, will be on stage at Heatmap House for a keynote conversation on exploring how new investment models and ecosystem building help startups clear the “missing middle” and navigate this critical stage.
Co-hosting with key partners
Accelerating the Transition through Climate Innovation
September 24 | 3 – 5:30 p.m.
Invite only
This convening will spotlight the breakthrough innovations and the catalytic capital needed to accelerate the clean energy transition and showcase a new platform designed to help us all envision and build a decarbonized future with contributions from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Elemental Impact, Energy Innovation, McKinsey, Speed & Scale, and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Co-hosted by Earthshot Ventures and leading VCs
Super Climate New York
September 24 | 5:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Earthshot Ventures will be co-hosting this high-impact gathering bringing together LPs, GPs, and institutional investors to drive meaningful discussions and connections in climate tech investing.
Co-hosted by Microsoft and Elemental Impact
Scaling Innovation in Data Centers
September 25 | 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Invite only
We will bring together hyperscalers, funders, technology innovators, and partners who are driving the next wave of solutions to discuss how we can accelerate sustainable innovation in data center environments.
Team Members Attending Climate Week
Dawn Lippert
Avra van der Zee
Melissa Uhl
Mike Jackson
Matt Logan
Ramsay Siegal
Corina Standiford
Danya Hakeem
Kim Karris
Amir Mehr
Gabriel Scheer
Mitch Rubin
On Stage & On the Ground
Monday, September 22
Dawn Lippert, Elemental CEO and Founder and Earthshot Ventures Founding Partner, and Avra van der Zee, Elemental COO, will be attending the NASDAQ Opening Bell Ceremony leading into New System Ventures and NASDAQ’s Building the Future Summit where Dawn will be on stage with Tim Latimer, CEO of Fervo Energy, Amanda Peterson Corio, Global Head of Data Center Energy of Google, and Chris Librie, CSO, Applied Materials
We’ll also be attending:
- Circulari-Tea with Closed Loop Partners
- Climate Night Live
- FORA’s Regenerative Agriculture Leaders & Partners Dinner
- SightLive 2025
- WaterTech Futures: Industry Challenges & What It Takes to Scale Solutions, hosted by ClimateHaven in partnership with Elemental Impact and leading innovators
- Votes & Volts
Tuesday, September 23
Avra will be speaking at Climate Group’s American Innovation and Abundance at The Hub Live, hosted by Duke University’s Nicholas Institute and Cleantech Leaders Roundtable.
We’ll also be attending:
- Changing the Narrative: AI as a Force Multiplier for the Energy Transition
- Nights of Net Zero: Powering the Grid with Intelligence
- New York Climate Week Investor Breakfast (hosted by Breakthrough Energy)
- Novo Holdings Climate Week Networking Reception
- NYC Climate Week Happy Hour with Mercury & Equal Ventures 2025
- NY Climate Week Autodesk Impact Reception
- NYC Climate Week Party with Voyager & General Catalyst
- Scaling Clean, Firm Power: The Role of Multi-Day Storage in Enabling Data Center and Industrial Load Growth
- SEEC Institute NY Climate Week Finance Roundtable
- Where the Internet Lives
Wednesday, September 24
Amir Mehr, Head of Project Finance, will be speaking at GIIN’s Inaugural Climate Solutions Investing Roundtable: What Will a Below-2° Celsius Economy Require?
We’ll also be attending:
- 2025 Climate Capital Summit
- Breakfast with Calvert Impact: Shaping the Market, Powering the Future
- FOAK Summit by Node Climate
- From carbon removal to community resilience
- Investing in a Resilient Future
- McKinsey CEO Breakfast: Creating Viable Markets for Decarbonized Products
- PlanetHAUS
Thursday, September 25
We’ll be attending:
- A Working Session on Performance Risk Solutions for Climate Tech Deployment
- Bloomberg Green New York 2025
- From carbon removal to community resilience
- Port Powerhouse at Climate Week NYC
- Power Hungry – AI Infrastructure and the Future of Energy with Open AI, TerraPower, GDEV, MUFG and Talisman
- Superbloom: Rooftop Cocktails with Superorganism
- The Heat is On: Accelerating Industrial Decarbonization
About
Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor with 15 years of experience advancing innovative technologies with deep environmental and local impact. Elemental is supported by 40 funders and its portfolio includes 160+ companies that have catalyzed $11.5B in additional funding and created 17,200 jobs. The nonprofit anchors the Elemental Impact investment platform, which includes an expanding family of funds mobilizing capital into critical technologies.