Climate Tech: Pioneering the Planet
The Coller Startup Competition invites you to a compelling digital event
featuring industry leaders redefining sustainability in agriculture and carbon management.
* The event will be held in English
* The link to Zoom will be sent on the day of the event
The Coller Startup Competition is proud to host an exclusive panel featuring accomplished leaders in the climate tech ecosystem: Saar Safra (CEO of Beewise) and Josh Vernon (CEO of Carbon Re).
This event offers a rare opportunity to hear firsthand how these visionaries transformed breakthrough environmental technologies into commercially successful, high-impact enterprises.
From robotic beehives to cutting-edge carbon sequestration, the discussion will delve into the challenges of scaling hardware-heavy innovation, securing investment in the green sector, and the strategic requirements for global expansion.
Whether you are looking to enter the Climate Tech track or are interested in the future of sustainable entrepreneurship, this session provides the unique chance to learn from the success stories of those currently reshaping the planet’s future.
Speakers
Saar Safra // CEO // BeeWise
Saar Safra, CEO and Co-Founder at Beewise, is a seasoned entrepreneur who began his career as a software developer and previously served as CTO of Ad4Ever, GM and VP at aQuantive, and Director at Microsoft. Saar has had three successful exits from the five companies he founded or joined prior to founding Beewise, including the PropTech pioneer ActiveBuilding. Saar also holds an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
Beewise is the world’s first AI-powered Robotic Beehive for the Pollination and Honey production industries. By enabling remote upkeep and eliminating manual labor, Beewise has demonstrated a proven ability to save bees and prevent colonies from collapsing, at scale.
Josh Vernon // CEO // Carbon Re
Before Carbon Re, Josh was the founder and CEO of Earnd, a FinTech company he started in university and grew to +150 people over 8 years, before it was acquired by Grensill Capital and subsequently Accel-KKR.
Carbon Re is an industrial AI company spun out of Cambridge University and UCL. We build artificial intelligence that autonomously controls the world's largest industrial manufacturing processes.
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The Climate Track // Coller Startup Competition
This track invites ventures that focus on climate-related technologies such as renewable energy, carbon capture, smart grids, green hydrogen, etc.
Vanessa Bartram // Track Sponsor
Founder and managing partner // Zora VC
Gil Shai // Head of the Climate Track // Coller Startup Competition
Managing Partner // Meron Capital
