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Waxman Strategies Put a Velvet Rope Around Influence
In Washington, access is usually sold to whoever can pay. Michael Waxman built a firm around a narrower proposition: policy, advocacy and communications for work it can defend in public.
Climate Change Had a Vocabulary Problem. Climate Power Put It on the Electric Bill.
The six-year-old advocacy shop learned that a historic climate law could still be politically invisible. Its answer was to stop leading with the climate - and start with the bill on the kitchen table.
Sunstone Strategies takes climate policy to the kitchen table
A gas stove, a truck route, a utility bill. Sunstone Strategies builds climate campaigns around the places where energy policy becomes personal.
Himanshu Gupta Is Teaching Business to Read the Weather
The ClimateAi co-founder moved from wiring smart-grid hardware to modeling national energy policy. Now he wants companies to treat climate forecasts as decisions waiting to be made.
Overture Ventures
Most climate investors bring capital and a network. Overture adds a policy desk - helping technical founders turn the machinery of government from a maze into a market advantage.
Jayce Hafner
Jayce Hafner is the co-founder and CEO of FarmRaise, a farm financial software startup that turns the maze of USDA paperwork and cash-flow tracking into something a farmer can finish on a phone in minutes. A cattle farmer's daughter from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, she spent years in environmental policy - lobbying Congress, organizing UN climate delegations, and working on Apple's sustainability team - before deciding that real change in agriculture would come from tools, not talk. She holds an MS in agriculture and an MBA, both from Stanford, and has grown FarmRaise past 20,000 farmers on a mission to make farming more profitable, resilient, and equitable.