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.
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.
A gas stove, a truck route, a utility bill. Sunstone Strategies builds climate campaigns around the places where energy policy becomes personal.
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.