life-cycle-assessment
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Sphera
Sphera sells the software behind decisions most people never see: whether a factory job is safe, a chemical is compliant, a supplier is fragile, or a product's carbon claim can survive an audit. Its bet is that those answers become more useful when they live in one system.
Alexis Normand
Alexis Normand spent years turning personal data into useful signals. At Greenly, he is applying the same instinct to corporate carbon - making an invisible liability legible enough to manage.
Greenly
Greenly is a French climate-tech company building carbon-accounting software that helps businesses of all sizes measure, report and reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. Founded in Paris in 2019, its all-in-one sustainability suite automatically pulls data from financial transactions, utility bills, cloud usage and supply chains to calculate emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3, then pairs the data with human climate experts. Greenly serves roughly 3,500 clients across 25 countries and has raised about $78.6 million, including a $52 million Series B led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures in 2024.
Pathways
Pathways is a New York climate-tech startup building an AI platform that automates life cycle assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for building-material manufacturers, starting with ready-mix concrete producers. By ingesting data from a manufacturer's existing systems - raw material inputs, transportation, and plant processes - Pathways turns a process that traditionally takes 6-12 months of consultant work into one that delivers third-party-verified EPDs in weeks, then keeps the models live so producers can spot emissions hotspots and cut the carbon footprint of their products.
Leise Sandeman
Leise Sandeman is the CEO and co-founder of Pathways, a climate-tech startup building the data layer for sustainable manufacturing. Pathways uses AI to automate the creation of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for building-material makers - concrete, steel, cement, glass - turning a months-long consultant slog into a process that takes weeks. A Copenhagen native and former McKinsey sustainability consultant who scaled a recycling venture before studying at Harvard and MIT, Leise co-founded Pathways in 2022 with Alex Cooper after meeting in an MIT entrepreneurship class. The company raised an oversubscribed $2.5M seed round in February 2024 and now serves manufacturers across hundreds of plants.
Alex Cooper
Alex Cooper is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pathways, a New York climate-AI company building the data layer for sustainable manufacturing. Pathways automates the creation of real-time Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for building-material producers - turning a slow, costly, manual six-to-twelve-month process into something that takes weeks. A decade scaling consumer and data startups (Uber, Clutter, Two Chairs) left Cooper convinced that the manufacturers responsible for roughly 40% of global CO2 deserved software as good as the apps on everyone's phone. He teamed up with Harvard classmate Leise Sandeman in 2022 to prove it.
Julia Collins
Julia Collins is the founder and CEO of Planet FWD, a San Francisco climate-intelligence software company that helps consumer brands measure and cut the carbon footprint of their products. She is the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn (Zume Pizza, valued at $2.25B), a three-time food-industry founder, and the creator of Moonshot Snacks, the climate-friendly cracker brand acquired by Patagonia Provisions in 2023. Planet FWD turns life-cycle assessments and Scope 1/2/3 inventories into decarbonization roadmaps for brands from Cava to Everlane.