Entrepreneurs for Impact #208: Natalia Dorfman, Co-founder and CEO of Kita — Carbon Insurance Specialist. Up to $250B Market in 2030. Performance and Counterparty Risk. Choose the Scarier Door.
Kita is a carbon insurance specialist bridging the insurance and carbon markets. Their insurance products act as a stamp of confidence and safeguard against loss. Their insurance claims can be paid in cash or in replacement carbon credits, providing flexibility for clients' individual risk appetites and carbon strategies.
In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways.
- The relationship between billion-dollar transactions and rigorous insurance products
- The difference between counterparty, political, method, and natural catastrophes risks, and when Kita choose to insure against them
- The voluntary carbon market players they rely on to certify whether a carbon project has met its goals, or whether an insurance event is triggered
- Why she chose to do a year-long “maternity sabbatical” after each of her children was born, and what it did for her thoughts on work
🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:
Kita - https://www.kita.earth
Natalia - https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-dorfman
The Magic of Thinking Big (book) - https://shorturl.at/Ucoxn
Size of carbon market in 2030 (six estimates) - https://shorturl.at/WMTV3
Matilda the Musical (movie) - https://www.netflix.com/title/80993016
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