Inevitable Ep 77: Clay Dumas, Partner at Lowercarbon Capital
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Today's guest was Clay Dumas from Lowercarbon Capital, to talk about what they are up to with the fund and their newly opened roles! It is also always great to talk shop with Clay on everything climate change.
Clay is a partner at Lowercarbon Capital where he invests in startups and research organizations developing technology to reduce emissions, suck carbon out of the air, and cool the planet. He is also a partner at Lowercase Capital. Previously, Clay served as an Executive in Residence at the Pramana Collective, a strategic advisory firm in San Francisco. Before that, he was the Chief of Staff for the White House Office of Digital Strategy, a team tasked by President Obama with connecting people with purpose. In 2017, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. At the start of President Obama’s second term, he served as an aide in the Chief of Staff’s office. Before joining the White House, Clay worked on President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. He graduated from Harvard in 2011.
In today’s episode, we cover:
- Genesis of Lowercarbon from the team behind Lowercase Capital
- How Lowercarbon fit within the vision of Chris and Crystal Sacca
- Clay’s journey from presidential campaigns to venture capital to Climate Change investing
- Major insights and takeaways after three-years of working in the space
- Attitudes, motives and incentives across institutional investors backing Climate Change companies
- How the social impact and financial opportunity are immense in the Climate Change space
- Lowercarbon’s investment focus
- How Lowercarbon differs from other institutional investors
- Jobs and opportunities at Lowercarbon
- Technologies in which Clay is interested
Links to topics discussed in this episode:
- Lowercarbon Capital: https://lowercarboncapital.com/
- Lowercase Capital: https://lowercasecapital.com/
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2019 report: https://www.ipcc.ch/2019/09/25/srocc-press-release/
- Impact Investing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing
- Carbon Engineering:https://carbonengineering.com/
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