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Author: Lisbeth Kaufman
Lisbeth Kaufman is the Head of Climate Tech BD, Startups and Venture Capital at AWS. Her mission is to help the best Climate Tech startups succeed and reverse the global climate crisis. Her team has technical resources, go to market support and connections to help climate tech startups overcome obstacles and scale. Lisbeth was Founder and CEO of KitSplit.com, a sharing economy company called “the Airbnb of Cameras” by Forbes. Before she was a founder, Lisbeth worked on climate policy as an energy/environment/agriculture policy advisor in the U.S. Senate. There she built a first-of-its-kind energy efficiency retrofit program and wrote a clean energy bill for farmers that got passed into law. Lisbeth has a BA from Yale and an MBA from NYU Stern where she was a Dean's Scholar. As a mentor at Techstars and an EIR a Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Lisbeth helps climate tech founders with product, growth, fundraising, as well as making strategic connections to teams at AWS and Amazon.
AWS and IRCAI announce winners of the 2023 Compute For Climate Fellowship and open applications for 2024
Meet the recipients for the Compute for Climate Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind global program to fund groundbreaking proof of concepts that think big, innovatively use advanced cloud computing, and enable the world to more quickly address the climate crisis.
How climate tech startups use generative AI to address the climate crisis
We are excited to introduce you to a few Climate Tech startups that are at the forefront of the race to stop the climate crisis. They’re using generative AI to fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enabling the world to transition to a zero-carbon economy.
Compute for Climate Fellowship to fund new tech solutions addressing the climate crisis
Applications for the Compute for Climate Fellowship are open now! Submit your application before August 31 to be considered and maybe have the opportunity to be showcased at AWS re:Invent conference in November 2023. Applications submitted after September 1 will be considered for development in 2024.