Sonam Velani
@sonamvelani
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A Chicago heart beating at a New York pace | DREAMer & Optimist | Cities • Climate • Capital | Founder 🗽@nyclimatetech • 🪂@parachute_earth • 🚲 @streetlifevc
New York City
Joined March 2013
Power outages cost us $150B per yr! Whether it's a neighbor who can't refrigerate his meds or local restaurants that close, there are costs across society. @streetlifevc is thrilled to see @RhizomeAI come to life - helping utilities build resiliency in the face of #climatechange
Exclusive: Rhizome raises $2.5M for utility risk AI
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Hear from founders deploying new #climatetech solutions across our complex urban environments, along with our partners at @NYCEDC, @BklynNavyYard, @Xylem, & Jamestown. Featuring @voltpost, @numina, @ooneepod, @dauplerinc, @floodbase, @Vycarb, @CivilGrid, @Thalolabs, & more!
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RT @thedropconf: Join brilliant minds @artandfox, @sonamvelani (@streetlifevc), @gabrielscheer (@elementalexcel), & Sandra Hernandez (@wove…
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@SecGranholm As we say at @parachute_earth and @streetlifevc: Welcome to the Age of #ClimateIndustrialism! It’s the trifecta of innovation, talent, and industrial policy bringing great jobs and clean energy to our streets and neighborhoods across America!
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Improving NYC by day, saving humanity by night! My friend @YumeKitasei debuted her first novel, The Deep Sky, an interstellar climate fiction story w/ an all women cast. Yume is great. Her writing is even better. Visit your local bookshop for your copy!
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#WomenInVC invest in 2x as many #womenentrepreneurs, who then hire 6x as many women on their teams. So proud to see our @nyclimatetech friend & partner in crime @SophiePurdom launch Planeteer Capital! Here's to more women funders & founders making the world go round. 🙋🏻♀️🌎💪
Announcing Planeteer Capital's first close & my reason for going "full climate tech VC" 🚀🌍👇
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RT @ed_hawkins: Start a climate conversation with friends, family, or colleagues and talk about the risks we face, the choices we can make,…
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RT @JackTreanor617: When Sweden spends billions on high quality transit infrastructure they are legally required to build a shit ton of hou…
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The annual loop around the sun, literally! 🚴🏽♀️ Proud to share a birthday w/ @CitiBikeNYC, and it’s extra special today! 🔟 PSA: For every $1,300 NYC invests in bike lanes, residents benefit from the equivalent of a full year of life. Cheers to many more! #StreetlifeSolutions 🎂
From 6K bikes in 2013 to almost 30K bikes now, we are so thrilled that we get to continue to be a part of the city's streets. Thanks for an amazing 10 years Citi Bike fam! 🥳
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RT @CalvinCupini: Climate Tech, especially physical innovation, requires a new / novel blend of finance asset classes. High risk VC, and…
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@SophiePurdom @climatetech_vc Drafting our next @parachute_earth post on #StreetlifeSolutions in Boston while riding the @MBTA, the best climate technology of them all! 👩🏽💻🚉🏙️ #PublicTransit FTW, with a view to boot! You’ve got to join me :)
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RT @SexyLikeMeiosis: Hard disagree. If we devalue the people who deeply understand the sociological, political, and historical underpinning…
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Bonus points: I sat next to a kind woman, Susan. We chatted about her pension fund’s new focus on climate risk and how best to get baby boomers to care about #climatechange. My response: build obviously better stuff (like the above mentioned trains!).
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