Meet The Team

Ajay Gupta

Ajay has been a venture investor in deep tech and climate tech startups in the valley for last 10 years. He co-leads the Climate and Sustainability SIG at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute. Ajay had a career in equity trading for over two decades and ran the Equity Trading business of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Asia Pacific. He co-founded NZVC, an early stage VC fund in New Zealand.

Jon Carter

Jon has been a senior partner at Egon Zehnder International over the last 30 years. He founded their Technology Practice in the US and established the Silicon Valley office. Jon has recruited Board members, CEOs and senior executives for companies such as, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft and a host of earlier stage growth companies. He is now working with the Doerr School at Stanford promoting sustainability in the boardroom.

Radhika Malpani

Radhika is a former Senior Engineering Director at Google from its early days for over 20 years, starting with leading Google Ads in 2000. She founded Google Images, growing it to over 1B queries/day. She also started Google Local Search, and co-led Google Travel Search. A prolific climate investor, Radhika co-teaches entrepreneurship classes at Stanford including Hacking for Climate and Sustainability, and Lean Launchpad.

Kirk Liu

Kirk served as a Technology to Market Advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), where he helped prepare innovative energy technologies for transition from the agency-funded lab to the commercial market. Kirk’s career has focused on commercialization and growth of early-stage startups.

Cassandra Xia

Cassandra was a software engineer at Google AI for 5 years before leaving to co-found workonclimate.org, a 20k+ member climate work movement, and other climate initiatives. She formerly served as Head of Engineering at Evergrow, a climate financing startup.

Ty Jagerson

Ty has decades of experience as a Sustainable Energy Executive. He started the Google X Tapestry project, a grid energy DERS technology. Led V2X @ GM Energy and led biz dev at Xerox PARC. Board Member Phoenix Energy and UC Merced.