We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by bjelkeman-again on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:28PM (#14174915)

I co-founded a SaaS data startup ten years ago, focused on international development. Most of our work is currently climate mitigation related (water, agriculture, poverty reduction) but also used in sustainable energy, like tracking small scale biogas production. The whole international development field is a USD 130 Bn/year industry, and there may be another USD 100 Bn coming in climate mitigation/renewables. They have mostly really poor key indicator tracking, monitoring of projects etc.

Most of the work in none-industrialised countries have really poor data tracking systems, so that is where we thought we could make the biggest impact. But some of our tools are even starting to see traction in Europe.

There is plenty to do in this field. Unfortunately there is an uphill struggle even educating people that they need to use data to drive decisions, but it is happening. Happy to answer questions.

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by dirtyaura on Saturday April 22, 2017 @07:35PM (#14175509)

How did you contact customers, learn more about the field? Did you have prior experience in the field?

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by bjelkeman-again on Sunday April 23, 2017 @12:42AM (#14176539)

A couple of the co-founders worked in the sector already and had a broad network which we tapped into. I didn't have prior experience, but I did take a break before this and studied for a degree in environmental science, which is also how I found those co-founders. Went to a policy conference a few times which deals with water issues and was frustrated about how primitive the IT use was, expressed it during a Q&A session and met one of the co-founders as a result.

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