The Frontier State Conversations is a series where we host trailblazers across public policy, venture capital, and disruptive technologies. We aim to unpack competing ideas of fostering innovation, as seen across the private, public, non-profit, and academic spheres.
In this edition of The Frontier State series, we - in tandem with The Business & Government Professional Interest Council at Harvard Kennedy School - hosted Dan Goldman, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Boston-based Climate-Tech venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), to discuss The Frontier State of ClimateTech Investing.
We aimed to highlight CEV’s and the State of Massachusetts’ focus on climate ventures, the region’s developing nature as a ClimateTech ecosystem, and the interplay between policy and private capital for the next two decades of decarbonization.
The event hosted a select live audience of students from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other graduate and undergraduate schools in Boston.
Dan Goldman’s brief bio is below:
Daniel Goldman is a co-founder and managing director at Clean Energy Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage climate tech companies commercializing disruptive advanced energy technologies that can grow to scale and address global climate disruption.
He is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Clean Energy Council, which is the only organization that covers all of the clean energy market segments in the Northeast (New England & New York), representing the business perspectives of investors and clean energy companies across every stage of development.
Lastly, he is also the co-founder of "Browning the Green Space", a voluntary coalition of leaders and organizations, primarily in the New England region, that share the passion to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) in clean energy. Our goal is to increase the participation and leadership of Black and Brown people and of women (collectively, “underrepresented groups”) in the clean energy space and beyond (e.g., wasted food, water, agtech) in the Northeast.
Mr. Goldman has over 25 years of energy industry experience and has been investing at the project and venture stages for most of his career with over $4 billion of transactions completed. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BS from Cornell University. Dan lives in Newton, MA and is a competitive age-group road cyclist and world-qualifying triathlete.
A sampling of Clean Energy Venture’s portfolio is below:
