Cascade Climate
Dai Ellis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cascade Climate, providing executive coaching for climate tech startup founders and CEOs. With experience as a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Nova Pioneer, Co-Founder and Board Chair at Kepler, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Spire, and various other roles in the field of education and healthcare, Dai has a background in building innovative models for higher education, on-the-job learning, and market shaping for health products. Dai holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in Biochemistry from Harvard University.
Cascade Climate
Cascade Climate works to accelerate progress in climate interventions that leverage Earth’s natural systems—from soils to oceans to glaciers—to stabilize our climate. As a philanthropically-backed nonprofit, we coordinate and resource ambitious initiatives across science, industry, philanthropy, and policy to overcome the core bottlenecks that are holding back the most promising open-system climate interventions. Our initial focus is advancing the development of a healthy market for enhanced rock weathering (ERW), underpinned by its scientific evidence base and its potential for durable, gigaton-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR).