Meet the first 6 speakers at the inaugural HackSummit in New York

Following the success of the HackSummit in Lausanne this summer, a brand new edition is taking place in New York on 12-13th December. 

The last four successful editions in Europe saw US attendance growing each year, so it’s high time we create a dedicated event for Climate leaders in North America.

This first edition will have 2 key overarching thematics; Climate Deep Tech and Climate Finance. And today announces the first 6 speakers. 

Tip: Lock in your super early bird ticket from just $550 to get a front row seat on all the action across the 2 days.

Let’s meet them…

🔬 Yossi Quint, CEO and Founder of Ark Biotech

Stage: Seed
Total Funding: $15 million+

Yossi began his career as a quantitative researcher at Two Sigma before becoming an Engagement Manager at McKinsey.

With an intelligent bioprocess platform, Ark Biotech helps today’s innovators make better decisions and accelerate bioprocess development timelines dramatically, to bring transformational science to those who need it most. 

💸 Guy Vidra, Partner at Collaborative Fund

Latest Fund Size: Two funds: $125M (Collab V) and $225M (SOS) 
Portfolio Includes: Brimstone, Seabound, Phaidra, Redwood Materials, Reask, and more 

Guy spent 20 years as an operator prior to joining Collaborative Fund. Previously, he was Chief Revenue Officer for XO Group, CEO of The New Republic, and General Manager at Yahoo!. 

Collaborative Fund is an early stage venture capital firm started in 2010 that invests at the intersection of for-profit and for-good.

🛠️ Alex Grant, CEO of Magrathea

Stage: Seed
Total Funding: $31.7 million

Alex leads a team developing a new generation of electrolytic technology for making carbon neutral light metal from seawater and brines. He is a leader in decarbonization of mining, minerals, and metals. He built Tesla’s first embodied carbon emission model for their lithium-ion battery mining supply chain published in the automaker’s 2022 impact report. 

Metal without mining, Magrathea is developing a new generation of electrolytic technology for making carbon neutral magnesium metal from seawater and brines for the era of electrification and decarbonization.

⚡Lauren Salz, Co-Founder and CEO of Sealed

Stage: Series B
Total Funding: $93 million

Lauren is a former Investment Analyst at McKinsey and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 leaders in the energy sector.

On a mission to stop home energy waste, Sealed enables contractors to install more home weatherization and electrification projects, and grow their businesses.

🧵 Dennis Noeblius, CEO of Syre

Stage: Series A
Total Funding: $100 million

Dennis has held leading positions across R&D, Quality, Digital, Manufacturing to Marketing and Sales and spent multiple years as VP Volvo Cars, as well as COO of Polestar, a design-focused electric car brand and as CEO of Zenuity, the software company that develops software for self-driving cars. 

A textile impact company, Syre is decarbonizing and dewasting the industry through textile-to-textile recycling at hyperscale, starting with polyester.

🧪 Marissa Beatty, Founder and CEO of Turnover Labs

Stage: Private
Total Funding: Not disclosed

Marissa is a Columbia PhD turned ClimateTech founder, where her research and technology focuses on improving the adoptability of electrolysis into sustainable manufacturing. 

Turnover Labs is now building systems that produce chemical building blocks out of CO2-rich emissions onsite, enabling chemical manufacturers to recycle their waste streams into carbon neutral chemicals.

For the premier US edition, we’ll focus on an intimate and highly curated event - with just 500 and will ensure an ideal breakdown across sector, stage, focus and seniority. Ready to join us? Head this way to lock in your ticket.