Southeast Asian local weather tech enterprise agency Wavemaker Impression has named Monique Conheady as its new Enterprise Accomplice for Australia and New Zealand forward of rolling out domestically in 2023.

The VC’s mission is to again construct and again local weather tech startups with the mixed potential to scale back international carbon by 10% by 2035.

Wavemaker Impression dubs them ‘100×100’ firms – startups with the potential to abate 100 million metric tons of carbon emissions and be a US$100-million income enterprise. To this point, Wavemaker’s founding crew – Doug Parker, Marie Cheong, Paul Santos, Steve Melhuish and Quentin Vaquette have constructed 15 firms from scratch, together with to unicorn standing and an IPO, and invested over US$300 million in Asian tech firms, together with 35 greentech startups.

Parker stated the agency is “fortunate” to have Conheady heading its ANZ efforts.

“As a profitable local weather entrepreneur, she understands higher than anybody the alternatives and challenges of launching inexperienced firms for ANZ,” he stated.

Conheady’s 25 years targeted on local weather and impression tech spans ranges from serial founder to government, investor and director.

She was cofounder and CEO of ustralia’s first carshare service, Flexicar, earlier than an exit to Hertz. She additionally co-founded the crowd-funded vitality retailer DC Energy Co. and is presently the chair of JET Cost, the nation’s main EV charging infrastructure enterprise. Her CV additionally contains being on the boards of the Victorian Atmosphere Safety Authority; Phantm, a pure supplies options lab; and the inaugural Chair of the Cremorne Digital Hub, Victoria’s digital ecosystem gateway.

“I’m excited to affix the Wavemaker Impression crew and to carry their local weather tech enterprise constructing method to the ANZ area,” Conheady stated.

“Entrepreneurs play a essential function in creating scalable options that handle local weather change. I’m wanting ahead to working with skilled entrepreneurs to uncover alternatives to construct local weather tech unicorns that serve the area and past.”

Conheady stated Wavemaker Impression is already wanting in search of skilled founders to construct an Australia-based local weather tech unicorn. The main points are on LinkedIn right here.