33.5M for his climate change startup. They are just getting started and have lots of room to grow. In our recent interview on the Dealmakers Show Brenden shared how he got started, all the data they’ve been collecting, what the future looks like, and surviving the trying days of being a startup founder.
33.5M for his climate change startup. They are just getting started and have lots of room to grow.
In our recent interview on the DealMakers podcast, Brenden shared how he got started, all the data they’ve been collecting, what the future looks like, and surviving the trying days of being a startup founder.
Listen to the full podcast episode and review the transcript here.
Here is the content that we will cover in this post. Let’s get started.
- 1. Exposure to Climate Change
- 2. Carbon Lighthouse
- 3. Fundraising
Exposure to Climate Change
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Millstein was born and grew up in Berkeley. Before it merged with Silicon Valley. It is where he developed his passion for climate change. Just five blocks from his childhood home lived his current cofounder, Raphael Rosen, who he became fast friends with since kindergarten.
It was in high school that Brenden really got interested in climate change. His senior year nuclear engineering class showed him how to use math to better the lives of billions of people around the planet, by preventing more damage being done to our environment. If only he could find a way to hand out money to stop the direction of climate change.
One of the things which really stuck with him from his nuclear engineering class was the effects of El Nino and El Nina weather patterns. Specifically, how the data shows rising temperatures causing increases in the spread of diseases like malaria.
Increased temperatures also mean more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes. Like deadly Katrina in 2005. It adds to flood damage, storm surge and wildfires too. All of which we seem to have been experiencing more of in recent years.
Eager to learn more Brenden Millstein moved across the country to study physics at Harvard. Then wanting to learn the business side of the equation he went on to Stanford for his MBA and an engineering degree. Both of which he finished in just two years.
This was after a stint in New York, working with the state and their energy policy. An experience which taught him how tough it was to do things on a state by state level, as well as the freedoms the private sector could offer in contrast.
Carbon Lighthouse
During his second year at Stanford, Brenden began working on his startup Carbon Lighthouse. His childhood friend Raphael was the one person who could beat him at math.
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