We Turn Climate Solutions Into Investable Realities
ClimeVest creates tailored financing strategies for climate-positive
technologies, infrastructure, and projects. Whether you’re a startup
with breakthrough innovation, a company looking to test and deploy new
tech, or a government agency with bold decarbonization goals, we help
bridge the gap between vision and capital.
Our mission: To accelerate climate impact by unlocking the financial
pathways that make real-world solutions scalable, fundable, and
resilient. If you're working to solve climate change, we help make
your solution investable.
What we do
Financing Strategy for Climate Innovation
We specialize in structuring deals and financial models that reflect
the unique challenges of climate solutions, from long payback
periods to evolving regulatory landscapes. We help design:
Blended finance models
Project finance design
Grant leverage and matching strategies
Investment readiness support
Capital Sourcing & Investor Engagement
We maintain trusted relationships with:
Institutional investors
Climate-focused venture capital
Philanthropic funders
Development finance institutions
Government agencies
We help align the right capital with the right opportunity, and
shape your value proposition to attract it.
Public-Private Program Design
We help governments and NGOs design funding programs that crowd in
private capital while protecting public priorities. We advise on:
Incentive design
Risk-sharing mechanisms
Program implementation
Who We Work With
We support:
Cleantech startups looking to scale
Project developers facing capital stack complexity
Susan McGeachie is a founding partner at Global Climate Finance
Accelerator (GCFA), which convenes partnerships across business,
finance, and government on strategies, policies, procedures, and
tools to finance climate solutions. With over 20 years of experience
in sustainable finance, Susan has held leadership positions in
banking, management consulting, and engineering firms, as the Head
of the BMO Climate Institute, Global Director of the Climate Change
practice at Hatch, and the Central Market Leader for EY's Climate
Change and Sustainability Services practice.
Susan received her MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York
University with a specialization in international finance and
sustainability and holds a first degree in Public Policy from the
University of Guelph. She holds a 2024 certificate in Private
Markets Investments from the Saïd Business School, University of
Oxford.
Wendy Potomski, CFA
Managing Partner and COO
Wendy Potomski is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder
and the founder of Brookstone Strategy Group, which works with
senior management, executives and boards of organizations going
through change stemming from regulatory issues, a shift in corporate
strategic direction, structural changes within their industry or
with organizations looking to improve both their financial and
operational performance.
Wendy specializes in finance and operational effectiveness,
investment analysis and capital raising, business plan and business
case development and assessment, energy and carbon management
program development, program development and program reviews,
project and change management, and public-private partnerships.
Hao Tian, MFin
Managing Partner, Innovative Finance
Hao Tian has nearly a decade of experience in finance and
sustainability across global banks and the World Bank Group. She has
held key roles in global capital markets, sustainability, strategic
consulting, technology and risk management with a proven track
record in leading million-dollar level of debt structuring and
climate tech PE/VC fund investments. As a seasoned leader in finance
and sustainability, Hao connects the dots between capital markets,
VC, and the public sector across developed and developing markets by
exploring collaborative pathways design and innovative blended
finance solutions.
Hao holds a Master of Finance degree and a Graduate Diploma in
Social Responsibility and Sustainability from the University of
Toronto, and a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Central
University of Finance and Economics. Hao is also a Certified
Financial Risk Manager and owns IFRS (ISSB) FSA Credential.
Gitanjali DasGupta, MS, M.Phil.
Partner, Strategic Alliances
Gitanjali is an accomplished cleantech expert (> 15 yrs in lithium
ion batteries, electric vehicles, high voltage systems). She excels
at building partnerships and is passionate about how disruptive
innovation (technology and otherwise) can accelerate positive change
for the planet and people.
Heather Langsner, MSc
Partner, LCA and Industrial Decarbonization and Head, US
Holding a Master‘s Degree in Environmental Sciences and Industrial
Engineering at Columbia University, Heather Langsner is a carbon
analytics professional with experience in carbon inventory analysis,
carbon reporting, carbon displacement analysis, carbon finance,
renewable energy financial modelling, corporate decarbonization for
compliance and life cycle analysis. Currently pursuing a second
Master’s in Chemical Engineering for carbon management at Columbia
University, Heather also holds an LCA certification from MIT.
As Vice President, Carbon Action at DriveKey Corporation, Heather’s
role is to develop products and services that support enterprises in
their decarbonization journey. To this end she works directly with
our customers’ internal teams and supply chain to ensure that
significant amounts of carbon dioxide is permanently removed from
our atmosphere by helping them reduce their carbon footprint and
advising on the best carbon removal program they can use.
