Office Hours with Mira Inbar (Arctern Ventures)
Mira Inbar, Partner at Arctern Ventures, is hosting office hours where she’ll share her journey from the mines of Africa to leading clean energy businesses at some of the world’s largest corporations. Mira will speak about her career, lessons learned in building climate ventures within legacy industries, and her perspective on today’s investment landscape.
This is a rare chance to engage directly with an investor who has worked at the intersection of corporate climate transformation and startup innovation. Bring your questions! Mira will leave plenty of time for Q&A.
What you’ll get out of this session:
Insights from building clean energy businesses inside Dow, NRG, and Shell
Lessons from scaling technologies like batteries, solar, and home energy
Investor perspective on the evolving climate tech ecosystem
Open Q&A with a leading voice in climate investing
Over the past decade, Mira has launched and scaled clean energy businesses including a battery manufacturing plant for Dow Chemical, a solar and wind portfolio for NRG Energy, and a home energy business for Shell, where she most recently served as Head of Residential Power.
Her leadership in advancing clean energy has been recognized with the 2019 C3E Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Mira holds a BS from Oberlin College and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Outside of work, she’s an amateur surfer and skateboarder, often found hiking with her family among the redwood groves of Northern California.
Arctern Ventures is a global early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs tackling humanity’s greatest challenges—climate change and sustainability. Founded by former startup operators in 2012, Arctern brings deep founder empathy and hands-on support to help scale groundbreaking climate solutions. The firm focuses on six key areas—clean energy, energy efficiency and storage, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and materials, mobility, and food systems—backing the companies that will underpin a sustainable global economy. With a belief that outsized financial returns follow from outsized impact, Arctern partners with bold founders to accelerate the transition from carbon-intensive industries to resilient, low-carbon futures.
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