Climate Tech Female Founders Panel
🌎 Climate Tech Female Founders Panel: East Bay Edition
📅 Date: Wednesday September 10th, 2025
📍 Location: Berkeley, CA
⏰ Time: 5.30 pm - 8.00 pm
Come listen to an incredible group of women shaking up the climate tech world. This panel brings together four remarkable entrepreneurs who are redefining sustainability and innovation—pioneering new approaches in clean energy and sustainable materials in hard to decarbonize industries.
Our panelists will share their career journeys, the challenges and triumphs of building startups in climate tech, and what it means to lead as women in a male-dominated industry. This is a unique opportunity to hear firsthand from the minds behind some of the Bay Area’s most exciting climate ventures. Join us for some networking & refreshments after!
Agenda:
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Check In, Arrival, & Networking
6:00 - 7:00 PM - Panel, Q&A
7:00 PM - Networking & refreshments
Panellists:
Aanindeeta Banerjee, CEO & Co-Founder, ReSource Chemical - ReSource Chemical produces specialty chemicals using CO2, applicable to a range of industries including plastics
Neeka Mashouf, CEO & Co-Founder, Rubi Laboratories - Rubi Laboratories is pioneering a new era of manufacturing by turning carbon emissions into essential materials like textiles through biocatalysis
Michelle Lu, CEO & Co-Founder, Novel Farms - Novel Farms uses expertise in synthetic biology and cell biology to cultivate animal cells in the most efficient way possible to bring down the costs of animal cell manufacturing.
Pauliina Meskanen, CEO & Co-Founder, Calectra - Calectra provides zero carbon low cost high temperature heat for industries via its power-to-heat thermal storage technology