Spinning Out Your Climate Tech Startup: A Fireside Chat with Evaline Tsai

The promise of rigorous, breakthrough climate science is the massive impact you can have by applying that science at scale. Putting your science to work outside the lab can help make clean options the obvious choice for consumers and industries at massive scale. Still, commercializing novel science and technology can be a complex and daunting journey.

In this fireside chat, Gigascale Capital Principal, Evaline Tsai, PhD will share her journey from Cambridge’s Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology doctorate program to fundraising for her YC-backed startup. Now an investor, Dr. Tsai will also share what founders can expect from the fundraising process, what climate investors are looking for and her best practices for spinning out a company. Questions from the audience are welcome!

This fireside chat will be most valuable for early stage climate tech founders or those who are exploring starting their own climate tech company. A light lunch will be provided following the discussion.

About Evaline:

Evaline is a Principal at Gigascale Capital, where she brings a deeply scientific and technical perspective to building climate solutions. She works closely with portfolio companies Arbor, Cocoon, Dioxycle, Panthalassa, Pasture Bio, Solcoa, and Terradot.

Before Gigascale, Evaline spent two years at Fine Structure Ventures, investing in climate and biotechnology companies. Before becoming an investor, she founded a Y-Combinator-backed healthcare startup; was the first product manager on machine learning at Samsara; and published multiple journal articles spanning experimental, theoretical, and applied research in climate tech and biotech.Evaline completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, a BSE in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University, and is a Kauffman Fellow

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Peter T. Flawn Academic Center (FAC), 2304 Whitis Avenue, Austin, United States