Charlotte Connell, Author at Startup Daily

Charlotte Connell

Award-winning sustainability leader, Charlotte works at the intersection of climate tech innovation and investment. A passion advocate for climate and gender equality, when not leading programs at Australia's largest climate tech hub, Greenhouse, she's coaching early-stage climate tech founders with Australia's number one regional accelerator, i2N, and volunteering as a director on the Board of Surfers for Climate. Co-Author of the Catalysing Climate Capital Report, this is a topic close to her heart.

Business

Why Australia’s $5 billion Net Zero Fund needs to be more than an incentive for mining billionaires to do better

Charlotte Connell - October 3, 2025 2 MIN READ

The new $5 billion Net Zero Fund, announced last week as part of the Federal government’s plan to meet a 61% -70% emissions reduction target, could be the most important lever Australia has to accelerate our transition to net zero. But unless it is designed to take risks and back first-of-a-kind climate innovations, we risk… Read more »

Climate Tech

There’s a bigger slap we need to be talking about

Charlotte Connell - April 4, 2022 < 1 MIN READ

OK so I need to address it, and here are my thoughts on that slap! The slap that is the Climate Change crisis unfolding in front of our eyes. It’s shocking and it’s causing irreparable damage. The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its fourth mass bleaching since 2016 Antarctica recorded a new World Record for… Read more »

Climate Tech

A Blockbuster moment: how climate tech became a hot startup sector

Charlotte Connell - March 1, 2022 2 MIN READ

Unless you’ve been under a fossilised rock, you’ve heard about Mike Cannon-Brookes’ and the Canadian investment fund, Brookfield’s takeover bid for AGL. Would love to be a fly on the wall at AGL’s next shareholder meeting when they explain why they knocked back an offer that represented a 20% premium and avoided a “potentially value… Read more »