Founder & Funder

Laurie Menoud is a Partner at at One Ventures, where she backs deep tech startups catalyzing planet-positive industries. Laurie has a decade of deep tech commercialization, company building, and venture capital experience. She spent several years in the chemical industry (Solvay, BASF) and built her operational experience co-creating a dozen ventures out of DoD research programs (SRI International). Biotechnologist by training, Laurie is an ecological transition advocate.

Michael Tran is a Managing Director within the Global Energy Strategy Research team at RBC Capital Markets based in New York. Michael also founded and leads RBC’s Digital Intelligence Strategy research platform, a recently formed data science driven team. Michael has spent nearly 15 years in investment research, sales and trading, and investment banking with major banks like UBS based in London and energy trading platforms like BP in Calgary.

Daniel Matross, PhD, is Global Head of Research at the CREO Syndicate, responsible for overseeing CREO’s research program and managing strategy work. CREO’s diverse and active research program spans from topical analyses in energy, food/ag, water, and mobility to novel ways of analyzing networks to studies on the practice of sustainable investing. Dan joined CREO in 2017 and brings over twenty years of technical and business development experience in energy, climate, carbon and sustainability. As an accomplished speaker and writer, Dan is talented in making highly technical concepts accessible to a broad cross-section of audiences.

John Robinson operates at the intersection of technology, venture investing, and water/wastewater. With 14 years in water/wastewater, he has experience in most end-user markets and has worked across nearly every technology vertical with a particularly strong focus on data science-related innovations. The investment group he co-founded, Mazarine, operates an in-house incubator, seed-stage fund, and a growth-stage fund all focused on technology innovations that address water/wastewater risks in agriculture, aquaculture, buildings, financial services, industry, and utilities. With aspirations beyond simply commercial opportunity, Mr. Robinson is passionate about water quality and public health (social impact) and water quantity and climate change (environmental impact).

Allison Myers is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on digital solutions for climate. Buoyant looks for scalable, climate-positive, technology-driven solutions that support adaptation to and mitigation of climate change using data, sensors, and innovative business models.

Allison spent almost a decade developing transformational strategies for large corporations, focusing on partnering with start-ups and leveraging digital technologies to drive speed and scale. She was a leader within her practice driving thought leadership and talent development. Allison received her MBA at the University of Michigan and was an Associate on the Michigan Social Venture Fund (SVF) and now acts as an advisor to both SVF and the Michigan Climate Fund. Allison started her career at a healthcare start-up, acquired by Walgreens.