Margaret Morales, the Director of Carbon at Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz), has now joined ClimateHound’s advisory board!

Margaret has spent the last two years staying close to the rapid changes in carbon markets and the various solutions that support them. She was previously the VP of Marketing and Communications at Terraformation Inc and has experience as a carbon project developer operating in the natural solutions space at Sightline Institute.

We are thrilled to have her expertise guiding our path forward.

We now have four beverage producers with an array of products featuring the ClimateHound Carbon Neutral certification mark. Estimates reported by these partners project 1,000,000+ certified product units reaching consumers this year alone!

The biggest win here?

We have now received our first inbound lead due to a winery seeing the certification mark on a distillery product!!!!

Our three most recent contract sizes have grown from $2,000/yr to $4,600/yr to $8,100/yr, and we’re expecting $10,000+/yr on a couple of top prospects progressing through the funnel.

This step has further accelerated the carbon footprint data collection process and also gives our clients access to real time data and insights on their electricity, natural gas, and water consumption.

Rudy brings expertise to our team from his career working at the Director and VP-level of enterprise food and beverage companies including Pepsi Co and Compass Group, as well as immense expertise in contract negotiation and company growth.

Lori Hines has been our fractional CFO and an important part of our team since the earliest days of ClimateHound.

We are happy to have Lori join our seed round with a $50,000 investment.

The SEC has ruled that publicly traded companies have 12 and 24-month deadlines to begin reporting.

ClimateHound is prepared to support TCFD-aligned reports, including a climate risk assessment.

ClimateHound software can now support franchises.

Our software is now responsive across all browser-enabled device types.

Palmer moderates a panel at Tales of the Cocktail, makes lasting industry connections, and generates $197K in opportunity leads.

9 craft beverage launch partners; 8 companies have achieved carbon neutral 🧩

Palmer meets Jake McHargue while networking in Austin, TX, and they hit it off talking about opportunities for ClimateHound.

Our last three contracts have grown from $2,000/yr to $4,600/yr to $6,400/yr, and we’re targeting $9,000/yr on a couple of top leads.

Raised a $300K pre-seed at a $2.5M post-money valuation.

Palmer is interviewed by Jeffrey “Puff” Irvin, director of the Craft Beverage Institute of the Southeast, and they speak about his path to founding ClimateHound and the vision for the company.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drinking-for-the-climate-with-palmer-fox/id1455268247?i=1000580904713

Landed 6 clients out of our first 11 pitches; carbon accounting was executed manually utilizing Google Forms and spreadsheets