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Stanford Climate Ventures Teaching Team

Teaching Team

We act as what Jane describes as lifeguards; opening climate-specific networks and making sure everyone can swim, but mainly getting out of the way.

Adjunct Professors

Dave Danielson

Dave Danielson

  • •Managing Director, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
  • •Former US Assistant Secretary (DOE)
  • •Founding Program Director, ARPA-E.
Joel Moxley

Joel Moxley

  • •ChemE PhD & Founder
  • •Partner, Echelon
  • •Venture Partner, Breakthrough Energy.
Jane Woodward

Jane Woodward

  • •Founder of Stanford's "Understand Energy" course
  • •Managing Partner of WovenEarth Ventures
  • •Founding Partner of MAP Energy.
David McColl

David McColl

  • •Executive Director, Stanford Climate Ventures
  • •Partner, Echelon
  • •Stanford MS&E and ESE.

Teaching Assistants

Ben Swanson

Ben Swanson

Simran Mohnani

Simran Mohnani

Project Mentors

Mayank Girdhar

Mayank Girdhar

  • •Managing Director at Alphabet's X, the Moonshot Factory
  • •Leading climate and deeptech moonshot building.
Brock Mansfield

Brock Mansfield

  • •Managing Partner at Meliorate Partners
  • •Specializing in climate tech and sustainable investments.
Jessy Rivest

Jessy Rivest

  • •Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures
  • •Focused on climate tech and hard science investments.
Brock Mansfield

Brock Mansfield

  • •Managing Partner at Meliorate Partners
  • •Specializing in climate tech and sustainable investments.
Mayank Girdhar

Mayank Girdhar

  • •Managing Director at Alphabet's X, the Moonshot Factory
  • •Leading climate and deeptech moonshot building.
Jessy Rivest

Jessy Rivest

  • •Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures
  • •Focused on climate tech and hard science investments.

SCV is dedicated to the spirit and memory of our friend and fellow Climate-tech entrepreneur.

Boryana Straubel

Boryana Straubel