Fighting climate change
one startup at a time.
We help climate tech startups
Climate tech startups operate in complex, highly-regulated markets. The Ad Hoc Group helps early and late stage startups translate policy and regulatory insight into business returns, design and execute go-to-market strategies, and source and close deals.
HOW WE HELP
The Ad Hoc Group offers a suite of services that help our clients drive topline revenue growth, shape the policy and regulatory environment, raise capital, and build out their internal go-to-market team.
WHO WE WORK WITH
The startups we work with are solving the toughest climate challenges.
Here are our past and present clients.
TESTIMONIALS
Sonia Kastner
Founder and CEO
Pano AI
"We wouldn't be where we are without The Ad Hoc Group team. They were instrumental in helping us understand our market and its regulatory drivers, refine our product offering and messaging, and close our first deals. Rather than arms-length advisors, they have been part of the Pano team from nearly day 1.”
Sam D’Amico
CEO
Impulse Labs
“Working with The Ad Hoc Group has been a great experience. They were super clutch when it came to closing a Series A in the difficult funding environment of 2022. They helped us get deals over the finish line by highlighting important policy tailwinds to investors, presenting complex information in an immediately understandable way.”
Carter Li
CEO
SWTCH
"The Ad Hoc Group developed an intimate knowledge of our business, our team, and what we needed in our first head of policy role. They then helped us hire an excellent leader, supported him as he hired additional members of the team, and then helped onboard them. They bring a lot more than recruiting to the table; they've actually done these jobs themselves so knew what we needed from the inside out and then set up our new hires for success.”
Kathy Hannun
President and Founder
Dandelion Energy
“The Ad Hoc Group has been an essential partner to the Dandelion team from early in our journey. Their ability to quickly understand the regulatory and and political dynamics of our market and translate that into a focused growth plan has ensured that we have invested our precious resources on the right markets at the right time.”
Latest from The Gist
The Gist is a monthly newsletter on the business, politics, and people of climate tech.
The Ad Hoc Gist: AI is Transforming Weather Forecasting
Weather forecasting is undergoing a period of rapid transformation driven by AI and surging demand for more precise, local, and actionable information. In an age of increasingly destructive extreme weather, the right weather intelligence can be the difference between safety and calamity.
In this month’s Gist, we spoke with meteorologist Sunny Wescott and Matt Stein, CEO of Salient Predictions, about why utilities still get caught off-guard by predictable storms, how AI is reshaping risk assessment and complementing physics-based models, and what it really takes to embed weather intelligence into daily operations.
The Ad Hoc Gist: The Urgent Need for Data Center Flexibility
Data centers. They are the inescapable energy topic of the moment. Can we build them fast enough to meet surging AI demand? Do we have the power and grid infrastructure to support them? What will they do to customer bills?
In this month’s Gist, my colleague Matt Anderson explains why some of the assumptions around data center demand are likely wrong and how a combination of new technology and creative regulation could make data center demand more flexible and drive down costs significantly.
The Ad Hoc Gist: Can States Defend and Advance Climate Progress?
Now that Congress has gutted much of the Inflation Reduction Act, attention turns back to the states that have historically provided a “climate firewall” when the federal government backslides.
In 2016 when Trump was first elected, climate-forward states united in common cause to flex the power that the federalist system gave them to continue to drive the energy transition forward.
In this month’s Gist, we interview Will Toor, who leads Colorado Governor Polis’ energy office, to find out if states will step up again and what’s different about 2025.