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.”
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The Gist is a monthly newsletter on the business, politics, and people of climate tech.
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