Kelci Zile is CEO at Envest - A private membership community for active climate investors. This community is made up of over 90 climate investors across the globe, with a growing handful of members based in TX.
Envest works to derisk and expedite members' paths to conviction on investments through their programming, with startups supported by Envest averaging a 79% survival rate, well above the 40-60% industry standard.
She is personally very passionate about nature as an asset class and the future of materials, also investing as a Venture Partners at SNØCAP and Meliorate Partners. She sits on the University of Washington Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship board, supporting early-stage innovation there.
Before working in Venture Kelci Zile spent 7 years at Amazon, with the latter half focused on building the AWS Sustainability Data Exchange.