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September 23, 2021

Climatiq raises $2m to build the Wikipedia of carbon footprinting

Cherry Ventures has backed the startup which is building an open-source, free-to-use climate emissions database.


Sarah Drumm

4 min read

Climatiq

Hessam Lavi believes that tracking a company’s carbon footprint should be as easy as installing Google Analytics, and as simple to understand as a Wikipedia entry. 

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Not your usual carbon accounting dashboard.
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