Nishant Mani
Founding Organizer at LA Climate Week
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2024 - Current
Chief Business Officer
2020 - 2024
Ran revenue growth, data, finance, and vertical P&Ls to enable the company's mission to get 100 million people working in climate by 2030.
Advisor
2020 - 2020
Founding Organizer
2024
Partner, Climate Capital Syndicate
2022
Lead investments in early stage climate startups across sectors and geographies that are innovating on the deployment problem i.e. scaling market-tested technologies and business models in climate solutions. Investments: Lumo, Sust, Packsmith, Ezra Climate, Dispatch Goods, Sheru, Terraform Industries, Boxpower
Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Board Member
2020
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Organize and protect your loved one's finances.
Raised $19,700,000.00 from Montage Ventures, Fin Capital, TTV Capital, Alloy Labs, Commerce Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Advisor
2020 - 2021
Dandelion Energy is a home geothermal company that offers geothermal heating and cooling installations.
Raised $174,500,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Google Ventures, NGP Energy Capital Management, LenX and Collaborative Fund.
Chief Marketing Officer
2018 - 2020
• Built and managed several business functions with top-tier talent, including performance and organic marketing, analytics, brand & PR, growth product and design • Grew customer base by several orders of magnitude for Fabric's suite of products across life insurance, wills, college savings, and other family finance apps • Developed product strategy and diversified revenue streams across a broad suite of fintech products tailored to new parent financial security • Led a head-to-toe rebranding of the company to reflect the entire val prop, showcase stellar design and experience, and have genuine conversations with the new parent target • Built channel, comms and growth product stack on the foundation of a complex audience targeting engine that combined insurance risk assessment across several dimensions including socio-economic and health risk • Raised multiple successful fundraising rounds with the rest of the executive team
Advisor
2017 - 2018
Chief Marketing Officer
2016 - 2018
• Ran the direct-to-consumer subscription business for a top 50 US wine company, leading the marketing, customer experience, analytics, and content teams • Increased new subscriber growth by 50% and early member retention by 15% within 6 months, through channel diversification (digital, direct mail, streaming audio), customer referral growth, and digital product/experience revamp • Created new brand identity & tone pillars for Winc and implemented it across all customer lifecycle touchpoints; developed pillars from 1st & 3rd party consumer intelligence data and company SWOT • Lifted operating margin by 20% through price segmentation and tiering while maintaining retention and engagement, helping turn the company to EBITDA profitability • Developed and managed a wide slate of brand partnerships across companies like Penguin Randomhouse, Shell, and CB2, driving subscriber growth as well as brand awareness • Built internal ops to improve company productivity and morale; transitioned the company to KPI-driven agile pods and streamlined shared service prioritization processes
Mentor
2016 - 2018
Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Greycroft, Accel, Karlin Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Baroda Ventures and Kevin Wall.