Kentaro Kawamori

At TC Sessions: Climate 2022 last week, we tackled an age-old question: Are corporations really that bad?

Can we trust capitalism to solve climate change?

TC Sessions: Climate, in partnership with the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals, is our first event dedicated to the climate crisis. And our agenda is complete!  Leading scientists, entrepreneurs,…

Here’s the complete agenda for next week’s TC Sessions: Climate 2022

From the minds behind TechCrunch comes a brand-new TC Sessions event dedicated to the climate crisis. Leading scientists, entrepreneurs, VCs and more will gather on June 14 at UC Berkeley…

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Climate

There’s nothing like an increasing level of regulations to create spaces for new startups to appear, especially in SaaS. Asset managers, banks and other financial institutions need to calculate their…

Climate accounting platform Persefoni raises $101M Series B led by Prelude and TPG

The carbon accounting and management platform Persefoni now has $9.7 million more in funding to support its international expansion, product development and recruitment efforts. The round, led by Rice Investment…

Persefoni’s carbon accounting platform raises $9.7 million

Kentaro Kawamori and Jason Offerman, the co-founders of new startup Persefoni, which aims to make carbon reporting easier for large corporations, know a few things about carbon emissions. The two…

Persefoni launches with $3.5 million and a carbon accounting system for big business