About Elliot Coad
I am dedicating my working-life to the restoration of the planet by supporting ambitious impact entrepreneurs.
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Having founded one of the fastest growing climate tech startups in Europe I’m now using my experience and network to ensure many others achieve meaningful scale.
Value I can add
I’ve had the privilege to help companies go through truly transformative moments with my involvement. Whether it’s help finding product-market-fit, making a pivotal introduction, setting a new internal standard, help in making hard decisions, or finding new repeatable revenue.
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I’ve also experienced the negative cases of cash-flow, team growth, legal, goal-setting, culture and the list goes on. Though very painful at the time and sometimes existential, they are indelible memories that I will use to help you navigate your passage more peacefully.
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For all the complexities of running a business, at its root of a successful one are a few key psychological levers such as building momentum, confidence, and creating space for lateral thinking. Each time we meet, it’s my responsibility to keep on turning those dials for you.
Experience
Advisor & mentor
2024 - present
ERS is the next generation of carbon standards for nature. Their team has solved core issues holding the markets back from scale and integrity. Many of the most progressive enterprises are looking to fund ERS certified projects.
Advisor & mentor
2024 - present
RouteZero is an innovative tool to help companies and governments reduce their travel emissions by 25% in 6 months, all the while passing on significant cost savings,
Board Advisor
2024 - present
Working with the founding team to place a high-performing climate lobby inside Westminster. Assisting with go-to-market, climate solutions, and network.
Advisor & mentor
2023 - 2024
Evoflo cuts electricity bills in half and lowers carbon emissions by providing low cost domestic batteries to the UK. As advisor I closely worked with the CEO on launch activities.
Advisor
2023 - present
Helping one of the UK’s most ambitious nature restoration projects with their funding model, communications strategy and go-to-market.
Founder & Director
2023 - present
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CEO
2019 - 2023
Founded a climate startup that in its first four years turned over £25m in revenue enabling 100+ impactful projects around the world to be funded, alongside developing a free high-integrity carbon accounting tool for SMEs.
​ With +24,000 business customers Ecologi became one of the leading climate action platforms leading to +80 million trees funded and +3m tCO2e avoided from other climate solutions.
CTO
2017 - 2019
Tech startup Twine is a communications tool for effective remote workforces. As the CTO I worked closely with the CEO to grow the company to early profitability, partly enabled by shrewd technology choices.
Head of Development
2012 - 2017
Shortlist Media was a digital media publisher that went through explosive growth through to Series B funding.
As the first product and engineering hire I eventually led a team of 25+.