Andrew Eil runs an independent practice as a climate technology solutions investor, advisor to early-stage companies and corporates, and deal scout to VCs and other investors. He has built a portfolio of 25 early-stage companies, a network of 200 climate tech VC firms, and deal-sharing with 300 investors.
Early-Stage Investing
Andrew hews to a thematic focus on adaptation & resilience, resource efficiency, and risk management solutions to protect against disruptions and threats with climate change-related root causes. In the early-stage technology commercialization space, he sources, diligences, advises, and makes investments in pre-seed, seed stage, and series A startups building markets for emerging B2B solutions. Andrew’s investment thesis, detailed in a recent article, centers on hardware and deeptech companies with differentiated technology on the cusp of market entry and scaling that address material operational and financial vulnerabilities. He invests in verticals such as wildfire management, freshwater provision, agrifood biotechnology, HVAC and cooling, risk analytics and insurance, waste reprocessing and valorization, supply chain and operational resiliency, and methane and refrigerant emissions abatement.
Informed by 20 years of experience in technology commercialization, development finance, international affairs, and climate risk, Andrew has built a portfolio of roughly 25 early-stage investee and advisee companies since first entering the VC space in 2022. He invests in six to ten companies annually out of the hundreds of deals that he screens from many professional and industry sources. He brings for investment consideration to his network of angel investors and early-stage climate VCs his own investee companies, advisee startups, and other companies in late-stage due diligence.
Advisory Services & Deal Scouting
Andrew also manages a consulting practice in climate risk, technology, and capital markets intelligence. On the enterprise side, he advises startups and mature companies on core priorities such as go-to-market strategy, partnerships, business development, operations, and fundraising for equity capital as well as debt and grants. In support of the objectives he pursues for clients, he leverages partnerships with leading angel networks, vendor marketplaces, grantwriters, fractional CXOs, event organizers, and media outlets. His most active startup advisory engagements (all paired with investments) include Athena Intelligence (wildfire risk); Mothership Materials (organic waste upcycling/biomanufacturing); Aquaria (backup/off-grid water); ThermoShade, Helix Earth, and MIMiC Systems (thermal comfort solutions); CLAIM8 (property risk and insurance claims); and Unibaio (agrifood supply chain resiliency).
On the capital side, Andrew advises institutional asset managers, family offices, incubators & accelerators, impact financers, and smaller-scale investors to source and vet investments in early-stage private markets; offer platform support to portfolio companies; manage and mitigate climate-related risk; and develop investment strategies informed by geostrategic climate- and weather-related dynamics. He is a “super-angel” deal scout for Alumni Ventures, the most active VC firm in North America by deal count, and a venture advisor to Anthropocene Ventures, an early-stage climate tech VC. Since October 2024, he has hosted briefings for investors showcasing founders from 15 startups, mobilizing more than $2M for them in angel investment capital. In summer 2025 he launched a partnership as the climate & resilience solutions deal scout for the SPV syndicate platform Play Money. Andrew has since led or catalyzed six angel investing campaigns with Play Money.
Professional Background
From early 2022 until November 2024, Andrew founded and led the climate risk practice in North America at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where he advised banks, insurance carriers, and other financial institutions. From 2018 until the end of 2021, Andrew was one of four partner-owners of Climate Finance Advisors, a boutique consulting firm focused on policy and investment solutions for commercialization and capital mobilization supporting nascent environmental technologies. Andrew joined CFA as a startup, which he co-managed and helped grow to a team of 20 until its acquisition by WSP. He is a widely published thought leader and speaker on climate and energy issues (LinkedIn profile). He serves on the steering committee of the Larta Institute’s Venture Fellows program and is a volunteer mentor for Third Derivative, a leading climate-focused deeptech accelerator.
Andrew has worked in international climate policy and markets for more than 15 years with the U.S. Department of State’s climate change office (2010-14), the World Bank Group, UN agencies, and private clients such as Bloomberg LLP. He has studied and worked abroad for nearly six years in Kazakhstan, Russia, China, and France. He as a BA in Russian history and literature from Harvard, an MPA in development economics from Princeton, and executive education certificates in VC & private equity and sustainable finance from Columbia. He is a CFA level II candidate.
For more details, please see Andrew’s LinkedIn page.