Bio
Chante Harris is a champion of social and finance innovation. Throughout her career. she has successfully scaled nationwide campaigns, technologies, and ideas for the Obama Administration, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. Her writing and work have been featured by Business Insider, Thrive Global, The Milken Institute, and other notable publications.
Chante currently leads climate investment and partnerships for Venture for ClimateTech (V4C) at SecondMuse, where she sources, funds and scales the best climate tech solutions across the globe by offering them hands-on support until they are ready for their first customers, pilot runs, and investment. In its first year, 9 climate tech startups raised over $11M in public and private investment and, on average, tripled their company team sizes. Chante led the launch of a global innovation challenge, and summit providing 1200+ startups across 64 countries with the insights, connections, and resources necessary to scale. She is currently leading her team in developing a global investor network convening over 100 of the top climate and climate-curious investors and providing them with the tools they need to deploy the more than $17 billion of capital committed to climate solutions in 2021 alone.
Named by NASDAQ as a Woman to Watch in 2022, ACEEE as a Champion for Energy Efficiency, America on Tech as an Innovator and Disruptor, and Women Enews as a Pioneering Woman in Sustainability, Chante is at the helm of driving climate innovation, building sustainable cities, advancing cross-sector collaboration, and tapping into community to launch better solutions and technologies.
Her work as a go-to-market strategist throughout her career has resulted in securing over $4 million for the successful launch of projects, pilots, and demos that deploy and integrate leading energy-efficient technologies across transportation, buildings, waste, agriculture, food, and infrastructure across cities.
Chante is also the co-founder of Women of Color Collective in Sustainability (WOC/CS), the only global digital collective and community that is 100% dedicated to advancing women of color working across the sustainability industry. Since its launch in the summer of 2019, the community has brought together over 5,000 women of color through virtual and in-person events, social media, a hiring platform, and an online publication.
An avid meditator who's learning how to DJ and loves a good hike, she believes that the future of regeneration relies on our ability to reimagine how we implement solutions, break down silos and build together across sectors.
