Fighting climate change
one startup at a time.
We help climate tech startups
Climate tech startups operate in complex, highly-regulated markets. The Ad Hoc Group helps early and late stage startups translate policy and regulatory insight into business returns, design and execute go-to-market strategies, and source and close deals.
HOW WE HELP
The Ad Hoc Group offers a suite of services that help our clients drive topline revenue growth, shape the policy and regulatory environment, raise capital, and build out their internal go-to-market team.
WHO WE WORK WITH
The companies we work with are solving the toughest climate challenges.
Here is a selection of our past and present clients.
TESTIMONIALS
Sonia Kastner
Founder and CEO
Pano AI
"We wouldn't be where we are without The Ad Hoc Group team. They were instrumental in helping us understand our market and its regulatory drivers, refine our product offering and messaging, and close our first deals. Rather than arms-length advisors, they have been part of the Pano team from nearly day 1.”
Sam D’Amico
CEO
Impulse Labs
“Working with The Ad Hoc Group has been a great experience. They were super clutch when it came to closing a Series A in the difficult funding environment of 2022. They helped us get deals over the finish line by highlighting important policy tailwinds to investors, presenting complex information in an immediately understandable way.”
Carter Li
CEO
SWTCH
"The Ad Hoc Group developed an intimate knowledge of our business, our team, and what we needed in our first head of policy role. They then helped us hire an excellent leader, supported him as he hired additional members of the team, and then helped onboard them. They bring a lot more than recruiting to the table; they've actually done these jobs themselves so knew what we needed from the inside out and then set up our new hires for success.”
Kathy Hannun
President and Founder
Dandelion Energy
“The Ad Hoc Group has been an essential partner to the Dandelion team from early in our journey. Their ability to quickly understand the regulatory and and political dynamics of our market and translate that into a focused growth plan has ensured that we have invested our precious resources on the right markets at the right time.”
Latest from The Gist
The Gist is a monthly newsletter on the business, politics, and people of climate tech.
The Ad Hoc Gist: Who Pays For a Resilient Grid?
The grid is reaching a breaking point. Utilities say they need a trillion dollars for upgrades by 2030. Regulators say: prove it. Somewhere between California’s wildfire zones and Florida’s hurricane corridors, we’re entering a period where every investment decision carries real political and economic consequences.
The core question is no longer whether we need a more resilient grid. It’s how much resilience is enough and who pays?
On last week’s Open Circuit podcast, my partner Julia Hamm joined hosts Stephen Lacey, Katherine Hamilton and Jigar Shah to cut through the noise and explain what’s happening behind the scenes. Julia and Jigar also went at it a bit, which I always find entertaining! Read this month’s Gist for the key takeaways.
The Ad Hoc Gist: How Urbint’s $325M Exit Proved Many VCs Wrong
Itron recently announced its $325 million acquisition of Urbint, marking a significant exit in the climate resilience software space. The deal comes at an interesting time. Climate tech M&A exits are down 25% year over year, yet acquisitions now represent 92% of all exits in the sector.
We sat down with Urbint founder and CEO, Corey Capasso, one of AHG’s first clients, to discuss what this exit signals for founders selling to utilities and how the utility market has transformed from a graveyard for startups into fertile ground.
The Ad Hoc Gist: AI is Transforming Weather Forecasting
Weather forecasting is undergoing a period of rapid transformation driven by AI and surging demand for more precise, local, and actionable information. In an age of increasingly destructive extreme weather, the right weather intelligence can be the difference between safety and calamity.
In this month’s Gist, we spoke with meteorologist Sunny Wescott and Matt Stein, CEO of Salient Predictions, about why utilities still get caught off-guard by predictable storms, how AI is reshaping risk assessment and complementing physics-based models, and what it really takes to embed weather intelligence into daily operations.