Eunoia Group
Founder and Managing Partner
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Chante Harris is a champion of social and financial 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 ImpactAlpha, Business Insider, The Milken Institute, and other notable publications.
As an operator, she secured and deployed millions of dollars for the implementation of climate projects and energy-efficient technologies. In 2020 she built a $10 million climate tech venture studio in the U.S. focused on global companies deploying technologies across mobility, buildings, agriculture, waste, water, materials, and carbon. After her time as a climate tech strategist with Schmidt Futures, she founded Eunoia Group, a platform for the Great Deployment. Eunoia champions derisk-as-a-service for founders and investors addressing the multi-trillion-dollar funding gap for hard climate technologies at the critical early infrastructure project stage.
Named by Forbes as a 30 Under 30 in the Energy Category, Nasdaq as a Woman to Watch in 2022, ACEEE as a Champion for Energy Efficiency, GreenBiz as 30 Under 30 Leader, and Women Enews as a Pioneering Woman in Sustainability, Chante is at the helm of driving climate innovation and advancing the energy transition across the globe. Chante has traveled the world to speak at global events like COP, Aspen, GreenBiz, and TechStars.
In addition to her work leading in climate tech and investment, Chante launched and built the only global 5,000+ digital collective and global community that is 100% dedicated to advancing women of color working across the sustainability industry.
Chante is on the advisory committee for the first-ever global Climate Center being built on Governor's Island in NYC and sits on the Board of Summit Impact.
Offer
Personal Mission: To use my unique gifts, talents, and skills to encourage creativity and innovation in others to build more resilient, interconnected communities across the globe. My entrepreneurial journey has been deeply influenced by the values instilled in me since childhood. Surrounded by individuals dedicated to collective well-being, I've inherited a knack for problem-solving. Throughout my professional journey, I've been inspired by others who are invigorated about addressing our world's most pressing issues. This has reinforced my belief in our collective ability to create solutions. - For as long as I can remember I've been told that my energy and ability to distill complex challenges into action-oriented steps are superpowers that speak to the success I've had in moving big, impactful projects forward. - Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Energy Category, Nasdaq as a Woman to Watch in 2022, ACEEE as a Champion for Energy Efficiency, GreenBiz as 30 Under 30 Leader, and Women Enews as a Pioneering Woman in Sustainability - Launched and built the only global 5,000+ digital collective and global community that is 100% dedicated to advancing women of color working across the sustainability industry. - Built a $10 million climate tech venture studio in the U.S. focused on global companies deploying technologies across mobility, buildings, agriculture, waste, water, materials, and carbon. - Writing and work featured by ImpactAlpha, Business Insider, The Milken Institute, and other notable publications. - Selected by Mayor Eric Adams and the Trust to join the Advisory Committee to support the selection of an anchor academic and research institution for The Climate Exchange, a $700 million project million living-learning facility for environmental solutions. - In the first year of building my firm my team and I worked with a consortium of philanthropic funders to launch a new vehicle thesis for catalytic finance, a foundation and family office with over $44 billion in AUM in the launch of data-first products addressing portfolio risk and performance, and a climate justice PE firm to form a co-investment strategy for asset-backed facilities. I will offer my theory of change framework and unique insights that have allowed me to work across sectors and industries effectively and efficiently moving resources and capital at scale.
NEED
- Global partnerships to educate the financial industry while offering custom tools and insights for impact. - Capacity i.e. support to exponentially increase the speed and efficiency I can train others, offer templates for systems-level shifts addressing some of the biggest challenges of our time. To help paint this picture more clearly, one of the biggest funders in the world recently said to me: "How do we make another 100 Chantes as quickly as possible?" - Guidance on best practices for how some of the oldest intuitions in the world decide on what novel approach or risk they are willing to take - Support with storytelling. I know I'm barely scratching the surface of the strength of my narrative, origin story, and how my wins can serve as a blueprint for others tackling challenges to financing and deploying climate solutions globally.
Call-to-Action
Commitment and exploration to collective ownership Honing in on bottlenecks that are preventing capital market creation for technologies and strategies that are advancing people and the planet, creating a regenerative economy, and improving the wellness of all ecosystems.
