Puja Balachander
Puja Balachander is a climate tech entrepreneur, investor, and product leader dedicated to accelerating the just transition. She is the co-founder of UpGreen, her second startup, which is implementing and financing retrofits at scale.
Currently, she serves as Director of Venture at Carbon13, where she supports pre-seed and seed-stage climate tech startups using her experience in investment, product development, and commercialisation.
She was Director of Product at Think of Us, a civic tech company focused on systems change in the child welfare system. Before that, she founded and led Devie (acquired by Think of Us), a D2C health tech startup that digitised child psychology interventions to support parents of children under 5.
Her career began in civic tech, improving public services in Austin, the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, and World Bank Madagascar.
She holds a BA in International Studies from American University and an MBA from Oxford.