We work with innovators to create and nurture the best solutions on the planet for the planet

INNOVATION | STUDIO | CAPITAL

ABOUT US

Nexus Climate is a platform company for climate innovation.

The climate transition is necessary for our long-term well-being. It is also the most important economic opportunity of our time. To secure a sustainable future for all, we need to change the way we produce and consume everything. 

Nexus Climate is here to help enable and scale low carbon technologies and solutions that will bring about this sustainable future. We focus on the innovation and market opportunities connecting MENA and Europe.


Today we do this by tackling three fundamental challenges for climate innovation: technology development, adoption and policy.

Our venture studio works with ambitious founders to transform promising ideas into successful early-stage startups, decarbonizing sectors such as the built environment and heavy industries.

With our advisory services, we support corporations in understanding and working effectively with start-ups and new technologies, and vice-versa.

Our policy work with public and private institutions aims to create a more favourable environment for early stage climate innovation and investment.

We are also looking into gaps in financing the scaling of early stage climate technologies and exploring ways to catalyze the right kind of investments to maximize climate impact and returns. 

Finally, underlying all this is our dedication to building active and healthy climate innovation communities.

If you’d like to learn more, we’d love to chat!

Team

  • Sherif Elsayed-Ali

    CO-FOUNDER
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    Sherif brings 11 years of technology leadership experience with 6 years at the cutting edge of climate tech. He was Co-Founder and CEO of UK-based AI and climate tech company Carbon Re, the first ever joint spin-out of Cambridge University and UCL. Sherif was also Director for AI for Climate at Canadian scale-up Element AI, Co-Founder & Director of Amnesty Tech, a Harvard Kennedy School fellow and a World Economic Forum Global Future Council Chair. Sherif has a BSc in Construction Engineering from the American University in Cairo and an MPA from Harvard University.

  • Daniel Mathon

    CO-FOUNDER
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    Daniel is an investment professional, including 10 years at ADIA, where he headed up the Portfolio Strategy team for the Equities department. He is a prolific angel investor including early investments in May Mobility, WeaveGrid, C16 Biosciences, Earth AI, and Nitricity. He is a Stanford GSB LEAD alum and co-founder of the LEAD for Climate group. He has a PhD in Neuroscience from Utrecht University, was a research fellow at UCL, is a CFA charterholder and holds the CFA Climate & Investment certification.

  • Jaap Bastiaansen

    COO
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    Jaap brings over 15 years of financial services experience, excels in developing digital solutions relating to climate and sustainability. Prior to Nexus Climate he worked for Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg and FactSet, where he delivered innovative solutions relating to portfolio and climate analytics and built out operations in the Middle East and Asia. Beside his work at Nexus he mentors young entrepreneurs with startupbootcamp and nobody studios a global vc studio. He holds a Master in Management degree from the Manchester Metropolitan University, a MSc in Applied Physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology, and recently completed the Chief Strategy Officer progam with a focus on sustainability at INSEAD.

  • Aziz Mulay-Shah

    Strategic Advisor
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    Aziz brings over 25 years of problem solving in public affairs, international partnerships, and sustainable development diplomacy. He specializes in government relations with an emphasis on commercial interests in the Middle East. He is Managing Director of GCA, a global communications agency (UAE), a former Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in MENA and a former consultant at PWC. As part of his diplomatic service, Aziz served as a leader in developing Canada’s input into the Millenium Development Goals. He also provided the Canadian hydropower industry with sustainability policy options that resulted in the first coordinated climate action framework for the industry in 1998. Aziz holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor of public administration from Concordia University in Montreal.

  • Dominic Shales

    CMO
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    Dominic has 30 years of experience in marketing, communications and the media. His work is now focused entirely on inspiring climate action. Alongside his role at Nexus Climate, other current roles include: Founder & CEO of RESET Media, a digital publisher; Chief Marketing Officer of Carbon Re, an AI climate tech scale-up. His background in agencies and media companies includes work with hundreds of blue-chip and pioneering brands on a wide variety of campaigns and initiatives

  • Caitlin Fuge

    Associate
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    Caitlin is an MSc Sustainability, Energy and Development student at Durham University. She researched and studied effective environmental policy-making at undergraduate level, subsequently discovering her passion for work in the climate space, which led to her interning at Nexus Climate in the summer of 2024. She provides Nexus with fresh insights to projects whenever needed whilst completing her Master’s degree.

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