Catha Groot

Helping Climate and Sustainability Founders

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Board Observer
Apr 2022
UrbanFootprint delivers Resilient Decision Intelligence – trusted by some of the largest energy utilities, financial institutions, government agencies, and private organizations as they deploy billions of dollars to effect change in the face of climate risk, the urgent need to decarbonize and growing social instability. UrbanFootprint’s mission is to Build Resilience. We empower institutions with critical data insights to drive decision making and inform where to invest and build the next generation of resilient infrastructure and communities. UrbanFootprint was born out of over 25 years of urban planning, data science, and disaster response experience and offers the only comprehensive, national view of climate, environmental, urban, and socio-economic data available - rigorously cleaning and aligning thousands of previously-siloed industry relevant data layers from numerous sources across 160 million U.S. Parcels. We combine and intersect particular metrics and models to construct Resilience Insights delivered with intuitive mapping tools purpose built to answer complex resource questions — where to invest, where to deploy resources, and where to optimize for risk, return, resilience, and community.
Board Member
Jul 2020
Inventors of Nucycl® fiber, made of 100% recycled textiles, providing extraordinary performance and a more #sustainable future.
Board Member
Jun 2018
Aclima is pioneering an entirely new way to diagnose the health of our air and track climate-changing pollution. Powered by our network of roving and stationary sensors, Aclima measures air pollution, greenhouse gases, and toxics at unprecedented scales -- block-by-block and with source-level resolution. Our professional analytics software translates billions of scientific measurements into environmental intelligence for governments, companies, and communities. Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and delivers clean air for all. Were backed by top-tier investors, including Plum Alley, Radicle Impact, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund and Bosch.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Our mission is simple – help people get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and get a fresh start. Financial stress puts an enormous burden on consumers’ health and family and leaves them unable to absorb shocks. Nearly half of Americans cannot come up with $400 to cover an emergency expense. We help them right-size their debt, improve their monthly cash flow to allow for emergency savings, and rebuild their credit profile to improve access to responsible credit. LendStreet’s clients on average reduce their overall debt by 30% and see a median credit score increase of 100 points in the first 18 months. Our platform helps borrowers get through debt settlement and back on their feet in under 9 months (rather than the traditional 4+ years), helps creditors monetize their defaulted borrowers more efficiently, provides a healthy return for our investors and an inspiring place to work for our employees. www.lendstreet.com/careers
Board Member
Mar 2017
Local Bushel makes it easy for restaurants and other wholesale buyers to source food from local farms. Our platform offers farmer's market quality produce, meat, and dairy at a price and level of convenience that is competitive to commercial food distributors. Our mission is to make sustainable, transparently sourced food the norm, fundamentally changing the food distribution industry.
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2025
Associate Director, Co-Curricular Ecopreneurship Programs
Aug 2025
Stanford is a place of discovery, creativity and innovation located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Dedicated to our founding mission—benefitting society through research and education—we are working toward a sustainable future, accelerating the impact of research with external partners, catalyzing discoveries about ourselves and our world, and educating students as global citizens. Our main campus, which welcomed its first class in 1891, is now home to 650+ student organizations, 36 varsity athletic teams, 20 libraries, 21 living Nobel laureates, 18 interdisciplinary research institutes, seven schools, and a vibrant arts scene. More than 9,000 graduate students and 7,000 undergraduates pursue studies at Stanford each year. Our financial aid program, one of the most generous in the nation, makes it possible for any admitted undergraduate to attend without taking on student debt.
2024
2022
Board Observer
Apr 2022
UrbanFootprint delivers Resilient Decision Intelligence – trusted by some of the largest energy utilities, financial institutions, government agencies, and private organizations as they deploy billions of dollars to effect change in the face of climate risk, the urgent need to decarbonize and growing social instability. UrbanFootprint’s mission is to Build Resilience. We empower institutions with critical data insights to drive decision making and inform where to invest and build the next generation of resilient infrastructure and communities. UrbanFootprint was born out of over 25 years of urban planning, data science, and disaster response experience and offers the only comprehensive, national view of climate, environmental, urban, and socio-economic data available - rigorously cleaning and aligning thousands of previously-siloed industry relevant data layers from numerous sources across 160 million U.S. Parcels. We combine and intersect particular metrics and models to construct Resilience Insights delivered with intuitive mapping tools purpose built to answer complex resource questions — where to invest, where to deploy resources, and where to optimize for risk, return, resilience, and community.
2020
Board Member
Jul 2020
Inventors of Nucycl® fiber, made of 100% recycled textiles, providing extraordinary performance and a more #sustainable future.
Partner
Jan 2020
Radicle Impact is an investment fund that partners with exceptional people to build businesses where financial success create meaningful social change. Radicle Impact supports technology-enabled businesses that have the potential to transform three critical systems: energy, food and financial services.
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