Katya Akulinicheva

I coach mission-driven founders and senior operators | ex-ZeroAvia and SYSTEMIQ

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2019
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Mar 2019
Jupiter is the trusted leader in climate risk analytics for organizations looking to strengthen their climate resilience. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies and analytics delivered by some of the best scientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today.
Investor
Apr 2018
Electron's vision is to unleash renewable abundance by connecting millions of distributed energy resources to thousands of coordinated markets. We've made it our mission to help network utilities and municipal suppliers adopt and scale flexibility markets to manage grid congestion, improve connection rates, and lower bills. To do this, we've created a world-leading, trading SaaS platform to launch, operate and coordinate multiple markets for flexibility and distributed energy. -------------------------------- Diving into the detail: What's our story? Electron was founded on the belief that energy systems of the future would need digitally optimised marketplaces rather than large scale new generation capacity, in order to deliver Net Zero in a cost efficient and resilient way. By combining the founders’ knowledge of energy markets and experience in building digital trading platforms, Electron set out to meet this requirement, working collaboratively with existing and emerging market participants to create the first digital energy marketplace. Since establishment in 2015, Electron has engaged in eight network optimisation projects in four countries, involving partnerships with 20 major energy industry players including National Grid ESO, EDF Energy, Shell and London Hydro. Based on these successful projects, the ElectronConnect platform has been selected to support marketplaces for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, National Grid ESO in the UK and London Hydro in Canada. Electron’s technology is currently deployed in a first-of-its-kind, real-time, local marketplace in Orkney, with two further markets under development.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Environmental management, reimagined. At Dendra, we transform how you monitor, protect, and restore large-scale ecosystems. With ultra-high-resolution maps and AI-powered insights, the Dendra Platform drives targeted, data-backed interventions every step of the way. Headquartered in Oxford, UK, and with global operations, we deliver unique ecosystem insights to asset owners, operators, and engineers across Mining, Oil & Gas, and Infrastructure sectors. Our platform supports operational efficiency, decarbonization, and reinforces the ‘license to operate.’ We are the platform of choice for environmental restoration and management, driving effective outcomes across terrestrial, aquatic, and built environments. Learn more at www.dendra.io.
Investor; Board Observer
Jan 2018
Award-winning cloud platform, using advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to manage and monetise very large portfolios of diversified and distributed energy resources, formerly Upside Energy.
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Investor
Mar 2019
Jupiter is the trusted leader in climate risk analytics for organizations looking to strengthen their climate resilience. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies and analytics delivered by some of the best scientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today.
2018
Investor
Apr 2018
Electron's vision is to unleash renewable abundance by connecting millions of distributed energy resources to thousands of coordinated markets. We've made it our mission to help network utilities and municipal suppliers adopt and scale flexibility markets to manage grid congestion, improve connection rates, and lower bills. To do this, we've created a world-leading, trading SaaS platform to launch, operate and coordinate multiple markets for flexibility and distributed energy. -------------------------------- Diving into the detail: What's our story? Electron was founded on the belief that energy systems of the future would need digitally optimised marketplaces rather than large scale new generation capacity, in order to deliver Net Zero in a cost efficient and resilient way. By combining the founders’ knowledge of energy markets and experience in building digital trading platforms, Electron set out to meet this requirement, working collaboratively with existing and emerging market participants to create the first digital energy marketplace. Since establishment in 2015, Electron has engaged in eight network optimisation projects in four countries, involving partnerships with 20 major energy industry players including National Grid ESO, EDF Energy, Shell and London Hydro. Based on these successful projects, the ElectronConnect platform has been selected to support marketplaces for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, National Grid ESO in the UK and London Hydro in Canada. Electron’s technology is currently deployed in a first-of-its-kind, real-time, local marketplace in Orkney, with two further markets under development.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Environmental management, reimagined. At Dendra, we transform how you monitor, protect, and restore large-scale ecosystems. With ultra-high-resolution maps and AI-powered insights, the Dendra Platform drives targeted, data-backed interventions every step of the way. Headquartered in Oxford, UK, and with global operations, we deliver unique ecosystem insights to asset owners, operators, and engineers across Mining, Oil & Gas, and Infrastructure sectors. Our platform supports operational efficiency, decarbonization, and reinforces the ‘license to operate.’ We are the platform of choice for environmental restoration and management, driving effective outcomes across terrestrial, aquatic, and built environments. Learn more at www.dendra.io.
Investor; Board Observer
Jan 2018
Award-winning cloud platform, using advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to manage and monetise very large portfolios of diversified and distributed energy resources, formerly Upside Energy.
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