Lubomila is an exceptional leader. You can gather it from her huge list of awards:
Atos Partner Startup, as part of Scaler, 2021
Top 100 Women in Germany for 2020, FOCUS Magazin, Dec 2020
80 Top Founders shaping the post-pandemic world, Sifted.eu, July 2020
Marshall Memorial Fellow 2021/2022
Forbes 30 under 30 2020
DT50 Sustainability Award 2019 from McKinsey, Google and ROCKET INTERNET
BCG Social Impact Award 2020
Winner of TECHBBQ Pitch Competition 2019
Winner of PIRATE SUMMIT Pitch Competition 2019
Winner of Women Startup Competition 2019
Top 100 Meaningful Business 2019
Slush Top 15 2019
But despite all the great recognition, she is incredibly affable, personable, down to earth and clear in her mission to fight Climate Change. She and her team are doing so by creating a SaaS platform to help businesses calculate, monitor and reduce their carbon footprint monthly, while automatically building each month a tailored sustainability action plan and offsetting schemes, according to the footprint of the company. The technology behind the software uses insights from the Plan A algorithm which analyses over 300,000 data points to predict and prioritise the most critical environmental issues and the way industries and companies impact these environmental changes.
We had a great conversation around becoming a founder, leaving a comfortable FinTech and Investment background behind to dedicate fully to the Carbon accounting mission. In that sense Plan A is enabling companies of all sizes have a much better accounting and even offsetting of their carbon emissions and by doing so improving their ESG performance. We also discussed the recent news about Plan A recent $3m raise, their plans of growing in France, the US and elsewhere and what this milestone means to other Bulgarians and immigrant founders in the ClimateTech and wider ecosystem.
Plan A website: https://plana.earth/
Recent raise: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/softbank-demeter-and-coparion-invest-3m-into-plan-as-b2b-carbon-monitoring-and-esg-platform/
David's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcontrerasdiaz/
Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi
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