Manifest Climate

See Beyond! with Manifest Climate, a climate-intelligence SaaS+ (software as a service) platform for public and private organizations.

The story so far

In 2020, Laura Zizzo, a climate change pioneer known for integrated legal and consulting leadership, joined forces with proven technology entrepreneur Jeremy Greven to create Manifest Climate. Their goal was to scale the reach and impact of the strategic climate services delivered by the consulting business Laura founded in 2015.

Today, Manifest Climate's global climate change solutions combine software with strategic climate services. Manifest’s technology uses an AI-led approach to help surface insights about how businesses are managing climate risk, both for their own insights and as part of ever-increasing disclosure regulations around the world.

OMERS Ventures first invested in the company in 2021. Today, customers of Manifest Climate include some of the world’s best known financial institutions.

Themes

Business SaaS

Founded

2021

OMERS First Investment

2022

Laura Zizzo

Laura is a trained lawyer, communicator, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience leading organizations towards a low-carbon and climate-adapted future. Through her work at the intersection of climate change law, policy, and financial risk, she has been a respected advisor to leading North American financial institutions, as well as local and international governments. She is a leading voice on the legal imperative to adapt to climate change and the need to bring climate into the core of business considerations.

Laura has been a delegate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), attending annual COP meetings since 2007. Her journey as a communicator about climate change began in 2008 when she participated in Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Training program and learned to present the watershed film, "An Inconvenient Truth".

She is a published author and frequently writes for both academic and business media, contributing to numerous research and policy papers on legal liability related to climate change adaptation, the use of existing legal mechanisms to address climate change, and the role of markets and flexibility mechanisms in driving emissions reductions. As a respected speaker on the move to the low-carbon economy and implications for investors, she has addressed audiences representing over $1 Trillion in assets under management (AUM). In 2015 she co-founded and became CEO of Mantle314, now Manifest Climate, advising large private and public sector clients globally.

Laura started her legal career with a prominent Bay Street law firm before founding the first law firm in Canada focused on climate change in 2009. She has also worked in the strategic research division of the Ontario Ministry of Finance and as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Law and International Relations. She is co-founder of the Climate Change Lawyers Network, a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) committee on Environmental Law, a member of the University of Toronto's Environmental Finance Advisory Committee and sits on the boards of the Clean Air Partnership and Shift Action.

She has a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Juris Doctor (law) degree from the University of Toronto.

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Jeremy Greven

Jeremy is a veteran technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup mentor. Jeremy brings over 20 years of growth, technology, and innovation experience to the Manifest team.

Before joining Manifest, Jeremy was the Founder and CEO of Prompt Alert, ranked in Profit Magazine's Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies and Profit HOT 50 Technology Startups. Jeremy grew Prompt Alert from inception through to its successful exit in 2014 to Stericycle, a $10 billion NASDAQ-listed company. In the five years leading up to its acquisition, Prompt Alert grew 1,262% with 95% of its revenue originating internationally.

At Stericycle, Jeremy held the role of VP, Innovation and Strategy where his team was responsible for defining and delivering on the company's vision for future products. Within this role, he was a member of the mergers and acquisitions team-working on transactions exceeding 850M.

As an active member of the Canadian tech community, Jeremy volunteers in a variety of non-profit roles. He is Chairman of the Board at Peerscale, a non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to empowering the success of technology CEOs, COOs, and senior executives. He is also an Associate at the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL). Founded at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, CDL is a seed-stage program for massively scalable science and technology-based companies.

Jeremy has lived and worked internationally, consulting with the CCS Group in Hamilton, Bermuda.