Urban Offsets Soaring!
TSL Winter 2015:
First Place Winner at Greensboro Capital Connects 2015
and recipient of a 2015 NC IDEA Grant. Shawn Gagne’ and his team have launched their Pilot Program with UNC-G and Duke University.
www.urbanoffsets.co
Startup Grind — Featuring Urban Offsets
Thursday 2/11 starting at 5:30PM
This month’s fireside chat will be with Shawn Gagne is an environmental scientist and Founder of Urban Offsets. Shawn began working with cities as an entrepreneur in 2011 by distributing his own tree inventory software program. In 2014, Shawn pivoted his company towards carbon offsets in order to solve a much larger problem experienced by US Cities: How to sustainably fund their environmental efforts. Shawn graduated from the Groundwork Labs accelerator program in Durham NC in the fall of 2014 and went on to win seed funding through the spring 2015 NC Idea grant competition. Urban Offsets has recently partnered with Duke University to deliver the world’s first locally-sourced carbon offsets solution for cities and colleges. Shawn holds an M.Sc in Environmental Science with a focus on Climate Science and previously worked as an environmental consultant working on projects across North and South America.