About

Rizoma is the boutique sell-side advisor for climate companies. We provide specialized M&A advisory services for sustainability-focused companies, helping our clients capture the strategic value of decarbonization in their exits. Our mission is to help scale the technologies and business models that will help humanity thrive by delivering results for the people who build and invest in them.

Combining companies can unleash beneficial technologies at scale, maximizing impact and financial outcomes. At Rizoma, we solve business and technology puzzles to identify and fulfill this transformative potential. Our process includes reverse due diligence so our clients can understand how buyers match up with their sustainability criteria and theory of change.

We support hardware and software companies in all climate sectors including:

  • Agriculture
  • Carbon Accounting
  • Carbon Removal
  • Clean Energy
  • Environmental Consulting
  • GIS
  • Manufacturing
  • Mobility
  • Climate Risk Modeling
  • Recycling
  • Sensors & Remote Sensing
  • Water

Team

Claire Veuthey

Principal & Founder

Claire has worked in sustainability and impact roles at startups, scale-ups, and Fortune 100 firms for close to 20 years. She has experience in product, research, investment, and sales. Claire is responsible for sourcing and executing M&A transactions on behalf of Rizoma's clients, and takes pride in getting entrepreneurs access to a sustainability premium.

Claire earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) and the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential. She is also a Terra.do fellow and Course creator, and the co-author of The Grassroots DEI Organizer Playbook. She speaks French and Spanish and has lived in 7 cities in 6 countries on 3 continents. Claire serves on the board of Turning Green and sits on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Revenue Bond Oversight Committee.

Wesley Newburg

Principal

Wesley Newburg is responsible for originating and executing merger and acquisition transactions at Rizoma. He brings more than a decade of experience in software including sales, product, strategy, and investing work. As a Principal, Wesley manages our process while helping clients demonstrate the value of their technology to buyers and investors.

Wesley’s data startup MediaHound was acquired by United Talent Agency in 2022. Wesley has advised a variety of startups and backed early-stage clean energy and mobility founders as the GP of a small venture capital fund called Helene Ventures. His academic affiliations include USC, Columbia University, and Terra.do.