Xylo Systems founders on tackling AI and 'tech bro' VCs
The founders of biodiversity platform Xylo Systems faced a steep learning curve to get across AI and the world of VC investing. Camille Goldstone-Henry explains how she and her co-founder Jada Andersen overcame these challenges.
The recent launch of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has focused the minds of many companies on their impacts and interdependencies on nature, ecosystems and biodiversity.
Former wildlife scientist Camille Goldstone-Henry and Jada Andersen, who had built a biodiversity data platform for environmentalists and academics, realised the platform could be adapted for use in a corporate setting.
Xylo Systems was developed in tandem with the rollout of the TNFD, and now caters almost exclusively to property developers who are seeking to understand and rectify the impact that land-clearing and other development activities are having on biodiversity and ecosystems in their local area.
Establishing Xylo Systems pushed the founders up a steep learning curve to learn the technology and systems required to remotely measure and monitor ecosystems, as well as the art of pitching to venture capitalists for funding.
