Avarni Team

Executive team

Advisory board

Michael Molitor

Senior Carbon Advisor

Michael is a veteran climate scientist and practitioner. His experience includes working in the Climate Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Climate Change team at BP, Global Leader of Climate Change Services at PwC, Senior Advisor on Climate Change at McKinsey, and co-founding Emmi.io. Michael received his PhD from Cambridge University, and post-doc fellowship at Harvard University.

Andrew Menzies

Advisor and Investor

Andrew is the Co-Founder & Chairman of LocalAgentFinder, listed as AFR’s Fast 100, one of Australia’s fastest growing companies. Andrew is also an active investor in a range of successful startups.

Colin Holgate

Senior Business Advisor

Colin is a highly-experienced business engineer. Previously, Colin served as President Asia Pacific Operations of CGI Group Inc, Managing Director of Logica Australia, Asia, Middle East and Africa, and Chief Executive Officer of Logica Australia. Colin has a wealth of senior management experience for blue chip companies, including IBM, First National Bank, Deloitte Consulting, Unisys and Praxa Limited.

Board members

Daniel Jarosch

Chair

Daniel is a seasond CEO and entrepreneur with over 20 years in the full venture lifecycle, from founding to scaling companies to exits and IPOs. He has a strong track record in building high-performance teams and digital companies, coupled with extensive experience in tech and climate tech. During his seven years as Managing Partner and Director at Boston Consulting Group, he led several leadership roles within BCG Digital Ventures and BCG Greentech across various sectors in APAC, contributing significantly to global investment strategies and corporate venturing. Prior to BCG, Daniel founded and led multiple successful startups, including MarleySpoon.com.au, spreets.com.au, and styletread.com.au, BrandsExclusive.com.au, achieving notable exits and an IPO.

Mike Zimmerman

Director

Mike Zimmerman is a partner at Main Sequence, where he leads the Supercharge Industrial Productivity Challenge, and also invests in the Feed 10 Billion People and Next Intelligence Leap challenges. He is a director at Castlepoint Systems, Emesent, Kasada, Lumachain, Loam Bio, Presien, RIOS Robotics and Regrow Ag. Mike also sits on the Board of the Australian Investment Council and is the President of the Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.

Investors

AfterWork Ventures

AfterWork Ventures is a community-powered venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. They invest in next-generation tech companies right from the very beginning.

AfterWork invested in Avarni's November 2023 funding round.

Common Sense Ventures

Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. They partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world.

Main Sequence Ventures

Main Sequence Ventures was created by CSIRO in conjunction with the Australian government to commercialise deep technology and public research.

Main Sequence led Avarni's December 2022 funding round, and invested in Avarni's November 2023 funding round.

Sprint Ventures

Sprint Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital firm based in Brisbane that's investing in extraordinary Australian companies that are building a better future.

Sprint invested in Avarni's November 2023 funding round.

Vulpes Ventures

Vulpes has been investing in Southeast Asia for over a decade and was an early investor in two of Singapore’s first unicorns, PropertyGuru and Trax.

Avarni’s automation software enabled us to easily assemble data that had been previously distributed across multiple spreadsheets and sources, and facilitated a robust analysis of our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Their extensive technical knowledge of the greenhouse gas emissions and reductions space and their technology platform provided excellent insight into our current emissions profile so that we can set meaningful reduction targets for the future.

Robert Selby

Chief Technical & Risk Management at Morrison Hershfield

Avarni’s software was easy to use and is supporting us to reach our target of net zero in our supply chain by 2040. Avarni really understood our goal and worked with us to achieve more accurate data from our supply chain. We look forward to building on this partnership.

City of London Corporation

Avarni enables us to greatly enhance the speed and quality at which we deliver greenhouse gas emissions insights to our customers. We are excited to work closely with them as a key partner in expanding Earth Finance's Scope 3 decarbonization solution set.

Garrett Kephart

President at Earth Finance, Inc.

Because of Avarni, we have been able to get a thorough understanding of our impact areas and emissions, not only in our own operations, but also in our supply chain. They have provided cutting-edge and helped Underworks set solid 2030 carbon reduction goals.

Annelou Ringers

Sustainability Manager at Underworks

Avarni's software is easy to use and very intuitive, upload of data is simple and straightforward, results for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are shown in a very clear form - and they are always ready to help, have quick meetings, chats and receive and apply feedback.

Marina Lunardi

Life-cycle Strategy Lead at 5B

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