Deepa Lounsbury

Deepa is the CEO of LabStart, which unlocks breakthrough climate innovations out of our national labs and research institutions as well as undercapitalized entrepreneurial talent to launch deep climate technology startups. She has spent the last two decades bringing innovative climate and clean energy products, programs, and initiatives to life. This includes bringing a new residential battery product to market at Enphase Energy, building out the $35M California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program to fund early stage entrepreneurs, setting up GE’s first distributed energy platform, commercializing a demand side flexibility software product at a startup, and investing at one of the earliest clean energy venture capital firms, Angeleno Group. Deepa holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group.