Deepa Lounsbury

Deepa is the CEO of LabStart, which unlocks climate innovations out of our research institutions and entrepreneurial talent from diverse communities. She has spent the last 18 years bringing innovative clean energy products, programs, and initiatives to life. This includes bringing a new residential battery product to market at Enphase Energy, building out the $24M California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program to fund early stage clean energy entrepreneurs, setting up GE’s first distributed energy platform, commercializing a demand side flexibility software product at a startup, and investing in early stage start-ups at one of the earliest clean energy venture capital firms, Angeleno Group. Deepa holds a bachelor’s degree in business and international relations from the University of Southern California as well as a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group.