Puja Balachander
Director of Venture
Carbon13
Puja Balachander is a climate tech entrepreneur, investor, and product leader dedicated to accelerating the just transition. She is the co-founder of UpGreen, her second startup, which is implementing and financing retrofits at scale.
Currently, she serves as Director of Venture at Carbon13, where she supports pre-seed and seed-stage climate tech startups using her experience in investment, product development, and commercialization.
Previously, she was Director of Product at Think of Us, a civic tech company focused on systems change in the child welfare system. Before that, she founded and led Devie (acquired by Think of Us), a direct-to-consumer health tech startup that digitized child psychology interventions to support parents of children under five.
Her career began in civic tech, improving public services at the City of Austin, the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, and the World Bank in Madagascar.
She holds a BA in International Studies from American University and an MBA from Oxford.