Lisbeth Kaufman

Lisbeth Kaufman is the Founder and Head of the Climate Tech Startups BD Team at Amazon Web Services. Her mission is to help the best Climate Tech startups succeed and reverse the global climate crisis. Her team has technical resources, go to market support, and connections to help climate tech startups overcome obstacles and scale. Lisbeth was Founder and CEO of KitSplit.com, a sharing economy company called “the Airbnb of Cameras” by Forbes, and LucidHome.co, easy-to-understand climate risk reports for any address in the U.S. Before she was a founder, Lisbeth worked on climate policy as an energy/environment/agriculture policy advisor in the U.S. Senate. There she built a first-of-its-kind energy efficiency retrofit program and wrote a clean energy bill for farmers that got passed into law. Lisbeth has a BA from Yale and an MBA from NYU Stern where she was a Dean's Scholar. As a mentor at Techstars, Venture for Climate, and an EIR a Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Lisbeth mentors climate tech founders on product, growth, fundraising, as well as making strategic connections to teams at AWS and Amazon.