EcoShift Collective is a next-gen led climate fund that aligns the overlapping passions of family members to act as agents of change toward a more sustainable world.
Our Mission
EcoShift Collective contributes flexible, impact-first capital to preserve our environment and protect it for all living beings. Our mission targets three critical areas for creating a lasting impact, with a climate justice lens across all investments:
Transitioning from Fossil Fuels
We’re committed to shifting towards a clean energy economy, moving away from traditional fossil fuel dependencies.
optimizing food, agriculture, & land use
Our investments support a shift towards practices that are both sustainable and fair, ensuring a balanced ecosystem.
Shifting to an Economy Without Waste
We’re committed to shifting to a circular economy, where materials never become waste and nature is regenerated.
Our Strategies for Impact
EcoShift Collective employs a multi-faceted approach to investment, focusing on:
We invest in shaping climate policies and narratives to foster a culture that embraces collective climate action.
Our investments support the practical application of climate solutions by governments and communities, aiming for widespread adoption.
We back pioneers — including researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and organizations—developing essential tools and systems for climate action.
Investment Tools for Impact
To achieve our goals, we leverage a variety of investment instruments, including:
EcoShift Collective believes in making investments that can scale. This will require innovation. Technological advancements are an important piece of this innovation, but so are entrepreneurs, financial strategies, community-based initiatives, and new types of cross-sector partnerships that prioritize results.
About the Founders
EcoShift Collective was founded by a group of next-generation family investors responding to the moral imperative of the climate crisis. The Founders of EcoShift Collective are fundamentally curious in nature.
They want to understand how systems, processes and technologies work together to create human-centered solutions that address the climate crisis while also creating more just outcomes for individuals and communities.
Meet the Team
Karlo Marcelo
Karlo focuses on early-stage strategies that accelerate the climate transition. At EcoShift Collective, he leads venture investing — sourcing, diligencing, and closing mission-aligned deals — and supports overall strategy and operations.
Previously, he was Principal and Co-Founder at Good Scout Capital, recognized by ImpactAssets as an Emerging Impact Fund Manager and as a Fellow of VC Include. His earlier roles span the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, The Aspen Institute, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Karlo holds an MPP from the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy and a BA from the University of Maryland, and is a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow. He’s driven by a belief that finance can be a tool for repair and regeneration.
Kylie Teller
Kylie leads EcoShift Collective's diligence process and key portfolio relationships, analyzing and evaluating prospective impact-first climate tech investments and grants that accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels and extractive, unsustainable systems. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Kylie's background focuses on impact investing, technological innovation, research, and public-private partnerships across climate issues.
Prior to EcoShift, Kylie managed the Clean Energy program at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI). In her role, she authored two annual reports covering climate tech market landscape research and investment analysis. She worked closely with early-stage climate entrepreneurs, investors, partners, utilities, and government agencies, and led an annual pitch day event showcasing LACI entrepreneurs. Kylie has also managed finances and projects for the World Resources Institute's Climate team, with an emphasis in international low carbon economic development planning.
Kylie earned her Master's degree in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics. She holds a certificate from Stanford University's Energy Innovation & Emerging Technologies program, and graduated with honors from Occidental College. She is motivated by mobilizing catalytic capital into innovative climate solutions that emphasize equity and circularity.
Dana Bourland
At EcoShift, Dana advises operations and philanthropic strategy, aligning the sourcing and diligencing of mission-driven investments to accelerate a just and sustainable world.
Prior to EcoShift, Dana served as Senior Vice President for Environment and Strategic Initiatives at The JPB Foundation, where she built and scaled a $1B+ portfolio advancing climate and environmental justice. She led $100M in rapid-response funding during the COVID pandemic, built and managed a cross-disciplinary team, and created systems that helped grow JPB into one of the nation’s largest private foundations. Earlier, at Enterprise Community Partners, she launched the $555M Green Communities program, exceeding its five-year goal in four years and catalyzing a national movement to green affordable housing.
Dana co-founded Soils and Vessels, which directs capital to move land out of extractive systems and into community stewardship for repair and regeneration. She is the author of Gray to Green: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women Activists in Technology.