Verdn

An API to bundle trackable climate donations with any transaction

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1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Sustainability
  • API
  • Social Impact
  • Environmental
  • eCommerce
City of London, London, UK

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Company mission

Their mission is to Ctrl+Z global ecosystem collapse by making sustainability profitable for companies.

Our take

Businesses are facing considerable consumer pressure to be more sustainable, however their options are often costly, slow and ineffective. That’s the problem Verdn attempts to solve with its climate-impact API. The company was founded in 2020 and recently graduated from Y Combinator’s W22 batch.

Verdn offers an API and Shopify app that enables companies to support eco-projects such as tree planting, ocean plastic cleanup, and coral planting with any transaction. The impact is transparent and trackable by end-customers via dashboards available post purchase.

Verdn has facilitated the recovery of over 300,000 kilos of ocean-bound plastic and the planting of over 1 million trees. They aim to continue growing in the e-commerce space while also moving into new, interesting verticals (like banking and benefits) with their API.

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Benefits

  • Generous stock options to all employees — our first hires will have a lot of responsibility, which means they should also have a lot of upside.
  • Flexible / hybrid work model — the current 4-man team is in our London office almost every day, and we're keen to grow the team in-person. That said, we are happy to support a fully remote or hybrid solution for exceptional candidates.
  • 3 duvet days a year — take the day off, paid, no questions asked.
  • Equipment — we'll get you a new MacBook (we can vouch for the new M1 chips!) and whatever accessories you'll need to be productive in the office.
  • Amazing office amenities — our WeWork office has tea, coffee, beer and snacks (honesty market), foosball and ping pong tables, a huge common area with a large outdoor balcony, and a wellness room.
  • Unlimited holiday (minimum 31 days)

Leadership

Christopher Mjelde

(CEO)

Background in green tech and performance marketing. Business Management graduate from King's College London. Writes movie scripts when I have time.

Rory McMeekin

(CTO)

Full-stack developer and designer. I make electronic music in my spare time, as well as trying and failing to make stuff in 3D. Big fan of pizza (maybe a bit too much).