Davida Herzl

Davida Herzl

CEO and Co-Founder, Aclima

Davida Herzl is co-founder and CEO of Aclima, where she leads a diverse team pioneering an entirely new way to diagnose the health of our air and track climate-changing pollution. A Public Benefit Corporation, Aclima measures air pollution and greenhouse gases at unprecedented
scales and with block-by-block resolution.

Aclima Pro, the company’s groundbreaking enterprise software, translates billions of scientific measurements into analytics for companies, governments, and communities to reduce emissions, improve public health, and deliver clean air for all. Today, Aclima serves the world’s top public companies in technology, energy, and finance, as well as national, state, and local governments implementing leading-edge climate policies. The company operates the largest mobile sensor network on Earth, creating datasets of hyper-local greenhouse gas levels and air pollution never before available.

Herzl holds a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law, and a B.A. in Economics, Political Science, and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Davida was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Influence (2022), one of the Top 100 Most Creative People in Business by FastCompany (2019), one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018 by Goldman Sachs, one of Scientific American’s four innovators who are making health care fairer (2022), and a Grist 50 Fixer (2017). 

Recordings

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Podcast

What’s in My Air?

December 2, 2022
Key to addressing the climate crisis is having an accurate picture of greenhouse gas emissions. Over a 20-year period, methane is 80 times more...
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Podcast

Cool Clean Tech

January 25, 2019
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal...