Innovation Series: Emily Dinino, Founder & CEO of ThermoShade

March 13, 2025 00:37:04
Innovation Series: Emily Dinino, Founder & CEO of ThermoShade
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Innovation Series: Emily Dinino, Founder & CEO of ThermoShade

Mar 13 2025 | 00:37:04

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Show Notes

We are continuing our series highlighting some of the amazing businesses that are supported through the WET Center at Fresno State's  Valley Ventures Accelerator program. Today, we have Emily Dinino on the show. Emily is the Founder & CEO of ThermoShade. She spent two years studying the problem of extreme heat as her master’s thesis and is passionate about finding solutions to protect people and animals impacted by heat stress. Emily has extensive experience in finance and entrepreneurship across investment banking, venture capital, and nonprofit finance. She has been an investor in mission-driven technology and consumer companies from Pre-Seed to Series C and is intimately familiar with the challenges early-stage companies face. Emily holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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