Tracie Burns

Tracie Burns is an Investor at Azolla Ventures based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She evaluates early-stage climate technology startups for the venture capital firm, which was formally established in 2021 and currently manages $289 million in total assets across its funds. Working alongside partners such as Johanna Wolfson, Burns helps deploy capital from the firm's $239 million Azolla Fund I, which successfully closed in May 2023. Her investment scope encompasses critical sectors including decarbonization, advanced energy storage, heavy industry, and carbon removal, contributing to an active investment portfolio of approximately thirty companies. The firm's notable investments within the broader climate technology sector include emerging portfolio companies such as Zanskar, Noon Energy, and Funga. Burns maintains a primary professional focus on identifying and funding early-stage commercial enterprises developing scalable technological solutions to address global climate change.