Stockholm, 2025-12-30
Founders Alliance, the global network of founders committed to building companies that positively shape society, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with ClimateHero as the next major step in its long-term Founders for the Planet Quest.
This partnership deepens Founders Alliance’s commitment to empowering founders who build and own companies that put the planet first, and strengthens the climate-focused dimension of the Founders Planet Summit, workshops, and the sustainability criteria used within the Founders Alliance Index - which plays a central role when selecting the Founder of the Year in Stockholm.
A MISSION FROM WITHIN
ClimateHero was founded by Robert Sabelström - a Founders Alliance member and long-time advocate for impact-driven entrepreneurship. His dual role as a climate innovator and active member of the Founders Alliance community makes this partnership especially meaningful and rooted in authentic founder-driven leadership.
With ClimateHero’s tools, expertise, and methodology integrated into the Quest, founders within the Founders Alliance will gain concrete, accessible ways to measure, reduce, and compensate for their carbon footprints - both personally and through their companies.
FOUR YEARS OF CONTINUOUS CLIMATE COMMITMENT
For more than four years, the Founders for the Planet Quest has gathered founders who believe in business as a force for climate-positive change.
The initiative includes:
- The Founders Planet Summit - a yearly deep-dive into building planet-focused companies
- Planet-focused workshops - designed for roundtable, founder-to-founder learning
- Partnership with We Don’t Have Time, led by Founders Alliance member Ingmar Rentzhog, Founder of We Don’t Have Time and Co-Leader of the Founders for the Planet Quest.
- A role in the Founders Alliance Index, recognizing founders who make climate impact a core strategic driver
The Quest is led by Joachim Karthäuser, Founder of Climeon and Co-Founder of Zelk - also a Founders Alliance member and long-time sustainability champion.
WHY CLIMATEHERO?
ClimateHero helps individuals and companies:
- Calculate their carbon footprint
- Commit to climate-smart reductions
- Contribute to global net zero, by funding high-impact climate projects
More than 2 million people and 1000+ companies have already used ClimateHero’s tools - making it one of the most accessible climate-action platforms available today.
LEADERSHIP COMMENTS
Niclas Carlsson, Founder & CEO of Founders Alliance, says:
“Founders Alliance was built on the idea that entrepreneurship must contribute to society. Our vision of equal opportunity to form, build, and own free enterprises for all includes the responsibility to protect our planet. Partnering with ClimateHero, founded by our member Robert Sabelström, strengthens our ability to turn commitment into measurable climate action.”
Robert Sabelström, Founder of ClimateHero & Founders Alliance member, comments:
“ClimateHero exists to make climate action simple and scalable. To bring our platform into the heart of a community of global founders is incredibly powerful. Together with Founders Alliance, we can accelerate climate-positive entrepreneurship - not in theory, but in daily practice.”
WHAT'S COMING NEXT
- 2025 Climate report for Founders Alliance, with complete CO2 accounting and science based targets, role-modeling how an SME can demonstrate climate leadership.
- Climate workshops at Founders Alliance conferences and the annual Founders Planet Summit
- Tools and resources offered to all members to measure and take responsibility for carbon footprints
- Expanded climate criteria within the Founders Alliance Index
- Continued collaboration with We Don’t Have Time and Quest leaders
ABOUT FOUNDERS ALLIANCE
Founded in 2001 by Niclas Carlsson, Founders Alliance is a global network of founders committed to collaboration, sustainable growth, and a society where everyone has equal opportunity to form, build, and own free enterprises.
ABOUT CLIMATEHERO
ClimateHero is a Stockholm-based impact startup founded by Robert Sabelström, helping individuals and companies calculate, reduce, and compensate for their carbon emissions using scientifically validated methodologies and high-quality climate projects.
Media Contact:
Niclas Carlsson
Founder & CEO Founders Alliance
niclas.carlsson@foundersalliance.com
+46708107805