Rachel Delacour

Rachel Delacour is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sweep, Europe’s leading carbon management and reduction platform. With a background in finance, she was rewarded with Berkeley's Fisher Centre for Business Analytics – Project of the Year 2022 and selected to join FT120, France’s tech program for most-promising tech companies. In 2009, she cofounded BIME Analytics, a pioneering business intelligence SaaS which was acquired by US customer service company Zendesk six years later. Rachel worked there as General Manager until she decided to use her talent to help clean the climate mess with Sweep. A leading female figure in European tech, Rachel was elected co-President of France Digitale in 2018 and her thought leadership has been featured in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. An advocate for women in tech, she has backed several female-founded US and French startups.

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2024 Predictions in Climate Tech by Rachel Delacour, CEO, Sweep

Rachel Delacour, the CEO of Sweep, has compiled a list of her predictions for the Climate Tech sector in 2024.

Mindset, skills, collaboration: achieving gender parity in tech

“I never felt different from my male colleagues until I got pregnant. When I went on maternity leave, I felt guilty about not contributing to my former business’s targets – and coming back to work was even worse. It made me feel angry for being a woman,” shared one of Sweep’s employees at our gender parity workshop on International Women’s Day.