Approach
Coravant is an independent consulting practice that targets developers, innovative startups, serial entrepreneurs, and established companies.
Coravant focuses on a number of esoteric and disruptive sectors centered around the energy and power markets: renewable and distributed energy systems, battery storage technology, clean technology, blockchain, circularity, artificial intelligence, and advanced science. We believe these focal points will ultimately enable a more transparent, cleaner, and healthier future.
Coravant advises its clients on winning strategies in these sectors, with a key focus on capital markets, analytics, risk assessment, and creative strategic design – attributes which are fundamental to establishing a sustainable competitive advantage.
Founder
Christian D. Clem
Christian has spent the last fifteen years developing his skillset across multiple continents and industries. He started his finance career in college, doing internship stints with multiple private equity and investment banking firms. After graduation, during the height of the Great Recession, Christian moved to New York City to work for J.P. Morgan’s Global Securities Lending division. Following his MBA, he joined a prominent family office in St. Petersburg, Florida with over $1B in assets. He focused on equity analysis in the energy, technology, and commodities sectors, managing $100M of the firm’s assets on behalf of clients. It was there that Christian became deeply intrigued by the growing renewable energy landscape.
In 2014, Christian relocated to Denver, Colorado, to pivot full-time into the burgoening solar energy market. Since then, he has held positions with five solar startups and scale ups in senior management and executive roles driving capital raising, project finance, business development, project development, and growth strategy. In 2018, he founded Coravant to support clean energy more broadly, with a vision to serve both emerging and established players within the clean energy and climate technology ecosystems.
Christian has worked with clients in the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has spearheaded the development of over 3 GW of solar and battery storage projects, personally designed 150+ residential solar projects that are now in operation, earned a NABCEP solar energy certification, and raised over $5 million in venture capital.
He remains active in the sustainability industry, including groups such as the Cleantech Open.
In his free time, Christian enjoys traveling, golfing, reading, hiking, snowboarding, and exploring the arts. He and his family reside in Melbourne.