Sailee Rane

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in climate change communication and strategy.
Founder of a climate-focused newsletter.
Led strategic initiatives in fintech and consulting.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a climate change communication expert with a strong background in fintech and consulting.

Contact

sailee.rane@rainmatter.org LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

SustainabilityImpact InvestingBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Climate Change MitigationGrant MonitoringMatlabC++ProgrammingEntrepreneurshipChemical EngineeringEngineeringMicrosoft OfficeData AnalysisPowerPointAlgorithmsResearchAnalysisMicrosoft Word

About

I am on a mission to bring 'climate change' into everyday conversations. I write a newsletter with aimed at simplifying climate news and explaining how climate change impacts us in more ways than we can imagine: https://sunnyclimatestormyclimate.substack.com/ I lead the strategy for Ecosystem messaging at Rainmatter Foundation where I am trying to build an ecosystem of narrative builders for climate. I have been a Fellow at ACT for Environment where I identified early stage ventures in the environment space for grants. Previous stints include Razorpay, where I worked at building and scaling RazorpayX and McKinsey and co, where I spent ~5 years serving clients across industries and geographies with majority of my work focused on the cusp of financial services and digital transformations.

Experience

9 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

The climate brief

Chief storyteller

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

I identify and write stories at "The Climate Brief", a Youtube channel that aims to simplify what's happening in the world of climate change.
In each episode, we pick 1 story from the climate world, break it down in simple, jargon-free language and tell you why you should care about it.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheClimateBriefbyRainmatter/featured

Rainmatter foundation

Strategy Lead, Ecosystem messaging

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Figuring out how do we use communication as a tool to drive the changes we need to address the climate crisis

Act grants

Fellow, ACT for Environment

Sep 2023 – Jun 2024 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

As a Fellow at ACT for Environment, I was a part of the core team where I worked on
Building our thesis on focus areas in environment / addressing the climate crisis
Identify and evaluating promising early stage ventures that are addressing the effects of Climate change through catalytic innovation
Collaborating to build a collective with other players in the ecosystem including researchers, think tanks, investors, policy makers, industry incumbents etc.

SustainabilityClimate Change MitigationGrant MonitoringImpact Investing

Sunny climate, stormy climate

Founder

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

I started 'Sunny climate stormy climate' as a newsletter that brings climate news to people in a bite sized and easy to understand style. The idea was to balance the doom and gloom of the climate crisis with solutions that can help us out of it.
Newsletter: https://sunnyclimatestormyclimate.substack.com/
The vision is to bring information about climate change to people in an easy to understand manner and empower them to make better decisions - as individuals, employees, citizens or any other role they play!

Razorpay

2 roles

Business Head, RazorpayX Payroll

Feb 2023 – Sep 2023 · 7 mos

As head of business for Payroll, I was responsible for business targets for the Payroll product and directly managing the strategy, sales, operations, and customer support functions.

Business Strategy

Director, Business strategy for RazorpayX

May 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

As head of strategy for Neobanking I led the strategic direction for the Neobanking unit working closely with senior stakeholders both within and outside the organization

Business Strategy

Mckinsey & company

3 roles

Engagement Manager

Oct 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Have worked across a wide range of industries and functions, with a significant part of my recent work being focused on Financial services and digital.

Business Strategy

Associate

Jun 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Business Strategy

Junior Associate

Jun 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs

Junior Associate

The boston consulting group

Summer Intern

Apr 2015 – May 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Summer Associate

Itc limited

Summer Intern

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Guntur

Worked on a project to develop a methodology for large scale soil fertility mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS and implemented a pilot for the same in Andhra Pradesh