Sam Andrews

Co-founder & COO at Cobalt Care · Climate analytics · carbon accounting, data

Cobalt Care

Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)

10+ years experience

Johns Hopkins University

English

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Overview

I started Cobalt Care to fix climate analytics for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Grew the team to 19 people across 3 countries. Most at home with data and climate tech.

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climate techenterprise salesdatacarbon accounting

HiringHiring for a role

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Hiring our first founding engineer at Cobalt Care - Chicago

Role: Founding engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: $180k-$222k + equity
Team: Founding team, 6 people
Start: Within two months
Must have: Production experience with climate tech Production experience with data Good judgment about what not to build
Process: Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $196k-$288k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Chicago, ILenterprise salesclimate techdata

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RaisingRaising capital

closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k seed for fleet telematics for freight forwarders

Stage: Seed
Raising: $750k
Instrument: Convertible note
Committed so far: $228k from angels
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: $180k MRR after 10 months
Use of funds: Go-to-market in two new countries

$180k MRR after 10 months. Looking for investors who know e-commerce and can help with regulatory approvals.

Chicago, IL · remote OKcarbon accountingdataclimate tech

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Experience

Co-founder & COO
Nov 2024 - Present
Cobalt Care · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
- Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
- Signed 41 paying customers, 24 of them enterprises.
Consultant
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Adobe · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
- Ran commercial diligence on 13 deals.
- Delivered 24 engagements across 8 countries.
Business Analyst
Nov 2021 - Aug 2023
Dropbox · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
- Shipped 29 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
Senior Consultant
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Mastercard · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
- Ran commercial diligence on 23 deals.
Associate Partner
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Boeing · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 5.
- Shipped 16 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

Projects

Write-up: climate analytics in practice

2025

A long-form guide to climate analytics for people starting out.

Open-source climate tech toolkit

2022

A small library for climate analytics that 492 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Johns Hopkins University
MS, Computer Science
2009 - 2011
University of Michigan
BSE, Computer Science
2002 - 2006

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