Fast-growing, socially conscious startups Guild Education and Project Canary are a family affair

December 13, 2021
Denver Business Journal
Greg Avery

chris romer and Rachel Carlson

Lots of father-daughter relationships are close, but few have the connection to running tech startups that Chris Romer and Rachel Carlson can claim.

Carlson is co-founder and CEO of Denver-based Guild Education, a nearly 1,300-employee company that “up skills” front-line workers by helping businesses make access to higher education an employee benefit.

Romer, CEO of Denver’s Project Canary, is her father. He was one of the earliest employees at Guild Education and now credits working there as teaching him a lot of what’s needed to run a growing startup.

“I’m probably the only tech CEO in America that was trained by his oldest daughter to be a CEO,” Romer says.

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About Project Canary

Project Canary is a climate technology company that offers an enterprise emissions data platform that helps companies identify, measure, understand, and act to reduce emissions across the energy value chain. Given its outsized impact, the Company started with methane and has since expanded to other greenhouse gasses. Project Canary’s mission is to Measure It — leveraging sophisticated software solutions to help companies improve and report on their emissions footprint. They do this by building high-fidelity sensors, ingesting data from various other technologies and sources, characterizing the accuracy of such emissions data, and deploying advanced physics-based AI-powered models to identify leaks and quantify emissions.
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