Anna
Albright
I build on-body cooling for the 2.4 billion people who work in extreme heat, and I help write the OSHA rules that protect them.
Hi, I'm Anna B.
I'm co-founder and CEO of Clema. We build slim, wearable cooling for the crews who keep the world running, on jobsites where the heat index clears 100 and the work does not.
At sixteen I testified on climate legislation at the Massachusetts State House. Then I structured green debt at J.P. Morgan and ran industrial and energy work at BCG, where I watched heat wreck operating plans every summer and never once appear on a budget line. So I left and started Clema.
Connect on LinkedIn →Heat is the largest unpriced drag on industrial labor.
people work in extreme heat worldwide, from construction sites to warehouse floors.
lost from the global economy in idle and slowed labor every year.
of that loss lands in the United States alone, before any OSHA penalty.
Cooling that works as hard as the worker.
Clema's smart suspenders cool the skin by more than 25°F across a full 8 to 12 hour shift on a single battery swap, with no ice or water. Slim enough to wear under FR gear or harnesses, built for real jobsites in construction, energy, logistics, and manufacturing.
Visit clemacooling.com →
backed
Raised institutional capital to scale manufacturing and pilots.
in inbound interest, with field pilots running now.
live
Real crews on real jobsites, wearing the gear today.
Where Clema started.
Clema didn't start in a lab. It started on a tarmac. Last summer I was flying home from a case in Houston when our flight stalled on the ground. I assumed a mechanical problem. The answer was simpler and more human: it was too hot for the ground crew to work, so they stopped.
I had spent years inside industrial and energy operations watching heat do exactly that. It slowed crews, stretched timelines, and put people at risk. On that tarmac it stopped being abstract.
Cooling already existed. Nothing a worker could wear through a full shift did. I went looking for the team building it, could not find one, and built it myself.
I didn't pivot into heat. I spent a decade learning how it breaks industrial operations from the inside, then built the company no one else would.
I'm helping write OSHA's first federal heat-safety standard.
I am the only startup founder on the ISEA 600 committee, holding that seat alongside 3M and Cintas, on a rule expected to reach an estimated 36 million American workers.
startup founder on the committee, alongside 3M and Cintas.
American workers the rule is expected to reach.
the first heat-safety standard of its kind in the United States.
A decade of preparation.
Testified at the Massachusetts State House
I spoke at the hearing before I was old enough to vote. It was the start of a decade spent on how a warming world breaks the systems people depend on.
Founded the climate-investing team at a student fund
I sat on the board of a student investment fund and built that team from scratch, leading 7 analysts and contributing to the fund's $450K portfolio.
Structured green debt
I learned how capital actually moves into climate infrastructure, and where it stalls.
Ran industrial and energy work
I led industrial and energy engagements, including launching a new business line for a $30B+ industrial. I saw from the inside how heat breaks operations.
What I actually think.
Heat is the largest cost nobody puts on a balance sheet. I write about what the data shows, what crews tell me on jobsites, and where this industry is still getting it wrong.
Read my theses on Substack →