Catalina Valentino 🔥

ELIXR

ELIXR is a Global Smart City Group, transforming the way we live, work, and connect, via Planning, Energy, Data, Health, Education.

Under its Planet2030 vision, it delivers Smart City solutions, which together with its partners such as AECOM, Pinsent Masons and alongside Local Governments collaborate to improve National Infrastructure.

Elixr and its 30 Towns Framework is working with Government members to enable smarter regeneration nationally, including energy, planning and construction, retrofit and health. 

Elixr's mission is simple: improve existing cities — via technology, finance and data.
 
📍 UK | Middle East | US

Group CEO (& Co-Founder)

Una Terra Venture Capital Fund

Una Terra is a $200M early-growth venture capital fund scaling circular economy solutions with deep industry expertise, a powerful partner ecosystem, and a vision for systemic change. We invest in market-ready innovations that can drive measurable climate impact (2Gtons CO₂ reduction & 1Mtons plastic waste prevented by 2030) while delivering superior returns (25%+ IRR). By leveraging our network and experience, we accelerate growth, unlock capital, and create real, lasting change beyond financial gains.

Member of the Board of Advisors

Clean Energy Business Council MENA

The Clean Energy Business Council MENA is a non-profit, non-governmental membership organization that comprises leading local, regional, and international organizations committed to accelerating the development and deployment of clean energy in the MENA region.

Founded in 2012, the Council serves as a comprehensive clean energy platform aiming to foster a more coordinated, inclusive, and clean energy sector, encouraging collective approaches, and facilitating the development of forward-looking policies that reflect the needs and perspectives of the private sector and industry.

MetaConnex

Executive Board Member

Transforming how local councils urban plan, design and build developments through Digital Twins and Data.

An ELIXR technology.

Experience the future of urban planning with MetaConnex, where collaboration meets innovation, and sustainability to redefine what's possible in city development. MetaConnex is a groundbreaking technology platform that facilitates collaboration between public sector organisations and private industries in the field of sustainable urban planning and development. 

It offers a user friendly 3D model interface that integrates land and asset data, sustainability metrics, and construction industry standards to accelerate decision-making while adhering to national planning guidelines and environmental protection.

ArcLive

ArcLive is the world’s first data driven marketplace that uses real time energy data to underwrite products for assets across insurance, mortgages, carbon and energy.

Currently, ArcLive kits are being deployed across the UK, New York and the Middle East, in collaboration with major property owners, financial institutions, and regulators, including the NHS, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, NYCHA (New York State Housing Authority) and many more.

ArcLive's mission is to bring growth to the clean energy sector through its real time data solutions.

Chief Sustainability Officer

Live Data Trust

The Live Data Trust is a Non-Profit Organisation, changing the way we share and use data by enabling real-time integration for performance and technology benchmarking.

The Live Data Trust is a Non-Profit Organisation, changing the way we share and use data by enabling real-time integration for performance and technology benchmarking. 

By connecting private and public sector data, it helps unlock valuable insights and improvements. 

Using advanced data security and storage methods, developed by NASA and MIT, it ensures that information is safe and well-organised. 

This is the first framework to integrate live data with a focus on ethics, AI, and crucial sectors like the built environment, energy, and infrastructure. 

Aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 17, this approach supports the development of smart cities, making our urban spaces more efficient and sustainable through global partnerships and collaboration.

COO & Founding Team

STEPS

STEPS is a smart city investment fund which provides municipalities and local regions with finance for regeneration and sustainable infrastructure projects. 

Its unique data-led blended finance approach includes green bonds, equity investments, and loans, to enable tailored solutions for local development with its primary goal to strengthen local economies and benefit entire communities and regions.

Founder

Generationally Yours

The #1 ESG Podcast focused on sustainability, real estate and tech across generations.

Guests Include: Sir Robert McAlpine, Lloyds Bank, Barratt Homes, OakNorth Bank, WGBCSD, NHS, Flight Story, UKRI, Channel 4 Project Home and more.

Co-Host

Waxelene

Waxelene is a sustainable natural skincare brand, which has received unsolicited endorsements from A-list celebrities like Hilaria Baldwin, Halle Berry, Zooey Deschanel, Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge, and Gigi Hadid.

And 1000s of 5-star reviews, 100 million social media impressions. 

It has a patented aeration process has been scientifically proven to be highly effective in addressing eczema and catering to the needs of sensitive skin. 

Approximately >$2M units sold & approx $5M sales to date.

Lead Investor

World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF)

The Smart Cities Board of the WBAF focuses on developing intelligent urban environments. It leverages advanced technologies and innovative financial solutions to enhance city efficiency, sustainability, and liveability. By collaborating with public, private, and academic sectors, the board aims to address urban challenges and promote interconnected systems for improved quality of life and economic growth.

Smart Cities Board

Senator For United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

CEO of ELIXR | MSc | Global Top 100 Women in Tech | Senator @ WBAF | Ft. Business Insider, Forbes etc. 🦄

Catalina Valentino (MSc) is the Group CEO of ELIXR, a global smart city group transforming cities through technology, finance, and data. She is also a Member of the Advisory Board for the €200m Climate Tech Fund Una Terra and the Clean Energy Business Council MENA.

ELIXR works with partners like the NHS, Lloyds Bank, UK & Saudi Governments and NYCHA to drive data-driven regeneration, unlocking £1bn in development value in the UK. 
Its ecosystem has also enabled the first-ever live data-linked loan and is building the world’s first fully digitised carbon credit market—redefining how cities grow, finance, and decarbonise.

Her journey began at 11, when she earned her first A* GCSE, then started a BA at 16, and an MSc at 19—launching her corporate career along the way. She later founded “Pivot”, her first company; securing a six-figure investment, scaling to <20 team members, and winning several industry awards.

Since, she has been awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 and Global Top 100 Women in Tech 2023 for her work with ELIXR. And is a globally recognised speaker for Forbes, the United Nations, LEAP, the World Economic Forum, and more. 🎤

CEO & Co-Founder

Building unicorns 🦄. 
Next-Gen Sustainable Tech Incubator/ VC.

Luke Matthews

Co-Founder | Lifestyle Blogger |  Content Marketer | Storyteller 

I teach you how to write with AI (and win LinkedIn)

Building in public on LinkedIn™ is risky for you. 

You aren't a 20-something Instagram model or a 33-year-old drop shipping bro bragging about 6 figures from Bali. 

You have a real business and a real reputation to uphold. 

You want to take advantage of more opportunities through visibility on social media, but you know there are privacy risks that come with that.... 

Most AI models take your data and sell it. 
Most social media platforms take your data and sell it.
Most marketers don't understand this, which can expose your company.

That's where I come in. 

I've been marketing for over 10 years on social media, built over 250k followers across all platforms, and I've ghostwritten for some of the biggest personal brands in the world. 

But beyond that, I value privacy and staying hidden. 

It takes skill to build a personal brand that not only generates revenue for your company but also remains secure and private. 

I help you build on social media and maintain your privacy using secure AI systems and world-class ghostwriting. 

Sound interesting?

Don't message here on LinkedIn.

Email me instead and use subject "𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆"

luke@wizardofoddmarketing.com

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Founder - Lead Wizard & Ghostwriter

Linkedin & Twitter Ghostwriting Services for CEOs, Influencers, and Tech companies. 
Reach your audience with a sprinkle of magic, the power of explosive copywriting, and let the WIZARD OF odd MARKETING help make your biz a LOT  less boring.

I have been banned over 10x on LinkedIn. 

The brutal truth is the system ain’t fair…

In business and in life those willing to cater to the system (and exploit you) end up profiting from it. 

Social media has made this reality worse. 

It’s not about how skilled you are.
It’s about how skilled you can talk. 

(& it’s about who u know aka how good you are at kissing up to leaders and using errr befriending them on your climb to a seat at the table)

I decided this rat race wasn’t for me. 

So I’m playing a different game now. 

Rebuilding in the shadows. 
Learning new skills. 
Making new friends…

Friends that are hackers, rebels and the anonymous geniuses defending digital freedom…

Because look, complaining about broken systems accomplished nothing…

Action wins. 

PS Hi LinkedIn. Who’s still here?

2 posts in a week whoa 🤓

Luke M

It's easy to get 1000 likes a post (like I used too)

Here's how to be a LinkedIn influencer: 

1. Talk about LinkedIn. 
2. Be good looking and post pictures.
3. Write short, broad content. 
4. Spend all day commenting. 
5. Do this for 90 days. 

OR 

69. Pay a team to do it all for you. 

But here's the truth about this blueprint. 

You missed the window when this was possible for anyone. It's too late now on LinkedIn to do this organically. The market has changed, agencies don't work as well, organic is dying and this actually isn't the best strategy unless you want to pretend the old system still works. 

The better way? 

Cut the dopamine. Pick a niche. Speak to that niche. 
Accept less reach. Accept slower growth. 

But reach a very targetd audience. 

In summary...

You need a real skill and a real niche to focus on.

The generic LinkedIn growth expert is playing an old game to take your hard earned money by fooling you with cheap dopamine. 

You will never become them. 

You don't need a personal brand.

You just need to be an expert with a real skill and a specific niche.

PS Who bought cool AI tools for Black Friday?

I risk making moves too early. 

In early 2023 I went all in on AI writing... 

I fired my human writers and learned ChatGPT. 

Dove deep into the world of AI. 

For 6 months I shared content written by AI without telling anyone. Then I started sharing guides, tutorials and even launched an AI course to help people learn to use these tools. 

But as I started learning more I started seeing concerns. 

1. LLM writing stalled and hasn't improved in 12 months.
2. I started to question how they were training models..
3. I realized the cost for using these tools was...

Handing over your data and personal privacy.

The more I learned the more I started losing trust in the big models.

So this summer I made moves. 

I shut down my ai writing course. I started closing down accounts and cutting ai subscription tools...

The rabbithole is deep. 

But I'm now a huge believer in open sourced tools and AI tools that are privacy focused... 

So yeah I still use AI but you most likely wouldn't recognize any of the tools that I use now. 

Exiting 99% of big tech has a cost....

Personally I decided the cost was worth it. 

If you are curious to learn more about private AI and are interested in following along I shared an update on Substack. 

I'm not sharing daily or even weekly anymore as I'm focused on clients and exisiting mostly in the shadows now...

But you can click the link to go check it out. 

https://lnkd.in/gwn2VEyS

PS Hello.

Open article: Why smart people are deleting ChatGPT by substack.com

I only log in to LinkedIn on Windows. 

I use Linux for my personal data and files...

Running more than one operating system on your computer is called multi-booting. 

This summer as I began to purge myself of big tech I realized that I couldn't full exit the system yet... 

Even though I concluded that:

Using Google search is a privacy risk.

Using ChatGPT is a privacy risk.

Using Cloud AI is a risk...

Publishing content connected to your full name, actual face, phone number and home IP address is also a privacy risk…

I also realized I couldn't cut the last 1% of these data stealing big tech tools and programs...

This is where taking back your privacy requires effort.

So I decided to learn how to sandbox my work/private life online environments.

Sandboxing is when you run apps/programs in a secure, isolated framework to restrict those tools access to the rest of your systems files and resources.

Basically I wanted to figure out how to isolate tools like LinkedIn so they don't have access to my other files and life.

This takes some skill, but deleting 100% of everything just wasn't possible for me yet. 

It's a constant game of learning but I think it's worth learning how to shield your personal data and sandbox your work life, personal life and daily life environments from each other.

Otherwise you are at the mercy of data leaks, hackers, corrupt big tech and government policies…

Personally I think it’s worth the effort to learn and seperate tools, systems and resources.

What about u?

PS Yes I know Windows is getting worse... But Mac? EW

Transparency is important to OpenAI.

So this security incident shouldn't trouble u.....

It was just some irrelevant data don't worry.
Some analytics data related to ur account. 
It's VERY safe for you to share info with ChatGPT....

Rest assured this was not a breach of OpenAI’s systems. No chat, API requests, API usage data, passwords, credentials, API keys, payment details, or government IDs were compromised or exposed.....

(lol if u believe that)

Truth is peasants....

It's never been more important to sandbox your personal data and your businesses data and your social media tools access to your data...

Your personal data has never been more at risk thanks to AI.

When's the last time you audited your passwords, tools and emails?

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