Ashley Grosh is a Partner at WovenEarth Ventures. She focuses on capital formation and investor relations.
Ashley brings nearly two decades of work at the intersection of finance and energy innovation. Prior to joining WovenEarth, she spent nearly 7 years as a Vice President at Breakthrough Energy Ventures. She led the Breakthrough Energy Discovery platform, an early-stage global platform advancing climate technology innovation and research, focused on commercializing breakthrough ideas from the lab to the market. Since its 2021 launch, the program has funded 100 early-stage startups across 23 countries, catalyzing more than $700M in follow-on capital. In 2025, she was named to Forbes' Top Global Sustainability Leaders.
Previously, Ashley spent nearly 15 years at Wells Fargo Bank as a thought leader to several business units, supporting the firm's Environmental and Alternative Finance commitments. She led the bank’s $100M environmental impact strategy, including pioneering the Innovation Incubator (IN²) cleantech platform accelerating the path to market for early-stage clean technologies (74 portfolio companies raised $2.6B in follow-on funding, with nearly 21% achieving exits via IPO or acquisition). In 2017, she was recognized as a '40 Under 40' winner in Colorado and a 'Top Women in Energy' by the Denver Business Journal.
Ashley holds a BA in Economics with a Business minor from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was a student-athlete on the CU NCAA Division One women's soccer team. She also holds a Certified Financial Planning Certificate from DePaul University and a Renewable Energy Certificate from the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder.

