Paige Perillat-Piratoine

Paige Perillat-Piratoine is the Director of Community at NatureTech Collective, an organization dedicated to building and connecting the growing ecosystem of innovators, investors, policymakers, and academics working at the intersection of nature and technology. Through her work, she helps define and advance the NatureTech space, a field with its own distinct identity separate from broader CleanTech and ClimateTech movements.

On The Grove, Paige joined host and Earth Onward founder to discuss what it actually means to build a community around an emerging sector. The conversation explored how language shapes the development of an industry, why the term NatureTech carries specific weight, and how intentional community construction accelerates progress across a field. Paige broke down the mechanics of gathering the right people, fostering meaningful connections, and creating structures that push an entire space forward rather than simply growing a contact list. Her perspective shed light on why community is not incidental to the success of nature tech but central to it.