Clean Tech, Climate Change, and the Future of Energy feat. Phoebe Wang FTMBA ’13
Owl Have You Know
English - August 30, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSociety & Culture Business rice business rice university rice biz rice owls rice business school b-school alumni university alumnus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Climate change is on the news and in our faces every day, from wildfires to record-breaking heat waves. And today, we are talking to a Rice grad who’s working to combat these developments, through clean energy, carbon management and venture capital investments.
Phoebe Wang is a cleantech venture capitalist who serves as an investment partner at the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund. Previously, she was an investment director at Shell Ventures where she led investments in early- and late-stage startups working on technologies to accelerate the energy transition, including in the areas of hydrogen, carbon management, energy storage, mobility, and power.
During her 10-year tenure as a venture capital investor, Phoebe has invested more than $150 million in frontier technology startups such as Antora, Celadyne, ZeroAvia, and many, many more.
In another episode from our 2023 Alumni Reunion series, host Maya Pomroy ’22 and Phoebe chat about her passion for fighting climate change for the future generations, her work with Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, and winning a C3E business award.
Owl Have You Know is a production of Rice Business and is produced by University FM.
Episode Quotes:
Paving the way for a sustainable future in clean energy and climate control
11:33 [Maya]: So you were very optimistic about clean energy and climate control, so we can shift it back to having clean air for everyone. So, what progress do you hope to see over the next few years? What are you most excited about?
Nurturing unicorns, jobs, and sustainability through strategic investments
On the roots of her interest in clean tech
01:35 - My interest in cleantech, or what we call climate tech, stems early on – like when I was very little. I grew up in Asia, and then, if you see over there, pollution is such an important issue. And it is actually a global issue now. So, back then, I almost did environmental engineering, but the job market was not very good that decade ago. So, I actually switched over to material science engineering. Now, it's kind of coming full circle that I'm looking at investments in climate tech.
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Phoebe Wang on LinkedIn
Phoebe Wang - C3E