Latest Climatevc Podcast Episodes
#188 Decarbonizing Steam, Drop-In Replacement, Building in Stealth, & More w/ Ashwin Salvi (AtmosZero)
CleanTechies - July 04, 2024 02:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Ashwin Salvi is the Co-Founder and COO of AtmosZero. They create electrified boilers to replace traditional fossil-fuel-burning boilers in industrial settings. Steam touches a huge amount of products that we, as consumers, use every day, and AtmosZero is helping...
#187 Energy Transparency, Selling to Utilities, Electricity Markets, Exiting TWICE & More w/ Toby Ferenczi (Granular Energy)
CleanTechies - June 29, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Today, we are talking to Toby Ferenczi from Granular Energy. In this electrifying (ha!) episode, we finally tracked down the elusive Toby Ferenczi, a man who juggles startups like they're hot potatoes. ⚡️ Toby educates us about the world of electricity transpar...
#186 Electric Flight, Commercializing Hardware, Sustainable Aviation, Working at NASA, & More w/ Kevin Noertker (Ampaire)
CleanTechies - June 22, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Kevin Noertker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ampaire, a developer of Hybrid Aviation Propulsion Systems to Decarbonize Air Travel Today. Currently they are scaling up their tech. Their tech is proven to reduce fuel usage by about 50% for small aircrafts (anything...
#185 Green Hydrogen, Landing Customers, Electrolyzers, Building in Wisconsin, & More w/ Chad Mason (Advanced Ionics)
CleanTechies - June 17, 2024 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Chad Mason is the CEO and Founder of Advanced Ionics, a company that has designed a revolutionary electrolyzer. They did this by designing their technology from scratch. They are currently scaling up this innovative technology and plan to sell these units, known...
#184 Plastic Replacement, Natural Fibers, Drop-In Materials, Toll Mills & More w/ Jesse Henry (Heartland Industries)
CleanTechies - June 13, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Jesse Henry is the CEO and Founder of Heartland Industries, a company that produces drop-in pellets made of hemp fiber. These pellets are used as an additive to plastics. They reduce the weight and cost of the products, improve strength, and lower scope 3 emiss...
#183 Smart Cities, Climate FinTech, Urban Tech, VC Fundamentals, & More w/ Rahul Parekh (2150)
CleanTechies - June 10, 2024 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Rahul broke down the nitty-gritty of how 2150 built (no pun intended) a leading ClimateTech VC fund focused on decarbonizing the built environment. We talked investing, fund modeling, learning from general VC, FinTech in ClimateTech, & more. This was a VC-funda...
#182 Voluntary Carbon Markets, Investing in 100+ CDR Startups, Hard-to-Abate Sectors, & More w/ Marian Krueger (remove)
CleanTechies - June 04, 2024 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Marian Krueger comes to us with his experience investing in 120+ early stage CDR startups, and broke down what we should look for and what’s worth watching in the years ahead. He’s a leading expert in CDR having invested in Europe, which is the leading CDR ecosy...
#181 Hot Rocks, From EPA to Apple, Paths to Commercialization, The CapEx > OpEx Model, & More w/ Arvin Ganesan (Fourth Power)
CleanTechies - May 25, 2024 16:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Today, we speak with Arvin Ganesan, an ex-Obama-Admin EPA and ex-Apple Energy Procurement executive. His career is fascinating, from finance to Policy to Energy Tech CEO. He offers us a lot of insight into their technology, how it works, and specifically how it...
#180 Tough Tech, Scaling DeepTech, MIT's Ecosystem, Political Durability of IRA, & More w/ Michael Kearney (Engine Ventures)
CleanTechies - May 21, 2024 17:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Michael Kearney started off this podcast defending the political durability of the IRA…and he had us convinced. If that doesn’t have you hooked, I don’t know what will! Building for deeptech founders is HARD…like folding a fitted sheet hard. And that’s why we ...
#179 Industrial Decarb, ROI-Oriented Sales, GHG Accounting, Marketplaces x Recommender Systems, & More w/ Saleh ElHattab (Gravity)
CleanTechies - May 18, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 There are a few key things Climate Entrepreneurs should know. This guest brought up a bunch of them. It is incredible to see how successful they are in a crowded space. Today, he shared with us many of the things that helped them succeed. How to align all sta...
#178 Investing in Water, IRA's Missing Link, Long Sales-Cycles, Network Compounding, & More w/ Tom Ferguson (Burnt Island Ventures)
CleanTechies - May 15, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 What do you get when you put Chris Rock, Timothée Chalamet, Greta Thunberg, & Marc Andreessen together? -- You get Tom Ferguson! The King of Water VC! (Warning! Tom is hilarious, so cancel your comedy cellar tickets because you won't need them) Today, we had th...
#177 Climate Resilience, Bridging FAANG to ClimateTech, Cloud Computing with Geospatial Data, & More w/ Allison Wolff (Vibrant Planet)
CleanTechies - May 09, 2024 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Allison Wolff | Vibrant Planet Vibrant Planet is basically bringing the tech knowledge from the early FAANG days and applying that to land tender and wildfire resistance. Their platform is a prioritization system for land management restoration by providing rea...
#176 Green Premium & the Price of No Action, Partner w/ Big Oil?, EV Demand, & More w/ Shaun Abrahamson, Part II (Third Sphere)
CleanTechies - May 06, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Recently, the MCJ Podcast experienced huge backlash for having Big Oil players on the show. This prompted us to bring back a past guest, Shaun Abrahamson from Third Sphere. ---- 🌎 Want the full PodLetter? Go to our substack to see the written content that supplem...
#175 Micromobility, Software Best Practices, Creative Business Models, Seasonality & More w/ Chinmay Malaviya & Charlie Depman (Ridepanda)
CleanTechies - April 30, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Somil chats with Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman, CEO and CTO of Ridepanda, expanding access and usage of e-bikes, e-scooters, and micro mobility through employer sponsored subscriptions. Chinmay and Charlie bring a lot of startup and industry experience and...
#175 Micromobility, Software Best Practices, Creative Business Models, Seasonality & More w/ Chinmay Malaviya & Charlie Depman (Ripepanda)
CleanTechies - April 30, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSomil chats with Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman, CEO and CTO of Ripepanda, expanding access and usage of e-bikes, e-scooters, and micro mobility through employer sponsored subscriptions. Chinmay and Charlie bring a lot of startup and industry experience and were able to speak not only abou...
#174 Hardware Playbook, Science in VC, DeepTech Success Stories, Environmental-Based Returns, & More w/ Jessica Burley (Planet A)
CleanTechies - April 28, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 What if Investors Only Made Money if they *actually* helped save the planet? Welp... folks, we have the show for you because that's exactly what Planet A is doing. Somil and Silas speak with Jessica Burley, a Berlin-based investor at the fund. On top of lea...
🚨 SPECIAL EP: #173 Breaking Down GGRF and $20B into ClimateTech w/ Franz Hochstrasser (Raise Green, S2 Strategies)
CleanTechies - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is a generational government program deploying $27B into clean energy projects across the US. But what is the bill really? Franz Hochstrasser is an expert in financing projects in low-income areas and has a wealth of expe...
#172 AI x Production, Learning from Tesla, Transitioning to Iron, Battery Technology & More w/ Vivas Kumar (Mitra Chem)
CleanTechies - April 22, 2024 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Somil chats with Vivas Kumar, CEO of Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials manufacturer focused on shortening the lab-to-production timeline by over 90%, addressing the largest barrier to innovation: R&D and scale-up speed. Vivas was a phenomenal ...
#171 Regenerative Farming, Carbon Credits, Smallholders, Global Protocols & More w/ Josh Knauer (ReSeed)
CleanTechies - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 In this episode, Somil chats with Josh Knauer, CEO of ReSeed, bringing carbon credits directly from farmers to the market. They focus on the oldest form of carbon capture – vegetation. They support farmers in taking their protective and restorative farming pract...
#170 Computer Vision x AgTech, Precision Spraying, Herbicide Usage, & More w/ Tom Gauthier (AgTechLogic)
CleanTechies - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Each year, about 1 billion pounds of chemicals are sprayed on crops in the US alone - globally, that number is around 5.6 billion. Our guest today is AgTechLogic, and they are solving this problem. They do this by helping Farmers retrofit their existing machin...
#170 Computer Vision x AgTech, Precision Spraying, Fertilizer Usage, & More w/ Tom Gauthier (AgTechLogic)
CleanTechies - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEach year, about 1 billion pounds of chemicals are sprayed on crops in the US alone - globally, that number is around 5.6 billion. Our guest today is AgTechLogic, and they are solving this problem. They do this by helping Farmers retrofit their existing machinery with precision sprayers that ...
#169 Urban Mining, Actual Solar Panel Lifespan, End of Life Engineering, & More (Adam Saghei)
CleanTechies - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAre you curious about what happens to solar panels when they are no longer usable? Maybe your crazy uncle's statements from last Thanksgiving about how solar doesn't work are still echoing. Well, look no further. Today, we are speaking with Adam Saghei, Founder of WeRecycleSolar, and we are dis...
#169 Urban Mining, Solar Panel Lifespan, End of Life Engineering, & More w/ Adam Saghei (WeRecycleSolar)
CleanTechies - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Are you curious about what happens to solar panels when they are no longer usable? Maybe your crazy uncle's statements from last Thanksgiving about how solar doesn't work are still echoing. Well, look no further. Today, we are speaking with Adam Saghei, Founder ...
#168 Advice for Project Finance, AI x Climate, CleanTech 1.0, Late Stage Investing, & More w/ Mike Jackson (Earthshot Ventures)
CleanTechies - March 31, 2024 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 In this episode, I sit down with Mike Jackson, Managing Partner at Earthshot Ventures. Earthshot Ventures calls themselves carbon generalists and invest from Seed to Series B. They mainly invest in software and “stepchange” hardware with a preference to double do...
#167 Urban Charging, Electrifying Cities, Pilots & Partnerships, & More w/ Tiya Gordon (It's Electric)
CleanTechies - March 26, 2024 20:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 In this episode, we actually have a bit of a flashback for you – I sit down to chat with Tiya Gordon, co-founder and COO of It’s Electric, creating curbside EV charging specifically built for cities. Before I even go into what we talk about, I’d like to shout o...
#166 Hybrids & EVs, Alternative Fuels, Technology Maturity, Diverse Teams & More w/ Logan Grizzel (MUUS Climate Partners)
CleanTechies - March 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 In this episode, Somil chats with Logan Grizzel, partner at MUUS Climate Partners, the climate tech venture capital arm of MUUS & Co. investing at the convergence of decarbonization and technological innovation. This episode probably broke the quotable clip reco...
#165 Iterating Hardware, Productizing Solar Procurement, Efficiency Mindset, & More w/ Mike Hall (Anza)
CleanTechies - March 19, 2024 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 What happens when successful CleanTech 1.0 founders step up to the plate again? Anza happens and it's magical. Today, Somil & Silas are interviewing Mike Hall, a Co-Founder of Anza, a company they spun out of Borrego, his and his brother's first venture. At Bo...
#164 Net-Zero Cement, Surviving the Startup Valley-of-Death, Timing a Pivot, & More w/ Ryan Gilliam (Fortera)
CleanTechies - March 14, 2024 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 In this episode, Silas and Somil chat with Ryan Gilliam, CEO of Fortera, a company focused on paving the way to zero CO2 cement backed by leading investors including Khosla Ventures and Temasek. What makes Fortera so exciting is that they’ve successfully raised...
#163 Rockefeller’s $1B for Climate, Nature-Based Solutions, Philanthropic Capital, & More w/ Thomas Belazis (Rockefeller Foundation)
CleanTechies - March 11, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 Today, we are speaking with a representative of the legendary Rockefeller Foundation. For those unaware, this foundation is one of the oldest well-organized institutions of its type and has been responsible for a massive number of efforts over the past 100 years....
#162 Impact Metrics Liability, Navigating Reporting, Profit-First, & More w/ Zécca Lehn (Responsibly Ventures)
CleanTechies - March 07, 2024 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsForget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬 **Check out the new takeaways section at the end of the episode!!** In this episode, Somil and Silas chat with Zecca Lehn, GP of Responsibly Ventures, backing U.S. PreSeed startups in both Social and Sustainable Tech. He uses the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
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