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Climate CEOs (formerly Entrepreneurs for Impact): Scaling Climate Tech Startups

Dr. Chris Wedding — Climate Tech CEO Coach | CEO @ EFI

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/7j. Total Éps: 250

Weekly briefing for climate founders, investors, and operators. Hosted by Dr. Chris Wedding, executive coach and CEO of Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI), a peer group with 100+ CEOs & investors representing $40B+ in enterprise value and AUM. Climate CEOs delivers playbooks from the front lines of climate tech, with insights on raising capital, scaling startups in clean energy, batteries, carbon capture, and the circular economy, plus the founder mindset, mindfulness, daily habits, book recommendations, and resilience needed to thrive.

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Gratitude Micro-Episode: 25% Happiness Boost + Recharge for Climate Wins

jeudi 28 novembre 2024 • Durée 06:26

In 7 minutes, Chris shares science-backed gratitude practices to recharge, boost happiness, and sustain energy for long-term climate tech impact.

In this unusual episode, I do my best to go meta, above our normal climate tech challenges and opportunities, to the science and mindset of gratitude.

Does a greater appreciation for what we have mean nothing bad is happening out there?

Not at all.

But building climate tech solutions is not a spring. It's a marathon. Or maybe both.

As such, we need all the non-work tools in our toolbelt to maintain our energy, health, and focus along the journey.

In seven short minutes, I walk through five science-based benefits of gratitude and four practical ways to practice it in a few minutes each day.

📈 JOIN EFI’S CLIMATE CEO PEER GROUP:

Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — Join North America’s top private peer group community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. We’re a community of 85+ CEO Fellows, Alumni Allies, and Mentors (investors and post-exit CEOs) representing over $50B of market value or financial assets for climate solutions. Apply here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

📣 READ EFI’S NEWSLETTER:

Join over 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators who get our three-minute read about changing the world through startups, finance, humor, and wisdom. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✍🏼 LEAVE A PODCAST REVIEW:

To help more people discover the climate tech CEOs and investors we interview, please take one minute to review or rate this podcast. Since we don’t take any sponsors for this podcast, we appreciate this small gesture of your appreciation. Here are instructions: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviews⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

🤔 PODCAST HOST:

Dr. Chris Wedding is the founder of EFI (climate CEO peer groups), cofounder of Terraset (carbon removal), Senior Advisor at Javelin Capital (investment banking), Board member at World Tree (regenerative forestry), Board Advisor at DG Matrix (next-gen power electronics), Duke & UNC professor, ex-private equity investor, ex-investment banker, occasional monk, father of three, 2x ax-throwing champ (huh?), Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2006 (Google it), and super humble guy (as evidenced by this long bio).

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Long-Duration Storage: $100M Raised + $4T Market by 2040

jeudi 14 novembre 2024 • Durée 46:15

e-Zinc develops zinc-based long-duration energy storage, combining resilience-as-a-service models with FOAK financing to scale in a $4T global market.

e-Zinc produces zinc-based long-duration energy storage technology with discharge durations between 10 and 100 hours. They have raised over $100M in funding and are building their first three commercial pilots.

In addition to his role at e-Zinc, James is a Board Director of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDESC) and Energy Storage Canada (ESC), as well as a former Manager at Bain and MaRS.

In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways.

How the long-duration energy storage sector is poised to become a $4T market by 2040
Why he’s going to market with a “resilience as a service” business model
Why it’s essential to convert sustainability technology from cost centers into revenue centers
What Vipassana meditation is, and why he starts his morning with it

🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:

James - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesflarsen?originalSubdomain=ca

eZinc - https://www.e-zinc.ca/

Bhagavad Gita (book) - https://shorturl.at/M73By

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (book) - https://shorturl.at/YIATK

📈 JOIN EFI’S CLIMATE CEO PEER GROUP:

Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — Join North America’s top private peer group community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. We’re a community of 85+ CEO Fellows, Alumni Allies, and Mentors (investors and post-exit CEOs) representing over $40B of market value or financial assets for climate solutions. Apply here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

📣 READ EFI’S NEWSLETTER:

Lithium Extraction: $100M Raised + Direct Lithium from Brine

jeudi 12 septembre 2024 • Durée 55:51

EnergyX is scaling direct lithium extraction with $100M in funding, boosting efficiency, building dual plants, and pioneering tech acquired for just $10,000.

EnergyX is a direct lithium extraction company with $100M of investment, including about $50M from retail investors. Its 100 team members are advancing its new membrane, solvent, and adsorbents to boost the efficiency of extracting lithium from underground salt water.

Teague is a serial entrepreneur whose first success was launching a record label at age 20 and taking an artist to #1 in the iTunes hip hop charts. (That’s a first for a guest on the EFI podcast!)

In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways and much more.

The severe limitations of conventional lithium mining, such as 35% extraction efficiency and an 18-month wait time
Why they are building two lithium extraction plants at the same time
How he acquired the company’s foundational technology for $10,000
Why he believes humans will live to be 140 years old in the near future

🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:

Teague - https://www.linkedin.com/in/teagueegan

EnergyX - https://energyx.com

Elon Musk biography - https://shorturl.at/DkNYU

📈 JOIN EFI’S CLIMATE CEO PEER GROUP:

Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — Join North America’s top private peer group community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. We’re a community of 85+ CEO Fellows, Alumni Allies, and Mentors (investors and post-exit CEOs) representing over $30B of market value or financial assets for climate solutions. Apply here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Organic Waste Recycling: $200M Raised + Scaling Cities’ Compost Markets

Épisode 107

jeudi 8 décembre 2022 • Durée 39:51

Discover how Atlas Organics turns food & yard waste into profitable compost — leveraging public-private partnerships, strategic investors, & founder grit to scale nationwide.

My guest today is Joseph McMillin, Cofounder and CEO of Atlas Organics.

Atlas Organics is a national leader in organic waste recycling. Their key partner is Generate Capital, a multi-billion-dollar sustainable infrastructure investor.

Joseph is also a member of the Climate Mastermind peer groups we run at Entrepreneurs for Impact with three dozen growth-stage CEOs and investors tackling climate change.

In this episode, we talked about the following:

His purchase of an old school bus, which he renovated and drove across the country during Covid, with his wife, young son, and four dogs (woah!)
The importance of his earliest investors – such as Closed Loop and Gratitude Railroad – having confidence that he and his partner would land on the right business model to scale organic waste recycling
Their evolution from collecting food waste in a truck to doing public-private partnerships to handle cities’ waste and buying existing organic waste processing facilities across the country
How his projects earn revenue, and which revenue sources are contracted versus the spot market
The role of city and state mandates and voluntary targets in driving greater organic waste recycling
How their talent and operational processes have been influenced by books, such as Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm, as well as the interview practices described in topgrading
His ideal morning routine of exercise, journaling, meditation, and reflection – if he’s able to get up at 4:45 am
And lots more

Hope you enjoy.

And give Joseph a shout-out on LinkedIn, Slack, or Twitter by sharing this podcast with your people.

Climate Philanthropy: 2% Funding → Terraset Builds Carbon Market Trust (+ Ex-Twitter Tech Lead)

Épisode 106

jeudi 1 décembre 2022 • Durée 50:23

Discover how Alex Roetter is reshaping carbon removal financing with Terraset — combining advanced market commitments, donor-friendly transparency, & climate tech VC experience.

My guest is Alex Roetter, General Partner at Moxxie Ventures, Founder of Terraset, and former Head of Engineering at Twitter.

In addition, he came up with this great idea around which we teamed up together to launch Terraset, an anti-GHG 501(c)(3) for advanced market commitments in the carbon removal industry (CDR).

In this episode, we talked about the following:

How philanthropy only provides 2% of its donations to tackle climate change, and only 3.8% of that small number goes to carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
Why advanced market commitments (or AMCs) can help create market validation for CDR companies so they can get their projects financed
How Terraset is similar and different from the $925M Frontier Fund, which includes partners such as Stripe, Shopify, Alphabet, Meta, and McKinsey
The ways that Terraset makes it easier for donors to find trusted CDR projects to support, and receive a tax deduction in the U.S.
The preseed and seed VC funding he provides at Moxxie Ventures, which focused on climate tech, as well as health tech, AI, and more
Examples of the cool portfolio companies they’ve funded, such as BasiGo, an EV bus company in Nairobi
Mistakes he has seen CEOs, including himself, make and how to avoid them
Why environmental and social co-benefits in climate tech financing matter
And lots more

Hope you enjoy it!

And give Alex a shout-out on LinkedIn, Slack, or Twitter by sharing this podcast with your people.

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Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate innovators grow faster with new investment capital, share best practices among peers, expand their networks, and reach their full potential.

Climate Finance Trends: New Tracker Launch + 15 Winning Pitch Decks

Épisode 105

jeudi 24 novembre 2022 • Durée 19:29

Discover fresh tools, mindset shifts, & fundraising insights — from a new climate finance tracker to pitch decks that helped raise millions for carbon tech startups.

In this newsletter-turned-podcast episode from Entrepreneurs for Impact, I cover the following:

💵 New “Climate Finance Tracker”
🤬 To all the carbon tech haters
😮 A new tablet to kill your pen and paper
👂 We have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason
🚀 We launched a new anti-GHG NGO called Terraset
💰 15 money-winning climate tech pitch decks
🤔 Are you becoming better or bitter?
😵 Beware of “Thinkwashing”

Enjoy!

Ping me on LinkedIn to let me know what you think about it.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding

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Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate innovators grow faster with new investment capital, share best practices among peers, expand their networks, and reach their full potential.

Here's our weekly newsletter — A 3-minute summary of climate tech startups, better habits, and deep work trends: https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com

Our main program is a Climate CEO Mastermind peer group community: https://entrepreneursforimpact.com

Our invite-only cohorts of 12 executives catalyze personal development and business growth via monthly meetings, annual retreats, and 1:1 coaching and strategy calls. Today’s highly curated Mastermind members represent over $8B in market cap or assets under management.

Programs are led by Dr. Chris Wedding — 4x founder, $1B of investment experience, and Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill professor, with 70,000+ professional students taught, 25 years of meditation, an obsession with constant improvement, and far too many mistakes to keep to himself.

Climate Investing: $3B Hedge Fund Lessons + “Free the Money” for Impact

Épisode 104

jeudi 17 novembre 2022 • Durée 48:31

Discover how Howard Fischer went from hedge fund titan to climate impact evangelist — moving capital from spreadsheets to soul to fund game-changing climate solutions.

My guest today is Howard Fischer, the Chief Evangelist at Gratitude Railroad and CEO of Basso Capital Management.

Gratitude Railroad's mission is to support investors in moving capital from traditional finance to impact investments that create deep social and environmental impact, without compromising financial returns.

His bio on the GR website is delightful in its brevity and insight into who he is. And I quote:

“Uphill over downhill; Snow over sand; Read over watch; Trees over skyscrapers; Pizza over steak; Conversation over gossip; Disagree over agree; Instinct over spreadsheets; Relationship over contract.”

In this episode, we talked about:

His 40 years in hedge funds
How his rebirth in 2013 while not religious was like a metaphorical move from Gordon Gekko to Dalai Lama
His financial reckoning during the 2008 financial crisis when his hedge fund went from $3B to $300M
The risks in wearing the golden handcuffs of fat paychecks from big-brand employers
How philanthropy is broken and government is not a great problem solver
Why we have to move more profit-driven capital to the climate sector
Examples of the climate investments they’ve made at Gratitude Railroad, including a focus on organic waste management
His theme of “Free the Money” and related investments in Climate First Bank and First Women’s Bank
Why we can’t ask people to eat their broccoli (sorry, you have to listen to understand what this means)
Some of his favorite books, such as The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Inclusive Climate Capital: 25K Green Jobs + Funding Underrepresented Founders

Épisode 103

jeudi 10 novembre 2022 • Durée 43:10

Discover how Taj Eldridge is reshaping climate investing — blending alpha returns, social equity, & place-based innovation to power the next wave of green jobs.

My guest today is Taj Ahmad Eldridge.

Taj is the Director of Climate Innovation at Jobs for the Future, and Cofounder of Include Ventures, a fund of funds investor focused on emerging managers at the intersection of “Alpha + Inclusion + Sustainability.”

In addition, Taj is…

Advisory Panel member @ The Schmidt Family Foundation
Founding Advisory Board member @ GreenTech Noir
Board Member @ Homeboy Industries
Former Director of the Startup Accelerator @ University of California, Riverside
Former Senior Director for Investment @ the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
And investor in Invictus Growth Partners, SparkCharge, Form Energy, ChargerHelp!, and many more high-impact ventures

In this episode, we talked about:

Who holds the real power in allocating capital
The importance of place-based innovation
How talent is universal, but opportunity is not
Jobs for the Future’s goals of creating 25,000 new jobs in climate resilience
The need to reframe climate change as a mission around public health, social equity, and economics
Two of his portfolio companies led by Black founders and CEOs that are changing federal transportation policy and making EV charging super easy
How he believes a focus on minority-led ventures creates alpha opportunities
The need to bring your whole self to work
Wisdom from the beat poets like Jack Kerouac and one of our favorite books,

Climate VC Investing: $200M Fund + 100 Early-Stage Bets per Year

Épisode 102

jeudi 3 novembre 2022 • Durée 45:20

Discover how Collaborative Fund backs for-profit & for-good startups — from $200M growth bets to 100 micro-investments fueling the next wave of climate innovation.

My guests in this episode are Sophie Bakalar and Tomás Álvarez Belón from Collaborative Fund.

Collaborative Fund is a 10-year-old VC firm investing at the intersection of for-profit and for-good, with a long-time focus on climate. Today, they’re investing in Series A- and B-stage startups from their $200M Collab SOS Fund. Through their Shared Future initiative, they're also investing $100,000 into 100 startups per year that come through top-notch accelerator programs like YCombinator, Activate, and AirMiners.

In this episode, we talked about the following:

How they make investment decisions
Lessons they’ve learned from past investment mistakes
Tips for startup founders who are new at pitching to investors
Two of their portfolio companies tackling cell cultured animal fat and smarter EV charging through software that recognizes the bottlenecks of the power grid
The importance of distinguishing roles and responsibilities among founders
Personal goals of ever greater simplicity in life
Recommended sci-fi books to read
The power of slow mornings
And lots more

Hope you enjoy!

And give Sophie, Tomás, Collaborative Fund, and Shared Future a shout-out on LinkedIn or Twitter by sharing this podcast with your people.

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Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate innovators grow faster with new investment capital, share best practices among peers, expand their networks, and reach their full potential.

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Net-Zero Infrastructure: $3B Projects + Licensing Breakthrough Tech

Épisode 102

vendredi 28 octobre 2022 • Durée 42:59

Discover how 8 Rivers is building billion-dollar net-zero energy projects & licensing game-changing tech to accelerate the global clean energy transition.

My guest for his episode is Damian Beauchamp, the President and Chief Development Officer of 8 Rivers.

In addition, he is also:

An advisor to the Carbon XPrize
A Board member at NET Power

8 Rivers is a platform company developing the sustainable infrastructure of tomorrow by inventing and commercializing large-scale innovations in the race to Net Zero. Founded by a former Wall Street finance executive and a literal rocket scientist, their investors include industry heavyweights Exelon, SK Group, McDermott, and Occidental Low Carbon Ventures.

In this episode, we talked about the following:

How they’re creating billions of dollars of market-proven value
How Blue Ocean strategies have served them well
The validation they’ve received on a net-zero, cost-neutral natural gas power plant in Texas
Their go-to-market plan of innovation and IP development, followed by licensing the tech to others for maximum scale and climate benefits
The path to securing big-name corporate partners
The need to be optimistic and solutions-oriented when it comes to tackling climate change
Quotes from Calvin Coolidge on the power of persistence
Why he has a picture of the Grand Canyon as his LinkedIn banner picture
And lots more

Hope you enjoy!

And give Damian and 8 Rivers a shout-out on LinkedIn or Twitter by sharing this podcast with your people.

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Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate innovators grow faster with new investment capital, share best practices among peers, expand their networks, and reach their full potential.

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