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Anastasia Pavlovic is the co-founder of Eion, a carbon removal company that accelerates Earth's natural rock weathering process to lock away CO₂—permanently. Eion works with farmers to deploy enhanced rock weathering (ERW) in agricultural fields, creating a carbon sink disguised as soil amendment, with benefits to landowners and climate alike. Anastasia joined the podcast from Detroit to talk about carbon, kids, and the importance of remembering to eat.

In this episode we talked about:

 🪨 How volcanic rock dust turns farms into carbon capture sites (and why the best rocks might be in Norway)
 🌽 How Eion aligns climate goals with farm economics
 🚢 The surprising math that makes ocean shipping rock across the Atlantic more carbon-efficient than it sounds
 💰 Why climate tech founders need to think like infrastructure financiers and not just software bros
 📉 How Anastasia regulates the highs and lows of startup life—with a side of mac & cheese

#Climatetech #CarbonRemoval #Agtech

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Nemailla Bonturi is the co-founder of ÄIO, an Estonian startup fermenting fats and oils from yeast instead of palm oil or animal products. A Brazilian scientist-turned-founder, Nemailla now works at the intersection of synthetic biology, circular economy, and baked goods—with an in-house chef, of course.

In this episode we talked about:

 🧫 How a “very special yeast” turns sawdust and stale bread into palm oil alternatives
 🌍 Why Estonia is a unicorn factory
 🥐 A plant-based butter that could make your croissant carbon neutral
 🧴 Turning leftover dairy and tea leaves into moisturizers and lip balms
 🧠 Mental health, therapy, and the importance of shutting your laptop at 6pm
 📺 Why The X-Files may be the most pro-climate tech show of the 1990s

#fermentationtech #climatetech #circularbioeconomy

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Eugene Beh is the founder of Quino Energy, where he’s commercializing organic flow batteries that are safer, cheaper, and more scalable than their vanadium and lithium-ion cousins. With a background in physics and chemistry from Harvard and Stanford, Eugene has traded academic labs for chemical plants—and he’s betting that petroleum byproducts might just be the unlikely hero of long-duration energy storage.

In this episode we talked about:

 🔋 Why Quino's aqueous organic flow batteries don’t catch fire, unlike lithium-ion
 💰 How Eugene expects his electrolytes to undercut vanadium on cost—possibly this year
 🏗️ Why reusing tank infrastructure could slash battery installation costs
 🌍 What makes Quino’s batteries geopolitically boring, and why that’s a good thing
 🏥 Why hospitals, factories, and AI-fueled data centers might be early adopters
 🛢️ And how coal tar and clothing dye might save us from an electrified future dominated by flammable batteries

 #climatetech #energystorage #batterytech

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Selina Tobaccowala is a Silicon Valley veteran turned climate entrepreneur. With hits like Evite, Ticketmaster, and SurveyMonkey on her resume, she’s now taking aim at one of the biggest sources of residential emissions: energy inefficiency. Through her startup HomeBoost, she’s making home energy assessments as simple as scanning your walls with your phone.

In this episode we talked about:

 🔍 How HomeBoost uses AI and thermal imagery to let you run your own home energy audit
💡 Why the humble HVAC filter swap can cut 10% off your energy bill
🧠 Lessons from 20+ years in tech—from dot-com “eyeballs” to today’s LTV/CAC gospel
🛠️ What consumer tech folks can (and should) bring to climatetech
📉 Why climate investing is down, and why some founders might just be labeling things wrong

#climatetech #energytransition #founderstory

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Leise Sandeman is co-founder of Pathways, a company using AI to make heavy manufacturing more sustainable. Based in Copenhagen, she brings deep expertise in steel production and AI to the challenge of industrial decarbonization.

In this episode we talked about:

🏭 How Pathways is building the data layer for sustainable manufacturing, with their software now deployed across hundreds of plants

⚡ The current reality where sustainability teams spend 90% of their time collecting data and only 10% implementing changes 

🤝 The "playground" mindset of being a first-time founder and the importance of co-founder trust

🌍 Taking a strong stance on being a "single planet society" while working with diverse perspectives across regions like Texas

#ClimateTech #manufacturing #sustainability #EPD #LCA

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Eric Rubenstein is an oil and gas banker turned climate tech investor based in Houston. As founder of New Climate Ventures, he focuses on bridging the gap between traditional energy and climate innovation, bringing a pragmatic perspective shaped by his background in finance and fossil fuels.

In this episode we talked about:

🌡️ The critical need for more power generation capacity and why we need both renewable and reliable energy sources with built-in redundancy

📊 How the ability to measure and monitor carbon impacts drove Eric's interest in technologies like carbon capture, bioplastics, and carbon utilization

🔄 Practical advice for professionals looking to transition into climate tech, emphasizing gradual, deliberate steps and community engagement

🍸 How to turn CO2 into vodka

#climatetech #carbontech #energytransition #renewableenergy

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Julia Bialetska is the founder of S.Lab, a Ukrainian company creating sustainable packaging solutions from agricultural waste.

In this episode we talked about:

🌱 How S.Lab transforms agricultural waste into packaging that can be used in food, pharmaceuticals, electronics, furniture and fashion

📊 The impact of EU regulations requiring all packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2030, and why that means companies are rushing to find sustainable alternatives

⚙️ The parallels between today's sustainable materials evolution and the plastic revolution of the last century

🇺🇦 The resilience of Ukrainian startups operating during wartime and the growing recognition they're receiving globally

💰 S. Lab’s impressive pipeline worth approximately 20 million euros in monthly revenue and their current fundraising round of 2.5 million euros

#ClimateTech #SustainablePackaging #Packaging #Mycelium

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Jannik De Winter is an investor at PT1, a Berlin-based VC focused on greening the built environment. He recently co-authored a white paper on adaptation tech—the technologies we’ll need now that we’ve officially blown past 1.5°C. We talked about why climate resilience is an investment opportunity, not just a government expense, and why adaptation tech is still so poorly defined.

We touched on:

🔥 How climate adaptation tech is more than just seawalls and sandbags—it includes urban cooling, climate risk modeling, and even giving EV batteries a second life
💰 The trillion-dollar adaptation funding gap and why most of it isn’t coming from the private sector (yet)
🌍 Why Europe, and especially Germany, is ahead on adaptation policy, and what that means for startups and investors
🚰 The wild inefficiencies in water infrastructure—40% of Italy’s piped water just disappears—and the startups trying to fix it
🛰️ AI-powered disaster detection, from wildfire monitoring via satellite to real-time flood tracking
🎙️ PT1’s upcoming event on adaptation tech in Berlin, plus their podcast series diving into specific adaptation challenges

#AdaptationTech #ClimateFinance #ClimateTech

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Chris Bernkopf is the founder of Podero, a tech company that helps utilities balance power loads by controlling distributed energy resources like heat pumps, batteries, and EVs. Fresh off a major fundraising round, he's building his remote-first team to expand across Europe while delivering 25% energy savings to customers.

In this episode we talked about:

🔌 How Podero's software enables utilities to aggregate and trade power from customer-owned devices on energy markets

🌏 How growing up watching the same YouTube videos creates a global tribe of like-minded founders

🎯 The value of focused mentorship through programs like Y Combinator in developing founder mindset

💰 Why closing a funding round is just the beginning - it's "registering for the marathon, not finishing it"

🏗️ Building a remote-first company culture with quarterly offsites, virtual coffee chats, and camera-on meetings

#climatetech #energytech #cleanenergy

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Jess Clemans is an investor at noa, a VC that is raising its second €250M fund focused on making the built environment more sustainable. 

In this episode we talked about:

🎯 Why noa prioritizes founder quality over business ideas or market attractiveness when making investment decisions

💰 How customer acquisition costs for solar installations can reach an eye-watering $10k, while local SMBs achieve much lower costs through word-of-mouth

👷 The critical shortage of skilled labor for solar installation in Europe and innovative approaches to address this through upskilling programs

#climatetech #solarenergy #venturecapital #builtenvironment

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Matthew Krayton directs communications and engagement for MACH2, the Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub. As someone who both works in-depth on the policy side but who is also focused on execution, Matt is working to establish regional clean hydrogen hubs across several states. 🇺🇸

In this episode we talked about:

🏭 How the Mid-Atlantic region's existing industrial infrastructure, including unused pipelines, could be repurposed for hydrogen transport

💼 The hub's goal to create over 20,000 new jobs, many of them union positions, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 million tons annually

🌊 The critical role of renewable energy development, particularly offshore wind, in scaling clean hydrogen production

⚡ The importance of IRA tax credits in making clean hydrogen economically viable at scale

#CleanHydrogen #CleanTech #ClimateTech #Hydrogen

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Rob van Straten is CEO of Skytree, a direct air capture company addressing CO2 shortages while removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

In this episode we talked about:

🌱 How Skytree's direct air capture technology helps greenhouses meet their CO2 needs while contributing to carbon removal

🏗️ The challenge of scaling DAC to gigaton levels - requiring 300 container ships worth of units with current technology

💰 Why carbon removal is already economically viable, but needs a wider cost gap with emissions to drive adoption

🌎 The reality that climate change threatens humanity more than the planet itself, which has survived previous climate disasters

#climatetech #directaircapture #carboncapture

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It’s the holidays and, in the spirit of sharing, I swapped episodes with Tarmo Virki, founder and host of NatureBacked podcast in Tallinn. I’m airing one of my favourite of his interviews: his conversation with Jana Budkovskaja, CEO of Beamline Acccelerator.

They talked about:

🌲 Jana's evolution from aspiring panda-rescuer to cleantech accelerator founder

🔬 Why deep tech startups need non-equity funding in their early stages to bridge the gap between lab and market

♨️ An innovative project using abandoned mines for low-temperature heating systems in the Estonian village of Kiikla

🚀 Why startups, not governments or corporations, are best positioned to drive climate innovation

#climatetech #cleantech #deeptech #baltics

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Andreas Sedlmayr is co-founder and co-CEO of Instagrid, makers of portable power stations for mobile workforces with heavy power needs. His company has grown from €500k to €30M+ in revenue and recently achieved B Corp certification while expanding into North America.

In this episode we talked about:

☠️ Why diesel and gas generators are silent killers

🇩🇪 What it means to revive Germany’s strong tradition of industrial innovation

🇺🇸 Why hiring local leadership was crucial for US expansion and how cultural nuances matter more than you might think

💼 How to expand smartly after raising $95 million

🌱 Why achieving B Corp certification was important to prove their commitment to social and environmental best practices

#climatetech #cleanenergy #sustainabletech #batteries

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"I was sitting at a cafe in Prague with my headphones on and just laughing like a crazy person." -Ryan, watching Matt’s TEDx talk.

Matt Winning is an environmental researcher and stand-up comedian who combines his expertise in climate change with humor to engage audiences.

In this episode we talked about:

🌍 How climate change became Matt's focus due to its urgency and lack of widespread attention

🎭 Using comedy as a tool to start conversations about climate change and make people comfortable discussing the topic

📚 Matt's book "Hot Mess" and its portrayal of climate action as a choose-your-own-adventure

🔬 The importance of active decision-making in addressing climate change at all levels

🎤 Matt's upcoming projects, including a new comedy show and a children's book about climate change

#Standup #Comedy #Climate #ClimateTech

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Yossi Quint is the founder and CEO of Ark Biotech, a startup focused on computational bioprocessing in the cultivated meat industry.

In this episode we talked about:

🧬 Ark's role in accelerating the development of cultivated meat products

🏭 How the bioeconomy could reshape traditional geographic advantages in food production

🌍 The global landscape of cultivated meat regulation and its impact on industry growth

🇺🇸 The potential consequences of state-level bans on cultivated meat in the US

💼 The decision to pursue entrepreneurship over activism for maximum impact

#CultivatedMeat #CleanMeat #AltProteins #BioProcessing #ClimateTech

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Jessica Droujko is a passionate kayaker and lover of rivers. So it’s fitting that she should combine that passion and her PhD from ETH Zürich to launch Riverkin, a startup that monitors river health.

In this episode we talked about:

🌊 How rivers shape landscapes and their importance in global ecosystems

🔬 How Riverkin monitors water levels and sediment flows

🏞️ Jessica's adventures on some of the world's most interesting rivers, including the Boiling River in Peru

🚣‍♀️ The balance between responsible tourism and river conservation. Think: Grand Canyon

🌍 The River Collective's mission to create changemakers through events like the Students for Rivers camp

🔌 Opportunities for citizen science in river monitoring through mini hydrological stations

#ClimateTech #Rivers #Water

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Max Boykoff is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on the cultural dimensions of climate change, with a particular interest in how media and various stakeholders communicate about the issue.

In this episode we talked about:

☯️ How firsthand experiences of climate events can contrast with media coverage

🎭 The power of comedy in connecting people to climate change information and ideas

🌏 Cultural perspectives on climate change ranging from Singapore and Jerusalem

🎬 The climate-themed standup comedy video competition he runs

👥 His excitement around younger generations' engagement with climate issues

#ClimateComedy #ClimateEducation #ClimateTech

More:

Climate comedy work from Inside the Greenhouse at CU Boulder
The 10th annual climate comedy video competition
The Media and Climate Change Observatory

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Marissa Beatty is the co-founder and CEO of Turnover Labs, a startup developing technology to convert CO2 into valuable chemicals. With a background in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Marissa is tackling the challenge of carbon utilization in the petrochemical industry.

In this episode we talked about:

🧪 Turnover Labs' approach to converting CO2 into useful chemical building blocks

💼 The challenges and opportunities for female founders in the climate tech space

💰 How Marissa secured backing from notable climate tech investors for her pre-seed round

🔬 The importance of corporate partnerships in developing and scaling carbon utilization technologies

🎯 Turnover Labs' strategy for narrowing their focus and identifying potential customers

🤝 Why I’m missing out by not going to Climate Week NYC

#CarbonUtilization #CleanChemistry #ClimateTech #netzero

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Jessica Burley is an investor at Planet A Ventures, a €160 million fund pioneering a science-based approach to venture capital. Jessica is passionate about impact measurement and, as she says: "If there's not a significant positive environmental impact, the deal is off.”

In this episode we talked about:

🔬 Planet A Ventures' use of life cycle assessments to evaluate potential investments

🚫 The fund's in-house science team's veto power on deals lacking significant environmental impact

🤝 Collaboration with Speedinvest and Norrsken VC to create a climate hardware playbook

📊 The importance of impact measurement for businesses to demonstrate sustainability claims

🌡️ How climate risk is increasingly becoming a business risk

🚀 Her optimism in climate tech thanks to transformative technologies and dedicated talent

#VC #Hardware #Sustainability #Investing #ClimateTech

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I spoke with WebMD co-founder and veteran VC Kittu Kolluri of Neotribe Ventures to talk about what he’s investing in, the importance of board governance, and what active investing actually means.

We touched on:

🐉 The potential of technologies like hydrogen, ammonia synthesis, and cold fusion

💼 The role of boards in ensuring good governance and avoiding conflicts of interest

📈 What software VCs need to do to become hardware investors

🤝 The importance of active investing and the value it brings to young entrepreneurs

#climatetech #venturecapital #governance

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Aneta Londa is the founder of Moonshot Pirates, an organization that empowers young changemakers to tackle global challenges. In this episode, Aneta is joined by Annie Zountsa and Elanu Karakus, winners of the Shape the Future Challenge, to discuss their innovative project AEIFLORIA and the impact of youth-driven initiatives.

We talked about:

🏴‍☠️ How Moonshot Pirates teaches Gen Z to fight climate change through innovation

🏆 How four teenagers found a way to help bees find flowers with AEIFLORIA

🔮 How Moonshot Pirates is going to get involved in the future of food, and how you can help

👭 What it’s going to be like for four founders to meet for the very first time in person

#MoonshotPirates #climatetech #YouthInnovation

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I spoke with Alex Ivanenko, the founder of HyWatts, about building “power plants in a box” and about why, after selling a company for more than $100 million, he started another one right away.

In this episode we talked about: 

👉 Why traditional power generation philosophies don’t work for renewables 
🔋 The high costs of transmission and distribution in the energy grid 
💡 The potential for distributed energy solutions in reducing blackouts and fires 
🚗 Why EV charging stations are the fastest path to commercialization for startups 
📈 The implications of subsidies and regulations on the renewable energy market

#climatetech #renewableenergy #EVcharging

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Marco Möller is a computer scientist, physicist, and serial entrepreneur. He’s passionate about electrical transportation and recently turned his attention to open sourcing the world of EV charging.

In this episode we talked about:

🔋 The company Marco sold to Intel and its impact on climate change through drone technology

🚗 The current state of the EV market in Europe, including growth and price trends

🔌 Common concerns about switching to electric cars and how to address them

⚙️ Marco's new company Pionix and its open-source EV-charger operating system, Base Camp

💼 The stakeholders involved in the EV charging space and the role of collaboration

🕵️‍♂️ Resistance to open-sourcing EV charging and the industries' changing perspectives on open source

#climatetech #EVcharging #opensource

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Sebastian Pohlmann is VP of Business Development at UpCatalyst, which makes carbon nanotubes and graphite from CO2. They are literally taking one of the world’s most problematic waste streams and turning it into one of the most desperately-needed materials.

In this episode we talked about:

🔋 The carbon footprint of producing graphite for lithium-ion batteries

🌍 Innovative approaches to sourcing CO2 for industrial processes

🚗 The emerging market for sodium-ion batteries and their benefits over lithium-ion batteries

🏗️ How carbon nanotubes can reinforce concrete and reduce overall emissions

🤝 The role of academia in validating and advancing climate tech innovations

#climatetech #carbonnanotubes #sustainability

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This is a topic I’ve wanted to talk about on the podcast for the whole last year. 🌟 Juraj Krivošík is the Executive Director at SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center, in Prague. He’s also in my opinion one of the leading voices on how energy and infrastructure have been affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and its broader implications today and in the future.

In this episode, we talked about:

🇺🇦 The impact of the Ukraine war on CO2 emissions and biodiversity loss

🏢 The role of energy security in shaping climate policies in Europe

🪖 The importance of supporting Ukraine to ensure global climate protection

⚡ The unintended push towards renewable energy due to rising energy prices

🔋 The challenges of measuring and promoting energy efficiency compared to new energy sources

#climatetech #energysecurity #renewableenergy #ukraine

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Who needs a cow to make leather when you've got beer? Brett Cotten is co-founder of London-based Arda Biomaterials and in this episode we talked about:

🐄 The problems of the traditional leather industry

👜 New Grain, Arda's sustainable leather alternative

🍺 Creating local supply chains by co-locating with breweries and distilleries around the world

🎡 The synthetic biology scene in London, and how the UK is investing heavily into biotech and material science

#leather #climatetech #beer #spentgrain #synbio #syntheticbiology

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Lisett Luik is co-founder of Arbonics, an Estonian company that believes forests have been undervalued for far too long and is seeking to rememdy that.

In this episode we talked about:

🌳 How Arbonics is making forests a climate asset rather than just a source of timber 
🕵️ The detective work involved in ensuring carbon offsetting projects are the real deal
🌍 Lisett's journey into climate tech entrepreneurship and her advice for others looking to make the switch
🇪🇪 The entrepreneurial culture in Estonia, and the influence of long, dark winters 
👅 Her translation of Keith Richards' autobiography into Estonian

#climatetech #carbonoffsetting #carboncredits #forests

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To celebrate the launch of their new facility this week, I spoke with Yonatan Golan, co-founder of Brevel. Brevel makes possibly the most sustainable protein in the world through a process that speeds up microalgae production 100x.

We talked about: 
👻 The concept of 'ghost protein' 
🚀 How fermentation x photosynthesis = efficiency revolution 
🥛 Why dairy is a good starting place 
🏗️ Their new facility

#climatetech #sustainablefood #alternativeprotein

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Meet Maxime Meijers, co-founder of Estuaire, a company that is working across the aviation industry to reduce its climate effects.

In this episode we talked about:

🛩️ The often overlooked impact of contrails on our climate and how their strategic mitigation can put a dent in aviation's climate footprint 
💰 The power and influence of aviation finance in shaping the sector's environmental trajectory  
🚀 The growth trajectory and ambitions of Estuaire as they seek to assemble a dream team in the intersection of aviation and sustainability

#ClimateTech #AviationInnovation #Flying #Aviation 

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Andreas Schwarzenbrunner always thought he's get into politics. But, as a partner leading the climate tech and industrial tech practices at Speedinvest, he's arguably playing an even bigger role in Europe's future this way.

In this episode we talked about:
 
🌍 Why hardware is hard but absolutely critical in climatetech
🔬 How crucial de-risking with corporate customers is for startups
💡 The role of policy in driving climatetech investment
🏭 The challenges of scaling up production and fundraising for founders
📘 The creation of "Building and Scaling Climate Hardware," a playbook for the climate tech sector

Check out "Building and Scaling Climate Hardware: A Playbook" here.

#climatetech #venturecapital #VC #deeptech

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Meet Joe Hill, Co-founder of One Planet Pizza. Joe has dedicated his career to promoting plant-based eating through the medium of delicious pizza. In this episode we talked about:

🌿 The importance of making plant-based alternatives that deliver on taste, texture, and price 
🍕 How One Planet Pizza is leading the charge in this delicious revolution 
🔬 The emerging trend of healthier, whole-food plant-based alternatives 
🍄 Joe's excitement about the potential of mushrooms 
🎙️ The role of food activism and its influence on plant-based food industry 
💪 How Joe maintains his resilience and health while running a high-growth business

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneplanetpizza/ 

#climatetech #plantbased #pizza

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Christian Rebernik is the mastermind behind Tomorrow University, an accredited online university using business education to drive impact and sustainability. In this interview we talked about:

👑 Christian’s royal pedigree in Berlin’s startup ecosystem

🎒 How a university dropout becomes a university Chancellor

🎯 Tomorrow University’s goal of reaching 1 million people

#education #university #climatetech

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Robbie Lockie is co-founder of Plant-Based News and has just launched the Freedom Food Alliance, which fights misinformation and empowers people with the best science and expert alliances to create meaningful societal change.

In this episode we talked about:

🌱 The deceptive tactics used by the meat and dairy industries to discredit plant-based alternatives
🎙️ Celebrity influence in promoting a plant-based lifestyle, featuring the likes of Alicia Silverstone and Joaquin Phoenix, including running Jamie Oliver’s online presence back in the day
🌍 The Plant Based Treaty, a global initiative to shift away from animal-based food systems and restore ecosystems 
🍔 The challenges and opportunities in the plant-based food industry, including the move towards fewer and more natural sounding ingredients

As discussed in the episode, the Plant Based News Podcast had some interviews with famous vegans. Here are a few of them:

Megadeth Drummer Dirk Verbeuren

“Bones and All” author Camille Deangelis

Actor Alicia Silverstone

Conservationist, anthropologist and activist Jane Goodall

#futurefood #plantbased #climatetech

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Joel Tasche is the founder of CleanHub, and is on a mission to clean up our oceans, all while empowering marginalized waste workers. And it all started with his passion for surfing. 🌊 And it all started with his passion for surfing. 🌊

Listen to this episode to learn how CleanHub:

🚛 implements tracking systems all the way from households to disposal sites, ensuring transparency and efficiency

💻 is developing its platform into a full-stack waste management system, borrowing efficiency strategies from Amazon's playbook

🌍 is expanding its waste collection and sorting capacities in coastal communities in India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Cambodia

🤝 is working on upskilling programs and social audits to improve working conditions for waste sorters

#cleantech #wastemanagement #plasticcredits #recycling #sustainability

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Deniz Ficicioglu loves tuna so much that she doesn't want them to be put in a can. 🐟

That's why she founded BettaF!sh, an alternative proteins company that  uses seaweed to create plant-based fish alternatives that replicate the taste, texture, and experience of traditional fish, minus the devastating effects of fishing.

Check out this 30-minute episode to hear how:

🐟 Tuna are freaking awesome and can swim basically as fast as a Fiat 500
🇪🇺 Their products are currently available in 10 different European countries 
🛫 Japan Airlines serves their vegan tuna on flights from London to Tokyo and back
🧪 The company's R&D team is continuously working on developing a toolbox of seaweed ingredients for food industry players

#climatetech #altproteins #fish #tuna #salmon #seaweed

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Brian Sheng is a self-funded entrepreneur and co-founder of Aquaria, a company that seeks to create resilient water infrastructure by extracting water from the air. A former venture capitalist who started his own VC firm at 18, Brian transitioned to the operational side of startups with the onset of the pandemic.

Here's what we talked about in our half-hour chat:

💦 Brian's company, Aquaria, seeks to create water infrastructure that doesn't need any pipes or construction
🏝️ Aquaria's water harvesting technology is ideal for residential communities, especially those off-grid or in locations with limited access to clean water
🌊 Aquaria's $26 million project in Hawaii to service a community of 1,000 homes
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 What it's like to have your brother as a co-founder
👨 Several reference to Tatooine from Star Wars (this emoji is Luke Skywalker, obviously)

#WaterFromAir #SustainableLiving #TechInnovation #ClimateTech #Tatooine

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Kidus Asfaw is the founder of Kubik, an Ethiopian company that upcycles plastic waste into construction material for low-carbon buildings.

In this episode we talked about:

🏢 How Kubik aspires to be a technology platform for the materials industry, aiming to extend their reach beyond just plastic
🚀 The opportunities for climatetech companies in Sub-Saharan Africa
🌐 Kidus’s career, including time with UNICEF and the World Bank
🎖️ What it’s like to be named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in climate
🌱 Why he’s optimistic about the future

#greenbuilding #recycling #innovation #sustainabledevelopment #Africantech #climatetech

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Vivian Bertseka is co-founder of BlueLayer, the first end-to-end software platform for carbon project developers. In this episode we talked about how:

📈 The carbon credit market is growing but also experiencing growing pains, with issues around transparency and trust.

🔍 There is an urgent need for more transparency in the carbon credit market to improve data disclosure and data system organization.

🧾 High-quality carbon credits are in high demand but short supply — companies need to act early to secure them.

🍷 Carbon credits are like wine — although the container is always the same size, the contents can be radically different!

#carboncredits #climatetech #netzero 

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Viktoria Oseyko is CMO of Carbominer, a startup that uses direct air capture (DAC) to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and use it for productive purposes, like growing our fruits and vegetables in greenhouses. We talked about how this technology works, how founder can attract public money for green interventions, and what the future of Ukrainian climatetech looks like.

#ClimateTech #DAC #NetZero

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I found Jennifer O'Brien when reading some press about a new seaweed farm that had just been set up off the wild western coast of Ireland, in County Galloway. I've been intrigued by seaweed for a long time as a source of sustainable protein and material, as well as for its carbon sequestration power. It seems that seaweed is finally starting to get some of the limelight it deserves.

Jennifer is Founder and CEO of Sea&Believe, which owns that seaweed farm. This is to be the first of many such farms and she talks about all that seaweed can do, how it's cultivated, and who uses it. 

#ClimateTech #Seaweed #Aquaculture

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Martin Stuchtey is the founder and co-CEO of The Landbanking Group, which aims to support the regeneration of nature and biodiversity through an asset class they call Nature Equity. 

Martin talked about how we can protect nature by literally putting a value to it, as well as his own life and career which has ranged from soldier in the German army’s alpine group to management consultant, professor, and now founder.

#biodiversity #regeneration #climatetech

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This inverview is the 25th and final episode of my podcast Sound Funding, where I've been interviewing impact fund managers together with Impact Europe since 2020. If you're interested in impact funds, I highly recommend checking out the back catalogue!

Impact Europe's podcast host Benjamin DeVries interviewed me about my background as a founder, how I became a climatetech investor, why I started podcasting, and what I think about McKinsey (👎)  and spicy chicken wings (👍).

Check out the back catalogue of my interviews with impact fund managers at Sound Funding.

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Remember in the mid 2010s when we were all talking about microplastics in things like face creams, and brands were making a big deal about being micro-bead free? Well although the media attention has gone away, the problem of microplastics has definitely not. Adam Root is the founder and CEO of Matter., which is tackling the problem of microplastics head on at one if its key sources—your washing machine.

Matter. has just raised $10 million, with participation from big names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, and the Walton family (Walmart) through their various investment vehicles.

#climatetech #microplastics #laundry #cleanwater #plasticfree

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Jason Goodhand is an old classmate and pal, and a fellow traveller in renewable energy before it was cool. He's been fascinated by the role energy storage has in greening the grid for as long as I've known him. These days, he's travelling the world discovering, developing, and implementing storage technologies based on hydrogen, sodium, zinc, iron, vanadium redox flow technologies. He talks about the road ahead and what he's learned as a 20+ year industry veteran.

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Bruce Friedrich is the founder and president of the Good Food Institute and the reason I invest in alternative proteins. I was driving through the hills of Umbria listening to podcasts and an interview with Bruce came on. An hour later I was enthralled and had found my calling. It really was as simple as that. 

I talked with Bruce about the outlook for investment in alt proteins, the nature of the industry, why it's so crucial to the fight against climate change, and how he is able to keep his cool with all the trolls out there. And finally got to thank him for being such a major influence in my life.

#altproteins #climatechange #climatetech #futurefood #foodtech

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Fungi is having a moment as it does everything from open our minds, feed our population, pass notes for our trees, capture our CO2, and clean up our messes. Nathan Paumier is a fungi nerd and writer of the popular and informative BRB newsletter.  I took advantage of having him on the show to ask everything I always wanted to know about mushrooms but was afraid to ask.

Nathan's go-to book to learn about fungi is Entangled Life by Merlin Seheldrake. 

#fungi #climatetech #climatechange #bioremediation #mushrooms

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Will Wiseman is a Forbes 30 under 30 founder who’s on a mission to democratise investing in renewable energy. He co-founded Climatize, which allows people to invest as little as five bucks, just two years ago and it’s going well. We talked about how Will got started, his experiences abroad in Europe, and the role of microloans in electrifying the grid.

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I was flattered when Silas Mähner and Somil Aggarwal reached out to invite me onto The CleanTechies Podcast out of New York. In the end we decided to do something fun and interview each other and syndicate the episode across both our podcasts at the same time. Fun times! 

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Stuart Goldsmith is one of the only people out there who can make me LOL about climate change. I caught his act on YouTube thanks to "the Algorithm" and was thrilled that he said yes when I invited him on the podcast. Especially since he's in front of slightly larger audiences like the Conan O'Brien Show and Wembley Arena. This episode has some important insights nested in some good laughs.

Check out Stuart's website and Instagram.

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