Scaling Climate Tech

Nov 23 2023 3

We live in the defining decade for climate, we have until 2030 to halve our emissions. In this podcast, we meet with the founders of the climate startups building the technologies that will get us to net zero emissions by 2050. Together, we will understand how these incredible climate technologies work and, if and how, they can replace fossil solutions, not over the next century, but in the next 10 years.

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Evan Hynes - ClimateBase - Building the leading job platform for climate

Nov 23 2023 64 mins

Evan Hynes is the CEO and co-founder of ClimateBase, the leading job platform for climate. Launched in 2020, ClimateBase has scaled incredibly fast with over 250,000 monthly users, over 100,000 subscribers to its climate newsletter, and more than 7,000 participants to the ClimateTech week it recently organized in San Francisco. And all of this growth with only 7 full-time employees

Raphael Declercq - Powerflex - Powering businesses with rooftop solar, battery storage, and EV charging

Sep 15 2023 65 mins

Raphael Declercq is the CEO of PowerFlex, a 300 people strong company based in San Diego, California with the mission to help businesses transition to distributed renewables and electrified transportation.Launched as a subsidiary of EDF - the French energy giant operating over 30+ nuclear power plants - PowerFlex has quickly become the 2nd largest installer of rooftop solar for com

Olivier Reinaud (NetZero): extracting carbon from plants with biochar

Jul 02 2023 65 mins

Olivier Reinaud is Co-Founder & Managing Director at NetZero, a startup bringing carbon removal at scale in the tropics with biochar.Launched in 2021 with a diverse founding team, including the climatologist Jean Jouzel (IPCC vice chair), NetZero has rapidly demonstrated its technology in Cameroon and Brazil and has been selected in the prestigious Musk Foundation’s X Prize f

Sebastian Berning (Instagrid): Breaking free from combustion generators with clean portable batteries

May 20 2023 69 mins

Sebastian Berning is the co-founder & CEO of Instagrid, a startup aiming to replace combustion generators used for mobile power supply by clean portable batteries. These generators are used every time power supply is needed without an easy access to the grid: in food carts to cook, on construction sites to run jackhammers, at festivals for lighting & sound, and in countless

Alexis Normand - Greenly: building the Fitbit of carbon to measure emissions in all companies

Apr 21 2023 69 mins

Alexis Normand is the Co-founder & CEO of Greenly, a carbon accounting and management platform enabling companies to measure and reduce their emissionsCarbon accounting has grown from a niche practice only a few years ago to a widely adopted business practice with 18,700 public companies now disclosing their emissionsBy measuring their emissions, companies can then define clima

Alexia Akbay - Symbrosia: reducing livestock methane with seaweed

Mar 31 2023 59 mins

Alexia Akbay is the founder & CEO of Symbrosia, a startup producing a seaweed feed supplement for ruminants that can reduce their methane emissions by 90%Ruminent livestock (cows, beef, sheep, goat) are responsible for ~14% of total greenhouse gas emissions (~7Gt of CO2-eq). Enteric fermentation, which is part of the ruminant's digestive process, drives ~40% of these livestock

Casey Handmer - TerraForm Industries: synthetic fuels from sunlight and CO2 captured from the air

Jan 25 2023 58 mins

Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, a startup that produces synthetic fuels by combining CO2 captured from the air with renewable hydrogen. Fossil fuels are responsible for ~75% of anthropogenic emissions and we need to reduce their consumption as fast as possible. Yet, even under the most optimistic decarbonization scenario, natural gas and oil will still play an

Shawn Drost - Phoenix Hydrogen: building Amazon.com for Hydrogen

Dec 21 2022 51 mins

Hydrogen will play a pivotal role in abating 25% to 40% of US emissions in the so-called "hard-to-abate" sectors: long-distance transportation (aviation, shipping, trucking), industrial feedstock processes (ammonia, methanol, refining), long-duration energy storage, and as a heating fuel for commercial & industrial customers. Shawn Drost is the cofounder and CEO of Phoenix Hydr

Kathy Hannun - Dandelion Energy: breaking away from natural gas in buildings with heat pumps

Nov 10 2022 61 mins

Kathy Hannun is the co-founder and President of Dandelion Energy, the US leader in geothermal heat pumps for home heating and cooling. From an idea emerging at Google X in 2017, Dandelion Energy has now installed over 1,000 geothermal systems and raised a total of $60M.Building heating is a truly massive climate challenge with ~20% of emissions globally due to energy use in buildin

Paul Gross - Remora: from reading a PhD paper to running a 45 people carbon capture company

Sep 28 2022 67 mins

Paul Gross is the co-founder and co-CEO of Remora, a carbon capture solution for heavy-duty trucks. Using work from Christina Reynold's PhD thesis at the University of Michigan (Remora other co-CEO), they created the company in 2020, joined Y Combinator and raised $5.5M to now be a 45 people strong company about to deploy their product at some of the largest American trucking compa

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