Leaders in Cleantech

Sep 17 2024 148 ep. 43 mins 132
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Leaders in Cleantech is a bi-monthly podcast with host David Hunt speaking to Cleantech founders, CEOs, investors and industry leaders about their trials, tribulations, successes, failures and future predictions for #cleantech #emobility #energystorage #renewables #smartcities

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Leaders In Cleantech #148 Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire – Modo Energy

Sep 17 2024 39 mins  
What’s it all about?Energy Storage, to infinity and beyond! How do you forecast and predict revenues from your energy storage assets, even if not built yet? Modo have a range of solutions to help asset owners, developers and investors to answer these questions. We also dive into the challenges and experiences of high growth, from pivoting and fundraising to new market entry and b

Leaders In Cleantech #147 Joost Kruytzer – Big Circle Ventures

Jul 23 2024 41 mins  
What’s it all about?Building cleantech start-ups, at scale. It can be confusing, the world of Incubators, accelerators and venture builders, also known as start-up studios. Who does what, how and why? In this episode we clarify some of those things, but discuss so much more about the why and how of new cleantech venture builder Big Circle Ventures, with founder CEO Joost Kruytzer

Leaders In Cleantech #146 Malin Carlstrom – Climentum Capital

Jul 09 2024 39 mins  
What’s it all about?Investing in Hardtech! Yes, it’s true, some VC’s do invest in hardtech/deeptech, knowing the specific challenges of supporting companies of this nature to scale. This week I speak with Malin Carlstrom of Danish VC Climentum Capital about scaling deeptech, the importance of team, the usefulness (and otherwise) of advisors and NED’s, and the ‘perfect sto

Leaders In Cleantech #145 Keith Bradbury – Ember

Jun 25 2024 45 mins  
What’s it all about?Clean, efficient, reliable, electric public transport. After traveling by Bus and Coach across five continents, Keith Bradbury and Co-Founder Pierce Glennie made the switch from Fintech to Cleantech, with a solution to the cost, pollution and unreliability and hassle of public transport. Ember was born, you can hear the story from inception to recent A-round f

Leaders In Cleantech #144 Joachim Rupp – Detra Solar

Jun 11 2024 37 mins  
What’s it all about?Solar, and moving from corporate life to a start up. I first met my guest today, Joachim Rupp at a start-up within a corporate, building Viessmann’s Photovoltaic business, before that he’d been in some big corporate roles, more recently we helped him secure the CEO role at a Lithuanian solar scale-up, Detra Solar. We talk solar evolution and trends, but al

Leaders In Cleantech #143 Dr. Ian Campbell – Breathe Battery Technologies

May 21 2024 45 mins  
What’s it all about?Batteries. More specifically, software enabled batteries helping to make Electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and wearables, more efficient, providing better customer experiences. I speak to another start-up spun out of Imperial College London, with a novel and proven set of products and technologies moving forward the transition towards better, longer las

Leaders In Cleantech Bitesize #142 Federico Cristoforoni – Net Zero Insights - Q1 Funding Trends

May 01 2024 18 mins  
In start-up world everyone wants to know about the deals. Who raised what, which VC's are spending some of that 'dry powder' all these things are important, but looking at the bigger trends is perhaps more useful.In this Bitesize episode I speak with Federico Cristoforoni of Net Zero Insights about some of the trends is their Q! Quarterly Report. We discuss some of the key themes,

Leaders In Cleantech #141 David Trainavicius – PVCase

Apr 25 2024 33 mins  
What’s it all about?Solar. Another part of the value-chain explored by this BNEF award-winning, Mega-funding round landing solar SaaS start-up/scale-up. We speak with founder and CEO David Trainavvicius about the journey so far.About David Trainavicius:David is the Founder and CEO of PVcase. He has been involved with a wide variety of solar projects since 2009, gaining expertise

Leaders in Cleantech #140 - Davor Sutija – NexWafe

Apr 17 2024 38 mins  
What’s it all about?Solar. But not rooftops this time, the other end of the value-chain. Wafers are not only a large part of the cost of solar modules, producing them is also very energy intensive, and therefore carbon emitting. Through innovation in this part of the process Nexwafe hope to make the manufacture of solar modules, cheaper, cleaner, and to bring manufacturing at sca

Leaders in Cleantech #139 - Andres Anijalg – Roofit

Mar 27 2024 38 mins  
What’s it all about?Solar. Beautiful Solar roofs. This harks back to my early days in solar, founding a solar EPC which initially at least focused of residential roofs, before expanding to include large commercial installations. Roofit have a unique, aesthetic solar roof solution, just at a time when both energy costs and EU legislation are driving the uptake of retrofit and newb