Clean Catalyst

Fiona Kelleher (CEO), along with her husband Kieran Coffey (CTO) cofounded Amugreen and MyGug to offer renewable energy digesters at scale. After 5 years and having raised nearly a million, they are well on their way to making MyGug a household name.  With over 25 years of experience across design engineering, production, water services, and site management, Kieran invented this sustainable energy...

Continuing our series of amazing women founders of cleantech companies in Ireland, we are proud to present a brand new episode featuring the story of Sarah Fliessbach from Shareclub.  Having moved across to Ireland from her home country Germany, Sarah saw how Ireland is one of the largest consuming countries of single-use plastic.. And she immediately went about fixing the problem by setting up he...

Featuring Kate Williams, CEO and Co-founder of Bold Donut.  Our third featured female CEO this year, we are proud to present another novel and promising offering aiming to address the climate crisis.  Kate has co-founded Bold Donut as a sustainability engagement company that provides a portfolio of digital games. They design and customise these games based on the enterprise customer's context...

Another exciting story, another promising climate-tech proposition!  In this episode Sarah-Marie Rust, Founder and CEO of EVE Mobility shares her story of creating and growing EVE Mobility - a data-driven, AI-enabled SaaS offering to help companies electrify their fleet of vehicles.  Sarah-Marie talks about her journey of arriving at the original idea and then continuously learning and iterating i...

For Season 4's first episode, Shobhita Soor joins us all the way from Ghana! Our podcast's first enterpreneur from the African continent, we are so excited to present her story. Forbes 30 under 30, social entrepreneur, undeterred and passionate founder of Legendary Foods, which produces palm larvae based protein-rich products.  They have the ambition to revolutionise our consumption habi...

Season 3 Finale episode is out now, wrapping up this season focusing on Circular Economy! Featuring Romain Diaz , Founder of the Europe and Africa focused climate impact fund, Satgana . Romain's humility and graciousness is so wonderful and inspiring! Amazing to hear about how he and his team are leading the fund's investment and advisory activities guided by their ethos and passion for...

Proud to bring to you a brand new episode in this season! We welcome Elin to Clean Catalyst. Elin Bergman is known for being the Circular Economy Queen of Sweden. She the COO and spokesperson of the Swedish circular economy network Cradlenet , and is also one of the co-founders of the Nordic Circular Hotspot a collaboration platform for accelerating circular economy in the region. In this episode,...

Christian Schiller , CEO and Co-founder of Cirplus came upon the idea of founding this company in the middle of the ocean, off the coast of Colombia. It was a moment of epiphany that evolved into a solution with the ambition to change the way the world consumes plastic. More recently, Christian was invited byt he German government to join the consultation process for creating the National Circular...

So excited to present to you Circunomics, a B2B marketplace and proposition to give second-life to EV batteries. They are revenue positive and gearing up for Series A round of fundraising this year. We have in conversation with us in this episode the CEO and Co-founder of Circunomics, Felix Wagner, joining us from Germany! With strong backers and validation from the beginning, Circunomics has tack...

New year, new season, this time focusing on Circular Economy. I'm Richa, your host, bringing this introductory episode, followed by a line-up of interesting, innovative start-ups in this space. Stay tuned for more! For this season introductory episode, I go through some trends and statistics describing the current state of affairs in the Circular Economy sector. Top of mind examples from Fash...

For our very first start-up feature, we have with us in this episode the CEO and Co-founder of Rentle now Twice Commerce, Tuomo Laine, all the way from Finland! Twice Commerce in it's newly launched avatar, is a very cool proposition to help customers extend the life of products and the team are all set to scale and grow! Tuomo gets into the depths of how they got inspired to start this journ...

For our season finale episode, we welcome Mark Bernstein to share his insights on opportunities in the Mobility space given his extensive experience across academia, government and private equity in this sector. Currently running Earthshot , a non-profit aimed at inspiring climate action through presenting a positive cleantech vision in the future, Mark talks about their plans to energise and insp...

And last but not least - our 6th featured start-up in this season focused on Mobility  solutions, Vesputi ! Based in Leipzig Germany, Vesputi as described by CEO and Co-Founder Linus Frank, is a remarkable offering that seeks to optimise existing public transportation infrastructure with the ambition to reduce carbon footprint. The concept is so elegant in its simplicity - it started with API-enab...

In this episode we are featuring Luna Systems, in the words of CEO and Co-Founder Andrew Fleury. Luna Systems based in Dublin, Ireland supports efficiency and safety for scooters as a more viable and sustainable alternative for urban transportation. Founded by a team of entrepreneurs who have common background in their education as well as running another Mobility start-up, Luna Systems has big am...

We change tracks to look into innovative solutions in EV design and engineering. First up is Infinite Mobility based in Oslo, Norway - hear their story in the words of Co-founder Lupi Love. Taking head on the problem of charging and of efficiency of EVs by changing the design of the EV itself - that's what Infinite Mobility is about. Launching Cargo Bikes, 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler solar powere...

This episode features the story of Reefilla, by the three co-founders Marco (CEO), Pietro (CTO) and Gabriele (CFO). Reefilla based in Turin, Italy offers a mobile-based predictive solution for charging EVs. Founded by a team that were co-workers and came together in an MBA program focused on automotive sector, it is a promising and exciting offering with lots of potential. Find more about Reefilla...

Sheng joins us to talk about his journey to founding Voltshare and his adventures through the pandemic leading up to a grant award received from the UK public sector! With his diverse background and experience, Sheng's story is one not to miss! Voltshare connects EV drivers to nearby home EV chargers with off the street private parking spaces. To find out more visit Voltshare or connect with...

Back again with Season 2, this time featuring innovative early-stage start-ups in the Mobility sector. To kick-off this season, Yoshimi Nakajima joins me to discuss the latest trends that are inspiring companies both large and small, to create and offer cool, new solutions. With her background ranging across Mizuho, Honda and now Woven City in Japan, she shares her observations and insights about...

The first promising start-up this season is Wattson, based in Madrid in Spain. Juan Roldán, CEO and Ruben Valiente, CPO join this episode to share their exciting adventure and journey at Wattson. Juan found Ruben through IESE Business School, a thread that connects us all and they clicked instantly! Wattson is a network of mobile ultra-fast chargers for EV users, whenever and wherever they need it...

This is the season finale! Today we are chatting with David Scanlon, director at Resolve Partners. David has over 20 years of experience in the start-up and entrepreneurship space. He has played a pivotal role in the climate economy ecosystem in Ireland by bringing together founders and entrepreneurs who are creating sustainable solutions. He has had management roles in Entreprise Ireland, the Sta...

In this episode we will be chatting with Ben Or, Assaf Co-Founder of Greeneum. Greeneum is a decentralized platform and marketplace for local energy management that supports you to become energy independent and with no fossil and zero emissions. Greeneum leverages cutting edge disruptive technology, including blockchain, smart contracts and targeted machine learning (AI), to create an unparalleled...

Greemko has the objective of facilitating the environmental management tasks for corporations. Trough their proprietary software they help companies evaluate automatically the environmental performance including their emission calculations. Their tool allows to analyse information and compare different criteria and establish objectives for improvements. Moreover, it can predict consumption and ass...

They support you on your path to becoming a Renewable Champion and finally contribute to the global energy transition. They are a network of renewable energy advisors helping corporates or public institutions to realize their sustainability strategy in terms of electricity consumption. In addition, they also support developers or independent power producers to realize their renewable energy projec...

In this episode, we will be chatting with Nils Söderström , CEO & Founder of Renbloc .  Renbloc is a comprehensive and transparent solution for tracing and verifying sources of energy. Suppliers and customers can easily keep track of when, where and how their energy is produced. They want to increase the transparency in the energy market by giving consumers the opportunity to freely choose the...

In this episode, we will be chatting with Vanessa Macdougall Co-founder of Xtonnes. Xtonnes is the next-gen carbon management software built with designers and manufacturers to reduce, report and remove emissions while saving time, money and the planet. Their approach to carbon footprints is simpler, smarter and safer. It generates results and insight faster with robust SOTA data science. Aligns w...