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Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 56. Today's conversation is with Rekha Sharma the founder of Solv4x. Rekha spent a number of years working for CAISO which, for those unfamiliar is the grid operator in California. During her time there she dealt with the issue of energy demand irregularities the more renewable energy that came on the grid and the mo...

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 55. If you are a climate tech founder with specific questions you'd like us to ask -- OR -- looking for capital and strategic partner introductions, please reach out to me via the Slack Channel or LinkedIn and we are glad to help in any way we can.   Today our episode is with Sean Murphy the CEO of PingThings. Ping t...

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 54.  Today our episode is with Mariam Awara. Mariam is COO at Pulsenics Inc. Pulsenics is a Canada-based IoT device company that is helping enable electrochemistry at scale. A simpler way to put it is; they have a hardware and software solution that helps significantly reduce the operating costs of electrochemical industr...

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 53.  _________ If you are a climate tech founder with specific questions you'd like us to ask -- OR -- looking for capital and strategic partner introductions, please reach out to me via the Slack Channel or LinkedIn and we are glad to help in any way we can.   _________ Today's episode is with Jason Ethier who...

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 52.  If you are a climate tech founder with specific questions you'd like us to ask -- OR -- looking for capital and strategic partner introductions, please reach out to me via the Slack Channel or LinkedIn and we are glad to help in any way we can.   Today's conversation is with James Henry, the Director of Gro...

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 51.  ________ If you are a climate tech founder with specific questions you'd like us to ask -- OR -- looking for capital and strategic partner introductions, please reach out to me via the Slack Channel or LinkedIn and we are glad to help in any way we can.   ________ Today's conversation is with Demian Klenk,...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the CleanTechies podcast. This is our 50th episode. Hard to believe we are already at 50.  ____________________________________________________  If you are a climate tech founder with specific questions you'd like us to ask -- OR -- looking for capital and strategic partner introductions, please reach out to me via the Slack Channel or LinkedIn and we are gl...

Welcome to the 49th episode of the CleanTechies Podcast. Today we are joined by Michael Beckerman the founder and CEO of CRETECH and CRETECH Climate. Michael, while relatively new to ClimateTech, has been quick to jump in and become a clear leader inside of Clean Real Estate Tech Space.  In today's show, we go through a lot. From the general landscape of the real estate industry at present. W...

Hello again! 👋  and welcome to the final episode in our ESG mini-series on the CleanTechies Podcast Today we are joined by Fulya Kocak Gin the SVP of ESG at Nareit (National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts) Fulya is an industry leader in the ESG<>Real Estate space as she has been helping pull together and publish research for the members of Nareit. This work alone has had an in...

Today we are pleased to present the second part of our three-part ESG series with Sondra Tosky. Sondra is a Senior Product Manager at Higg. She has worked with CBRE and Measurabl in the past and is deeply aware of how the ESG Software Market is unfolding.  In this episode, we discussed the current state of ESG data collection and reporting software. We debate and discuss what the future of the mar...

This is the first part of our ESG Mini-Series. We are kicking things off with Ryan Kemp the founder of Pueo Consulting.  Today's show was highly interesting and enjoyable for me as we asked, pondered, and discussed some of the really tough questions about ESG that have been on my mind lately.  Main Talking Points:  Intro to Ryan Basic Principles of ESG Deep dive into Social The benefits of S...

Welcome back to a data-driven conversation with Priya Vijayakumar.  Today we have a really fascinating discussion with Priya who is the CEO and Co-Founder of WattIQ which is an IoT company specifically focused on reducing climate impact through helping to find wasted energy and working with manufacturers to create better longer-lasting products.  Our discussion covered a lot of topics surrounding...

Today we have something really fascinating for you. We were joined by John King, CEO, and Founder of Hyperlight Energy.  Hyperlight Energy has created a Concentrated Solar Power technology that allows for the cheapest electricity production according to NREL. And on top of that, they have identified a way to store months of energy using certain rock formations in the earth. This conversation cover...

Hope you are feeling curious today! We have an episode today about one of my favorite topics - the Grid. And joining us today is a grid expert, Bhaskar Ray. Bhaskar is someone that I've known for a while and who has always helped me to learn how the grid works throughout my recruitment work.  In today's discussion, we go over... the history of the grid basics about how the grid works the...

Howdy 🤠  howdy 👋  and welcome back to another episode of CleanTechies the Podcast. Today our discussion is with Michael Luciani from Exponential Impact.  Exponential Impact is a rolling syndicate that has come out of Climate Capital and C3. They are focused on investing in frontier technologies that have the potential to truly help save the world. Their belief is that regardless of the climate c...

Hopefully, this episode will charge you up ⚡️ 🚗 🔌 ! (we do love puns). Welcome back to another episode of the show. Today we are discussing EV Charging and a lot of the topics surrounding it with Zak Lefevre CEO and Founder of ChargeLab.  Charge Lab is an EV Charging company that is primarily a software to manage EV charging in an efficient way that helps avoid large charges for breaking energy...

Hello again!👋 Welcome to another episode. This week we are speaking with Aaron Berndt at Google Nest.  The Google Nest thermostat allows homeowners to participate in their local utility's energy demand response programs which can save or earn them money.  In this conversation, we discussed how much effect residential demand programs can have on creating a more resilient grid. We discussed th...

We hope you are hungry 🍎 because today we are discussing food waste with David Jackson from Winnow.  Winnow is helping commercial kitchens reduce food waste through their easy install and low-cost AI technology that allows commercial kitchens to track waste and take the insights to the menu where they can plan better to reduce waste. All this helps reduce carbon emissions as well.  This was a fas...

Today we dive into supply chain issues inside the Solar ☀️ PV module manufacturing world with CEO and Founder of Heliene, Martin Pochtaruk.  We hope you enjoy today's episode which is filled with a lot of interesting topics and features Martin's dog 🐶 in the barkground. Heliene Website: https://heliene.com/ Connect with Martin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-pochtaruk-55...

Hey there 👋  Welcome back to another episode of CleanTechies, The Podcast. Today we are speaking with Tara Gupta, Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022), Founder, and CEO of Map Collective. Map Collective is a website/platform that helps track carbon emissions. The conversation with Tara was really fun so I hope you enjoy!  Map-Collective Website: https://www.map-collective.com/ Connect with Tara on LinkedIn:...

Howdy Earth Lovers, 🌍 Welcome back to another episode of CleanTechies, The Podcast. In today's episode, we are speaking with Brendan Banfield Co-Founder and CEO of Gridsight.  Gridsight is a company based in Australia that is helping utilities utilize existing DER (distributed energy resources = solar from residential solar and other small sources) Data to help improve the grid to interact b...

Hey there 👋 , welcome back to the second episode this week - again discussing Hydrogen. This time we are discussing the hydrogen storage (fuel tank) aspect of hydrogen-powered vehicles / machinery. To help us understand this we talked with David Jaramillo, Co-Founder, and CTO at VERNE.  VERNE is part of the Breakthrough Energy incubator. They are doing R&D to help innovate the hydrogen storag...

This is probably the most informative conversation I've had in a long time. Very thankful for Corey Staller, the Director of Engineering at Celadyne Technologies (and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree).  They are doing R&D and developing materials that will help fuel cell tech in achieving cost parity for the heavy industries with conventional motors. This episode speaks mostly to freight shippi...

Today is a conversation with Charlie Welch, CEO & CO-Founder of ZapBatt discussing a revolutionary battery technology that lasts significantly longer and charges faster.  Their tech is really interesting in the material science space. That paired with AI allows them to make batteries more adaptable. Main beneficiaries will be eMobility related use cases. Next week we will have two episodes com...

Great conversation with Candice Ammori at On Deck discussing many things surrounding the upskilling of workers in the ClimateTech / CleanTech space. This is something many people have been concerned about and I think today's conversation was really great to help ease those fears and discuss the overall positive benefits of making this transition.  Next week we will have an episode with Charli...