The #1 Podcast for ClimateTech Entrepreneurs

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We are CleanTechies, the #1 Podcast for ClimateTech Entrepreneurs. Whether you’re an active ClimateTech entrepreneur, an aspiring one, an investor, a service provider…anything that touches supporting early stage climate tech, this is the place for you. Each week, we publish two interviews with leading experts in the field telling their stories, insights, and advice to help ClimateTech Entrepreneurs like you be inspired by their successes and learn from their mistakes. cleantechies.substack.com

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Reducing Plastic Usage En Masse & Improving Recycling with Bahruz from BERKM Inc 01.11.2022 39:40

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 64. 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. On today's episode of the podcast, we are joined by Bahruz Mam...

Carbon Markets and How they Work with Matt Smith from Finite Carbon 28.10.2022 47:47

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 63. 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. What is carbon sequestration? Isn't it a scam? How does it wor...

#62 - Solving Fresh Food Inventory Management with Johannes from Afresh 25.10.2022 53:45

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 62. 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. How can we solve food waste at the grocer level? This is the key th...

#61 - Mineral Availability, Sustainable Mining, & ClimateTech Supply Chain Challenges w/ Nick Rohleder 10.10.2022 57:48

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 61. 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 conversation is with Nicholaus Rohleder. Nick does many t...

#60 - Breakthrough Energy's Bet on Green Steel w/ Adam Rauwerdink (Boston Metal) 22.09.2022 36:02

#60 - Cleaning up Steel Production with Boston Metal's Adam Rauwerdink Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 60. 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 w...

#59 - Going Off the Grid with Ben Parvey of OhmGrid 04.09.2022 1:00:16

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 59. ________ 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 we speak with Ben Parvey the CEO at OhmGrid...

#58 - The Future of Clean Energy, Materials/Mfg, & the Circular Economy with Author, Peter Leyden 26.08.2022 1:25:26

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 58. ______ 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. ______ This is a very special episode to me. Today we bring...

#57 - PropTech, Carbon Capture, and Soap with Jaeson Cardiff (CleanO2) 19.08.2022 1:03:12

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 57. _________ 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 Jaeson Cardif...

#56 - Solving Energy Demand Spikes of Increased Electrification with Rekha Sharma of Solv4X 12.08.2022 1:11:31

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 56. ___________ 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 Rekha Sha...

Helping Utilities Utilize Wasted Data with Sean Murphy of PingThings 22.07.2022 1:02:09

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...

#54 - Reducing the Cost of GreenHydrogen with Mariam Awara of Pulsenics 16.07.2022 52:54

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 54. ________ 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 Mariam Awara. Mariam i...

#53 - Incubating Early Stage CleanTech Companies - Jason Ethier of Greentown Labs 09.07.2022 57:22

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...

Solving Heat Loss on a City Scale with James Henry of MyHEAT 02.07.2022 55:50

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...

Carbon Offsets; an Investment not an Expense with Demian Klenk 26.06.2022 44:36

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,...

Climate-Conscious Investing with James Regulinski 22.06.2022 1:00:40

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...

#49 - Climate Conscious Real Estate with Michael Beckerman of CRETECH 18.06.2022 56:44

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...

#48 - Real Estate and ESG with Fulya Kocak Gin (Nareit) 15.06.2022 49:40

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...

The Current and Future State of the ESG Software Space w/ Sondra Tosky 11.06.2022 50:44

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...

#46 - Intro to and Philosophy of ESG, Ethical Profit, Harmony Driven Career Paths 04.06.2022 57:26

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...

#45 - IoT's Role in Helping Solve Climate Change (WattIQ) 14.05.2022 57:25

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...

#44 - The Lowest Cost Energy: Concentrated Solar Power 17.04.2022 59:22

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...

#43 - A Deep Dive Into the Grid, the Intermittency Problem, & Where do We go from Here 13.04.2022 1:01:33

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...

#42 - What is a Rolling Syndicate, Role of Gov in Climate, Role of Blockchain in ClimateTech 09.04.2022 59:28

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...

Charging Software, The Future of EV Charging, Education Bubble? w/ Zak Lefevre (ChargeLab) 02.04.2022 56:09

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...

#40 - Residential Energy Usage and Grid Flexibility w/ Aaron Berndt (Google Nest) 28.03.2022 48:52

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...