The Climate Cycle

Marc-André Forget is the founder and CEO of dcbel , a startup transforming our relationship with energy at home. dcbel enables homeowners to easily manage their solar, EV charging, and battery storage, integrating them into their intelligent home energy system - Ara. dcbel recently secured a $55 million funding round led by the Canada Growth Fund, and is now deploying dcbel across North America an...

Mike Kelland is the co-founder and CEO of Planetary , a carbon removal startup that’s aiming to draw down gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by accelerating the ocean’s natural, carbon absorbing abilities. While the world urgently needs to reduce the amount of carbon pollution going into the atmosphere, it’s also becoming clear that we need to remove our historic emissions if we want to limi...

At this year’s Carbon Removal Day in Ottawa, we caught up with experts working across the life cycle of carbon removal to discuss the state of carbon removal, keys to scaling up, and Canada’s leadership potential. Our Guests [0:54] Phil De Luna is the Chief Science & Commercial Officer at Deep Sky , a project developer and owner-operator of carbon removal projects. [7:12] Carson Fong is a Prog...

Matt Loszak is the co-founder and CEO of Aalo Atomics , a company building factory mass-manufactured nuclear power plants, purpose built for AI data centres. The explosive growth of AI is driving up data centre energy consumption, and big tech players are looking for reliable, low-carbon energy sources to step up. Aalo’s small, modular reactor systems are purpose built for the needs of data centre...

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Christine Gabardo , co-founder and CTO of CERT Systems , a climate tech startup working to produce essential chemicals without fossil fuels. CERT's technology takes CO2 from industrial carbon capture systems and turns it into sustainable, high value chemicals like ethylene using water and electricity. The CERT team brings decades of experience in electrochemis...

Our guest today is Rashmi Prakash , founder of Aruna Revolution . Aruna is a sustainable fibre company making compostable menstrual pads that are better for our bodies and the planet. We talk about the intersection of climate and human health, how they’re turning agricultural byproducts like stems into sustainable, high performance fibres, and Rashmi’s journey from medical engineer to startup foun...

In today’s episode, we’re diving into the world of commercial building retrofits. We're joined by Christopher Naismith , founder and CEO of Audette , a decarbonization platform for commercial real estate asset managers. Audette enables retrofits at scale by bringing data and software to what has traditionally been a manual, building-by-building process, turning it into a data-driven strategy and w...

In this episode, we dive into the complex world of climate risk and how it's reshaping global financial markets. Our guest is Dr. Ron Dembo, founder and CEO of RiskThinking. AI . RiskThinking. AI leverages their digital twin of the Earth to offer the only probability-based, integrating different climate scenarios, expert insights, and millions of data points to measure and model climate financial...

Aaron Guan is the founder of Neptune Nanotechnologies , a bio-nano material startup that is converting crab and other crustacean shells from the seafood industry into nano-material additives. These additives can dramatically increase the strength, water resistance and fire retardancy of paper packaging and other materials so that they can compete in areas where plastics have historically won out -...

Benoit Lacroix is the co-founder and CEO at ReliON , a Reliability-as-a-Service startup offering an end-to-end experience for charging operators from problem detection to resolution. In our conversation, we talk about why these charging issues exist in the first place, how they’re integrating a range of data points to better pinpoint charger issues and deploy the right resources for the job, and t...

In this episode of The Climate Cycle, we explore the world of public transit and its positive impact on our climate and communities. Our guest is Justin Hunt, co-founder and CEO at Blaise Transit. Blaise is a sustainable mobility technology provider whose objective is to improve the cost-efficiency, ridership, and coverage of transit services. Blaise’s flagship product is a universal software plat...

In this episode of The Climate Cycle we talk with Wayne McIntyre, founder and CEO of Relocalize . Relocalize is eliminating middle mile logistics with hyper-local food production, starting with the packaged ice industry. Transporting food produces about 3 gigatonnes of CO2 each every year. And while electrifying transport will play a huge rule in reducing those emissions, Wayne and the Relocalize...

In this episode of The Climate Cycle we sit down with Stephanie Lipp , co-founder and CEO of MycoFutures . MycoFutures is creating a new material for the fashion industry (and beyond) using mycelium, the root system of fungi. Their material is a leather alternative that is animal-free, plastic-free and non-toxic. Animal-based leathers contribute to a range of climate issues, from propping up the b...

In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Vida Gabriel , co-founder and COO of TerraFixing . TerraFixing has engineered the only Direct Air Carbon Capture (DAC) technology to capture CO2 in cold climates. Because of their unique cold climate technology, they enable northern mines and the underserved indigenous communities nearby to fully decarbonize and achieve energy independence. Dr. Vida Gabriel...

In this episode of The Climate Cycle, we're sharing a preview of our upcoming report on the state of VC funding for Canadian climate tech. It breaks down funding by industry, which investors and regions are the most active, and year-over-year changes in deal activity. We share three areas of climate tech that we’ve been following closely this year and that have been attracting investment dolla...

In this episode of The Climate Cycle, we sit down with Roya Aghighi and Sarah Graham , co-founders of Lite-1 . Lite-1 is using biomanufacturing to produce sustainable dyes from microorganisms, replacing the fossil fuel-based dyes and pigments used in many industries. Dyes are easy to overlook even though they’re right in front of us. But conventional versions are made from fossil fuels, contributi...

In this episode of the Climate Cycle, we talk to Jack Bruner , co-founder at Mammoth Climate . Mammoth empowers companies to achieve their climate goals by mobilizing the workforce. Mammoth's platform brings climate literacy and specific actions employees can take to reduce emissions into the workday, and helps sustainability teams align these efforts with the company’s specific emissions targ...

In this episode of The Climate Cycle, we sit down with ⁠Alex Todorovic⁠ , co-founder and CEO of ⁠Arbor⁠ , a carbon management platform. We talk about the challenges faced by companies around the world as they decarbonize their operations and Scope 3 emissions, and the regulatory pressures that are creating a sense of urgency in businesses. Alex shares the origins of Arbor from the early days at th...

Paul Sehr is the co-founder of Jouleia , a new home modernization platform. Paul started Jouleia after modernizing & electrifying his own home - and realizing just how complex it can be. Jouleia is modernizing homes for the electric age. Over 11 million Canadian homes require energy retrofits, covering everything from installing heat pumps to air sealing to improving insulation. Jouleia is sim...

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