The Climate Pioneers Show

Linus Larsson Green is the co-founder and CEO of PulPac, a Swedish deep-tech company pioneering dry moulded fibre, a breakthrough manufacturing technology that turns cellulose pulp into packaging and single-use products that can fully replace plastic. Every year, we produce more than 400 million tons of plastic, with a huge chunk of that used just once but PulPac are tackling that problem head on…...

Today, I’m speaking with Armando Leal Puente, co-founder and managing director of Eutechtics, a deep-tech startup based in Sheffield, that’s taking on one of the biggest challenges in climate and industry - decarbonising the chemical supply chain. Eutechtics has built a platform called EvoCarbon, which turns captured CO₂ into valuable chemical building blocks - things like carboxylic acids that go...

Fabien Koutchekian is the co-founder and CEO of Genomines, a start-up pioneering the extraction of nickel from the ground. Instead of bulldozers and explosives, Genomines uses genetically enhanced plants, called hyperaccumulators, to pull nickel out of the soil. The result is a process that could deliver battery-grade metal with a fraction of the environmental footprint of traditional mining. With...

Margaux Peltier is the co-founder and CEO of Enerdrape, a Swiss startup turning underground infrastructure into renewable energy sources. From parking garages to metro tunnels, Enerdrape’s modular geothermal panels harness untapped subterranean heat to provide sustainable heating and cooling for buildings without disruptive drilling or invasive construction. Margaux’s background in HVAC design and...

Dr. Avi Baruch is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Previsico. Spun out of almost 20 years of groundbreaking research at Loughborough University, the team has developed the Flood Intel Platform - the world’s first real-time, surface-water flood forecasting system. Their mission is to save millions of lives, whilst also helping governments and businesses to save billions on the cost of floodi...

Rozalie Ryclova-Pribadi is Chief Strategy Officer and a driving force at MaxInfo. The company uses advanced analytics to help their customers move from reacting to disasters to anticipating them. The Financial Times has said, ‘Extreme weather and climate change caused more financial damage in Europe between 2020 and 2023 than it did in the whole preceding decade', so we’re entering a new era where...

Fredrik Borgström is the CEO of Skyfora , a Finnish startup reinventing weather intelligence. Skyfora’s technology transforms cell towers into a dense network of atmospheric sensors, generating up to a thousand times more weather data than traditional systems. Combined with advanced AI models and ultra-light radiosondes, this approach promises faster, sharper forecasts for everything from disaster...

Jeremy Fain , CEO of Blue Water Intelligence joins me for this episode. After a decade leading SaaS companies, Jeremy shifted his focus to climate and water technology, co-founding BWI to help governments, hydropower operators, insurers and communities forecast and manage water risks in a changing climate. Water is arguably our most critical and increasingly unpredictable resource and BWI is at th...

For the first episode of this series I am joined by Harish Pesala , the co-founder and CEO of SmartResilience , a climate analytics platform helping organisations predict, prepare for, and reduce the impact of extreme weather and other physical risks. Harish launched SmartResilience to close a critical gap between climate science and real-time decision-making. The company has won Innovate UK’s You...

As the CEO and Founder of AirEx, Agnes Czako is spearheading the mission of the company - fighting the dual challenges of fuel poverty and climate change.  AirEx is a London-based climate tech company developing smart home solutions that reduce heat demand in buildings. They are disrupting the building retrofit market by providing a connected-homes solution with technology that’s simple to in...

Camilla Taylor is CFO of SatVu . She holds a degree in Biological Sciences from Oxford University, a master's in Environmental Economics, and an MBA from Columbia and London Business Schools. This academic background provides the ideal foundation for her work at the intersection of environmental sustainability and financial strategy. Camilla’s extensive experience of securing funding and scaling c...

Bill Yost is Co-founder and CEO at Reclinker (formerly Cambridge Electric Cement). For more than 25 years, Bill has supported early-stage companies spanning hydrogen generation, water treatment, thermal storage and the recycling of carbon fibre, to bring climate solutions to market. For series nine of the Climate Pioneers Show, we're hearing founder and senior leader stories from across climate te...

Thomas Farquhar is the CCO at Heatio , a UK-based clean technology company founded in 2020, focused on developing innovative solutions for home energy management to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in residential properties.  Their mission is to accelerate the transition to sustainable home heating by making it easier and more cost-effective for homeowners to adopt low-ca...

For series 9 of the Climate Pioneers Show, we're hearing founder stories from across climate tech. We'll be chatting about the highs, the lows, fundraising, commercialising, scaling, building teams and more. We're kicking things off with Chris Jackson, founder and CEO at Protium, where they're developing sustainable green energy projects for UK clients to help them achieve their Net Zero emissions...

Elbow Beach is an early-stage climate tech VC. They help to unlock technologies, solve big problems and transform industries. To date, they have made 20 investments. JP co-founded Elbow Beach in 2021 and is CEO. With over 20 years’ experience in large telecoms and tech companies, he brings deep operational experience to commercialise technology. He transitioned into climate tech investing, combini...

Angel investor, James Manktelow, has invested in 25 climate startups since 2019 via Green Angel Syndicate . He focuses on accelerating the growth of IP-based startups that develop solutions to climate change. The syndicate at Green Angel is the largest in the UK with a climate focus; it has over 350 members and has invested in over 45 startups and early-stage companies across ten different economi...

Eric Kohlmann is a partner at Climate First , a VC firm established in 2023. It has since grown to not only invest in technologies that will disrupt highly emitting, multi-billion dollar industries; but has also become an official nominator for Prince WIlliam’s Earthshot Prize, offers programs that provide knowledge, know-how, and mentorship, and they run an exclusive roadshow in London to cultiva...

Kate Ronayne is a deep tech climate investor from BGF . She particularly enjoys drawing on her time leading commercialisation activities from UK national laboratories to find, validate and back teams who are using exciting science to solve big challenges. BGF invests in small to mid-sized UK businesses. As the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, they back a wide variety of ventures...

Chloe Coates is a research and analysis lead at Zero Carbon Capital . As well as her work at Zero Carbon, Chloe has hosted sessions at The Drop, been featured by ClimateHack and was a judge at the 2024 Global Challenge Lab Demo Day. Zero Carbon support companies working to solve the biggest challenges of decarbonisation with pre-seed and seed investments in ambitious teams building hard-science so...

Founder and managing partner of Greencode Ventures , Dr. Terhi Vapola . Along with her team in Helsinki, Greencode invest in digital-first early-stage green transition startups across Europe. They have a particular interest in green energy, mobility, built environment and green industries. Founded in 2022, Greencode’s investments include renewable energy startup, Synergi, green hydrogen software s...

Jeremy Brown is an Investment Principal from Anthemis Capital . Jeremy is head of climate strategies and focuses on seed to Series C investments across Europe and the USA. With a keen interest in the intersection of climate and fintech, Anthemis is the perfect home for Jeremy, as they support pre-seed to growth-stage companies that embed finance in their products, services and operations. During t...

Arjun Jairaj is an investor with noa VC . The team at noa are building Europe’s largest tech fund dedicated to transforming the built world. They invest in pioneering founders and breakthrough technologies that decarbonise the built world. During this series of bite-sized episodes, I’ll be speaking to investors from across the climate ecosystem to get their reflections on 2024, insights about the...

Stuart Ferguson is an investor with Sustainable Ventures , who as well as offering investment to earth-saving startups, also operate two co-working spaces in London and Manchester, with sole focus on climate tech. In fact, we here at Above & Beyond use their London space regularly.  Stuart is particularly passionate about early stage investing and loves working with new entrepreneurs to h...

Roberta Franchi is an investment associate at Counteract . Counteract is a carbon removal company combating the climate crisis through research, development and investment. They give engineer and scientist entrepreneurs the financial and strategic support to turn fresh ideas into self-sustaining businesses with the potential to capture or store greenhouse gases at a global scale. During this serie...

Establishing a culture where team members can thrive is vital, but with the move towards hybrid and remote work over the last few years, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start when people aren’t spending as much time with each other.   Geraldine Butler-Wright is a chief people officer with far-reaching experience across multiple areas of tech, international businesses and in both sta...