We chatted with Kathy Hannun (President & Co-founder) and Michael Sachse (CEO) of Dandelion Energy about how they turned a moonshot idea for geothermal heating and cooling into the most recent company to be backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. With 500+ home installations to date, Dandelion is powering grid resiliency Read more…
This week we sat down with James McGinniss, CEO and Co-Founder of David Energy, to learn more about distributed energy resources (DERs) and how David Energy plans to transform the Goliath electricity grid. Described by Bloomberg as “a new kind of energy company,” David Energy is a retail electricity supplier that Read more…
Ryan Shearman, Co-Founder; Daniel Wojno, Co-Founder This week we sat down with co-founders Ryan Shearman and Daniel Wojno and CMO Read more…
This week we “talked trash” with Matanya Horowitz, Founder of AMP Robotics, about his vision to transform material use and recycling through deep learning and robotics. AMP just announced its $55M Series B raise led by XN, and joined by GV, Valor Equity Partners and return backers Sequoia, Sidewalk Infrastructure Read more…
This week we sat down with Manik Suri and Aaron Cohen, founders of cold chain startup, Therma. Manik and Aaron are both impact-motivated, seasoned entrepreneurs who share a compelling and candid story about their pivot into the climate tech space after a lightbulb moment around energy and food waste. Read more…
Indra den Bakker, Founder and CEO of Overstory This week, we chatted with Indra den Bakker, who has developed a vegetation intelligence platform helping electric utilities, forestry companies, and NGOs mitigate wildfires and power outages. Overstory is an Amsterdam-based company that leverages machine-learning and satellite technology to identify Read more…
Naveen Sikka, Founder of TerViva Here at Climate Tech VC we’re big fans of natural solutions to climate change that, with a little scientific and business model enginuity, come out far ahead of their non-natural competition. TerViva has done just that. Rooted in the natural power of an ancient supertree, Read more…
We sat down with Himanshu Gupta, CEO and founder of ClimateAI to discuss the potential of applying AI to climate issues - and where AI is overhyped. ClimateAI brings climate forecasting and agronomics into the age of machine learning to address food system resiliency and ultimately increase farmer profitability. Read more…
We often talk of carbon as a nuisance, a negative dioxide externality that we accidentally produced too much of during the Industrial Era and now consciously continue to spew despite our relative climate enlightenment. What if that nuisance could be put to use making something valuable? The concept isn’t rocket Read more…
We sat down with Maria Fujihara, CEO and founder of SINAI Technologies to discuss her software solution to corporate carbon tracking and decarbonization. Maria founded SINAI in 2017, and two years later Alain Rodriguez, an early-stage Uber employee, joined as co-founder and CTO. Since then, SINAI has attained three significant Read more…