Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 69. 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 are joined by David Welch the Bureau Chief at Bloomberg News in Detroit to discuss his new book, Charging Ahead. The book is generally about how Mary Barra rose to b...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 68. 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 are joined by Celyn Brown and Kristen Castell to discuss what ShareChange is doing in the Micro Finance space. This conversation spans broadly across what ShareChang...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 68
Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 67. 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 Tucker Perkins who is the President and CEO of the Propane Education & Research Council (aka PERC) and we discussed Renewable Propane. Broadly speakin...
Nov 12, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 66. 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 are joined by Greg Fasullo from Elevation. They are helping holistically transform residential energy usage. They do 3 things primarily. Help visualize energy usage ...
Nov 08, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 65. 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 are speaking with Eddy Badrina the CEO of Eden Green Technologies. Eden is a vertical farming technology company that is, currently, focused on the growing of lettuc...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 65
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 Mammadov discussing how he and his team at BERKM Inc are helping reduce plastic usage through their innovative tech...
Nov 01, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 64
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 work? Who decides the price? We cover these and more questions about the carbon sequestration and carbon markets sp...
Oct 28, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 63
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 thing we discuss in this episode with Johannes Olejnik from Afresh. Afresh is helping solve the problem with ...
Oct 25, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 62
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 things, including teaching at Columbia and running Climate Commodities (a commodity trading and logistics co...
Oct 10, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 61
#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 we can. Today we are speaking with Adam Rauwerdink the Sr VP of Business Development at Boston Metals, a Breakt...
Sep 22, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 60
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. Where they are helping residential customers get off the grid, they do this through a model where they ef...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 59
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 you a conversation with Peter Leyden who has spent his career figuring out the future. He started his caree...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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 Cardiff in a very exciting discussion about how they are capturing carbon through their Boiler system technology and t...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 57
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 more electrification permeated the grid. That experience led her to seek a solution which is what she's doi...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 56
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 things is, in technical terms, the world's fastest nanosecond-precise time series analysis and AI platform. ...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 55
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 industrial processes. Today our conversation largely revolved around how they are helping significantly redu...
Jul 16, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 54
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 is the Sr Director of Membership at Greentown Labs. Greentown is an in-person CleanTech incubator with locations ...
Jul 09, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 53
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 Growth and Sustainability at MyHEAT. MyHEAT is a Calgary-based Energy Software Startup. They have a technology that ...
Jul 02, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 52
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, Co-Founder of 6c-Index, where they are building an index fund of Carbon projects that are tied to the blockchain ...
Jun 26, 2022•45 min•Season 5Ep. 51
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 glad to help in any way we can. ____________________________________________________ Today's episode is with ...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 50
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. What it can be. The tech out there to solve the problems. The talent shortage. Education. The role of gover...
Jun 18, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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 incredible impact on the industry no doubt. In today's conversation, we had the chance to go into detai...
Jun 15, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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 market will be and how things will be divided. We also discussed the intersection of ESG and Blockchain....
Jun 11, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 47
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 Supply chain and S Behavioral change to create true change Disconnectedness from the supply chain Deep dive ...
Jun 04, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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 IoT and our usual lines of questions plus a few new ones. Below you can find a general log of topics i...
May 14, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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 covers their technology, many of John's thoughts about the future of the grid, and resiliency, and then we...
Apr 17, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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 major challenges facing the grid currently some of the potential solutions going forward Bhaskar's predictions...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 crisis we should be investing in these technologies since they are better anyways. From reducing costs t...
Apr 09, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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 demand as well as other features to even off charging time during heavy usage. In addition, they are ...
Apr 02, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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 the Google Nest product and its particulars and went through a number of other topics around education and re...
Mar 28, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 40
