In this episode, you are going to learn about a company building a marketplace to help building owners get to net zero by helping them measure their energy footprint, and fund certified energy efficiency projects through a marketplace. WattCarbon is a San Francisco based company that focuses on building a clean energy platform that connects organization to carbon free distributed energy resources. On their marketplace, you can access a wide range of procurement options, including renewable energy demand response and electrification projects. As a building owner or really as an organization ..read more

In this episode, you are going to learn about a company applying Artificial Intelligence to some of the most polluting industries in the planet, cement, stell and glass manufacturing. Thanks to AI, they help reduce fuel consumption and Co2 emissions of cement manufacturers. My guest today is Sherif Elsayed-Ali. Sherif is a civil engineer by background and was previously working for a large AI company where he set up an AI for climate practice focusing on monitoring climate signals from space. Energy-intensive industries, such as cement, steel and glass, account for over 20% of global greenho ..read more

In this episode, you are going to learn about a company reinventing our roofs, and turning them into a source of energy by installing solar-powered roofs and innovative façades that generate electricity without having to install traditional photovoltaic modules. My guest today is Lech Kaniuk. Lech is a repeat entrepreneur who first founded OnlinePizza in Poland. This became part of Delivery Hero who IPO’ed in 2017. After the IPO, Lech was on a trip to the Canary Islands with his brother and they saw the potential for turning roofs into a source of energy and providing homeowners with a clean e ..read more

My guest today is Mark De Santis. Nicolas is the CEO of Bloomfield Robotics. Bloomfield is a company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that develops a technology enabling specialty crop growers - like wine - to monitor the health of their plants on a plant by plant basis - something that is not possible when monitoring with drones. Building a digital image of the crops enables growers to make more precise decisions when it comes to irrigation, fertilizer application, and other plant management decisions. In this episode, we're going to talk about how precision technology is changing agricultu ..read more

My guest today is Nicolas Höning. Nicolas is the co-founder of Seita. Seita is a company based in the Netherlands, Seita aims to help companies bring more energy flexibility to their energy systems by developing an open source software that takes data feeds from weather patterns, from energy prices, and from energy consuming assets to produce a schedule saying what is best to consume electricity in the following day to minimize your CO2 footprints and your costs. In this episode, we're going to talk about the data infrastructure in which Seita are bringing their solutions and the challenges th ..read more

My guest today is Beeri Amiel. Beeri is the co-founder and CEO of Continue AI. Set up between New York and Tel Aviv, Continue AI is provider of a sustainability intelligence platform that enables Fortune 500 organisations to build roadmaps and provide recommended actions to empower them to make data-driven decisions to achieve their goals. The use of ESG frameworks has rapidly gained momentum helping companies manage sustainability issues. However, there is too much data to process, and companies lack the technology to make sense of internal and external data, and make informed decisions. Ther ..read more

My guest today is Laurent Barbezieux. Laurent is the co-founder of Aktio. Aktio is a company based out of Paris, France that delivers carbon accounting software and services to medium-sized companies in France and Europe. Carbon accounting software has been a very hot area of VC investment in the climate tech space this year and we dive into this today. We meet with Laurent to discuss the drivers of adoption of such solutions, the complexity of bringing internal data into one place such that an organisation can reasonably assess how much there carbon footprint and where it comes from, and the ..read more

What would you guess if I asked you what percentage of all textiles gets recycled and fed back into making new clothes, today? If you guessed 1%, you are right. I think that is a shockingly low number. Today we showcase a company working on solving this problem. My guest today is Erik Koep. Erik is the CEO of Worn Again Technologies. Based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom, Worn Again Technologies has developed a technology that recaptures raw materials from non-reusable products such as textiles and polyester bottles and packaging, to produce dual PET and cellulose outputs, thereby putting ..read more

My guest today is Neil D'Souza.  Neil is the founder and CEO of Makersite. A Stuttgart, Germany-based data and software technology company that builds supply chain digital twins to interrogate and improve products across multiple criteria including cost, compliance, risk and sustainability. In simple terms, Makersite customers are large manufacturing organizations, and Makersite collects, organizes, and enriches the data about their supply chain to create a digital twin of their supply chain, and to simulate the impacts coming from making a product with one material instead of another, or ..read more

My guest today is Katharina Unger.  Katharina is the Founder and CEO of Livin Farms. A Vienna, Austria-based developer of technologies for alternative insect protein production, Livin Farms has developed an offering that enables food producers to convert the waste from their food production process into insect-based proteins, that can then be fed to animals, reducing the footprint of animal feed by 90%. Livin Farms recently raised a €6M Series A from angel investor Peter Luerssen. A industrial designer by background, raised in a family of farmers, Katharina started Livin Farms ten years a ..read more