Category Visionaries Kentaro Kawamori, CEO & Co-Founder of Persefoni: $114 Million Raised to Build the Climate Disclosure & Carbon Management Category
Mar 10, 2023
28:49
Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Kentaro Kawamori, CEO & Co-Founder of Persefoni, a climate disclosure and carbon management platform that’s raised over $114 Million in funding
Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:
- Growing up in a German agricultural community, where sustainability has always been synonymous with scarcity
- Kentaro’s career across the tech sector, from big enterprise players to the startup space
- The driving forces behind better carbon reporting, from regulators on one side and government regulators on the other
- Why carbon reporting remains really left behind when it comes to data integration, and how Persefoni is planning to change all that
- The complexity of contemporary supply chains and the real-world limitations of carbon footprint reporting confronting most firms
- Why Kentaro didn’t seek out typical Silicon Valley investors on board at the start of Persefoni’s journey
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