#52 — DeepDive — The Brand New World of Climate Tech — Gustaf Alströmer & Diego Saez-Gil

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Companies mentioned:

• Nori - https://nori.com/
• Indigo - https://www.indigoag.com/
• Joro - https://joro.tech/
• LiveGreen - https://livegreen.io/
• Sinai Technologies - https://www.sinaitechnologies.com/
• Project Wren - https://projectwren.com/
• Prometheus Fuels - https://www.sciencemag.org/
• Solugen - https://www.solugentech.com/
• C16 Bio - https://www.c16bio.com/
• Heart Aerospace - https://heartaerospace.com/
• Wright Electric - https://weflywright.com/
• Drawdown - https://www.drawdown.org/
• Y Combinator Carbon RFS - http://carbon.ycombinator.com/
• Watershed Climate
• OpenOcean

Today's episode is another deep dive into a brand new space that actually has a *lot* going on already. Though it's a very recently coined term, “Climate Tech” is going to be here for a while. I’m joined by Gustaf Alströmer, a partner at Y Combinator, and Diego Saez-Gil, the founder of Pachama.com.

There's Health Tech, FinTech, Ad Tech, Prop Tech and now there's Climate Tech — and these two individuals have helped pioneer this new space. We talk about why it’s happening now and what climate + technology will look like 5-10 years from now.

We also talk about whether or not it be like CleanTech that came in 15 years ago and went away almost as soon as it arrived. What makes Climate Tech different?

They also share about their paths from passion to profession within this realm — and discussed the early days of people thinking, in Diego's case, that his idea was basically a nonprofit (and not a very fundable business). Or thinking that this space was too complicated and too big to try and tackle with a small team of dedicated founders.

We talk about all of these and more, and I'm really excited about this deep dive into this brand new space of climate tech.

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