The Tech 4 Climate Podcast

Learn more about the power of “community” and how connecting with talented, like-minded individuals can drive innovations to accelerate the fight against climate change.  Candice Ammori Founder & Director, Climate Tech at On Deck - Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup BasecampPART 1: Meet the founder:During this new episode of our founder series, we are sitting down with Candice Ammori Founder & Director of the On Deck Climate Tech Fellowship (ODCT), a 10-week program for startup and climate experts building world-changing companies together. I was super excited to speak with Candice to learn more about her own incredible story and the work/life experience that led her to launch, in collaboration with Ondeck, the ODCT program. After completing the program myself, I have to say it is an incredible human experience that brings an average of 150 inspired individuals, such as investors, current or future entrepreneurs, people seeking to transition to the industry & climate experts from different backgrounds together into a supported community of talented peers.   During the show, we will learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the Climate Tech ecosystem today. Then, we will dive into the backstage of the ODCT program, how it works, the initial challenges, what’s next, and how you can get involved.  Finally, we will cover Candice’s view of the place for women in the CT ecosystem and her beliefs on the important role they have to play in the Fight against Climate Change. PART 2: My secret sauce:During the second part of the talk, Candice will share her secret sauce to founders seeking to build a successful community experience with some interesting advice based on her journey as a community leader.  🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive content & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp        👉  https://startupbasecamp.org/the-tech-4-climate-podcast/

Learn more about the state of Food Tech industry today and how its innovation can accelerate the fight against climate change.  Meet the Expert series: Chiara Cecchini: CEO & Co-Founder at Future Food Americas. Head of Innovation at Food for Climate League. Forbes 30U30 - Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup BasecampPART 1: Meet the founder:During this first episode of our Expert series, we are sitting down with Chiara Cecchini, CEO & Co-Founder at Future Food Americas, Head of Innovation at Food for Climate League & Forbes 30U30. Future Food America is the US entity of the Future Food Institute, an inclusive network and inspirational platform that is sparking exponential positive change in the global food system. I was super excited to speak with Chiara not only because of her incredible background at the intersection of food and technology but to learn more about how food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and what can be done to change this. During the show, we will learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the Foodtech industry,   how the big corporations are moving towards more sustainable productions and where investors should look for new investment opportunities. An exciting space where a lot of innovations are happening that could lead to changes with a big impact on the fight against the Climate Crisis.  PART 2: My secret sauce:During the second part of the talk, Chiara will share her secret sauce to founders on her successful public speaking experience at a Ted Conference with some interesting advice that can help you to become a better public speaker. Finally, we will conclude with her thoughts about the role that women can take in this ecosystem and in the light of climate change.🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️ 🌎Access to exclusive content & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp.

From her passion for Freeskiing to working at McKinsey and launching the first B2B marketplace for sustainable packaging, discover the story of Karolina and Circulate.Ep.#19  Karolina Ling-Vannerus Founder & CEO @ Circulate - Tech4Climate Podcast by Startup basecampPART 1: Meet the founder:During this new episode of our Founder series, we are sitting down with Karolina Ling-Vannerus Founder & CEO @ Circulate, a B2B marketplace for sustainable packaging and a purchasing tool for European SMEs. They aim to be your partner in finding the very best packaging out there, that is good for your needs, your budget, and the planet. I was excited to speak with Karolina and learn more about her beginnings as a consultant at McKinsey, her passion for free ski, nature, friends & wine, and the succession of life experiences that led her to the launch of Circulate. You will discover the booming sustainable packaging Landscape today (Est. B100+ USD in the EU only), how traditional packaging is contributing to 61% of plastic waste in the environment,  what's happening in the industry, and then go deeper into their unique solution to help SME’s access better packaging alternatives. Finally, Karolina will share the next steps necessary to achieve their vision and how you can get involved in the process.   PART 2: My secret sauce: (AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS ONLY=> More info on our site)During the second part of the talk,  Karolina will give her secret sauce for early-stage founders looking to fundraise. Finally, she will share her own work-life balance tips for founders and her thoughts on the incredible role women are and will continue to have, in the climate change fight.🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive contents & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp

From a Blog Post to "The" ClimateTech Newsletter reference! Discover the story of ClimateTech VC co-founders. Ep.#18  Sophie Purdom Co-founder @ ClimateTech VC - Tech4Climate Podcast by Startup basecampPART 1: Meet the Investor:In today’s episode, we are speaking with Sophie Purdom,  Co-founder @ ClimateTech VC, Climate tech investor, operator, and author. ClimateTech VC is “The” weekly newsletter on climate and innovation read by more than 15k investors, entrepreneurs, and network shapers. Their mission is to bring you perspective on the evolving world of climate tech by interviewing top investors & operators and covering recent venture deals, news, and jobs with their recently launched job board.  I was excited to have Sophie on the show and learn more about how she teamed up in March 2020 with Kim Zou, who originally started CTVC as a blog, and how together they built a fast-growing ClimateTech readers base. They serve their readers consistently with high-value content, tons of emojis and are constantly listening to their audience's feedback to improve their work with a product-focused approach.   Sophie will share her overview of the ClimateTech ecosystem today, where we are at, and what needs to happen to ensure the ClimateTech ecosystem can fully support the 2050 Net-Zero Goal. Then she will use her own investor experience and will share which sectors are the most promising today in terms of IMPACT/CASH Return (ICR), meaning the sectors building impactful companies while creating a highly profitable business. Finally, Sophie will share a few words about what she would say to people feeling doomed by the current Climate Crisis situation. Then we will conclude with what’s next for CTVC and how you can be involved in their initiatives today.  Part 2: My secret sauce:In the second part of the show, Sophie will give her secret sauce for founders seeking to fundraise, as well as her insights on how to maintain a healthy work-life balance as a founder and an investor. Finally, she will share her thoughts on the incredible role women are and will continue to have, in the climate change fight.🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive contents & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp

From Burningman to writing a book, and dedicating his whole career to supporting ClimateTech founders, discover the unique story and insights from Ryan Kushner. Ep.#17  Ryan Kushner Co-founder and Director of Startups @ Third Derivative   - Tech4Climate Podcast by Startup basecampPART 1: Meet the investor:In today’s episode, we are speaking with Ryan Kushner, Co-founder, and Director of Startups @ Third Derivative, a joint venture of RMI and New Energy Nexus. Third Derivative (D3) is a vertically integrated engine built to accelerate the rate of climate innovation. They uniquely combine a next-generation accelerator, committed venture capital network, a curated ecosystem of global corporations, and unparalleled market, regulatory, and policy insights.I was excited to have Ryan on the show and learn more about his unique story that began with working in the weed industry and being a long time “burner”, to how he jumped into Climate Tech, wrote a book, and launched 3 Derivative, which regularly gives away their curriculum and investors list to help others create a structure to support founders fighting Climate Change.Ryan will share his overview of the ClimateTech ecosystem today, where we are at, and what needs to happen to ensure the ClimateTech ecosystem can fully support the 2050 Net-Zero Goal. He will cover in detail how they select and support founders by finding, funding, and helping scale the most promising technologies to achieve larger, faster reductions in global carbon emissions.Finally, Ryan will share how they evaluate impact in companies they support with their programs and how you can be involved in their initiatives today.  Part 2:My secret sauce:In the second part of the show, Ryan will give his secret sauce for founders seeking to fundraise. Then, Ryan will cover the challenges that he sees for ClimateTech teams seeking to scale and go global. Finally, he will give his insights on how he maintains a healthy work-life balance as a father and an investor.🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive content & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp 

From building their 1st prototype in their backyard, getting the SF bomb squad sent by the neighbors and being backed by YC and Lower Carbon Capital, discover how Noya is using existing “boring” cooling towers to capture tons of C02.  Ep.#16  Meet the founder series: Josh Santos, Co-founder, and CEO at Noya PART 1: Meet the founder:During this new episode of our Founder series, we are sitting down with Josh Santos, Co-founder, and CEO at Noya, which has developed an exciting and affordable CO2 capture process that utilizes existing industrial equipment, such as “boring” cooling towers to pull CO2 out of the air. Noya then takes the CO2 pulled from the atmosphere and re-packages it for sale to industrial CO2 consumers. I was super excited to speak with Josh and learn more about his story which started at Tesla and Harley Davidson and led to the launch of Noya. You will discover with Josh the Direct Air Capture Tech Landscape today, what's happening in the industry, and then go deeper into their unique and affordable process which opens the road to scale DAC tech- one of the key technologies in the fight against Climate Change. Finally, Josh will share the next steps necessary to achieve their growth and how you can get involved in the process.   PART 2: My secret sauce:During the second part of the talk,  Josh will give his secret sauce for early-stage founders looking to fundraise with famous investors as Lower Carbon Capital or MCJ collective. Finally, he will share some key advice on how to join YC  and his own work-life balance tips for founders.   🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎

Learn how their  unique open-source machine learning models can incentivise better land use management contributing to solve ecological collapse at a global level. PART 1: Meet the founder:During this new episode of our Founder series, we are sitting down with Troy Carter Founder and CEO @ Earthshot Labs, an open-source community developing the first, unified land use model for landowners, investors, and policy makers to scale regenerative land management globally and tackle the ongoing ecological collapse. I was super excited and intrigued to learn more about Earthsholabs and their open source community of engineers who gathered together in a quest to build the most advanced machine learning model, using data available from satellite imagery, on the ground observations, and others data sources to measure and map the various ecosystems around the world. A perfect example of how Tech can bring an edge  never seen before in the fight against Climate Change and environmental collapse. On top of the technological and scientific rigor applied by the people involved, the project is also led by deep “selfullness” and love given that its co-founders first met at a spiritual retreat in Hawaii. During the show we will learn more about what's next for Earthshot labs in terms of development, financing models and how you can collaborate with them today.PART 2: My secret sauce:During the second part of the talk,Troy will share his secret sauce from his fundraising experience as a ClimateTech entrepreneur and their innovative investment structure using a rolling SAFE note that is tokenized with an Ethereum-based smart contract. Finally, we will conclude with his view on how to keep a good work-life balance whilst being a founder.🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive contents & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp.   

Good for your financial returns, good for the planet. Discover a new way to put your money to work for the climate while increasing your odds of making significant returns. PART 1: Meet the founder:During this new episode of our Founder series, we are sitting down with Jacqueline van den Ende , Co-founder at Carbon Equity a new climate investing platform for alternative investments including a.i. Venture Capital, Private Equity and Real Estate Classes. One aspect all these classes have in common is that they are direct/primary investments into climate technology. In this way, Carbon Equity guarantees true and direct climate impact, while increasing your odds of generating attractive financial returns on the private market. I was super excited to have Jacqueline on the show as she is a fellow of the Ondeck’s ClimateTech program and her entrepreneurial story is more than exciting. You will learn how “adventure and freedom” are the drivers in her life that brought her to launch projects in the Philippines and the EU, as well as gaining experience in Private Equity right out of college. She will share her journey and the “Why” that brought her to devote her life to solving  Climate challenges by building new investments opportunities. Jacqueline will also give you an interesting view on how the financial market can contribute to the “net zero”, the challenges and opportunities of launching carbon equity, and how you can help her to grow the company right away. PART 2: My secret sauce:During the second part of the talk,  Jacqueline will give her secret sauce for early-stage founders looking to fundraise. She will share advice on how to overcome some of the early-stage challenges and her work-life balance tips for founders.  Finally, she will share with you her view on the opportunities that the ClimateTech ecosystems present today.  🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive content & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp 

“It takes a village to empower founders tackling Climate Change”. Discover how Elemental Excelerator is bringing an enormous contribution into it. Part 1: Meet the Investor:In today’s episode, we are speaking with Kim Baker, Director of Innovation at Elemental Excelerator, a global program supporting early stage Climate Tech founders. I was excited to have Kim on the show and learn more about how the all Elemental team is on a mission to redesign the systems at the root of climate change. So far they invested in over 100 growth-stage companies and celebrated more than a dozen exits, funded more than 70 technology projects, and built a platform for scaling equitable, market-driven solutions to climate change. Kim will share with you her overview of the ClimateTech ecosystems today, Where we are at and what needs to happen to ensure the ClimateTech ecosystems can fully support the 2050 Net Zero Goal. She will cover with you in detail how Elemental selects and supports founders with their different initiatives in place.Finally, Kim will  share how they evaluate impact in companies they support with their programs.  Part 2: My secret sauce:In the second part of the show, Kim will give her secret sauce for founders seeking to fundraise. Then, Kim will cover the challenges that she sees for ClimateTech teams seeking to scale and go global. Finally she will give her insights on how she maintains a healthy work life balance as a mother, an investor and or founder.🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️  🌎Access to exclusive contents & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp

From Agricultural Waste to Plastic-Alternative Biomaterials seeking to solve one of the most pressing issues for our planet today.PART 1: Meet the founder:During this new episode of our Founder series, we are sitting down with  Robert Luo , Founder & CEO at Mi Terro®/ Forbes 30 Under 30 Scholar/ GreenBiz 30 Under 30 and winner of the Startup basecamp Global online ClimateTech Pitch competition last June. I was excited to have Rob on the show as he is an incredible serial entrepreneur who is now tackling the enormous problems presented by conventional plastics, one of the most pressing issues for our planet today.  Mi Terro’s unique proprietary tech allows agricultural waste to be upcycled into compostable biomaterials to replace plastic and paper for food, fashion & packaging. We will cover the unique journey of the company and the potential that it presents in terms of market and impact opportunities. Finally, we will speak about the exciting future of the company which just started a pilot with Budweiser china.  PART 2: My secret sauce:During the second part of the talk,  Rob will give his secret sauce for early-stage founders looking to fundraise. He will share advice on how to unlock big partners while being an early-stage company, and his work-life balance tips for founders.  Finally, he will share with you his view on the opportunities that the ClimateTech ecosystems represent today.  🚨 OUR COMMITMENT🚨When we reach 1000 subscribers we will plant 1000 trees with our Partners.🌱Help us to reach this 1st goal.Share 1 episode with a friend.❤️ 🌎Access to exclusive contents & learn more about Tech 4 Climate Podcast by Startup Basecamp 👉 https://startupbasecamp.org/the-tech-4-climate-podcast/