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, you can fund those projects and they can contribute to your net zero strategy. In a way, it's like planting a tree, but instead of planting a tree, you're actually funding the deployment of a heat pump or of a battery that can help provide the grid with clean energy at the time that is actually needed.

WattCarbon recently raised $4.5M in Seed funding, in a round led by True Ventures, with participation from Village Global, Jetstream, Not Boring Capital, Keiki Capital, Rick Stratton, Chris Vargas, Greensoil PropTech Ventures, Nexus Labs, and Andrew Karsh.

WattCarbon is going after the building sector emissions, which represent up to 40% of total emissions, when you look at the consumption of buildings and CO2 emission associated with them. So this is a very exciting discussion.

We go deep into the architecture of these markets with McGee, who has multiple climate tech startup experiences under his belt.

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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 greenhouse gas emissions and are one of the hardest sectors of the economy to decarbonize. The current plan for these industries relies heavily on Carbon Capture and Storage, a technology that will take decades to scale and increases the cost of these fundamental materials by as much as 60%. Carbon Re’s platform, in contrast, is already reducing emissions today, cuts the cost of production, and requires no new equipment.

CarbonRe recently raised a £4.2M seed round from Planet A Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, UCL Technology Fund and Cambridge Enterprise.

I hope you enjoy my discussion with Sherif Elsayed-Ali.

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 energy source directly embedded in their house - instead of mounting unattractive looking solar panels on top of the tiles.

Their solution has been successful in places you might not immediately connect with sunlight - Sweden, Norway, Germany and Poland. It’s been proven to provide enough power for people to support their entire energy consumption, and even generate a surplus.

The company went from 10 employees in early 2020 to 130 employees at the end of 2022 and just raised €15M in a new round of funding. By the way, last time I checked, they’re looking for a COO to strengthen the top management team as they expand to new markets.

Listen to this episode to figure out how the team at Sunroof is rewriting the rules of an industry that has not been reinvented for a long time. And stay until the end to hear the learnings Lech draws from this experience and the previous one in online delivery startups, which can help you as a founder, investor or business operator in the Climate Tech space.

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I hope you enjoy my discussion with Lech Kaniuk.