In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Anna Konstantinova about her advice to climate tech companies in relation to marketing and branding. Really helpful episode for our listeners from someone who has spent a lot of time helping founders and climate brands make their work digestible to the correct target audience.

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Topics:
**3:10 Intro & Career
**12:53 Why a Brand Matters
**17:54  How to Position Brand to People Uninterested in Climate Change
**26:36 Are There General Archetypes
**28:42 When to "Set" Brand
**31:32 Tips on Branding During Fundraise
**36:39 Personal Branding for Founder is Also Important
**43:03 When to Get Help to Pass the Plateau
**49:20 Hiring & Brand

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**Connect with Anna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaknova/
**AnnaKo.co
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
**Most Recent Episode: #127 Scalable Carbon Capture, Building as a Non-Deeptech Founder, Creative Business Models, & Navigating Funding Challenges w/ Luke Shors (Capture6)
**Similar Topic: #76 Endings, Endineering, Circular Economy, & the Customer Experience w/ Joe Macleod
**Something Totally #65 Different: Decentralizing Agriculture & Societal Resilience with Eddy from Eden Green Technologies

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**Learn about a new breakthrough carbon capture model 
**How you can build a deep tech company as a non-deep-tech founder
**How to raise from both public and private funding sources

Show Notes:
In this episode, Silas Mähner (@silasmahner) and Somil Aggarwal (@somilagg) interview Luke Shors, co-founder of Capture6. Capture6 is a direct air carbon capture company, applying its innovative technology and business model to revolutionize the way that carbon capture takes place. One of their claims to fame is their approach on being efficient with water usage and creating beneficial byproducts from their capture process. Luke himself is not a deep tech founder and shares great insights on how he navigated building a deep tech company in climate.

Overall, a super good episode packed full of insights.

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Topics:
**6:53 Starting as a public benefit company
**12:50 Being a climate founder without deeptech background**16:28 Capture6 differentiator**20:01 Economic advantage of direct air capture
**31:15 Price of Capture6's carbon
**36:11 GTM
**40:22 Messaging in public vs. private funding
**50:37 Advice for founders
**54:00 If he started a company today

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**Connect with Luke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-shors/
**Capture6: https://capture6.org
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**HMU on Twitter: @silasmahner, @somilagg

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**Most Recent Episode: #126 The Value-add of Specialist VCs, Engaging with Corporate Partners, Advice to Founders & Aspiring VCs, Defending Your Moat, & More with Grant Allen (SE Ventures)
**Similar Topic: From Restaurants to ClimateTech: Building a Carbon Capture Concrete Company w/ Tim Sperry (Carbon Limit)
**Something

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Why you should listen:

• Discover the role of Specialist VCs in climate change solutions with SE Ventures
• Learn about SE Ventures and its innovative climate and industrial tech investments
• Gain insights on collaboration with large companies and startup wisdom

 
In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Grant Allen, General Partner at SE Ventures. They are a uniquely positioned Specialist VC with a single LP, Schneider Electric. They function like a typical VC, with autonomy from Schneider Electric as a whole, but can also leverage Schneider's vast global network to add value beyond capital and help their portfolio companies to succeed.

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**SE Ventures: https://www.seventures.com/home.jsp
**Climate Capital Summit: https://www.climatecapitalsummit.com/
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**Follow CleanTechies on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-techies/
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
**Most Recent Episode: #125 Revolutionizing Heating and Cooling with Smart Radiators, Facing Rejection, and Building Hardware like Software with Marshall Cox (Kelvin)
**Similar Topic: #93 Hard Truths About VC, Raising Advice, & Small Fund Limitations w/ Susan Su (Toba Capital)
**Something Totally Different:

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In this episode, Somil Aggarwal (@somilagg) interviews Marshall Cox about his journey into being a climate tech founder, the impact of getting a Ph.D. on his journey, how he faced rejection, and how to build hardware like software.

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Key Topics:

• 6:00 Impact of PhD on Entrepreneurship
• 8:32 Radiators vs. smart radiators
• 13:59 Balancing impact vs. bottom-line
• 15:30 Fundraising History
• 18:27 Facing rejection
• 27:06 New vision for Kelvin & hurdles for implementation
• 38:56 Expanding into new hardware products
• 43:13 How to make building in hardware like building in software
• 44:59 Advice for founders

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 Links: 

• Connect with Marshall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallcox79/
•  Kelvin: https://kel.vin
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•  Follow CleanTechies on LinkedIn
•  HMU on Twitter: @Somil_Agg

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•  Similar Topic: From Harvard, to D.E. Shaw, to Obama Administration, to Refrigeration w/ Manik Suri (Therma)
•  Something Totally Different: Re-En

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In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) speaks with Tee Ganbold, the Co-Founder of OpenESG on what she's doing in the ESG tech space. 

They have created an incredible tool that operates like ChatGPT but is specifically designed and trained on corporate sustainability data. Instead of spending time researching a company's ESG data and commitments, you can simply ask OpenESG and you have detailed data at your fingertips, along the precise references to the underlying data. 

Tee has a great story coming from Mongolia, being raised in London, starting a few companies, living around the world, and now choosing to build OpenESG in NYC. 

We had a really great conversation so it's exciting to share it with you here today. 

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**OpenESG: https://www.openesg.com/
**Climate Capital Summit: https://www.climatecapitalsummit.com/ 
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**HMU on Twitter: @silasmahner

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Other episodes you might enjoy:
**Most Recent Episode: #123 Driving Adoption in Hard-to-Abate Sectors, Why Not an IP Play, Partnering w/ Large Corporates, Hiring PhDs, & More w/ Jeff Erhardt (Mattiq)
**Similar Topic: #47 The Current and Future State of the ESG Software Space w/ Sondra Tosky (Measurabl)
**Something Totally Different: #63 Carbon Markets and How they Work, Democratizing Forestry Carbon Credits, & More w/ Matt Smith (Finite Carbon)

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In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Jeff Erhardt from Mattiq.

Jeff had a ton of insights and we are glad to share them with you today.

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**Follow Mattiq: https://mattiq.com/
**Climate Capital Summit: https://www.climatecapitalsummit.com/ 
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**Follow CleanTechies on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-techies/
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**Most Recent Episode: #122 Offset Skepticism, Regulation Driving Demand, Sustainable Supply Chains, Content GTM Strategy, Climate Business Opportunities, & More w/ Saif Hameed (Altruistiq)
**Similar Topic: #113 Incubating Climate Risk / Insurance Solutions as Traditional Insurers Pull Back w/ Stephen Brittain (Insurtech Gateway)
**Something Totally Different: #99 Capturing Methane to Power Data Centers in Remote Areas w/ Andreas Lehner (PowerBlocks)

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In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Saif Hameed, the CEO and Founder of Altruistiq, a leading Carbon Emissions accounting software.

The conversation is full of insights because Saif has an incredible background, diverse career exposure, and a very good handle on the overall ESG & Sustainability space.

Some of the key topics are, how ESG is an incorrect usage of terminology, how Scope 1,2,3 emissions were created as frameworks for governments, the difficulty of deploying money into non-renewables climate solutions, and a lot more.

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Topics:
*13:27 ESG SaaS Breakdown
*23:12 Critique of Corporate Promises
*29:56  How CPGs Track Responsiveness
*39:13 Sustainability Product Demand Insights
*48:29 Advice to Founders
*54:27 GTM Advice
*1:01:15 Startup Ideas

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Links:
*Connect w/ Saif: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saifhameed/
*Follow Altruistiq: https://altruistiq.com/
*Climate Capital Summit: https://www.climatecapitalsummit.com/   
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*HMU on Twitter: @silasmahner

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*Most Recent Episode: #121 Size Matters...Fund Size, Re-industrializing the World, Hardware is NOT Hard, & More w/ Matt McGraw (Anthro Ventures)
*Similar Topic: How ESG Effects Design, ESG Reporting for RE Owners, Real Estate and ESG, and Sustainable Real Estate w/ Fuly

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In this episode Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Matt McGraw (@mjm11), Co-Founder and GP of Anthro Ventures.

In the ep we cover his story, their focus, why being a VC is a hard job, how ClimateTech is essentially re-industrializing the world & why that's a good thing, he offered his advice to founders, and we closed off by discussing the role of CT startups in the governance and ESG movement towards a more equitable future.

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Topics:
**2:42 Intro & Career Into VC
**12:41 Size Matters...Fund Size
**23:15 Job of a VC
**25:08 Anthro's Thesis
**39:22 Re-industrializing the World
**41:51 Advice to Founders
**48:19 Areas To Build In
**50:40 Blitz Scaling Conventional Industries
**55:34 Governance in Climate Startups

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Links:
**Connect w/ Matt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjm11/  | [email protected]
**Follow Anthro Ventures: https://anthro.ventures/
**Climate Capital Summit: https://www.climatecapitalsummit.com/ 
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**HMU on Twitter: @silasmahner

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Other episodes:
**Most Recent Episode: #120 Serial Entrepreneur Fundraising, the IRA & Home Electrification, IRA-Dependent Business Models, & More w/ Jeff Chapin (Haven Energy)
**Similar Topic: #116 Consultative VC, Understanding Customers (as a VC), Developing Industry Networks for Your PortCos, & More w/ Rick Zullo (Equal Ve

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In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Jeff Chapin, the Co-Founder of Haven Energy. We heard how he raised the funding for Haven with 2 pitches. He taught us how the IRA aids home electrification. His thoughts on building IRA-dependent businesses. We finish up with his advice to founders.

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Topics:
**1:03 Intro & Journey into Climate
**5:41 Hiring an outsider
**12:18 Advice to get going as a founder-to-be
**15:09 What Haven does
**26:40 Blue Collar Workers in Climate
**30:11 The Raising Process
**35:45 The IRA and Home Electrification
**48:34 Advice to Founders

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**Haven Energy: https://havenenergy.com/
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**Most Recent Episode: Partnering w/ Energy Majors in the Climate Revolution, Houston's Role in the Movement, Discovery Framework, & More w/ Eric Rubenstein (New Climate Ventures)
**Similar Topic: Electrifying Homes, Home Air-Quality & Health, Merging Blue & White Collar Talent w/ DR Richardson (Elephant Energy)
**Something Totally Different:

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In this episode Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) interviews Eric Rubenstein about his journey into climate tech, the importance of partnering with Energy Majors in the Climate Revolution, the role of Houston in that movement, Eric's discovery framework, and his ideal founder traits.

Overall, a super good episode packed full of insights.

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Topics:
**1:36 Intro & His Climate Journey
**9:42 DTD Challenges of Being a VC
**13:59 New Climate Ventures
**15:50 Their Verticals
**22:27 His Exp Raising the Fund
**30:41 Houston & The Climate Revolution
**39:30 Ideal Founder Traits

Advice Section
**46:19 Discovery Mindset Framework & Tactics
**50:32 VCs Required Value Props
**55:10 Fundraising Advice
**58:56 His Role Model VCs

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Links:
**Connect with Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric--rubenstein/
**New Climate Ventures: https://www.newclimateventures.com/
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**Something Totally Different: Revolutioniz

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