Climate CEOs

Here are three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

📊 Finance — Optionality has a balance sheet cost.

⚙️ Tools — Three Horizons of Growth (McKinsey & Company)

⛰️ Leadership — Busy is the new stupid.

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The leading provider of wildfire and extreme weather risk mitigation solutions protecting communities and assets for utilities, insurance, and fire agencies

🎧 Episode Summary

Technosylva provides advanced AI and predictive modeling solutions to reduce wildfire and extreme weather risks for leading utilities, fire agencies, and insurers worldwide. Backed by pirate equity capital and generating over $100M of revenue, they’re meeting mission critical needs around the country.

CEO Bryan Spear shapes and drives Technosylva’s global efforts to reduce wildfire and extreme weather risk through powerful, science-backed tools. Bryan focuses on long-term vision and near-term execution — building a world-class team, cultivating strategic partnerships, and ensuring Technosylva remains at the forefront of wildfire resilience innovation.

Bryan brings a background in scaling innovative companies and solving complex problems through collaboration. He’s built global partnerships and led cross-disciplinary teams in industries where public safety, infrastructure, and technology intersect. Bryan believes a strong company culture is the foundation for extraordinary results — and it’s that shared ethos of passion and humility that drives Technosylva’s real-world, life-saving impact.

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Climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:

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Here are today’s three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

📊 Climate Finance — Non-dilutive capital is not free money

⚙️ Decision Tool — Take the Four Tendencies Quiz

⛰️ Mindful leadership — Speed vs. direction (don’t get this backwards)

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VC backing for the world's most compact, modular, and cost-effective electric powertrains without rare earth minerals risk

🎧 Episode Summary

Conifer has created the only rare-earth free electric motor and powertrain that is also better across power density, efficiency and cost metrics, compared to incumbents with rare-earths.

Conifer’s in-wheel powertrains and NEMA compatible motors are designed to fuel the fast growing $200B electric mobility, agriculture, and industrial markets.

They raised a $20M seed round last year, which is a good sign in a tough market for hardtech startups.

Ankit Somani, CEO and Co-founder of Conifer, and a repeat entrepreneur and has raised $80M+ across his startups.

Prior to Conifer, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an enterprise AI agent that served Fortune 500 companies like Walmart and Amazon.

Following its acquisition by HireVue, he served as HireVue's Chief Product Officer.

Previously, he was a part of Google’s Data Center R&D and Electrification teams, creating products that serve all of Google infrastructure.

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Climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:

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Here are today’s three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

📊 Finance — This one metric quietly kills climate tech fundraises.

⚙️ Tools — Return on Effort (RoE): Fewer hours. Better outcomes.

⛰️ Leadership — “Don’t do anything that someone else can do.”

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Get my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOs

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Producing the highest performance, lowest power, and best total cost of ownership solution for AI transformer model inference.

🎧 Episode Summary

Positron AI is an AI hardware startup developing energy-efficient solutions optimized for transformer model inference, critical for applications like ChatGPT.

They’ve raised about $75M and achieve 3-5x better performance per dollar and per watt versus most other chips today.

They recently raised $51.6 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, and DFJ Growth.

They also ranked #3 in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups.

Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron, recently transitioned from his role as chief operating officer and cofounder of Lambda, a multibillion-dollar-valued cloud infrastructure company focused on AI and NVIDIA GPU-powered services. 

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Here are today’s five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:

1. 📊 CLIMATE DATA

Committed warming: Are we already cooked?

2. 💡 CEO TO KNOW

Julia Reichelstein @ Vaulted Deep ($40M for carbon removal with co-benefits)

3. 💸 INVESTOR SPOTLIGHT

Bala Nagarajan @S2G ($2.5B for food, energy, and oceans)

4. 🤖 AI INSIGHT

Your new Board of Directors: All experts, zero humans

5. ⛰️ MINDFUL MOMENT

Wisdom is not free.

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Using off-the-shelf tech to convert methane, CO2 emissions, and waste into carbon-negative fuels and green chemicals like methanol and ammonia.

🎧 Episode Summary

Emvolon helps hard-to-abate industries such as agriculture, aviation, energy, maritime and waste management power the global economy without producing emissions.

The company’s patented technology converts greenhouse gas emissions into carbon-negative fuels and chemicals like green methanol and green ammonia onsite by repurposing mass-produced automotive engines as cost-effective, modular chemical plants.

Emmanuel Kasseris, CEO and co-founder, has more than 20 years of experience in the energy sector.

As a research project manager for Chevron, ConocoPhillips and MIT, he led several new energy technologies from concept to laboratory prototype and eventually full-scale pilots.

His work has been cited by the DOE, EPA and NSF and used in expert testimonies to Congress.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering.

He is the inventor of five US patents and the author of nine publications with over 1.000 citations.

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Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:

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Here are today’s five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:

1. 📊 CLIMATE DATA

73% of investors engage in decarbonization for this reason

2. 💡 CEO TO KNOW

Randy Allen @ Still Bright (80% savings in copper mining)

3. 💸 INVESTOR INSIGHT

How CEOs and investors actually align on priorities

4. 🤖 AI USE CASE

Create instant infographics with NotebookLM

5. ⛰️ MINDFUL MOMENT

Just say it: “I don’t know.” [Zen story]

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Get my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOs

For entrepreneurs and investors: 5 quick ideas on climate data, CEOs to know, investor spotlights, AI insights, and mindfulness moments — drawn from lessons working with 400+ climate CEOs and investors, plus 25 years of meditation practice.

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Leave a Podcast Review. (All the cool kids do it.)

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Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, connect on LinkedIn:

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding

Climate resilience via better data: 7 cm-resolution via satellites and aerial imagery that does in hours what 80,000 drones would do in weeks.

🎧 Episode Summary

Near Space Labs is a category-defining Earth observation company delivering high-resolution, high-frequency aerial imagery through its industry-first stratospheric imaging platform, the Swift. 

With its nationwide network of autonomous Swift robots, the company provides unmatched 7 cm-resolution imagery at a scale and cadence that fundamentally transform how organizations monitor and respond to our rapidly changing world. 

Near Space Labs' private-market focus has enabled it to develop sustainable technologies that meet the needs of commercial clients while reducing reliance on federal funding. Its mission is to serve as the Earth data backbone for business, community, and climate resilience.

While pursuing her PhD in aerospace systems engineering, Rema Matevosyan, co-founder and CEO, worked on the European Union's Copernicus satellite network, where she began exploring new approaches to Earth observation. 

Recognizing the limitations of traditional satellite and aerial imagery, Matevosyan decided to leave her PhD program to found Near Space Labs. 

Her vision has led to breakthroughs in stratospheric imaging technology, and the company now serves major Fortune 500 enterprises across multiple industries. 

A published researcher and recognized scholar by the International Astronautical Federation, Matevosyan was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for her contributions to aerospace innovation.

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