On our second episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Josephine Bromley: COO and Co-Founder at Mortar IO.

Josephine is the COO and Co-Founder at Mortar IO, the SaaS platform that creates virtual models of buildings to accurately simulate retrofit strategies and de-risk decarbonisation. The company is a graduate of Carbon13 (Co-hort 3), the venture builder for the climate emergency from the University of Cambridge. Previously, Josephine has contributed to companies such as Curve and Google.

00:00: Introduction to episode 2

01:10: Introduction to Josephine Bromley at Mortar IO

02:40: Josephine’s background and the story of Mortar IO

05:30: How was the Founder matching experience at Carbon13?

07:20: Did you go into the programme with the bones of the idea for Mortar or did you create it from scratch as a three?

08:00: Talk us through a brief summary of what the platform does and who uses it?

11:00: When did you graduate from the cohort?

12:00: How has the last 9 months since graduating been? What have you been working on?

13:45: Over this last 9 months what would you say you’re most proud of?

14:55: What are you most excited about moving forward post-grant?

16:10: What’s your experience as a female Founder? Have you recognised instances where you’ve faced adversity?

20:31: Do you find that there are times when your male Founders are spoken to but you’re not?

22:05: What support and resources have been the most impactful for you on your business journey?

23:40: How did you find those people who were just a fraction of the road further than you in your journey?

25:30: What people-related resource would you advise people connect with the help them?

26:25 What media-related resource would you advise people connect with the help them?

27:30: What female role model do you look up to?

28:55: Conclusion and what’s coming for the rest of the series

Video versions of these episodes are available here.

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