In this podcast, Cassandra Harris talks to Amy Francetic, co-founder of Buoyant Ventures — a leading female-owned VC that invests primarily in digital solutions tackling climate change in the energy, agriculture, real estate, and transportation sectors. From her previous life as the founder of Energize Ventures and the Clean Energy Trust, to her current status as a GP partner in Buoyant, Amy has a wealth of experience creating tangible value in a domain that humanity can’t afford to ignore. Her years of climate tech experience have guided the creation of Buoyant Ventures’ thesis, whose portfolio has since expanded to include StormSensor, SupplyShift, RaptorMaps, FloodFlash, and Shifted Energy.

Cassandra Harris talks to Jez Williman, founder of D-Fly Group — the early-stage startup that’s ready to scale, known for creating the Dragonfly electric scooter. Dragonfly has become part of the solution to help assist government's around the world achieve their NetZero50 target of cleaner cities and reduced congestion. Stylish, well-engineered, functional, and fast, the Dragonfly scooter is effectively like the micromobility version of the supercar, albeit safer — a fun mobility solution that exists in huge contrast to the existing two-wheel market. Now, with a fundraising round on the way, Jez’s innovation is ready to herald an era of cleaner cities, reduced congestion, and happier urban residents

Cassandra Harris talks to Amy Francetic, co-founder of Buoyant Ventures — a leading female-owned VC that invests primarily in digital solutions tackling climate change in the energy, agriculture, real estate, and transportation sectors. From her previous life as the founder of Energise Ventures and the Clean Energy Trust, and as a senior manager at Accentures Strategy, to her current status as a pioneer in the VC world, Amy has a wealth of experience creating tangible value in a domain that humanity can’t afford to ignore. Her years of climate tech experience have guided the creation of Buoyant Ventures’ thesis, whose portfolio has since expanded to include StormSensor, SupplyShift, RaptorMaps, FloodFlash, and Shifted Energy.

Cassandra Harris talks to Teague Egan, founder of EnergyX — a growth stage pre-IPO sustainable energy company focused on scaling lithium extraction and battery technology. EnergyX’s goal is to become one of the premier low-cost lithium providers for the rapidly growing industry. Their solution uses breakthrough technology to ensure the shift to renewables is truly sustainable, and to tackle issues around base metals & materials being used to power our batteries and electric vehicles. Uniquely, having already raised $20 million, they are also opening up crowdfunding opportunities to democratise and decentralise the investment process for people passionate about saving our planet, who wouldn’t ordinarily have access to pre-IPO investments.

In this podcast, Cassandra Harris talks to Nino Judge, founder of flypop — a newly launched British international airline providing the most affordable non-stop direct flights between the UK and second cities of South Asia. The podcast delves into his vision for the future of sustainable aviation and his role within it. As he sees it, this entails the implementation of initiatives designed to place flypop as a greener alternative to similar low-cost competitors, including a plan to offset carbon through planting trees. They also talk about flypop’s seed funding round, which was assisted by Harris and which helped towards securing match funding from the UK Government’s Future Fund during the Covid 19 pandemic, as well as how Nino derived a lot of his early inspiration from Tony Fernandes, the founder of Air Asia.

In this welcome message, co-host Jo Ankier introduces Cassandra Harris’s latest project, The Unicorns Podcast. In this series Cassandra takes listeners with her on a hunt for the REAL unicorns - the companies that are positively impacting the lives of 1 billion people. She profiles some of the worlds most impactful founders and investors and talks to them about how they are attempting to solve humanities most pressing challenges with their visions, missions and investment activity. The series also gives the audience the opportunity to invest in the start-ups featured.

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