ClimateTech with Kentaro
A podcast featuring the brightest minds and most influential voices in climate technology. Join host Kentaro Kawamori as he talks to guests about everything from entrepreneurship and investments, to all the cool innovations that are developing in the space. In each episode, Kentaro shares conversations with founders, investors, journalists, and influencers who have deep expertise and an undeniable passion for solving the climate crisis, through technology. Kentaro is the CEO and Co-Founder of Persefoni, a leading ClimateTech SaaS company Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) that works with companies and financial institutions to account for, disclose, and manage their climate impacts. Kentaro believes in Persefoni’s mission to enable every organization and person with the technology to positively impact the health of the planet Earth. Produced by Persefoni and Hueman Group Media.
Episodes
Our season finale covers startup investments that are on the absolute cutting edge. We’re joined by Maryanna Saenko, an early-stage venture capitalist and the Co-founder of Future Ventures (early investors in SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, Planet, and Skype). Backing visionaries for over two decades through her firm, Maryanna gets to play a part in technology that ranges from Bee Immunology to Nuclear Fu...
Today’s guest, and her company, operate the largest mobile sensor network on Earth, and they use that network to track air pollution and greenhouse gasses.
Davida Herzl is CEO and founder of Aclima. Her company uses specialized devices and software to turn air quality measurements into data insights used by companies, governments, and communities to target emiss...
It’s hard to track our individual carbon footprints. Most people have no idea what emissions are associated with a bag of groceries or last night’s takeout.
This type of information is hard to come by, which makes it even more challenging to make environmentally friendly decisions. Sustainability Data Service company, Cogo is trying to change that by empowering ...
Did you know that greenhouse gas emissions can be turned into leggings or even jet fuel?
Today’s guest, Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, is the CEO of LanzaTech. Her company has been working on carbon recycling technology for over 15 years. Now, LanzaTech has scaled up its technology from a startup and is almost ready to go public.
In recent years, climate-minded companies all over the world have made commitments to reach net zero emissions. That means cutting emissions as close to zero as possible and then funding carbon capture and carbon removal to make up for the rest.
Brennan Spellacy is the founder of a software company called Patch. Patch helps businesses reach net zero by connectin...
Startups are looking at the climate challenge from all angles. For today’s episode, we’re talking to one that’s helping facilitate the move to clean energy through intelligent software. Peter Knowles is the president of Financial Machines. In our conversation, he told me about how his startup evolved from a consultancy to software based advisory, which is a feat in itself.
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A lot of lucky people have their personal passions and their professional paths collide. And that could not be more true for Mark Kroese, a 22-year veteran at Microsoft and their General Manager of Sustainability Solutions. Mark started his career at Microsoft in the 90s as a product manager for Word and Excel. Then his love for mountain climbing and visits to the rainforest led him to focus on susta...
We have a whole zoo in today’s episode about biodiversity! I shared a fantastic conversation with Dr. Vian Sharif, Head of Sustainability at FNZ and Founder of NatureAlpha. Both FNZ and NatureAlpha are platforms for investors. FNZ is a digital wealth management platform while Vian’s newer venture NatureAlpha focuses on demonstrating the impacts of investments on biodiversity & natural capital.
...We have a little bit of everything in this week’s episode. We’re diving deep with Nathaniel Bullard Chief Content Officer of BloombergNEF, Bloomberg's primary research service on energy, transportation, commodities, and technology. Nathaniel is a little bit different from the founder guests we’ve traditionally had on the show. He’s played the analyst slash writer role for a majority of his vast car...
For our first episode this season, we have invited two newly minted, homegrown podcasters from Persefoni: Tim Mohin and Caitlin Kinney! Tim Mohin is a lifelong environmentalist and one of the OGs of sustainability. Tim started his career at the US Environmental Protection Agency and moved on to various roles in corporate responsibility and sustainability at big ...
We’re back! This season, we’re talking to brilliant leaders like Mark Kroese, General Manager of Sustainability at Microsoft, Dr. Vian Sharif, Founder of NatureAlpha, Nathaniel Bullard, Chief Content Officer at BloombergNEF, and many more. In each episode, we take a hard look at the most innovative solutions to the climate crisis and learn from the most brilliant minds behind them.
For our season finale, we are talking about the sustainability revolution. How are businesses transitioning to address the greatest climate and environmental challenges of our time? And why is collaboration so critical? To explore these themes, I have the pleasure of chatting with Bridget Fawcett, the Global Co-Head of the Sustainability & Corporate Transitions team at Citi. Bridget is also the Globa...
This week, we are talking to Yoann Hispa, LandGate Co-Founder and CEO. LandGate is a leading provider of information, data solutions, and an online marketplace for US commercial land resources: solar, wind, carbon, oil & gas, minerals, and water. It’s kinda like the Zillow for land resources.
In this episode, Yoann takes us through the expansive solutions th...
Pursuing climate solutions also requires a deeper understanding of the oil and gas industry. This week, we are hearing from Toby Rice, President, and CEO of EQT Corporation, the largest natural gas producer in the United States.
This episode covers a ton of important topics including the role that oil and gas play in the ...
This week, we are talking about the evolution of impact investing with Steve Ellis, Co-Managing Partner of The Rise Fund. The Rise Fund was founded by leading global investment firm TPG, in partnership with Bono and Jeff Skoll. Prior to joining TPG as Managing Partner in 2015, Steve was the CEO of Asurion, the world's leading provider of tech protection services, and also served as the Global Managin...
This week’s episode tackles systems change — and the partnership needed between policymakers, businesses, finance and civil society, to make economic systems sustainable. To dive into these themes, we invited SYSTEMIQ Capital’s Irena Spazzapan and Georgina Fleming. Irena is a partner, while Georgina is a junior partner at SYSTEMIQ Capital, a London-based VC that backs early-stage climate entrepreneu...
This week’s guest has the true street cred in identifying dominant companies early, before markets take hold. Dan Ahn is the co-founder and managing partner of Clearvision Ventures, a leading, evergreen venture capital fund, which he founded to help world-changing entrepreneurs.
In this episode, we talk to Dan about inv...
“I will never do this again,” said every other entrepreneur who found themselves back to building a startup from the ground up. Two-time founder Josh Green is this week’s guest. He is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of leading ESG data management platform, Novata, and Co-founder and CEO of Panjiva, a supply-chain data start-up acquired by S&P Global in 2018.
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From drilling engineer to strategic advisor and executive at numerous international companies, Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes is far from done at 31 years old. Ashley is the CEO of Black Mountain Carbon Lock, a private carbon negative company and Executive Director at REEcycle, which recycles rare earth elements from electronic waste.
In this episode, Ashley shares her...
This week’s M&A and funding roundup includes:
SupPlant, an Israeli-based agricultural technology company that develops wireless sensing equipment to collect real-time sensor data from farms; Sun Cable, a company that builds systems and infrastructure to deliver competitively priced, dispatchable, renewable electricity;
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