A Cool €250 Million to Green Buildings with Jess Clemans of noa

Jess Clemans is an investor at noa, a VC that is raising its second €250M fund focused on making the built environment more sustainable. 

In this episode we talked about:

🎯 Why noa prioritizes founder quality over business ideas or market attractiveness when making investment decisions

💰 How customer acquisition costs for solar installations can reach an eye-watering $10k, while local SMBs achieve much lower costs through word-of-mouth

👷 The critical shortage of skilled labor for solar installation in Europe and innovative approaches to address this through upskilling programs

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