The Climate Pioneers Show

As the CEO and Founder of AirEx, Agnes Czako is spearheading the mission of the company - fighting the dual challenges of fuel poverty and climate change. 

AirEx is a London-based climate tech company…

Camilla Taylor is CFO of SatVu. She holds a degree in Biological Sciences from Oxford University, a master's in Environmental Economics, and an MBA from Columbia and London Business Schools. This aca…

Bill Yost is Co-founder and CEO at Reclinker (formerly Cambridge Electric Cement). For more than 25 years, Bill has supported early-stage companies spanning hydrogen generation, water treatment, ther…

Thomas Farquhar is the CCO at Heatio, a UK-based clean technology company founded in 2020, focused on developing innovative solutions for home energy management to improve energy efficiency and reduc…

For series 9 of the Climate Pioneers Show, we're hearing founder stories from across climate tech. We'll be chatting about the highs, the lows, fundraising, commercialising, scaling, building teams a…

Elbow Beach is an early-stage climate tech VC. They help to unlock technologies, solve big problems and transform industries. To date, they have made 20 investments.

JP co-founded Elbow Beach in 2021 …

Angel investor, James Manktelow, has invested in 25 climate startups since 2019 via Green Angel Syndicate. He focuses on accelerating the growth of IP-based startups that develop solutions to climate…

Eric Kohlmann is a partner at Climate First, a VC firm established in 2023. It has since grown to not only invest in technologies that will disrupt highly emitting, multi-billion dollar industries; b…

Kate Ronayne is a deep tech climate investor from BGF. She particularly enjoys drawing on her time leading commercialisation activities from UK national laboratories to find, validate and back teams …

Chloe Coates is a research and analysis lead at Zero Carbon Capital. As well as her work at Zero Carbon, Chloe has hosted sessions at The Drop, been featured by ClimateHack and was a judge at the 202…

Founder and managing partner of Greencode Ventures, Dr. Terhi Vapola. Along with her team in Helsinki, Greencode invest in digital-first early-stage green transition startups across Europe. They have…

Jeremy Brown is an Investment Principal from Anthemis Capital. Jeremy is head of climate strategies and focuses on seed to Series C investments across Europe and the USA. With a keen interest in the …

Arjun Jairaj is an investor with noa VC. The team at noa are building Europe’s largest tech fund dedicated to transforming the built world. They invest in pioneering founders and breakthrough technol…

Stuart Ferguson is an investor with Sustainable Ventures, who as well as offering investment to earth-saving startups, also operate two co-working spaces in London and Manchester, with sole focus on …

Roberta Franchi is an investment associate at Counteract. Counteract is a carbon removal company combating the climate crisis through research, development and investment. They give engineer and scie…

Establishing a culture where team members can thrive is vital, but with the move towards hybrid and remote work over the last few years, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start when people ar…

The first few hires in any team are key but what about scaling beyond that as you progress through funding rounds and possibly acquisitions and exit? 

Dimple Patel is currently CEO at NatureMetrics a…

As any team starts to scale, it becomes more and more important to have sustainable and repeatable processes in place. But it’s also not uncommon for that to be overlooked in favour of things like sa…

Supporting and engaging neurodiverse talent is a vital part of team building. Parul Singh comes from a background in tech and recruitment and has first-hand experience of the challenges faced by neur…

There’s a lot that goes on within a hiring process but what is it actually like from the perspective of founders and the C-suite, when trying to scale a business and build out that initial team?

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