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Where deep tech meets capital in pursuit of planetary abundance. Each episode features the investors and founders solving the hardest problems in climate, energy, industry, materials, and the built world. Host Sera Tajima, angel investor, explores how solutions get funded from pre-seed to scale, how the tech works, and how we leverage technology to consciously solve humanity's most pressing challenges.
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every 26 days
Average audio length:
52 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
63 episodes
since Feb. 9, 2024
episodic
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Textile waste generates more greenhouse gas emissions than aviation and shipping combined, and most of what's produced ends up landfilled or burned. In this episode, Sera Tajima talks with Jean-Michel Scheuren, founder of Novobiom, about how fungi, nature's recyclers and chemists, can turn that was…
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Jinna Li and John Mairlot are the married GPs behind Endgame Capital — one of Europe's most commercially rigorous climate funds. In this episode, we get into their "climate denier proof" thesis, why they only back companies that win on economics alone, how they raised €8…
By 2035, cooling will consume more electricity than every data center on the planet combined. Yet, it remains one of the most underfunded problems in climate tech. In this episode, I sit down with Christian Hernandez, partner at 2150, one of Europe's leading urban tech funds, and Dr. Daniel Betts, …
Andres Mitnik is the CEO of Strong by Form, a deep tech startup revolutionizing sustainable construction materials. With a background in civil engineering and advanced degrees from Harvard and NYU, Andres is tackling industrial decarbonization—responsible for 30% of global carbon emissions.
Strong…
Sean Ellis is the OG growth hacker who built growth engines for Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and two other unicorns—shares the frameworks climate tech founders actually need to scale sustainably. Learn the one question that predicts product-market fit (his famous 40% rule), why 80% organic growth …
Jacquelyn van den Ende and Liza Rubenstein reveal how they're providing never before seen access to exclusive private markets for climate investing. The Carbon Equity co-founders expose why trading ESG stocks creates zero real-world impact, how they overcame two years of European regulatory battles…
Liz Dennett, CEO of Endolith and Alaska native, reveals the hidden copper crisis threatening our digital future. Learn how biotech and microbes could solve mining's biggest challenge, why copper demand will double by 2050, and what 50% tariffs mean for tech infrastructure. From astrobiology PhD to …
After Figma's dramatic journey from a failed $20 billion acquisition to a successful IPO, the design world is buzzing.
In this essential episode, renowned design systems expert Dan Mall breaks down everything product designers need to know about building scalable design systems in the Figma era. …
In this episode, Microsoft Design Manager Sandra Pallier reveals how she created the Green Design Principles that influenced sustainability strategies across Big Tech. From starting with a simple PowerPoint template hackathon to building a 11,000-person grassroots community at Climate Action Tech, …
Ever wondered what it really costs to escape the 9-5?
You’ve never heard a conversation like this with Kate Syuma. The former Head of Growth Design at Miro, reveals how she "bought back her time" by leaving corporate to found Growth Mates - and why her living costs actually decreased in…
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