Episodes
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For this episode of Funding a Better Future: Angel Investment Insights for Founders and Aspiring Investors, I spoke with Cam Ross (Green Angel Ventures) about how to invest for impact, particularly within climate.
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2:01 - Cam’s investment path and establishing Green Angel Ventures
4:23 - How has the world of impact investment changed over your seven years with GAV?
6:08 - How robust an investment strategy is climate?
8:20 - The scale of the climate change problem
9:07 - How do you minimise risk factor when investing in early stage businesses in climate?
11:28 - Making the most of knowledge across a syndicate
12:53 - How do you conduct due diligence for climate impact or carbon reduction?
15:42 - How does the increase in the amount of investors in the space affect existing investors?
18:21 - What does an ideal company profile look like for Green Angel Ventures?
21:03 - At what point would you consider founders ready to approach you for investment?
23:08 - Have you seen any patterns or trends around companies that have performed well, or not so well?
26:07 - What should founders have ready in advance for due diligence?
30:09 - Which parts of the climate sector do you think are the most exciting or offer the most potential for growth at the moment?
33:14 - Are there parts of the climate sector where the bubble has burst?
34:54 - How can you become part of the Green Angel network?
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For this episode of Funding a Better Future: Angel Investment Insights for Founders and Aspiring Investors, I spoke with Marla Shapiro (HERmesa) and David Fogel (Alma Angels) about the importance of female angels and the lack of diversity in investing.
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6:40 - Connections are important when fundraising
8:36 - Angel investing is very network driven
10:23 - Women do more research and want more knowledge and understanding before investing or doing anything new
12:05 - Reflecting on the differences between now and when you launched in 2019, how has the female angel landscape changed?
15:27 - Investing at scale in important to success and change
15:52 - What do you think holds women back from investing?
18:11 - You don’t have to write large cheques to be angel, you can start small
22:04 - Are there different trends in how women invest or their motives for investing?
27:14 - Facts about return on female investment
31:19 - How are you finding the funding landscape for 2024?
33:12 - Q1 2024 for female funding
36:40 - Advice for aspiring angels
40:22 - What are you excited about this year?
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For this episode of Funding a Better Future: Angel Investment Insights for Founders and Aspiring Investors, I spoke with Anna Sandgren, CEO and Co-founder of Unibloom.
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4:45 - When did you know it was time to raise your next round after being part of Zinc?
6:00 - How did you know where to find people and start conversations?
7:43 - Building connections and the value of intros
10:16 - Getting a sensible valuation for your business
11:52 - How did you balance finding and communicating with investors alongside the day-to-day building of a business?
13:53 - What did you learn about your business during the process?
19:07 - What were the biggest objections you faced from potential investors?
22:02 - Syndicate Room angel network
22:44 - How to manage investor communications post-close
27:24 - In-person investor communication and celebration
29:00 - What does the next raise round look like and how will this round shape the next?
32:46 - How much do you think your personal brand has fed into the success of your fundraising?
35:48 - What general advice would you give to someone who is 18 months to two years behind you?
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For the first episode of this series, Funding a Better Future: Angel Investment Insights for Founders and Aspiring Investors, I spoke with Ben Keene from Raaise and corporate lawyer, Fran Spooner.
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3:25 - Coming out the other side of a bad time for fundraising
9:38 - When to talk about your startup for fundraising
12:00 - The investors are vetting you as much as you are vetting them
15:00 - Getting your ducks in a row, from cap tables to contracts
16:08 - Early stage metrics
19:48 - How long does fundraising take?
22:11 - How to benchmark a sensible and sustainable valuation for your business
28:55 - Ways to get investment without a valuation or giving away equity at that time
30:16 - Do you or don’t you engage a lawyer?
39:17 - The difference between engaging with angels individually or through a syndicate
44:00 - What to think about post-raise
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On our sixth episode of Building a Better Future: Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Josef Bromovsky from Algoma.
0:10: Introduction
2:25: Are you able to share with us a little bit more on Algoma? What’s the problem space you’re in and exactly how is the solution that you’ve come up with, addressing that? Why is it unique in the space?
4:11: How does that come in from a cost parity perspective? How do you make it viable?
5:46: Where did this passion from climate and sustainability come from?
7:17: Did the entrepreneurial spark come in once you realised the negative affect the construction and engineering space has on climate or has that always been there?
8:25: Where did you meet your Co-Founders and when did you feel confident enough to go for it?
10:10: Did you have the idea for Algoma prior to undertaking the MBA or did the idea come to you as a result of doing the MBA?
12:30: How do they compare in terms of quality and durability in natural disaster zones?
14:12: How do they work around local planning acts and specific requirements in particular areas?
15:38: You’re 9 months into your journey now. Is that right?
16:07: What have the first 9 months looked like? Including the highs, the proud moments and the achievements? What are some of the challenges you’ve faced in that time period?
17:43: Are you focused predominantly on domestic builds or commercial? Or both sides?
19:05: Regulatory-wise, how do you think the regulatory market, policies and attitudes in general are going to work against or in your favour in the future?
20:19: What is the embodied carbon difference between a mass timber building vs a concrete building for example?
22:08: Talk me through the highlights of your journey so far. What have you got coming up that you’re excited about?
23:30: From an accelerator perspective, what are the key benefits you think you get from going through those and what do you think the key take aways are?
25:53: You mentioned about hiring already but are there any other asks that you would have? What could help you next year?
26:41: What community / people-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
27:18: What media-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
29:10: Do you have any productivity tips to manage your workload or work-life balance?
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On our fifth episode of Building a Better Future: Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Chris Kluesener from Matcha Electric.
0:10: Introduction
2:27: Tell us more about Matcha. What’s the problem space you’ve identified and how is the solution you’re building addressing that?
3:50: How does it differ in terms of problem to public charging infrastructure and why do public chargers not adequately address that issue?
4:33: So taking it back to the beginning, this is the third business you’ve founded right? Talk us through the journey
7:12: How different was the space back then compared to today in terms of attitudes, acceptance, urgency compared to then?
11:53: Talk me through when the decision point came. When did you know the time was right to go for it?
14:50: What does that next step look like? How do you get started creating the physical product?
20:30: What’s the usability from and landlord and tenant perspective? Do they go through an app?
23:38: A year into this year, where are you at today?
24:55: Is it still just yourself and John at the moment or have you got a team around you?
25:58: So, 2024, what’s that all about for you?
27:23: How are you feeling about the regulatory and political environment next year and how are changes on that front are changes on that front either operating in your favour or against you at this point?
30:07: What community / people-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
31:10: What media-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
32:42: Do you have any productivity tips to manage your workload or work-life balance?
34:10: Conclusion
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On our fourth episode of Building a Better Future: Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli from WATS.
0:10: Introduction
2:37: Talk me through the problem space you’re in, the solution you’re bringing and what you and your Co-Founder are working on
5:55: Is the platform designed as much to reduce the amount of waste that a business produces and then take the waste that it is producing and make sure that those waste streams are put in the right places to drive a circular economy?
7:10: Where did the passion for climate and sustainability come from?
9:37: Where did your passion crystalise into ‘I’m going to do something about this’?
11:05: Where did you meet Laura?
13:20: How much of what you learnt during your consulting time inspired what you do at WATS?
15:37: Are you going location by location because being able to know what could be recycled where is a huge plus?
19:17: What have been the biggest challenges that you’ve faced over the last 12-18 months?
21:43: So today, where are you at with 8 members of the team?
22:40: And you’ve finished ERA?
22:55: How many customers do you have now?
24:05: You mentioned about regulatory change. How positive are you feeling around that and it going in the right direction to incentivise customers to use a solution like yours?
29:05: What community / people-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
29:20: What media-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
29:56: Do you have any productivity tips to manage your workload or work-life balance?
31:30: Conclusion
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On our third episode of Building a Better Future: Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Elizabeth Landau from GreenPortfolio.
0:26: Introduction
2:15: Please could you elaborate on the problem space you’re in and why it’s such an impactful space?
4:35: Can you contextualise what our money is doing in our accounts and the carbon affects of that?
06:52: How quick a process is that in terms of assessing what someone's current impact is and helping them make a switch to something greener?
09:20: Where did your passion from climate and sustainability come from?
11:37: Where did the idea for GreenPortfolio come from? How did you meet Bonnie?
14:05: What’s the most impactful metric?
15:10: What did those first few months look like? When did you quit your job and start doing this full-time?
17:25: How has that evolved from a revenue model perspective as the journey’s gone on?
19:42: In a world where the economy isn’t in as greater a place as it used to be, how much of an appetite is there beyond just focussing on interest rates and returns?
21:30: 2-3 years into the journey, talk me through what GreenPortfolio looks like today in terms of the team and users?
22:40: Does that mean people listening could go to your website now and use the tool?
23:00: What challenges have you faced so far? How has the market positively or negatively impacted what you’ve been doing?
24:55: What are you excited about for next year?
26:58: What community / people-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
28:20: What media-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
29:33: Do you have any productivity tips to manage your workload or work-life balance?
31:40: Conclusion
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On our second episode of Building a Better Future: Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Emiel Cockx from Genvision.
0:21: Introduction
2:05: About Genvision - What is the problem and how are you solving it?
4:10: Where did your passion for climate and sustainability come from?
5:25: Talk me through your pathway into being a tech entrepreneur?
7:43: Where did the inspiration come from to create your own business?
09:40: Where did you put 1 and 1 together to make 2?
11:55: At what point did you become aware of the trust and verification problem in the carbon removal space?
13:15: At what point did you go all in with this? Did you start developing it after you graduated or?
15:16: So you’ve been going 18 months now. What has it looked like for you?
17:28: When did you close the pre-seed?
19:30: How was the process of building out your team?
22:30: What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced would you say?
24:04: Where are you today in your journey?
25:30: How have you found this year from a wider market perspective been? How has it impacted you for better or for worse?
27:22: How hopeful do you feel for the climate sector next year / the future?
28:23: In Genvision’s world, what are you most excited about moving forward? What does 2024 look like for you?
29:43: What community / people-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
29:10: What media-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
31:10: Do you have any productivity tips to manage your workload or work-life balance?
32:00: Conclusion
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On our first episode of Building a Better Future:Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Garrett Boudinot from Vycarb.
0:15: Introduction
2:00: What is the problem that you’re solving with Vicarb?
4:05: Is there anyone else doing this?
5:22 You’ve got quite a unique gap in this market though right?
6:50: Take me back to the beginning. Where did this passion come from?
09:56: What about the entrepreneurial side? When did you think about moving forward and coming up with a solution to the problem?
13:28: Did Vycarb exist as a business prior to or was it born within Activate?
15:17 How long was the Activate program for?
15:40: How has the last year been? How challenging was it and what were the major roadblocks?
19:50: You’re based out of NewLab in Brooklyn right? Is that linked to Activate?
21:09: Talk to us about your pilots?
24:35: What does the next 12 months have in store for you?
28:10: How have you found the wider market this year?
30:55: How hopeful do you feel for the future of the sector more broadly?
32:50: Is there anything that could help you in some way? What would be your big ask for what could drive you forward this year?
35:08: What community / people-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
35:38: What media-based resource have you found to be the most impactful for your journey so far?
36:36: Do you have any productivity tips to manage your workload or work-life balance?
37:28: Conclusion
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On our eleventh and last episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Nikki Gaddo: Founder and CEO of GoodMine.
Nikki is CEO and Founder of GoodMine, a female-led, profit-for-purpose technology company redesigning how consumer goods flow through the system to advance the circular economy (SDG12). In her earlier career, she spent 13 years in investment banking, which equipped her future entrepreneurial self with the skills required for success!
0:00: Podcast introduction
01:50: Tell us about GoodMine. What are you building and who is it for?
07:45: What was your inspiration for GoodMine? And tell us about the early days of getting it off the ground?
15:30: How was the process winning your recent grant with Innovate UK?
17:00: How have you found going through this journey as a sole female Founder? Do you feel you’ve faced adversity?
26:30: What people-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
30:05: What media-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
32:10: Do you have anyone that you look up to?
30:28: Conclusion
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On our tenth episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Saasha Celestial-One: Co-Founder and COO of OLIO.
Saasha is Co-Founder and COO of OLIO, a free app harnessing the power of mobile technology and the sharing economy to provide a revolutionary solution to the problem of food waste. Before OLIO, Saasha founded London’s first pay-as-you-go high street childcare provider, and prior to that she spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley, McKinsey and American Express.
00:00: Podcast Introduction
02:28: Talk to us about Olio
03:45: What’s the origin story? How did you meet Tessa?
12:50: What are the key milestones that you’re most proud of?
17:10: Given that your platform is primarily B2C, would it work as well as B2B do you think?
20:30: What as your experience going through the funding process? Why do you think you got the money where perhaps others haven’t?
27:30: What people-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
28:40: What media-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
30:28: Conclusion
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On our ninth episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Lucy Lyons: Co-Founder and CEO of Kestrix.
Lucy, commercial Co-founder of Kestrix, is an entrepreneurial leader with international experience founding and scaling sustainability-focused ventures and conducting policy research. After their first experience as a founder as the CEO of reLive, an angel-backed sustainable end-of-life platform, she was the first hire under the CCO at Berlin-based Plan A, Europe’s first B2B carbon accounting SaaS company.
00:00 - Podcast introduction
02:45: About Kestrix
04:18: Was this an idea you came into the Venture Builder with or is it one you formed after meeting Matt?
06:15: When did you actually come out of Cohort 4 and go it alone? How has the business evolved since that point?
09:35: How has the fundraising process been? Have you found through the journey that you have felt any gender adversity?
16:23: How have you found the rest of your working career? Can you share some of your journey with us please?
21:38: What people-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
24:20: What media-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
27:37: Do you have a role model you look up to?
29:57: Conclusion
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On our eighth episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Alexandra Birtles: Co-Founder and CEO of In Good Company.
Alexandra is the Co-Founder and CEO of In Good Company, a tech-for-good start-up which makes it quick and easy for people to find the best ethical and sustainable businesses and experiences around them. She's a firm believer in businesses doing well by doing good and the power of technology to help make the world a better place.
00:00: Podcast introduction
02:35: Talk to us about In Good Company, what does the platform do, who is it for and what makes it unique?
08:37: At what point did you meet your Co-Founder / Decide to go for it with the business?
12:30: Talk us through the early days of getting it off the ground
16:00: At what point did you bring in your CTO? And is it just the three of you at this point?
19:20: How have you found being a woman in business building a career? Have you or Sarah felt adversity due to gender?
28:35: What people-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
30:30: What media-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
32:10: Do you have a role model you look up to?
34:35: Conclusion
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On our seventh episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Jade Cohen: Co-Founder and CPO at Qualis Flow.
Jade is Co-Founder and CPO of Qualis Flow (Qflow), a construction tech company committed to reducing carbon in construction. After spending time on site on two of Europe's largest infrastructure projects, Jade created Qualis Flow in 2018 alongside industry peer Brittany Harris, bridging the AI, software and civil engineering worlds.
00:19: Podcast introduction
02:54: What is Qflow? Talk us through the platform, who it’s for and what it does
07:06: How did you found the business and meet your Co-Founder?
11:20: How was your experience with Entrepreneur First (EF)?
12:50: How much did the idea change throughout the first 6 months in EF?
14:00: At what point did you bring in the technology resource?
15:15: What was your journey from Seed to Series A?
18:30: What does this Series A unlock for you?
20:50: How has the journey as a female-founded team been? Has there been challenges or adversity?
24:50: Do you think that your past experiences within your career gave you an inner resilience to deal with the sort of adversity you’ve dealt with as a female founder?
26:57: Do you have any core bits of advice for people in a similar funding position to you?
28:45: What people-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
29:35: What media-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
31:22: Do you have a role model you look up to?
32:25: Conclusion
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On our sixth episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Francesca Kennedy Wallbank: Co-Founder & Co-CEO at CarbonBright.
Francesca is a passionate advocate for sustainability, dedicated to making eco-friendly choices easier for everyone. Leveraging her expertise in lifecycle assessments and a drive for innovation, she co-founded CarbonBright, an automated platform that utilises machine learning to help the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry measure, report, and reduce their product environmental footprints in real-time.
00:00: Podcast introduction
02:35: What’s the platform for, what does it do and what are you generally working on?
06:00: It’s a huge data challenge I imagine?
08:45: Your experience of Carbon13 and meeting your Co-Founder
11:50: How much did your idea change during the Carbon13 process?
14:30: When did you spin-out of Carbon13 and where are you today in your journey?
15:40: What does the next 6-12 months look like for you?
17:00: Talk us through your experience in Uniliver and the Founding of your other businesses
23:25: Did you feel scared or feel imposter syndrome during those experiences?
29:25: What people-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
29:55: What media-based resource would you recommend others access to support them?
31:14: Do you have a role model you look up to?
32:40: Conclusion
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On our fifth episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Marianna Herold: Co-Founder and CEO at NatureBound.
Marianna is Co-Founder and CEO of NatureBound, who help farmers and corporates leverage functional biodiversity. Their observability platform integrates agricultural and biodiversity data from an open ecosystem with remote sensing and AI technology. She has a PhD in supply chain management with a focus on sustainability, and has previously spent over 15 years working in the food sector.
0:00: Introduction
3:00: About NatureBound and what you’re currently working on
4:25: What was your experience going through Carbon13 and finding your Co-Founder Gidi?
6:50: How much did the idea change from the first seeds of you and Gidi in the beginning?
08:10: What are you looking forward to for the rest of this year and into next year? What does potential funding unlock for you?
09:45: Are you happy to share your positive journey into being an entrepreneur?
12:10: Tell me about the early stages of your career journey?
14:00: Did you overcome the feeling of imposter syndrome and if so, how?
17:20: Have you always been interested in yoga and self care? Or was it a result of burn out?
17:50: Tell me about your travelling
19:35: How long did it take for you to do the journey and roughly what route did you take?
21:00: Do you think your experiences travelling taught you anything specific that has been helpful for your journey into business?
21:55: How do you juggle being a single parent and a Founder?
25:00: What people-based resources would you point people in the direction of for support?
26:35: What media-based resources would you point people in the direction of for support?
27:45: What female business role model do you look up to?
30:30: Conclusion and the future of the session
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On our fourth episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Sioned Owen: Founder and Chief Product Officer at Unbound Energy.
Sioned is passionate about enabling carbon removal and reduction strategies. She discovered there's enough roof space in the UK to service all our energy needs with solar energy. So, she founded Unbound Energy to enable this. They're currently working with landlords and tenants to break down the barriers surrounding the 'landlord-tenant' paradox of 'who pays' to 'you don't need to pay'.
0:19: Podcast introduction
1:55: Introducing Sioned Owen
2:55: About Unbound Energy
04:10: How does it operate on a day to day basis as a landlord or a tenant?
05:38: Experiencing Carbon13 and the development of the idea
08:45: How was the Founder ‘speed dating’ and how did you find your Co-Founders?
12:07: How has the business developed over the last 8 months?
13:05: What have you got planned for the next 6-12 months?
14:30: How has your experience been as a female and what adversity or challenges do you feel you’ve faced because of gender?
16:29: As you’ve moved into leadership level, have you witnessed other instances with other people that you’ve worked with that explains the split between the level of funding going to male and female founders?
19:30: On your journey through your career, what resources have you lent on to support you?
21:48: Working through Entrepreneur First and On Deck
23:10: What people based resource has helped you?
25:15: What media based resource has helped you?
26:25: Who is your female business role model?
28:30: Conclusion and the future of the series
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On our third episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Aranzazu Carmona Orbezo: Founder and CTO of Parallel Carbon..
Aranzazu is the Founder and CTO of Parallel Carbon, a start-up developing technology that removes carbon dioxide from the air while producing hydrogen to eliminate emissions. She has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Manchester, with experience in electrochemical engineering, water treatment/desalination, and more.
00:00: Introduction to episode 3
01:20: Introducing Aranzazu Carmona Orbezo
02:12: About Parallel Carbon and how the technology works
03:15: Where did the idea come from and how did it develop?
05:50: What was the experience like working with a Co-Founder so geographically different to you?
07:35: Since spinning out from the venture builder, how has the last 18 moths - 2 years been for you? How has the technology and business developed in that time?
08:35: What does the future look like or the next 12 months?
09:45: How has your funding experience been? Is it your first time going through it?
11:29: Post-funding round
13:15: How have you found the experience as a female founder? To what extent do you feel you’ve faced adversity?
17:00: Balancing a brand new business with a baby
19:00: Managing without a physically-close support network
21:15: Cherry’s own experience with building a family and a business simultaneously
22:30: Communicating to people in the industry that you’re pregnant
24:35: Controversial book: Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In
27:10: What support or resources have you leant on that could benefit other people?
30:00: What people based resource has helped you?
32:00: What media based resource has helped you?
34:25: Who is your female business role model?
35:35: Conclusion and the future of the series
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On our second episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Josephine Bromley: COO and Co-Founder at Mortar IO.
Josephine is the COO and Co-Founder at Mortar IO, the SaaS platform that creates virtual models of buildings to accurately simulate retrofit strategies and de-risk decarbonisation. The company is a graduate of Carbon13 (Co-hort 3), the venture builder for the climate emergency from the University of Cambridge. Previously, Josephine has contributed to companies such as Curve and Google.
00:00: Introduction to episode 2
01:10: Introduction to Josephine Bromley at Mortar IO
02:40: Josephine’s background and the story of Mortar IO
05:30: How was the Founder matching experience at Carbon13?
07:20: Did you go into the programme with the bones of the idea for Mortar or did you create it from scratch as a three?
08:00: Talk us through a brief summary of what the platform does and who uses it?
11:00: When did you graduate from the cohort?
12:00: How has the last 9 months since graduating been? What have you been working on?
13:45: Over this last 9 months what would you say you’re most proud of?
14:55: What are you most excited about moving forward post-grant?
16:10: What’s your experience as a female Founder? Have you recognised instances where you’ve faced adversity?
20:31: Do you find that there are times when your male Founders are spoken to but you’re not?
22:05: What support and resources have been the most impactful for you on your business journey?
23:40: How did you find those people who were just a fraction of the road further than you in your journey?
25:30: What people-related resource would you advise people connect with the help them?
26:25 What media-related resource would you advise people connect with the help them?
27:30: What female role model do you look up to?
28:55: Conclusion and what’s coming for the rest of the series
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