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EPISODE · Oct 31, 2024 · 35 MIN

Inside New York's Longest-Running Climate Tech Incubator

from Green New Perspective · host Green New Perspective

In this episode, Jeanette Williams and Frederic Clerc from the Urban Future Lab discuss their mission to support climate tech startups. They share insights on the challenges faced by these startups, the importance of customer discovery, and the role of incubators in fostering innovation. The conversation also touches on the significance of equity in climate tech, communication barriers, scalling challenges, and the future of climate innovation, particularly in New York City.Guests:Jeannette Williams, Chief Operating OfficerFrederic Clerc, Interim Managing Director🕑 Chapters:━━━━━━➜ 00:00 Intro➜ 03:09 History of Urban Future Lab ➜ 05:23 Partnership with NYU ➜ 07:31 Challenges for Startups ➜ 09:31 Funding Challenges ➜ 12:43 Successful Startup Traits ➜ 16:05 Staying Green While Scaling ➜ 20:23 Scaling Strategies ➜ 23:49 Equity in Climate Tech ➜ 25:31 Bridging Stakeholder Gaps ➜ 29:40 Future of Climate Tech Excitement ➜ 32:31 Future Partnerships at Urban Future Lab📚 Follow UFL:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: https://www.ufl.nyc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/urban-future-lab/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urbanfuturelab Newsletter: https://bit.ly/ufl-newsletter👉 Interview with Jeannette and Frederic: https://www.npws.net/podcast/ufl-climatetech-incubatorKey Takeaways:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➜ Urban Future Lab is the longest climate tech incubator in NYC.➜ They have supported over 170 startups since 2009.➜ Customer discovery is crucial for startup success.➜ Successful startups leverage incubators for connections.➜ Startups must consider environmental impacts of their innovations.➜ Communication gaps hinder climate tech accessibility.➜ Adaptation to climate change is an underserved area for innovation.➜ New York offers a robust market for scaling climate tech.➜ Equity and inclusion are vital in climate tech initiatives.➜ The future of climate tech relies on collaboration and innovation.🎧 Subscribe to our podcast:━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Spotify: https://bit.ly/3PSWIyI Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RvlHte Youtube: https://bit.ly/3RDzkXg Deezer: https://bit.ly/3PvQaof Amazon Music: https://bit.ly/3PQlijS Zencastr: https://bit.ly/48xt75s💬 Follow GNP podcast on social media:━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greennewperspective/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-perspective-marketing/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greennewperspective TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greennewperspective🌍 Cleantech marketing podcast created by New Perspective━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This podcast is proudly created by New Perspective Marketing, a dynamic growth marketing agency in Boston, MA, celebrating 20 years in business. We help sustainably focused B2B organizations grow their brands and scale up revenue. If you or your organization is looking to grow, visit https://www.npws.com for more info.💚 GNP Team:━━━━━━Host & Co-Producer: Dunja JovanovicExecutive Producer: Marko BodirozaCreator: Nathan Harris#Sustainability #Cleantech #podcast #GreenNewPerspective

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In this episode, Jeanette Williams and Frederic Clerc from the Urban Future Lab discuss their mission to support climate tech startups. They share insights on the challenges faced by these startups, the importance of customer discovery, and the role of incubators in fostering innovation. The conversation also touches on the significance of equity in climate tech, communication barriers, scalling challenges, and the future of climate innovation, particularly in New York City.Guests:Jeannette Williams, Chief Operating OfficerFrederic Clerc, Interim Managing Director🕑 Chapters:━━━━━━➜ 00:00 Intro➜ 03:09 History of Urban Future Lab ➜ 05:23 Partnership with NYU ➜ 07:31 Challenges for Startups ➜ 09:31 Funding Challenges ➜ 12:43 Successful Startup Traits ➜ 16:05 Staying Green While Scaling ➜ 20:23 Scaling Strategies ➜ 23:49 Equity in Climate Tech ➜ 25:31 Bridging Stakeholder Gaps ➜ 29:40 Future of Climate Tech Excitement ➜ 32:31 Future Partnerships at Urban Future Lab📚 Follow UFL:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: https://www.ufl.nyc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/urban-future-lab/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urbanfuturelab Newsletter: https://bit.ly/ufl-newsletter👉 Interview with Jeannette and Frederic: https://www.npws.net/podcast/ufl-climatetech-incubatorKey Takeaways:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➜ Urban Future Lab is the longest climate tech incubator in NYC.➜ They have supported over 170 startups since 2009.➜ Customer discovery is crucial for startup success.➜ Successful startups leverage incubators for connections.➜ Startups must consider environmental impacts of their innovations.➜ Communication gaps hinder climate tech accessibility.➜ Adaptation to climate change is an underserved area for innovation.➜ New York offers a robust market for scaling climate tech.➜ Equity and inclusion are vital in climate tech initiatives.➜ The future of climate tech relies on collaboration and innovation.🎧 Subscribe to our podcast:━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Spotify: https://bit.ly/3PSWIyI Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RvlHte Youtube: https://bit.ly/3RDzkXg Deezer: https://bit.ly/3PvQaof Amazon Music: https://bit.ly/3PQlijS Zencastr: https://bit.ly/48xt75s💬 Follow GNP podcast on social media:━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greennewperspective/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-perspective-marketing/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greennewperspective TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greennewperspective🌍 Cleantech marketing podcast created by New Perspective━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This podcast is proudly created by New Perspective Marketing, a dynamic growth marketing agency in Boston, MA, celebrating 20 years in business. We help sustainably focused B2B organizations grow their brands and scale up revenue. If you or your organization is looking to grow, visit https://www.npws.com for more info.💚 GNP Team:━━━━━━Host & Co-Producer: Dunja JovanovicExecutive Producer: Marko BodirozaCreator: Nathan Harris#Sustainability #Cleantech #podcast #GreenNewPerspective

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