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Tech and Trees

by Pascal Mies

On Tech and Trees Pascal Mies talks to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to answer two simple questions: How do we build better ClimateTech Start-Ups and how do we build more of them faster? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. #51 Nina Mannheimer - CPO and Co-Founder of Klim - Boosting Regenerative Farming

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. In this episode I talk to Nina Mannheimer…

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  2. #50 Josh Romisher - CEO & Co-Founder of Holocene - The Risks and Opportunities in African ClimateTech

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. In this episode I talk to Josh Romisher, co-founder...

  3. #49 Jakob Bitner - CEO and Co-Founder of VoltStorage - Energy storage for green energy 24/7

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. On this episode I talk to Jakob Bitner, co-founder…

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  4. #48 Caitlin Wale - CEO and Founder of Kinjani - Backing African Climate Talent

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. On this episode I talk to Caitlin Wale, the founder…

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  5. #47 Natalia Dorfman - CEO and Co-Founder of Kita - Insuring Carbon Markets

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. On this episode I talk to Natalia Dorfman, founder…

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  6. #46 René Bretschneider - Chief People & Sustainability Officer at Thermondo - Führungskräfte gewinnen und halten

    Hallo und herzlich willkommen zum Tech and Trees Podcast. Mein Name ist Pascal Mies und wie immer geht es heute darum, wie wir bessere ClimateTech Start-Ups bauen und wie wir schneller mehr von ihnen auf die Straße bringen können. Ganz konkret geht es heute darum, wie ClimateTechs erfahrene...

  7. #45 Casper Rasmussen - Co-Founder & CEO of Monta - Connecting the dots in the EV ecosystem

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. On this episode I talk to Casper Rasmussen…

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  8. #44 William Pelton - CEO & Co-Founder of Phytoform - DNA editing for sustainable agriculture

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to learn about how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. On this episode I talk to William Pelton, Co-Founder...

  9. #43 Florian Hildebrand - CEO & Co-Founder of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies - Scaling DAC to Tesla-levels

    On this episode I talk to Florian Hildebrand, Co-Founder and CEO of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies. Greenlyte is direct air capture company that draws down carbon from the air while producing hydrogen. They have raised ten million in capital and want to grow as fast as Tesla did. Ambitious goals…

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  10. #42 George Darrah - Principal at Systemiq Capital - From Oil & Gas to ClimateTech VC

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to find out how we build better ClimateTech companies and how we build more of them faster. In this episode I talk to George Darrah, a principal at...

  11. #41 Timur Sirman - Co-Founder of Magnotherm - Cooling the Planet

    This time I spoke to Timur Sirman, co-founder of Magnotherm. Magnotherm is a German company that developed a magnetic cooling technology that is vastly more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly than fluid-based cooling systems. By bringing this cooling technology to for example super...

  12. #40 Hampus Jakobsson - GP and Co-Founder at Pale Blue Dot - Pragmatism vs Idealism in ClimateTech

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and today I am starting a new season of Tech and Trees. After leaving Africa I took a little pause to reflect on what I wanted to do next and what I wanted to learn about. However, in the end everything will still be about…

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  13. #39 Jit Bhattacharya, Co-Founder and CEO of BasiGo - From Apple to electric buses in Kenya

    This time I spoke to Jit Bhattacharya, Founder and CEO of the Kenyan electric bus company BasiGo. He is one of those people with whom I do not know where to start asking questions. Jit has spent significant time in Silicon Valley working on battery systems, then moving on to Apple, then building...

  14. #38 Our long walk to economic freedom - Johan Fourie, Economic Historian at Stellenbosch University

    Having spent the past year on the African continent, I am now in the final stages of this series of African guests. This time I am talking to the economics professor and economic historian Johan Fourie. He is something like the South African Noah Yuval Harari whom most people know for his book...

  15. #37 Pioneering Direct Air Capture in Kenya - Martin Freimüller, Founder of Octavia Carbon

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees Podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and on Tech and Trees I talk to Climate-Tech Founders, Operators, Investors and Academics who get me smarter on how to build better climate-tech companies. This time I spoke to Martin Freimüller, Founder of Octavia Carbon -...

  16. #36 Leah Bessa - Co-Founder & CSO of De Novo FoodLabs - Being the Scientist in a Start-Up

    I have started to dive a bit more into the DeepTech-Space and what it takes to build such a venture. Last time, I tried to cover how to start a biotech venture as a business guy. Well, this time I approach the topic from the other side. I want to understand how a deeptech business is run on the...

  17. #35 Tasneem Karodia - Co-Founder of Mzansi Meats - Cultivated Meat from Cape Town

    Among all the start-ups out there, DeepTech-ventures are the most interesting to me and so I want to make an effort to interview more people who are building something really really hard. As a guy with a business background, I want to understand how to start these type of ventures without having…

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  18. #34 Jesse Forrester - Founder & CEO of Mazi Mobility - Electrifying Kenyan Mobility

    Last time I talked to Romain Diaz Satgana, a venture capitalist who invests in climate-focused companies in Africa. This time I talk to one of the founders who was too good for Romain to pass on and compelled him to invest.. My guest is Jesse Forrester, Founder and CEO of Mazi Mobility. Jesse is...

  19. #33 Romain Diaz, Managing Partner at Satgana - The Climate VC bridging Africa and Europe

    My guest today is Romain Diaz, the founder and managing partner of the climate-tech VC Satgana. In the past year one climate fund after another has been raised in Europe but Satgana is special due to their geographical focus: They invest in Europe and Africa alike. Romain spent several years as…

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  20. #32 Zachariah George, Co-Founder of Launch Africa - The most active African Venture Capital Investor

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees Podcast - What are the big shifts that technology will bring about on the African continent? I spoke to the most active venture capitalist on the continent about the trends he sees. Zachariah George and his fund “Launch Africa” have made 133 investments...

  21. #31 Shobhita Soor - Founder of Legendary Foods - Insect Farming in Ghana

    Sometimes you start an episode and you have a good feeling right away. When I started talking to Shobhita Soor I had this feeling. She gave off a great positive vibe during our conversation which I feel stemmed from her conviction regarding her mission: making protein insufficiency and...

  22. #30 Dr. Armand Bam - Leadership for Equality in South Africa

    The people I get to interview on Tech and Trees are different every time and all of them have different stories to share. Yet, I feel that this one turned out to be more personal than others. I talk to Armand Bam, the head of social impact at the Stellenbosch Business School. He oversees their...

  23. #29 Joost Boeles - Co-Founder of eBee - Bringing 100,000 e-Bicycles to Africa

    In this episode I am talking to Joost Boeles - A Dutchie turned start-up founder in Kenya. When I got introduced to Joost, I struggled a bit with the question of how does his business makes sense? Joost has co-founded the first e-Bike assembler in East Africa and sells them to businesses and...

  24. #28 Duval van Zijl - Accelerating Climate Tech in South Africa

    Building a start-up is hard. Building a start-up in South Africa is harder. To help ease the pain and assist founders in their journey accelerators are setting up shop all over the African continent. One of the most successful ones is the LaunchLab in Stellenbosch. What makes them unique is: They...

  25. #27 Michael Maas - E-Mobility in South Africa

    In Today’s episode I am talking to Michael Maas. This interview was recorded a while back but it was special for me: It was the first time I got to interview someone in person rather than via video call. While it made me a bit more nervous as I could not hide behind my screen it was also a...

  26. #26 A Trip around South Africa - Jako Volschenk - Prof. for Sustainability at Stellenbosch Business School

    Hello and welcome to the tech and trees podcast. I paused the show for six months. I was living in South Africa. When live around you is loud and there is a lot to see, it is worth it to focus and decrease your own output. Now, that I am back in Europe, I want to share the impressions I gathered…

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  27. #25 - Melina Sánchez Montañés - Head of Impact at AENU - Refocusing Venture Capital on Impact

    Impact Tech has proven remarkably resilient to the latest developments in the world. Hence, it is not surprising that more and more impact venture funds are popping up. One of them is AENU, a VC firm started by the well-known Heilemann brothers. They raised 100M in their first closing to pump…

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  28. #24 Merit Valdsalu - Founder of Single.Earth - A Nature-Backed Economy

    A lot of buzz surrounds the world of ClimateTech and the question of how to draw down CO2 from the atmosphere. This carbon tunnel vision can make us easily forget that we have a biodiversity crisis to deal with. Biologists go as far as claiming that we live in a sixth great extinction. How do we...

  29. #23 Ivo Degn - Mitgründer von Climate Farmers - Regenerative Farming

    Dieses Mal spreche ich mit Ivo Degn - dem Gründer von Climate Farmers. Technologien, die CO2 aus der Luft ziehen erfahren gerade einen extremen Hype. Dabei haben sie aber oft noch einen sehr langen Weg vor sich, um relevante Mengen an CO2 aufnehmen zu können. Da trifft es sich ganz gut, dass...

  30. #22 Yair Reem - Partner at Extantia Capital - Time to hunt Gigacorns

    Today I talk to Yair Reem, founding Partner at Extantia Capital, a Berlin-based venture capital fund that invests exclusively in climate-tech. They do what they call carbon math for each of their investments. That is how they identify Gigacorns, companies that can sequester one Gigaton of...

  31. #21 Sana Kapadia - Climate Change and Gender Inequality | Gendersmart investing

    Hello and welcome to the Tech & Trees Podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and today I speak to a kick-ass woman from the world of impact investing: Sana Kapadia. Sana wears a lot a of different hats - amongst others she is the: Gender-Lead for Programmes & Advisory at the investment firm Roots of...

  32. #20 Antoine Welter - Co-Founder Circu Li-On - Automated Battery Recycling

    Hello and welcome to the Tech and Trees Podcast. My name is Pascal Mies and today I am talking to Antoine Welter. 75% of our worldwide emissions stem from energy-related sources. We need to electrify a whopping amount of our life to reduce this. Part of this is the ramp-up of electricity storage...

  33. #19 Christian Rebernik - Gründer und CEO von Tomorrow’s Education - Empowerment und Education

    Manchmal hab ich Gäste, mit denen ich auch gerne den ganzen Tag sprechen könnte, wenn Sie denn nicht so beschäftigt wären. Heute habe ich mit Christian Rebernik wieder so einen Gast. Der Mann hat Bwin mit aufgebaut, hat die technische Entwicklung bei Parship geleitet und die frühen Jahre von N26...

  34. #18 Joel Tasche, Founder & CEO of CleanHub - Plastik ist von allen Problemen am leichtesten zu lösen.

    Hallo und herzlich Willkommen zum beim Tech & Trees Podcast - dieses Mal habe ich den guten Joel Tasche an der Strippe. Joel ist der Mitgründer und CEO von CleanHub. Mit seinem Team werkelt er an einer Lösung, um Plastik von den Weltmeeren fernzuhalten. Konkret bietet er mit CleanHub eine den...

  35. #17 Fridtjof Detzner - Gründer von Jimdo und Planet A - Build something the planet needs

    Willkommen beim Tech and Trees Podcast, dieses Mal mit einem der vermutlich bekanntesten Namen, der deutschen Start-Up Szene: Fridtjof Detzner. Bekannt geworden ist er als Mitgründer von Jimdo, dem Websitebaukasten, den er schon als Teenager mit aufgebaut hat. Nach 18 Jahren Jimdo hat er die…

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  36. #16 Ole Seidenberg, Gründer von Skyseed - Aufforstung per Drohne

    Moin und herzlich willkommen beim Tech and Trees Podcast. Diesmal geht es wieder ins Technische. Ich spreche mit dem guten Ole Seidenberg. Mit seiner Neugründung Skyseed fliegt er Drohnen über Waldgebiete, die dort dann Saatgut abwerfen und so Aufforstung voranbringen. Klingt futuristisch, ist es...

  37. #15 Antonio Rohrßen - Politik für ein klimaneutrales Berlin

    Hallo und herzlich Willkommen zum Tech & Trees Podcast und der vielleicht bisher politisch-aufgeladensten Folge. Ich habe Antonio Rohrßen zu Gast. Er ist für die Community-Arbeit bei Patagonia in Berlin zuständig, aber vor allem ist er Mitgründer der Berliner Partei: Klimaliste. Politik ist…

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  38. #14 Jakob Willeke - Purpose Ventures & Verantwortungseigentum

    Hallo und herzlich willkommen zum Tech & Trees Podcast. Dieses Mal habe ich mit Jakob Willeke über das Thema Verantwortungseigentum gesprochen - also Unternehmen, die sich selbst gehören. Jakob Willeke arbeitet seit knapp vier Jahren für PURPOSE und macht dort so gut wie alles. Er verantwortet...

  39. #13 Katja Diehl - #Autokorrektur - Antriebswende ist nicht Verkehrswende

    Hallo und frohes Neues, Mensch. In dieser ersten Folge des Tech and Trees Podcasts im Jahre 2022 habe ich Katja Diehl zu Gast. Katja beschäftigt sich intensiv mit einem Thema das uns alle betrifft: Mobilität. Allerdings betrachtet Katja dieses Thema nicht durch eine rein technische Linse sondern...

  40. #12 Vanessa Gstettenbauer - Co-Lead Farm-Food-Climate bei ProjectTogether

    Dieses Mal bei Tech and Trees spreche ich mit Vanessa Gstettenbauer, ihres Zeichens Verantwortliche für den Bereich Farm-Food-Climate bei Project Together, einer deutschen Non-Profit Organisation, die open social innovation nutzt um systemischen Wandel zu bewirken. Vanessa ist extrem schnell im...

  41. #11 Dr. Lauren Lentz - Founder of Revent - How to: Impact Measurement

    Welcome, welcome - you are listening to Tech and Trees and this time I am talking to Dr. Lauren Lentz - Lauren is a lot of things: The founding partner at the Berlin-based Impact Venture Capital Fund Revent, a social scientist with degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard and lastly and probably…

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  42. #10 Karry Schwettmann - Über B-Corp und Communication for Impact

    Wie kann man den Impact seiner Firma fundamental neu ausrichten? B-Corp ist die Lösung. Diese Meinung vertritt man zumindest in der Philosophietage bei Patagonia. Aber man sollte nichts einfach hinnehmen . Ich wollte dem Ganzen jedoch etwas auf den Zahn fühlen und habe versucht eine...

  43. #9 Fredrik Uddenfeldt - VP of Product Vision at ClimateView - Once a Diplomat in China, now envisioning Climate Strategies for Cities

    Hello and welcome to the first ever edition of Tech and Trees in English!This time I talk to Fredrik Uddenfeldt, the VP of Product Vision at ClimateView. ClimateView is a Climate-Action-Platform for cities. A major share of greenhouse gas emissions stem from the cities that we love so much. But...

  44. #8 Marko Vogt, Gründer & Geschäftsführer von Eventus Wind u SolarBlick - Wer Leistung will, muss Sinn bieten

    Marko Vogt ist der Gründer und Geschäftsführer von SolarBlick und Eventus Wind. Mit diesen zwei Firmen entwickelt er großflächige Solar- und Windparks. Er und sein Team sind hier für Projekte verantwortlich, an denen ganze Armeen mitwirken.Wir haben über Markos Karriere im Silicon Valley als...

  45. #7 Raphael Fellmer, CEO & Gründer von Sirplus - Aufhören Nahrung zu verschwenden und Enkeltauglichkeit Zukunft werden lassen

    Raphael Fellmer trägt viele Hüte: Gründer, Klimaaktivist, Geldstreiker und Vater. Er ist der Gründer von Sirplus und verfolgt die Vision einer Welt, in der alle Menschen genügend zu essen haben und alle produzierten Lebensmittel gegessen werden. Darüber hinaus kennt man Raphael aber vor allem...

  46. #6Tina Dreimann - Founder & MD Better Ventures - Alle Hebel für das Klima auf den Tisch

    Tina Dreimann ist Mitgründerin und Managing Director des Impact Angel Clubs Better Ventures. Das ist eine Ansammlung von Unternehmern wie Dr. Stephen Weich dem CEO von Flaschenpost oder Christoph Behn, dem Gründer der Kartenmacherei, eines von Deutschlands größten gebootstrappten Start-ups...

  47. #5 Leon Seefeld - Gemeinwohl-orientierte Geschäftsmodelle, keine NGOs

    Leon Seefeld ist Jungunternehmer und hat aus der Universität heraus eine Beratung für wirkungsorientierte Geschäftsmodelle gegründet. Sein Unternehmen Reframe Ventures, kann man sich hier anschauen: https://www.reframe-rt.deWie ich hat er an einer Business School studiert und so haben wir darüber...

  48. #4 Markus Sauerhammer - Social Entrepreneurship und Wirkungsorientierung in die Politik bringen

    Markus Sauerhammer, Chairman des Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerks Deutschland - kurz SENDDas Hauptthema für uns heute war etwas ganz Aktuelles und zwar die Verhandlungen zu einer möglichen Ampelkoalition. Vor vier Jahren war das Thema Social Entrepreneurship auf der politischen Agenda praktisch...

  49. #3 Lara Obst - Radschlagen & Klimatransformation

    Lara ist in der Start-Up-Szene erfrischend anders - Nix WHU, EBS oder sonstige Business School, nix immer schon mit einem Gründungstraum aufgewachsen. Lara hat Kulturwissenschaften studiert und während des Studiums ihre unternehmerischen Neigungen entwickelt. Über die Stationen Berlin, erste…

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  50. #2 Karsten vom Bruch - Der Wert des eigenen Spiegelbildes

    Heutiges Thema betrifft weder Bäume noch Technologie direkt, sondern welche Kultur wir in Unternehmen fördern müssen, um klimafreundliche Innovation und vor allem Um- und Aufbruchsdenken zu ermöglichen. Dazu habe ich mit Karsten vom Bruch gesprochen. Karsten war 20 Jahre lang Ingenieur bei Bosch...

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On Tech and Trees Pascal Mies talks to ClimateTech founders, investors and operators to answer two simple questions: How do we build better ClimateTech Start-Ups and how do we build more of them faster?

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