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Climate Tech Is Getting Funded. Just Not for Climate.
Your Sales Pipeline Is Fiction: "The Mom Test"
Can AI Find the Next Billion-Dollar Lithium Deposit? | Atana Elements
The $1.5 Billion Solar Heat Project Replacing Fossil Fuels in Heavy Industry | GlassPoint
The $440M Bet to Reinvent Climate Innovation | NY Climate Exchange
What 45 Climate CEOs Are Teaching Me About Leadership
The Climate Investments Unlocking the Next 100 Projects
70% of U.S. Substations Are Outdated...Here’s What's Next | NovaTech Automation
The 6 People You Should Never Hire
7 Lessons for Hard-Tech Startups | Vanessa Chan (Time100 List)
15 Rules for Building Billion-Dollar Projects On Time, On Budget
Can Microbes Replace $100B of Fertilizer? | Switch Bioworks
The 40-Year VC Lesson: Relationships Beat Transactions | Brad Feld
The Climate Tech Map: Where Capital and Innovation Are Still Missing | Speed & Scale, Doerr Capital
The CEO Vulnerability Paradox | Strong ≠ Invincible
How to Get 30% More Power From Existing Nuclear Plants | Alva Energy
How CEOs Hire A-Players (#326)
How to Buy Clean Energy Across 1,000 Buildings | VECKTA Energy (#325)
Why Good Startup Acquisitions Go Bad (#324)
The Half-Size Electric Truck Built to Replace Full-Size Pickups | TELO (#323)
The Ocean's Billion-Ton Carbon Removal Opportunity | Gigablue (#322)
From OpenAI to $500M in Project Finance for Forests | Living Carbon (#321)
Why Smart Founders Still Make Bad Decisions (#320)
The $230M Bet on Turning Homes Into Power Plants | Lunar Energy (#319)
When Founder Mode Becomes a Trap (#318)
The Robot Crew Building Solar Farms Faster Than Humans | Luminous (#317)
15 Energy Tech Startups to Watch (#316)
190% Net Revenue Retention: The Software Layer for the Power Grid | Texture (#315)
How Urgency Makes CEOs Worse Decision-Makers (#314)
4 Lessons on Career, Habits, Books + Building a Better Life (#313)
10 Energy Tech Startups Raised Nearly $1B. Here's What They Have in Common (#312)
The Man Who Invented Cradle to Cradle on AI + Industrial Design | William McDonough (#311)
The CEO Sabbatical Test (#310)
Can Nuclear Power Reach 3¢/kWh? | Aalo Atomics (#309)
95 Industrial Decarbonization Startups to Watch (#308)
The $60M Bet on Battery-Powered Stoves | Copper (#307)
7 Tactics Women CEOs Use to Scale Faster (#306)
The Hidden Startup Governance Trap | Eric Ries (#305)
What Top Energy Tech Investors Want Founders to Know | Voyager, SOSV + More (#304)
The 3,000-Year-Old Battery Replacing Industrial Gas | Cache Energy (#303)
Why Smart Founders Lose Focus (#302)
Turning Waste Biomass Into Carbon Removal | Carba (#301)
The Startup Debt Most Energy Tech Founders Ignore (#300)
The $2B Investor View: Debt Should Be Your Second Round | Aligned Climate Capital (#299)
The Hidden Cost of Saying Yes to Every Opportunity (#298)
The Strange Carbon Removal Playbook: Waste Biomass + Public Parks | Graphyte (#297)
Why Cheap Power Is Becoming Data Centers' Biggest Advantage (#296)
Stop Pretending Solar + Batteries = Firm Power | 247Solar (#295)
The New Energy Arbitrage: Megawatts vs. AI Market Cap (#294)
Nuclear's Quiet AI Revolution: Already Powering 70 Reactors | Nuclearn (#293)
The Highest-ROI CEO Move You're Probably Ignoring: Subtraction (#292)
The $8B Utility Blind Spot: From Helicopters to AI | Overstory (#291)
75% of “Clean” Power Isn't Clean (#290)
The $1T Industrial Heat Problem Most Startups Underestimate | Tempo (#289)
The 100-Year Energy Asset Hiding Under Cities | Brightcore Energy (#288)
When CEOs Should Ignore Their Team (#287)
How a $475M VC Investor Picks Energy Tech Winners | Voyager Ventures (#286)
Plan Your Startup Exit Before You Need One (#285)
The Most Dangerous Startup Question: What If Your Idea Is Wrong? (#284)
The 5 Types of Wealth + Why Identity Beats Motivation (#283)
A New Way to Extract Lithium From America's Hardest Brines | Lithios (#282)
Uncapped Upside, Capped Downside: The Entrepreneur’s Bet (#281)
How a $500M+ Deep Tech Investor Picks Winners | At One Ventures (#280)
Why Some Revenue Is Bad Revenue (#279)
The $40M Bet on Battery Backup-as-a-Service | Haven Energy (#278)
Why Optionality Can Destroy Your Balance Sheet (#277)
The $100M Bet on AI to Stop Catastrophic Wildfires | Technosylva (#276)
The Real Cost of “Cheap” Startup Capital (#275)
Rare-Earth-Free Electric Motors + $20M Seed Round | Conifer (#274)
Want Funding? Be Boring. Unit Economics > Bold Visions (#273)
This Unicorn Startups Makes AI Chips 3–5x Nvidia's Efficiency | Positron (#272)
She Left VC to Build a Startup. Then Raised $40M and Landed Google + Microsoft (#271)
Turning Methane Into Methanol With Repurposed Car Engines | Emvolon (#270)
73% of Investors Are Investing in Climate for the Wrong Reason (#269)
Mapping Earth at 7 cm Resolution From the Stratosphere | Near Space Labs (#268)
AI Hunting Refrigerant Leaks Across the Cold Chain | Axiom Cloud (#267)
Can 10-Year Contracts Make Direct Air Carbon Capture Financeable? | Aircapture (#266)
Fungi Innovation + $100M to Turn CO2 Into Fresh Water (#265)
The Pollution Tracker Mapping 740 Million Emissions Sources (#264)
50 Million Miles of Power Lines by 2040. Seriously? (#263)
$7 Trillion for Data Centers + VC Lessons From 36 Investments (#262)
The Self-Propelling Electric RV Taking On a $30B Market | Lightship (#261)
329,000 Robots: Why China Is Crushing the U.S. in Industrial Automation (#260)
Can Carbon Capture Get Below $100/Ton? | Mantel (#259)
How Do We Power $7 Trillion of Data Centers? (#258)
How a VC Investor with $220M Bets on Energy Tech | Volo Earth (#257)
A $150M Investor, $60M Founder + Tony Robbins Walk Into a Bar… (#256)
How AI Can Turn CEOs Into Super-Connectors | Magnet (#255)
From Nitrous Oxide to Carbon Removal: Building an Industrial Decarbonization Platform | ClimeCo (#254)
$63M for Electric Fleets + $150M for Your Next Startup (#253)
The Certified Marketplace for E-Bikes & 80,000 Sold | Upway (#252)
How to Build a Startup Advisory Board, or Join One (#251)
16 Lessons From 50 Hours at Climate Week NYC (#250)
$5B Funding for Sustainable Infrastructure. Solar’s “Land Problem” is Overhyped. Boss: “Talk to AI Before Talking to Me.” $65M for AI in Agtech. Don't Be Consumed by Injustice.
EV Finance: $63M for Electric Fleets + 40% Lower Fuel and Maintenance
60 nuclear startups to watch. AI for 220 million peer-reviewed articles. Meta CTO invests in climate. Stoic wisdom on corporate values. Robots building climate-resilient homes.
Scaling Climate Finance in the Global South: A CEO’s Playbook
7 Ways AI is a Climate Champion vs. Climate Killer
Net Zero Homes: 2.5x Faster, 30% Cheaper, $20M VC Raise
China’s Power Grid Gains — Outpacing U.S. by 2–10x in Power & Solar