Leaders in Cleantech

By: David Hunt
  • Summary

  • Leaders in Cleantech is a bi-monthly podcast with host David Hunt speaking to Cleantech founders, CEOs, investors and industry leaders about their trials, tribulations, successes, failures and future predictions for #cleantech #emobility #energystorage #renewables #smartcities

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  • Leaders In Cleantech #148 Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire – Modo Energy
    Sep 18 2024

    What’s it all about?
    Energy Storage, to infinity and beyond! How do you forecast and predict revenues from your energy storage assets, even if not built yet? Modo have a range of solutions to help asset owners, developers and investors to answer these questions. We also dive into the challenges and experiences of high growth, from pivoting and fundraising to new market entry and building and retaining high performing teams.

    About Quentin Scrimshire:
    Quentin ‘Q’ Scrimshire has over a decade of experience working in battery energy storage and power markets, covering asset development, financing, construction, trading and optimisation. Before co-founding Modo Energy in 2019, he led Kiwi Power’s European energy storage business (acquired by ENGIE). Previously, he was an engineer at Centrica PLC working on capital projects across offshore wind, oil & gas, thermal power, peaking plant and energy storage. He holds his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester.
    About Modo Energy:
    Modo Energy is a B2B SaaS platform that helps renewable energy companies, funds, utilities, and banks manage and value their energy assets. The company specializes in batteries and provides data, analytics, and forecasting to help customers understand the financial performance of their energy assets.

    Social links:
    Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire on LinkedIn: Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire
    Modo Energy on LinkedIn: Modo Energy: Overview
    Modo Energy website: Home
    Podcast

    Chapters:
    00:00 Introduction
    00:40 Meet Quentin Scrimshire of Modo Energy
    01:11 The Vision and Mission of Modo Energy
    02:19 Global Expansion and Market Focus
    02:56 Quentin's Journey in Energy Storage
    04:48 Founding Modo Energy: Challenges and Pivots
    15:37 Leadership and Company Culture
    27:13 Customer-Centric Approach and Community Building
    35:57 Future Plans and Closing Remarks

    About Hyperion Executive Search:

    Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

    If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com


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    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/
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    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/

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    39 mins
  • Leaders In Cleantech #147 Joost Kruytzer – Big Circle Ventures
    Jul 24 2024

    What’s it all about?
    Building cleantech start-ups, at scale. It can be confusing, the world of Incubators, accelerators and venture builders, also known as start-up studios. Who does what, how and why? In this episode we clarify some of those things, but discuss so much more about the why and how of new cleantech venture builder Big Circle Ventures, with founder CEO Joost Kruytzer. Joost is a very experienced venture builder, recently moving from healthtech to cleantech following a passion to address some of our biggest challenges. I hope you enjoy the episode.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Introduction
    00:46 Understanding Venture Building
    02:13 The Genesis of Big Circle Ventures
    03:57 Scaling Startups: The Big Circle Approach
    05:35 Clarifying Venture Builders vs. Accelerators and Incubators
    07:24 The Journey from IP to Startup
    13:59 The Importance of Culture in Startups
    18:28 Ambitions and Future Plans for Big Circle Ventures
    24:29 Challenges and Rewards in Venture Building
    32:52 Focus Areas and Opportunities in Climate Tech
    35:21 Call to Action: Collaborate with Big Circle Ventures
    39:56 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

    About Joost Kruytzer:
    Theoretical physicist turned management consultant turned deeptech venture builder. Driven by positive impact. Built up NLC as its COO, to become Europe’s largest healthtech venture builder, creating over 100 ventures along the way. Earlier this year he founded BigCircle Ventures, applying a similar model to tackle the world’s climate and circularity challenges
    About BigCircle Ventures:
    BigCircle Ventures scouts promising deeptech and turns this into successful startups that tackle the world's climate and circularity challenges. BigCircle Ventures is set up to become the world’s largest greentech venture builder. We bring a unique flow of early stage innovations to the market, to boost the world’s journey towards net zero and circularity. The world needs greentech, but promising inventions often stay untouched on a shelf, hidden in a university, research institute or company. We will tackle this problem by using our proven venture building model and fund.

    Social links:
    Joost Kruytzer on LinkedIn
    BigCircle Ventures on LinkedIn

    About Hyperion Executive Search:

    Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

    If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com


    Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribe
    I'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter.
    If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/

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    41 mins
  • Leaders In Cleantech #146 Malin Carlstrom – Climentum Capital
    Jul 10 2024

    What’s it all about?
    Investing in Hardtech! Yes, it’s true, some VC’s do invest in hardtech/deeptech, knowing the specific challenges of supporting companies of this nature to scale. This week I speak with Malin Carlstrom of Danish VC Climentum Capital about scaling deeptech, the importance of team, the usefulness (and otherwise) of advisors and NED’s, and the ‘perfect storm’ giving optimism about the chances for climatetech to have its’ day.

    About Malin Carlstrom:
    Malin has spent the last two decades investing for leading financial and corporate Venture Capital funds. She is an engineer with a passion for deep-tech and energy transformation, and she is deeply connected in the Nordic VC ecosystems. Malin has previously worked as an investor at Industrifonden, Verdane, SEB, and ABB, building extensive experience in sourcing, deal-making, portfolio management and exiting. As of 2022, Malin is a General Partner at Article 9 fund Climentum Capital, which focuses on hardtech companies that abate large scale CO2 emissions.

    About Climentum Capital:
    Climentum Capital is a Venture Capital firm based in Copenhagen, Berlin and Stockholm. The General Partners Malin Carlström, Dörte Hirschberg, Morten Halborg and Stefan Maard invest in European B2B climate hard tech startups.
    Climentum targets late Seed and Series A investments in the five sectors that generate more than 90% of emissions in Europe: energy, industry, food & agriculture, buildings and transportation.

    The pioneering Article 9 fund has a double incentives structure, with carry indexed on both CO2 emissions reductions and financial returns.
    Climentum’s portfolio includes Qvantum, Aegir Insights and Jolt.

    Social links:
    Malin Carlstrom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malin-carlstrom/
    Climentum Capital on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/climentum/
    Climentum Capital website: https://www.climentum.com/

    About Hyperion Executive Search:

    Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

    If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com


    Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribe
    I'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter.
    If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/

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    40 mins

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Well managed conversations with great insights

I've listened to a few of these and have loved them all to date. The focus appears to be on EV, battery, eMobility, etc. and emphasis on how leaders have started up companies in that space, so I would love to hear more content around other cleantech challenges (example: hydrogen as fuel source, RNG) as well as how big corporations are tackling these challenges, but if you're primarily looking for content in the electrification space, this is a fantastic podcast for that.

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