The Venturing in Climate (ViC) podcast was born to shine a light on climate tech entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers who are leading our efforts to tackle climate change. Hosted by Henry Hamilton, an early-stage climate tech investor, ViC helps unpack the key technologies, trends and insights for building a cleaner, more sustainable future.
Henry has over 7 years of investing experience across a variety of public and private markets, including 2 years in climate VC. He also has worked for Bulb's CEO team during 2020.
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The Venturing in Climate (ViC) podcast was born to shine a light on climate tech entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers who are leading our efforts to tackle climate change. Hosted by Henry Hamilton, an early-stage climate tech investor, ViC helps unpack the key technologies, trends and insights for building a cleaner, more sustainable future.
Henry has over 7 years of investing experience across a variety of public and private markets, including 2 years in climate VC. He also has worked for Bulb's CEO team during 2020.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode of Venturing in Climate, I spoke to Johan Du Plessis, CEO and Founder of Tepeo who are tackling the vast amount of emissions from domestic heating through their Zero Emission Boilers (ZEBs). We discuss:
1) What Tepeo does
2) How Johan came to found Tepeo
3) The challenge of heating - ~20% of carbon emissions are associated with domestic heating
4) Lessons from entrepreneurship
5) Being a sole founder
6) The need to move from a centralised to decentralised energy system...and the energy crisis
7) What's next for Tepeo
8) Advice from moving into the climate space
9) Quick-fire round
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