Climate CEOs: Scaling Startups

• Fungi Solving the Climate Crisis & $100M for DAC that Produces Fresh Water [💡 5 Ideas]

  Here are today’s five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1. 📊 CLIMATE DATAFungi: the overachievers of the climate crisis2. 💡 CEO TO KNOWWill Kain @ Avnos ($100M for DAC producing fresh water)3. 💸 INVESTOR SPOTLIGHTDmitriy Antropov @ Partners Group ($8B for smart infrastructure)4. 🤖 AI INSIGHTLet AI try to embarrass you (before reality does)5. ⛰️ MINDFUL MOMENTChurchill’s guide to finding your psychic TNT------------Join my EFI Climate CEO Peer Group:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — North America’s top invite-only peer community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. 100 CEOs and Mentors representing $40B in market value or investment assets.👉 https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.comGet my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOsFor entrepreneurs and investors: 5 quick ideas on climate data, CEOs to know, investor spotlights, AI insights, and mindfulness moments — drawn from lessons working with 400+ climate CEOs and investors, plus 25 years of meditation practice.👉 https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.comLeave a Podcast Review. (All the cool kids do it.)No sponsors — just real conversations with climate leaders. If you found this episode valuable, please leave a review to help others discover it.👉 https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviewsAbout the Host:Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, connect on LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding---Cover credit: Matt Ferrell's YouTube channel Undecided

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• Pollution Tracker for 740 Million Emissions Sources & Why We Make Excuses [💡 5 Ideas]

  Here are today’s five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1. 📊 CLIMATE DATAPollution tracker: 740 million emissions sources2. 💡 CEO TO KNOWBen Parker @ Lightship3. 💸 INVESTOR SPOTLIGHTMicah Kotch @ Blackhorn Ventures4. 🤖 AI INSIGHTDear ChatGPT, what do you know about me?5. ⛰️ MINDFUL MOMENTEverything is figure-out-able.------------Join my EFI Climate CEO Peer Group:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — North America’s top invite-only peer community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. 100 CEOs and Mentors representing $40B in market value or investment assets.👉 https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.comGet my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOsFor entrepreneurs and investors: 5 quick ideas on climate data, CEOs to know, investor spotlights, AI insights, and mindfulness moments — drawn from lessons working with 400+ climate CEOs and investors, plus 25 years of meditation practice.👉 https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.comLeave a Podcast Review. (All the cool kids do it.)No sponsors — just real conversations with climate leaders. If you found this episode valuable, please leave a review to help others discover it.👉 https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviewsAbout the Host:Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, connect on LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding

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• 50 Million Miles of Power Transmission Lines by 2040. Is That a Joke? [💡 5 Ideas]

  Here are today’s five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1. 📊 CLIMATE DATA50 million miles of transmission lines are needed by 2040 to achieve climate goals.2. 💡 CEO TO KNOWCam Halliday @ Mantel ($32M for carbon capture)3. 💸 INVESTOR SPOTLIGHTDave Kirkpatrick @ SJF Ventures ($435M for impact startups)4. 🤖 AI INSIGHTAI as speechwriter for critical moments (in a rush)5. ⛰️ MINDFUL MOMENTMisery or strength: same workload, different ROI------------Join my EFI Climate CEO Peer Group:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — North America’s top invite-only peer community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. 100 CEOs and Mentors representing $40B in market value or investment assets.👉 https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.comGet my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOsFor entrepreneurs and investors: 5 quick ideas on climate data, CEOs to know, investor spotlights, AI insights, and mindfulness moments — drawn from lessons working with 400+ climate CEOs and investors, plus 25 years of meditation practice.👉 https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.comLeave a Podcast Review. (All the cool kids do it.)No sponsors — just real conversations with climate leaders. If you found this episode valuable, please leave a review to help others discover it.👉 https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviewsAbout the Host:Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, connect on LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding--Cover image credit: BloombergNEF, 2023. (Note: Their projections for transmission lines go out to 2050, not 2040 as IEA does.)

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• $7 Trillion on Data Centers by 2030 + VC Lessons from $220M Across 36 Companies [💡 5 Ideas]

  Here are today’s five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1. 📊 CLIMATE DATA$7 trillion on data centers by 20302. 💡 CEO TO KNOWTod Hynes @ Maigent & MIT3. 💸 INVESTOR SPOTLIGHTKareem Dabbagh & Joe Goodman @ VoLo Earth4. 🤖 AI INSIGHTAI as “Cognitive Reframing Coach”5. ⛰️ MINDFUL MOMENT“Despair is a failure of imagination.”------------Join my EFI Climate CEO Peer Group:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — North America’s top invite-only peer community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. 100 CEOs and Mentors representing $40B in market value or investment assets.👉 https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.comGet my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOsFor entrepreneurs and investors: 5 quick ideas on climate data, CEOs to know, investor spotlights, AI insights, and mindfulness moments — drawn from lessons working with 400+ climate CEOs and investors, plus 25 years of meditation practice.👉 https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.comLeave a Podcast Review. (All the cool kids do it.)No sponsors — just real conversations with climate leaders. If you found this episode valuable, please leave a review to help others discover it.👉 https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviewsAbout the Host:Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, connect on LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding--Cover image source: McKinsey & Company, 2025.

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• The $30B Market Nobody Thinks About: Greening the RV [👏 Interview]

  Ex-Tesla engineers raise $60M for solar and battery-powered RVs, creating tomorrow's camping today and relevant for 1 in 10 Americans.🎧 Episode SummaryBen Parker is the Co-Founder of Lightship, an electric RV company that’s reimagining how we hit the road sustainably.Lightship builds aerodynamic, all-electric travel trailers with onboard solar and battery systems that can provide 5-7 days of clean power.Before founding Lightship in 2020, Ben was an EV engineer at Tesla. He and his co-founder Toby Kraus (also ex-Tesla) have raised over $60 million from investors like our friends at Prelude Ventures, Congruent Ventures, and Obvious Ventures.In short: Parker and 120 + team members are building the Airstream of the net-zero era: sleek, solar-powered, and silent.-----------Join my EFI Climate CEO Peer Group:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — North America’s top invite-only peer community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. 100 CEOs and Mentors representing $40B in market value or investment assets.👉 https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.comGet my 4-Minute Newsletter: Climate CEOsFor entrepreneurs and investors: 5 quick ideas on climate data, CEOs to know, investor spotlights, AI insights, and mindfulness moments — drawn from lessons working with 400+ climate CEOs and investors, plus 25 years of meditation practice.👉 https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.comLeave a Podcast Review. (All the cool kids do it.)No sponsors — just real conversations with climate leaders. If you found this episode valuable, please leave a review to help others discover it.👉 https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviewsAbout the Host:Dr. Chris Wedding is a climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, connect on LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding

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