Climate CEOs: Scaling Startups

Here are three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:
📊 Finance — Optionality has a balance sheet cost.
⚙️ Tools — Three Horizons of Growth (McKinsey & Company)
⛰️ Leadership — Busy is the new stupid.

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About the host: Dr. Chris Wedding
Climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:
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The leading provider of wildfire and extreme weather risk mitigation solutions protecting communities and assets for utilities, insurance, and fire agencies
🎧 Episode Summary
Technosylva provides advanced AI and predictive modeling solutions to reduce wildfire and extreme weather risks for leading utilities, fire agencies, and insurers worldwide. Backed by pirate equity capital and generating over $100M of revenue, they’re meeting mission critical needs around the country.
CEO Bryan Spear shapes and drives Technosylva’s global efforts to reduce wildfire and extreme weather risk through powerful, science-backed tools. Bryan focuses on long-term vision and near-term execution — building a world-class team, cultivating strategic partnerships, and ensuring Technosylva remains at the forefront of wildfire resilience innovation.
Bryan brings a background in scaling innovative companies and solving complex problems through collaboration. He’s built global partnerships and led cross-disciplinary teams in industries where public safety, infrastructure, and technology intersect. Bryan believes a strong company culture is the foundation for extraordinary results — and it’s that shared ethos of passion and humility that drives Technosylva’s real-world, life-saving impact.

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Climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:
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Here are today’s three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

📊 Climate Finance — Non-dilutive capital is not free money
⚙️ Decision Tool — Take the Four Tendencies Quiz
⛰️ Mindful leadership — Speed vs. direction (don’t get this backwards)

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Climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:
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VC backing for the world's most compact, modular, and cost-effective electric powertrains without rare earth minerals risk
🎧 Episode Summary
Conifer has created the only rare-earth free electric motor and powertrain that is also better across power density, efficiency and cost metrics, compared to incumbents with rare-earths.
Conifer’s in-wheel powertrains and NEMA compatible motors are designed to fuel the fast growing $200B electric mobility, agriculture, and industrial markets.
They raised a $20M seed round last year, which is a good sign in a tough market for hardtech startups.
Ankit Somani, CEO and Co-founder of Conifer, and a repeat entrepreneur and has raised $80M+ across his startups.
Prior to Conifer, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an enterprise AI agent that served Fortune 500 companies like Walmart and Amazon.
Following its acquisition by HireVue, he served as HireVue's Chief Product Officer.
Previously, he was a part of Google’s Data Center R&D and Electrification teams, creating products that serve all of Google infrastructure.

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About the host: Dr. Chris Wedding
Climate CEO coach, investor, serial founder, board member, professor, and occasional monk. For more on climate tech startups and leadership, follow daily posts on LinkedIn:
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding

Here are today’s three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

📊 Finance — This one metric quietly kills climate tech fundraises.
⚙️ Tools — Return on Effort (RoE): Fewer hours. Better outcomes.
⛰️ Leadership — “Don’t do anything that someone else can do.”

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About 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:
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