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Cleantech Scaleup? Here's Your Real Problem, And Two Things To Do About It.

Australia can now run its grid on close to 100% renewables. What are the takeaways for cleantech scaleups?

🎙️ Reflecting on the Latest Climate Insiders Podcast with Nadav Steinmitz 🌍

Why do some scaleups sink while others sail smoothly? 🌊 Three main pitfalls can capsize your venture if you’re not careful.

How to determine the right scale for your FOAK manufacturing plant? Here is a step-by-step guide.

Who do you go to for the money and when? When you're scaling up from Lab to Nth-of-a-Kind (NOAK), understanding the capital stack is...

What you can learn from First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) projects in nuclear? A lot, it appears.

Licensing, Buy-out or Project Finance? 

Investors think that hard tech climate scaleups lack generalist and financial expertise. While Founders agree only with the latter. Why?...

Strategic investors can be a double-edged sword for greentech scaleups. Here’s what to look out for. ⌛️Never before there was such a...

We all love success stories, but the truth is, we learn best from failures.

EU/US electric car markers and battery manufacturers are stalling. Here are the three main reasons why and two ways to deal with it.

80% of all my problems in all my projects came from having the wrong people on the team. Here are my 3 mistakes in hiring.

Last week, I tuned into an insightful interview with Yair Reems, Partner at Extantia Capital, conducted by Yoann Berno of Climate...

Securing that first sale can be a daunting challenge, especially if your customer isn’t also your investor, and you lack a government...

One rainy Amsterdam morning This was not going to be good. I was quietly contemplating how much money we could lose on this deal. I took...

In 2016 I convinced Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear corporation, to invest $1B in wind energy and wind turbine manufacturing. Why did...

Why would you refuse a board position? I want to share the thought process behind my decision in this post.

It took me 10 years to learn how corporate investors think. I will teach you this now in five minutes.