the most cyberpunk thing I’ve read this year wasn’t fiction—it was a book by Nobel Prize winning MIT economists

This week, I go briefly into the key factors behind determining the term of your off-take

Your First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) project is where your climate tech startup is a startup no more. Investors, customers, and even your own team...

Do acquisitions of climate tech startups by Big Oil help or hinder energy transition?

I have no idea. Still, the question has been popping up in my head now and again for the last year. Every time I see some “hydrogen...

Investor's pressure to go big might have had a hand in it.

The stationary energy storage market tripled in 2023. But with the sector maturing fast, not every corner is ripe for VC-backed disruption

A Pilot is your first real-world test—where you prove that your technology works outside the lab.

The 4-step framework for choosing climate tech scale-up business model

De-icing a frozen water tower in the middle of nowhere is not on anyone’s job description. However, this is a reality that you can come...

Over 37% of climate investors decide not to invest in hardware companies because of the business model and long sales cycles. These are...

Venture investors watch the world burn and seek refuge in virtual worlds

The best guide so far on scaling up climate tech from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst

This January, I’m offering 20 free one-hour online consultations to startups and investors in the cleantech and climate tech space.

2024 was a brutal year for hardtech climate startups.

Main FOAK risks

Why should you avoid Green Premium and look for 10x value?

A Climate First VC artile got me thinking

Review of Clean Tech ScaleUp Manual by Climate Brick

Hydrogen is like real estate, there are three main criteria for project success: location, location, and location.