Episodios

  • Valuing Ecosystem Services with Single.Earth's Co-founder Andrus Aaslaid

    Valuing Ecosystem Services with Single.Earth's Co-founder Andrus Aaslaid
    Feb 21 2022
    Single.Earth CTO and cofounder Andrus Aaslaid speaks about why Single.Earth was founded and how the company plans to monetize ecosystem services. A few key takeaways from Andrus Aaslaid: "All we have done so far in the world ... as a humanity, we have been optimizing the economic processes quite a lot to be able to maximize profits. Somewhere in the middle, we forgot that this will put more and more strain on ecology." ** "We need birds and bees and all other creatures on the planet because if we focus 100% on global warming and trying to suck as much carbon out of the atmosphere as possible, sacrificing everybody else, yes, it will be one cooler planet, probably, but we might very well find that we are alone and starving on it because we had thrown everything else away in a process." ** "Money is what drives it all around. And so far we have looked at our capital investments only from the gains perspective -- if we create something, then how much profit it will make. And if investors are investing somewhere, then what will be the best return on that money. We've been optimizing all the processes based on the, well literally what's good for the shareholders." ** "We need a whole lot more attention towards it that capital would also seek that our environment would sustain so that the money everybody's making would be possible to spend on the planet before it overheats and goes to hell." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    18 m
  • Jumping on Climate Change Opportunities with Icebreaker.VC's Aleksi Partanen

    Jumping on Climate Change Opportunities with Icebreaker.VC's Aleksi Partanen
    Feb 21 2022
    We spoke with Aleksi Partanen from Icebreaker.vc about the opportunities created by climate change, the urgency of the current situation, and (of course) about breaking the ice. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. A few key takeaways from Aleksi Partanen: ** "People are becoming more aware of the issue we're facing that this planet will not be able to, to hold us all, or at least not stand everything we do or would like to do. And that, on the other hand, brings a massive amount of opportunities." ** "Let's look at Nasdaq IPOs. How many are actually impact-driven? I can't come up with one." ** "This planet is running out of time. The faster we try to help as many people as possible, the higher the likelihood that some of these will turn into actual change." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 m
  • Building GreenTech Ventures with Brainforest's Leo Caprez

    Building GreenTech Ventures with Brainforest's Leo Caprez
    Feb 21 2022
    We spoke with Leo Caprez about the urgent need for innovation in the climate tech sector as the world is facing increasing challenges from accelerating climate change. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. A few key takeaways from Leo Caprez: ** "A lot of also very smart and driven people have woken up to the issues that we are facing: we have very, very little time to solve a massive problem. The decarbonization that obviously has to happen first, is so massive that nobody knows how we actually can get there. So we need all the innovation that we can get right now in a very short period of time. It's a frenzy right now." ** "Lots of those technologies are available now that can be used in this space, just think about remote sensing with satellites and drones and machine learning capacities that only since a few years are available, and the costs are coming down. Actually now it's viable economically, to analyze vast areas of forests on their carbon content. It's still pretty tricky. Actually, there are lots of startups that are attracted to tackling this issue right now." ** "For any kind of VC player, it's not easy to navigate this space, because there are lots of shiny things also." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 m
  • Looking into Climate Fintech World with Octopus Ventures' Natasha Jones

    Looking into Climate Fintech World with Octopus Ventures' Natasha Jones
    Feb 21 2022
    We spoke with Natasha Jones from London headquartered Octopus Ventures about the intersection of climate change and fintech startups, the booming collaboration in climate tech, and the challenges of ESG investing. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. Here are some of the key takeaways from Natasha Jones: ** "The data is really clear - if you can move your pension to a green and sustainable pension, it's 27 times more effective than going vegan, which, as someone who tried to go vegan and failed, it seems a lot easier to just select a green pension provider." ** "I think what's super interesting is now the regulatory push to clamp down on greenwashing. And that's tied to consumer distrust as well. I think in France a survey said 60% of consumers distrust green labelling from banks. I think for our space, that creates a kind of an opportunity." ** "I think the first thing to note ... just a huge amount of collaboration. I think other sectors tend to be a bit more cagey on sharing IP, on collaborating between different stakeholders, from entrepreneurs all the way to policymakers and investors in between. Climate tech is really different in that sense. Everyone's very keen to collaborate to find different solutions. And I think that's what makes it really optimistic space to be in." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 m
  • Big Game of Energy Transition with Helen Ventures' Terhi Vapola

    Big Game of Energy Transition with Helen Ventures' Terhi Vapola
    Feb 28 2022
    We spoke with Terhi Vapola about climate tech, energy transition, and Helen Ventures' investments in the fields like EV charging and power grid optimization. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. A few key takeaways from Terhi Vapola: ** "What we want to do is work with the most innovative startups ... working with people who don't just talk, I think there's plenty of talking and has been for a long time. What we need to do is actually get those things done." ** "If you think about the existential crisis that we are dealing with, we need to find the solutions. And then at the same time, if you look at the regulatory changes, and ... Green Deal and the amount of public support into making money available for for the actions, which can help us to address it, I think it's a fantastic thing. " ** "The bi-directional charging is a great opportunity ... those pilots are taking place as we speak ... of course, you need to have the adoption of the EV charging taking place even further to really balance it. But the steps into that, are like real today already." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 m
  • Urgency of Tackling Climate Change with Balderton's Shikha Ahluwalia

    Urgency of Tackling Climate Change with Balderton's Shikha Ahluwalia
    Mar 28 2022
    We spoke with Shikha Ahluwalia about the climate's role in all investment decisions, Balderton's own green strategy, and how to invest in climate-friendly companies across the sectors. London-headquartered Balderton has raised around 5 billion US dollars for its funds, and is known for investments in startups including Revolut and Betfair. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. A few key takeaways from Shikha Ahluwalia: ** "We're definitely not doing enough to tackle climate change. As investors, and the investing scene in general, we have a unique responsibility to address the issues of the next well, not even 50 years, the next eight years until 2030." ** "Ultimately, we all need to learn to be less greedy and think about the world we're building for generations to come. And that's not five generations down the line. I'm talking about our children: my children, your children, and it's very, very near. So I think that the idea that investors need to be doing much, much more is super important. Returns in terms of impact on the planet, in terms of impact on the climate, need to be measured alongside financial returns." ** "We should be asking, how do we set up a process in a way that it becomes top of the agenda to invest into climate-friendly companies as part of investment decision making?" Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 m
  • Deepdive of East Europe Startup World with Flashpoint's Alex Konoplyasty

    Deepdive of East Europe Startup World with Flashpoint's Alex Konoplyasty
    Apr 4 2022
    We spoke with Alex Konoplyasty, co-founder of Flashpoint Ventures, about big global trends, the possible implications of the war in Eastern Europe, and why it's still early days of greentech investments in the region. London-headquartered Flashpoint manages assets worth 450-500 million and is known for investments in the firms like Chess.com and Guesty. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. A few key takeaways from Alex Konoplyasty: ** "In this type of environment, we recommend our portfolio companies raise money as soon as possible. If they're raising money now, they should like to keep raising. If not, they should go out and start raising right now, as fast as they can. Valuation is less important; I think it's more important to capitalize yourself for the next couple of years to make sure you have capital." ** "We don't know how the consumer is going to adjust to this, like the terrible shock that is happening around the energy. Maybe they adjust in a way that we don't expect today, then maybe it's not going to be as bad as we expected, right? And we've seen historically people do adjust in shock situations - when it's gradual, it's sort of okay, but when it's like shock, people tend to change their behaviour." ** "In 2015, after Crimea, I decided that I didn't want to do anything with Russia. At all. We don't do any business in Russia. Like, we didn't do anything there after 2015. It was a very strategic decision for us." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 m
  • Finding Radical Climate Solutions with Pale Blue Dot's Hampus Jakobsson

    Finding Radical Climate Solutions with Pale Blue Dot's Hampus Jakobsson
    Apr 11 2022
    We spoke with Hampus Jakobsson, co-founder of Pale Blue Dot, on how climate problems could be fixed and what are the biggest challenges. Malmö-headquartered Pale Blue Dot raised 2021 a fund of 87 million euros for investments in climate-focused startups. In the NatureBacked podcast of Single.Earth, Tarmo Virki talks with investors and entrepreneurs about their vision of the new green world. Subscribe to the NatureBacked newsletter on LinkedIn. A few key takeaways from Hampus Jakobsson: ** "I would love governments to say: you have to solve this problem. And we have to decide how hard that solving is. And if you haven't done it, if you're the CEO of an oil company, you will go to jail in 2030. But we're going to be super nice. We're not going to throw you to jail now, 2022. So we're just gonna say for the coming years, there are fines, and the fines are going to increase in the scale, but in 2030 you will go to jail. So you go to jail, your biggest shareholders go to jail, your board goes to jail." ** "I always try to tell people that for me, the climate - we have to start looking at it like, like child pornography, paedophilia, or child labour or something. If somebody comes to you and says, Hey, I'm going to pitch you this great idea: it's a carpet factory I'm running in Bangladesh, and I'm giving all the kids mittens, and now it's great because they don't hurt their fingers so much anymore. And it's really interesting because they actually can work slightly longer. So we get more revenue out of it, but it's like a double bottom line ... more profitable, but also actually better for the kids. We all would be like, can you go? Can you please leave this room? I don't want to ever talk to you again, you're a horrible person, I'm going to call the police now." ** "I think you can actually say we want this change faster. And you can say, we will go from fines to jail on some of these things, and I think that the third one is on people and culture, we can just say we don't accept mittens on child laborers." ** "I think that that's the way we should approach some of these problems, saying no, no, no, no, I'm not after that best child labour camp. I'm after no child labour. And I think that that's a requirement you can actually ask." Follow NatureBacked across platforms: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Twitter | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 m