This time, it's different. Climate Tech as the paramount industry of our times.
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🎧 Episode #13 | Climate Technology with Candice Ammori
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Candice Ammori is the Program Director of the On Deck Climate Tech fellowship.
This morning, USV shared their thesis for how critically-important clean electricity sources will be for the future of humanity:
The world will need a significantly increased energy supply in the future simply to meet the 100 GJ threshold (precondition to achieving a high degree of human development), but also to address the many challenges arising from the climate crisis, such as the increasing needs for irrigation, desalination, and air conditioning.
Note: those interested in learning more about USV can listen to partner Rebecca Kaden’s past Deep End episode on thesis-driven investing
Progress requires energy and the demands are ever-increasing. Sustaining life on Earth, not to mention enabling human flourishing, requires that this energy be provided using new methods and at scale never-before-seen.
Climate technology is the paramount industry of our times and it’s for this reason we’re thrilled to have Candice Ammori joining us in The Deep End. Candice is the Program Director of the On Deck Climate Tech fellowship. Now in its second cohort, ODCT is a 10-week program for startup and climate experts looking to found, join, invest in, and advise climate tech companies.
In the early 2000s, there was a big push for “clean tech” that was ultimately seen as a failure. But as Candice explains over the course of our conversation a lot has changed since then. Climate tech is undergoing a renaissance of energy, talent, and capital.
Drawing on the lessons from cleantech 1.0, climate tech today is much less dependent on policy changes. Underlying technological advances are reaching an inflection point at the same time as we are seeing a massive infusion of talent and investment into the climate tech ecosystem.
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Links for the episode:
Candice on Twitter: @cammori
Why Climate Tech Is The Paramount Industry of Our Times — Op Ed in the On Deck Journal by Candice
Rewiring America’s fascinating Jobs Report
USV’s newest thesis: The Growing Demand for Clean Electricity — listen to Rebecca Kaden’s Deep End episode about thesis-driven investing.
Notes from the On Deck universe:
We just announced and opened applications for the second cohort of the On Deck Fintech fellowship (ODFintech2). If you want to learn more about what it’s all about, you might enjoy reading about an ODFintech1 fellow’s experience from the first cohort.
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