Congruent Ventures: Rebooting the Climate Capital Stack

What’s needed to get solid-state battery technology out of the lab and into the mainstream?

The construction sector is a major contributer to GHG emissions. Tune in to hear how Magali Anderson, Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer at Holcim is driving our quest to net zero through decarbonizing the hard to abate cement industry.

In this conversation with Julie Willoughby, Chief Scientific Officer at Circ, we will discuss how Julie and her team are tackling fashion waste head on. Circ makes the technology that (re)sources and (re)harvests raw ingredients out of clothing waste, so it can be reused in a variety of ways.

Laura Fox is Lyft’s outgoing General Manager for Citi Bike, and she joins Paul for a wide-ranging conversation around urban mobility. We dive into Urban mobility as climate tech – the landscape, frameworks, what’s needed, and what’s next. This is so much more than encouraging commuters to bike. It is the center of a broader strategy to reduce congestion and make urban environments self-sustaining.

We sit down for a conversation with Nour Ghadanfar to discuss her journey with Greentown Labs and their impact on climate tech. Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, politicians, and many others to shape a more sustainable future.

To claim success in developing a circular economy for plastic, billions of kilograms of hard-to-recycle plastics must be transformed into reusable circular materials. We chat with several companies driving this goal and discuss the enormity of the logistical and technological challenges in tackling plastic waste.

The innovative partnership between the Government of Senegal, Carbon Growth Partners and Allcot serves as a disruptive new paradigm to break the global deadlock on climate finance. Private sector investors take on the financial risk of Article 6 carbon projects, which allows the host country to negotiate the (International Transfer Mitigation Outcomes) ITMO process from a position of strength. We discuss the transaction with Idrissa Diatta of Senegal Environment Ministry, Alexis Leroy, founder of Allcot and Stephanie Russo of Carbon Growth Partners.

Assistant Secretary at Office of Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff joins us to detail the future of nuclear energy envisioned by the US Biden-Harris administration and the works that are in place at the Office of Nuclear Energy.

US Climate policy is more than vision and money. It requires a robust legal framework that faces potential court challenges and a slew of differing state ordinances that can hold back the agenda. We look at the Inflation Reduction Act through a legal and taxation lens.

Abe Yokell is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Congruent Ventures, a leading early-stage venture firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurs to build companies addressing climate and sustainability challenges across four themes: Mobility and Urbanization, the Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production and Consumption. The firm has over $600M AUM across early stage climate tech funds. With 48 companies in the portfolio, Congruent is amongst the most active investors in the climate ecosystem.