The leading weekly briefing for climate founders and CEOs. Hosted by Dr. Chris Wedding, executive coach and CEO of Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI), a peer group capped at 90 CEOs & investors representing $40B in enterprise value and assets under management. Climate CEOs delivers playbooks from the front lines of climate tech, with insights on raising capital, scaling startups in clean energy, batteries, carbon capture, and the circular economy, plus the founder mindset, mindfulness, daily habits, book recommendations, and resilience needed to thrive.
Entrepreneurs for Impact
Claim This Podcastby Dr. Chris Wedding — Climate Tech CEO Coach | CEO @ EFI
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The leading weekly briefing for climate founders and CEOs. Hosted by Dr. Chris Wedding, executive coach and CEO of Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI), a peer group capped at 90 CEOs & investors representing $40B in enterprise value and assets under management. Climate CEOs delivers playbooks from the front lines of climate tech, with insights on raising capital, scaling startups in clean energy, batteries, carbon capture, and the circular economy, plus the founder mindset, mindfulness, daily habits, book recommendations, and resilience needed to thrive.
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July 29, 2026
From OpenAI to $500M in Project Finance for Forests | Living Carbon
<p>How do you turn degraded farmland into an investable climate asset? Living Carbon has raised $76M in equity and unlocked $500M in project finance by combining reforestation, biomass, and long-term infrastructure thinking.</p><p>Living Carbon restores degraded agricultural and mine lands through reforestation while developing biomass supply chains for industrial customers..</p><p>Maddie Hall is the co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon. Before launching the company, she worked at OpenAI, Y Combinator, and Sequoia Capital.</p><ul><li><p>How to unlock project finance for climate startups — Why demonstrating repeatable execution, securing blue-chip customers, and reducing underwriting risk enabled Living Carbon to raise $500M beyond traditional venture capital.</p></li><li><p>Why degraded land beats pristine forests — How abandoned farmland and former mine sites create stronger economics, lower land costs, and higher carbon additionality while avoiding competition with food production.</p></li><li><p>Building two businesses within one company — Why Living Carbon separates its carbon credit business from its biomass platform, generating multiple revenue streams without relying entirely on voluntary carbon markets.</p></li><li><p>Ignoring carbon market hype — Why Maddie focuses on building a business that will still matter in 2030 instead of chasing today's policy changes, pricing swings, or investor excitement.</p></li><li><p>Leadership lessons from scaling startups — Why founders should catastrophize less, become comfortable with rejection, stop optimizing for being liked, and build routines that support long-term resilience.</p></li></ul><p></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p><strong>1️⃣ Join our confidential CEO community.</strong></p><ul><li>Private CEO group for VC/PE-backed climate tech founders navigating capital, strategy, and scale. Capped at 45 CEOs. </li><li>→ entrepreneursforimpact.com</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>2️⃣ Join 40,000 professionals who get our newsletter.</strong></p><ul><li>Climate tech finance, strategy, leadership. <strong>2-min read. </strong></li><li>→ entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>3️⃣ Leave a podcast review.</strong></p><ul><li>If you got value, take 30 seconds and <strong>do the community a favor</strong>. It helps push more capital and talent toward scalable climate solutions.</li></ul><p></p>
July 24, 2026
Why Smart Climate Founders Still Make Bad Decisions
Climate CEO Alex Hillman interviews industry experts on how the Double Diamond framework helps founders avoid costly mistakes by defining problems before developing solutions.
July 21, 2026
The $230M Bet on Turning Homes Into Power Plants | Lunar Energy
Host Alex Honnold interviews Lunar Energy Founder and CEO Kunal Girotra about transforming homes into distributed power plants, leveraging AI for cost savings, and raising significant capital for climate hardware.
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