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Powerhouse Founder & CEO Emily Kirsch
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Powerhouse Founder & CEO Emily Kirsch

Charting Emily's unconventional path into the climate tech startup world.

Watt It Takes · Emily Kirsch

July 14, 202154m 43s

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Show Notes

Over the past four years, we’ve interviewed 40 incredible founders and CEOs on Watt It Takes.

Our guests have inspired emerging and established leaders across the industry. And each one of these conversations has helped Emily on her own founder journey.

With that in mind, in this episode of Watt It Takes, we’re turning the mic around to tell Emily’s story and the story of Powerhouse.

Today, Powerhouse is an innovation firm and venture fund — working with the world’s leading companies to help connect them to hundreds of climate tech startups every year, and investing directly in software-focused clean energy and mobility startups through Powerhouse Ventures. Emily’s path to start Powerhouse was anything but conventional.

We’re brought to you by Google. Google is pioneering the electricity systems of the future with its effort to source 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030 -- so that everyone can have round-the-clock, carbon-free energy everywhere they operate, in every hour of the day. Learn more.

We’re also brought to you by Nextracker. Nextracker is advancing the connected power plant of the future across five continents.

Topics

entrepreneurshipclimate changestartupsenergy