Proof of Impact CEO Fleur Heyns on meaningful metrics for measuring environmental impact (This Week in Climate Startups) | E1466

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

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🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of This Week in Climate Startups, Molly sits down with Fleur Heyns of Proof of Impact about how to measure, verify, and analyze ESG & impact data. We discuss the current pain points for investors (11:20), how blockchains can interact with real-world assets (21:15), ESG regulation (34:16) and more!

(00:00) Cold open
(01:57) This Week in Climate Startups: Molly sits down with Fleur Heyns of Proof of Impact
(10:03) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(11:20) Labeling data for investors, the materiality, productivity
(19:58) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(21:15) The term “oracle” as it relates to the blockchain
(32:58) Reforge - Apply for their next cohort at https://reforge.com/twist
(34:16) How much will the future regulatory atmosphere affect or improve their business in the US? ESG strategy

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0:00.0	That's our North Star.
0:01.5	So anyone that we hire, if they even show a little,
0:05.8	little glimmer of thinking that they're working
0:09.6	for some form of an NGO where, you know,
0:11.9	this is something nice to have on the side,
0:14.2	they can't work for us.
0:15.2	Like our entire North Star is to dive at capital
0:18.9	to companies that matter.
0:20.4	They matter because they do the right thing
0:22.9	and they do it very, very well, right?
0:25.6	So this is the infrastructure that we want to build.
0:27.8	So if we're successful, our kids will not even
0:32.1	need to use the word impact because it will be embedded
0:35.5	in any transaction they engage with.
0:37.4	When they buy a product from a supermarket,
0:40.0	when they go to their, you know, digital accounts
0:42.9	and they engage and they stake and they do whatever they do,
0:46.3	the data will be visible.
0:47.8	The proof will be there of the financial,
0:51.1	the environmental and the social performance
0:53.5	of that particular asset.
0:55.4	This week in startups is brought to you by OpenFone.
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