Sebastian Heitmann: "Gigacorns"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Sebastian Heitmann discusses his work in tech innovation towards more sustainable futures. Technology will inherently be a part of any human future - the question is what will this technology be? Sebastian's work focuses on finding what is termed 'Gigacorns' - scalable inventions for low(er) carbon futures. If successful, this could result in large scale reductions in the CO2 emissions for global society.
About Sebastian Heitmann
Sebastian Heitmann is a partner at Extantia Capital, a platform to invest in breakthrough technology solutions that address climate crisis mitigation and adaptation. The €300M platform includes Extantia Flagship, backing scalable deep decarbonisation companies, Extantia Allstars, partnering with mission-aligned climate tech venture capital fund managers, and Extantia Ignite, a sustainability hub advancing knowledge and competence in climate innovation and ESG practices. Sebastian is an entrepreneur and has worked in a range of different industries, from sports to community building to software. He received his education from the Harvard Business School and now lives in Berlin, Germany.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.0 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.0 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the |
| 0:22.6 | bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can |
| 0:28.1 | do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:33.5 | This week we welcome Sebastian Heitman from Berlin, Germany to the podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Sebastian is a venture capitalist focusing on tech inventions that, if successful, |
| 0:45.5 | could result in large-scale reductions in the CO2 emissions for global society. |
| 0:52.6 | Sebastian and I talk about some of those ideas, in particular, the challenges and opportunities |
| 0:58.4 | with deep geothermal technology, but we also unpack the energy situation unfolding in |
| 1:04.9 | his country and the broader backdrop we find ourselves in with respect to energy, technology, and growth. |
| 1:12.3 | This was a very informative conversation. |
| 1:15.7 | Please welcome Sebastian Heitman. |
| 1:32.7 | Good afternoon. Good Aband, Sebastian. |
| 1:34.9 | Gooden abend, Nate. |
| 1:37.2 | For 25 years, I've been saying, |
| 1:42.5 | Guten naven, because my dad had one semester of German in college, and I've learned like 20 German words, but they're all wrong. |
| 1:45.6 | So thank you for correcting me in our email thread, that it's Abend. |
| 1:51.9 | You know, Guten Abed is the slang version of it. |
| 1:54.9 | So it's totally fine. |
| 1:56.9 | Oh, is it? |
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