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Guys, Action Energy Marketplace was launched just in fall of 2023.

She's based in Finland.

And as an example, she's launched a marketplace, which connects called a housing project in

Finland that wants to install something like an underground heating system.

She connects that housing unit with all those providers.

She's got a housing, a hundred of these sort of buyers, these housing companies and property

managers on the platform and also 100 providers. They put hundreds of thousands of dollars of

project value through the platform in the first call it four, five, six months here.

The way she makes money is she charges a SaaS monthly fee. Those providers, 100 of them,

pay 29 euros per month. So call

$3,000 a month in revenue. But the real play she's building towards is the fund she's raising.

An SPV of 10 to $15 million euros so that when that provider gets the contract to put in a

million dollar heating unit, ground unit with the housing unit, she can fund it and then sign a contract

with the housing unit as a cash flow stream. We'll see what

happens if she can get that off the ground. Hey folks, my guest today is Tara Tepo. She's the founder of two

companies in the energy and financing area. She co-founded Clean Tech Invest, which is later called

Loudspring, now Eagle Filters. In 2005, that company was listed on the NASDAQ, First North Helsinki

in 2014. She then founded Action Energy Finance

AEF in October 2021. The company focuses on energy asset financing and putting a digital

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