Venture Capital and Deep Decarbonization (with Energy Impact Partners’ Shayle Kann)

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Venture capitalists offer their investors outsized financial returns in exchange for taking on considerable risk. But what if that risk includes backing products where the economics of the end market aren’t clear? Moreover, what if the companies being supported have the non-financial goal of tackling climate change? As more money than ever pours into climate tech, Azeem Azhar speaks with Shayle Kann, a partner at Energy Impact Partners, about the challenges of investing in the net zero economy.

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1:28.0	Eridite and Fabulous Shale Khan.
1:31.0	Shale is a renowned writer and speaker on the energy transition.
1:35.0	He is regularly cited in the world's leading publications, has testified before the
1:40.0	U.S. Congress and hosts his own podcast, The Catalyst, on the issues we face in decarbonising our planet.
1:47.0	Shale is also a partner at Energy Impact Partners, the leading venture capital fund
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