Leaders in Cleantech
Leaders in Cleantech is a bi-monthly podcast hosted by David Hunt, founder of Hyperion Search.
Each episode features candid conversations with the founders, CEOs, and innovators driving the clean energy and mobility transitions.
We go beyond technology—diving into the human side of the journey. From early failures to funding wins, we explore what it really takes to lead: building teams, shaping culture, and navigating complexity in a fast-changing world.
This is a podcast about cleantech, but it’s also a podcast about leadership.
🎙️ Ranked in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally by ListenNotes.
📍 Topics: #Cleantech #Leadership #EnergyStorage #EMobility #SmartCities #Renewables #ClimateTech
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Episodes
157 episodes
Gregory Dewerpe – Noa
In this episode I’m joined by Gregory Dewerpe, Founder of NOA (formerly A/O), to cut through the noise on climate investing. We talk about the shift from abundance to discipline, why Europe and the US are now playing different games, and ...
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Episode 158
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48:25
Liliane Ableitner – Exnaton
About Liliane Ableitner:Liliane is the co-founder and CEO of the climate tech startup exnaton. In 2019, she graduated with a PhD in information systems from one of Europe’s most renowned universities ETH Zurich. In 2020, she co-fo...
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Episode 157
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41:05
Leaders In Clean Tech #156: Andrew Gilligan – Fluence
Join David Hunt, host of the Leaders in Cleantech podcast, as he delves into the future of battery storage with Andrew Gilligan, Senior Director of Global Markets and Development at Fluence. In this episode, Andrew shares his journey from the s...
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Joachim Lohse – Ampcontrol
In this episode of Leaders in Cleantech, I speak with Joachim Lohse, CEO and co-founder of Ampcontrol, about his journey from writing LinkedIn blog posts as a young consultant to founding one of Europe’s most innovative smart charging software ...
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Episode 155
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48:17
Emmanuel (Manu) Masini – Mantle8
Hydrogen has for decades been talked about as the fuel of the future, the economics, among other things stand it’s way, producing cheap hydrogen isn’t easy, but what if nature has already done the hard work for us? In this episode of Leaders in...
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Joe McDonald – TEM
Rewiring Energy: Disruption, Transparency, and Scaling with Purpose – Joe McDonald, TEMIn this energised episode, David Hunt is joined by Joe McDonald, Co-founder and CEO of TEM – a fast-scaling UK energytech startup reshaping how...
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Episode 153
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47:00
Danijel Višević – World Fund
🎧 Episode and guest overviewIn this episode of Leaders in Cleantech, David Hunt is joined by Danijel Visevic, Managing Partner of World Fund, Europe’s largest climate tech VC. Danijel shares his personal and professional ...
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Episode 152
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33:44
Monica Collings – Cleantech Chair & NED
What’s it all about?In this episode, I’m joined by Monica Collings—former CEO of Vattenfall UK and ESB Energy, and now a board chair, non-exec, and strategic advisor across the energy transition space. We discuss her journey from ...
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Episode 151
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40:00
Jan Lozek – Future Energy Ventures
🎙 Episode 150 – Jan Lozek, Managing Director & Founder, Future Energy VenturesIn this milestone episode of Leaders in Cleantech, David Hunt is joined by Jan Lozek, a veteran investor and the founder of Future Energy Ventures, one of Eur...
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Episode 150
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42:33
Leaders In Cleantech #148 Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire – Modo Energy
What’s it all about?Energy Storage, to infinity and beyond! How do you forecast and predict revenues from your energy storage assets, even if not built yet? Modo have a range of solutions to help asset owners, developers and investors...
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39:17
Leaders In Cleantech #147 Joost Kruytzer – Big Circle Ventures
What’s it all about?Building cleantech start-ups, at scale. It can be confusing, the world of Incubators, accelerators and venture builders, also known as start-up studios. Who does what, how and why? In this episode we clarify some of thos...
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Leaders In Cleantech #146 Malin Carlstrom – Climentum Capital
What’s it all about?Investing in Hardtech! Yes, it’s true, some VC’s do invest in hardtech/deeptech, knowing the specific challenges of supporting companies of this nature to scale. This week I speak with Malin Carlstrom of Danish VC Climen...
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Leaders In Cleantech #145 Keith Bradbury – Ember
What’s it all about?Clean, efficient, reliable, electric public transport. After traveling by Bus and Coach across five continents, Keith Bradbury and Co-Founder Pierce Glennie made the switch from Fintech to Cleantech, with a solution to t...
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45:17
Leaders In Cleantech #144 Joachim Rupp – Detra Solar
What’s it all about?Solar, and moving from corporate life to a start up. I first met my guest today, Joachim Rupp at a start-up within a corporate, building Viessmann’s Photovoltaic business, before that he’d been in some big corporate ...
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Leaders In Cleantech #143 Dr. Ian Campbell – Breathe Battery Technologies
What’s it all about?Batteries. More specifically, software enabled batteries helping to make Electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and wearables, more efficient, providing better customer experiences. I speak to another start-up spun out...
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45:22
Leaders In Cleantech Bitesize #142 Federico Cristoforoni – Net Zero Insights - Q1 Funding Trends
In start-up world everyone wants to know about the deals. Who raised what, which VC's are spending some of that 'dry powder' all these things are important, but looking at the bigger trends is perhaps more useful.In this Bitesize episod...
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Leaders In Cleantech #141 David Trainavicius – PVCase
What’s it all about?Solar. Another part of the value-chain explored by this BNEF award-winning, Mega-funding round landing solar SaaS start-up/scale-up. We speak with founder and CEO David Trainavvicius about the journey so far.Abou...
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Leaders in Cleantech #140 - Davor Sutija – NexWafe
What’s it all about?Solar. But not rooftops this time, the other end of the value-chain. Wafers are not only a large part of the cost of solar modules, producing them is also very energy intensive, and therefore carbon emitting. Through inn...
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Leaders in Cleantech #139 - Andres Anijalg – Roofit
What’s it all about?Solar. Beautiful Solar roofs. This harks back to my early days in solar, founding a solar EPC which initially at least focused of residential roofs, before expanding to include large commercial installations. Roofit ...
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Leaders in Cleantech #138 - Gavin White - About:Energy
What’s it all aboutBatteries, patents, entrepreneurship, and the founder’s journey. I first met my guest Gavin White at Energy Tech Summit in Warsaw a little over a year ago. So much has happened in that time, and he and business partne...
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Leaders in Cleantech #137 - Akshat Rathi - Bloomberg News
What’s it all about?People, Policies and Technology. Unsung cleantech heroes, why we shouldn’t worry too much about Trump in the Whitehouse, at least where the IRA is concerned. I take a deep dive into the economic and technological drivers...
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Leaders in Cleantech #136 - Stephen Brittain - Insurtech Gateway
What’s it all about?The perhaps surprising insurtech solution to unlocking innovation and scaling for clean technology deployment. We've often discussed how business model innovation can be as important if not more so, than technologica...
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Leaders in Cleantech #135 - Bill Esterson - MP Shadow Minister
What’s it all about?Policy and government. For a long time I’ve said that the cleantech sector has done well despite, not because of politics and policy. I do however think that to truly scale we do need politicians and policies to support ...
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Leaders in Cleantech #134 - Anton Arts SET Ventures
What’s it all about?An end of year reflection on the cleantech funding landscape during 2023, and a view of a leading European Cleantech VC on what will be the defining technologies for investment in 2024. Some tips for founders who need to...
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