D3 Mission LOG: Recent Episodes
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D3 Mission LOG is the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
Season 3 Episode 7 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Links: Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Or watch on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 3 Episode 6 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
This week the group discusses takeaways from Activation Energy Summit 2021.
Companies of the Week:
Rizome
https://rizomebamboo.com/
LoadExx
https://loadexx.com/
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community:
https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Or watch on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 3 Episode 5 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Topics: The group discusses Announcing Cohort 419 & Holiday wishes.
Featured Companies of the week:
Energy Integration Inc
https://energyintegrationinc.com/
Daanaa
https://www.daanaa.com/
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community:
https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Or watch on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
D3 Mission Log S3 Ep 4 - Josh Agenbroad, Head of Research & Insights
Season 3 Episode 4 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Topics: The group discusses how D3 has changed their selection process to optimize for speed and scalability while maintaining rigor for investors.
Featured Companies of the week:
Energy Dome
Recently closed $11M round
https://energydome.com/
Blue Frontier
Selected amongst the 16 most fundable early-stage companies in the US based on a study by Pepperdine University
https://bluefrontierac.com/
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community:
https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Or watch on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
This episode S3 E4 on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Q_n0u7wz7f4
Season 3 Episode 3 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Topics: The group discusses how NEX has introduced a helpful, documented rubric, which is a requirement for some of their sophisticated investors.
Featured Companies of the week:
SunPath:
SunPath recently closed $500k in funding (all angel investors). This unlocked an additional $250k in non-dilutive funding from the state of Colorado's "advanced industries grant," which requires 2:1 investors grant.
TS Conductor
$25M round closed recently
_Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Or watch on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 3 Episode 2 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured companies of the week:
Reedi
https://www.reeddi.com/
BLUEDOT PHOTONICS
https://www.bluedotphotonics.com/
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynex...
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
or on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 3 Episode 1 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured Company of the week : Blue Frontierhttps://bluefrontierac.com
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynex...
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
or on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 2 Episode 10 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured Company of the week : ecountabl https://ecountabl.com/
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynex...
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast on all major platforms and here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
or on the New Energy Nexus YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwvl4tDbyI&list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 2 Episode 9 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured Company of the week : TS Conductor
https://tsconductor.com/
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can watch the D3 Mission Log Podcast here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Season 2 Episode 8 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured Company of the week : Celadyne
Links: https://celadynetech.site.live/Third Derivative Portfolio -
https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can watch the D3 Mission Log Podcast here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Season 2 Episode 7 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus.
They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured Company of the week : Frost Methane Labs
Frost Methane is a finalist in the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge. over 431258 submissions!
Links:
Frost Methane Labs: https://www.frostmethane.com/
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can watch the D3 Mission Log Youtube channel here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC
Season 2 Episode 6 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Featured Company of the week : NCX, formerly Silviaterra. NCX has a Natural Capital Exchange, which turns forest carbon from landowners of all sizes into high-quality carbon credits for sustainability leaders.
Links: NCX: https://www.ncx.com/Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
You can watch the D3 Mission Log Podcast here: https://youtu.be/dWieRhtgfXU
Season 2 Episode 5 of the weekly Podcast (and YouTube video) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Episode 5: Guest: Dai Lin
Lessons learned in creating startup success
Featured Company of the week : Three Wheels United Three Wheels United is a technology-enabled financier of light electric vehicles in emerging markets, starting with auto rickshaws in India. covering up to 100% of the vehicle cost to remove the barriers of initial adoption. Go electric seamlessly and profitably. With 3,000 drivers financed to date and a platform reduce the climate impact of the transportation sector while generating more income for the people.
Links: Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynex...
Startup of the Week: Three Wheels United https://www.threewheelsunited.com/
You can SEE the D3 Mission Log Youtube Video Podcast here: https://youtu.be/OaAmg9Kzf4E
Season 2 Episode 4 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Episode 4: Lessons learned from securing corporate support
Guest: Elaine Hsieh
Selling to corporates
Featured Company of the week : Blue Frontier
Blue Frontier’s AC system combines dew-point-style sensible cooling with liquid desiccant dehumidification to reduce electricity use by up to 90% (non-fan). The desiccant is recharged and stored when electricity is the cleanest or lowest cost, and later used to deliver cooling when electricity is dirty or costly.
Links:Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
Startup of the Week: Blue Frontier https://bluefrontierac.com/
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Season 2 Episode 3 of the weekly YouTube video (and Podcast) series with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly build the world's largest climate tech accelerator.
Season 2 Episode 3: Lessons learned from startup-mentor pairing.
Guest: Keenan Johnson
Featured Company of the week: Startup: Nithio
Nithio is a data-enabled analytics and financial intermediary platform to scale off-grid electrification. The team is driven and well-suited to solve the most thorny constraints to reaching scale for deploying pay-to-go energy service financing in sub-Sahara Africa: limited data on customer creditworthiness, resulting in lacking clarity on repayment behaviors, and in turn resulting in imprecise return, poor liquidity, and limited opportunities to secure scalable commercial financing.
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
Startup of the Week: Nithio - https://www.nithio.com/
Press Release including Nithio:
https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/dfc-approves-new-investments-advance-sustainable-economic-development-respond
You can listen to the D3 Mission Log Podcast here: https://www.newenergynexus.com/podcast/
Season 2 Episode 2 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
Episode 2: Kelly Carlin joins Bryan to discuss lessons learned for startup success in Africa.
**Today's topics AND Feature Company of the Week
AMPS GmbH**
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunityAMPS GmbH
Season 2 Episode 1 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
Episode 1: Brant Richards joins Danny and Bryan to discuss lessons learned from deploying new investment funds.
Today's topics AND Feature Company of the WeekZinc8 Energy Solutions is commercializing zinc/air redox flow batteries for long-duration (>8 hours) electricity storage.
At scale, Zinc8 should be half the cost of lithium-ion batteries.
Zinc8 has three commercial-scale demonstrations aligned, including a 1.5 MWh system for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and another 1 MW system for the New York Power Authority.
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunityZinc8 Energy SolutionsZinc8 Video You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 10 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
Episode 10: By the numbers
This week's topics:D3: 47 Startups in the first year of operation -
8 startups received $100k+ investments -
7 active engagements between startups and corporates -
Startup Magic stories; Featured Company of the week: Antora Energy
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunityAntora Energy
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 9 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's Topics:1. Need on the ground support
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Need local partners
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Need translation and framing differently
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Different media
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Corporates have different needs than North American and European
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Can’t invest directly
Featured Company of the week: mootral
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack Communitymootral
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 8 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's Topics:1. 630 apps from 61 countries, broad range; ⅔ founders historically underrepresented
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80% came through networks, especially direct outreach
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Making direct outreach easy was important
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Paid ads on twitter, LinkedIn to targeted audiences - diminishing returns after 3 weeks
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Content marketing (blog posts) helpful
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Tight startup-oriented value prop
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Not as many VC referrals as hoped
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Emphasizing rolling apps didn’t work
Startup: SeeO2 EnergySeeO2 Energy is developing an electrolyser that can produce high-value industrial gases by converting CO2 to carbon monoxide, CO2, and water to syngas (a mixture of CO and H2) and water to hydrogen. These gases are used in the green plastics, chemical, petrochemical, and metal-processing industries, but they are currently produced primarily from fossil sources.
Featured Company of the week:
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunitySee02 Energy
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 7 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's Topics:
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Gsuite vs Teams (better UX) - but China - MSFT office sometimes
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Slack - internal, program, NEN (plus plugins)
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Calendly - individual scheduling, unsolved group
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Submittable
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Airtable
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Hubspot
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Qualtrics
Featured Company of the week: Reeddi Inc.
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunityReeddi IncReeddi Video
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
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Episode 6 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's Topics:1. Goals: support startups, investor diligence cost / table stakes
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Design principles: minimize transaction costs, founder friendly
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Convertible note with discount, no cap
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Modeled on SAFE but convertible for more global fit
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MFN clause allows flexibility to take other paper
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One SPV investor invested BECAUSE of our note: - Other funds get hung up on terms - We got dozens of startups in just a few weeks b/c of simple, friendly terms - Rather than haggling/negotiating, we’re helping / co-creating success
Featured Company of the week:Switched Source: smart grid power electronics => mesh topology, increasing capacity and reliability ($9M SCALEUP grant from ARPA-E)
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunitySwitched Source
SCALEUP—Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential PDF
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 5 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's Topics:1. Expand our networks for partners, startup recruiting, hiring
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BE more global
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Activating our existing RMI/NEN networks, hiring more globally
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Build the capacity to support startups in a given geography
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Including different biz dev models rather than exporting US VC
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Training/learning
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Emerging Markets = Asia, Africa, LatAm
Featured Company of the week: GricdGricd Article on CNN
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunityGricd
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 4 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's topics: Lessons from first cohort startup selection process: The importance (and biases) of networks Learnings and efforts to optimize selection processes
Featured Company of the week: Silvia Terra
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunitySilvia Terra
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 3 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's topics:1. Networks most crucial for our quality dealflow
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61 countries represented in application flow but only 11 in final cohort
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⅔ of founding teams have at least one underrepresented founder
Featured company of the week: Silvia Terra (just closed a round)
Links:Third Derivative PortfolioNew Energy NexusNetwork Slack CommunitySilvia Terra
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on the D3 YouTube video channel.
Episode 2 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
This week's topics:
Lessons learned from the D3 Inaugural Summit
Recent million dollar wire transfers to new startups
Challenges balancing a high-performing/highly motivated team working incredibly hard vs risking burnout
Startup of the Week: SunPath
Links:Third Derivative Portfolio
New Energy Nexus
Network Slack Community
Featured Company of the week: http://sunpathtech.com/
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on our YouTube video channel:
Episode 1 of the weekly Podcast with Bryan Guido Hassin of Third Derivative and Danny Kennedy of New Energy Nexus. They discuss the journey these two companies have chosen to take, to boldly go where no climatetech accelerator has gone before.
Featured Company of the week: Limeloop
Links:
Third Derivative Portfolio - https://third-derivative.org/portfolio/
New Energy Nexus Network Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/newenergynexusnetwork/shared_invite/zt-7cjoxxyf-QYn4y_ixtfMek3s~8WxQhA
Limeloop - https://www.thelimeloop.com
You can also watch the D3 Mission Log on our YouTube video channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_IKWbRivK7u3YGJJLQByaBkdOf9zZC