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Neal Dikeman on Energy Tech Startups
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Neal is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur with 9+ startups under his belt, and one of the best seed-stage hit rates in cleantech. Neal is a partner at Energy Transition Ventures based here in Houston. He helped launch the CVC fund at Royal Dutch Shell, co-founded 7 tech startups, and co-founded Jane Capital Partners a leading cleantech investor whose seed investees raised over $400M.
Neal Discusses:
- How Energy Transition Ventures Came Together and why we talk clean tech vs energy transition - 1:07
- Why he does what he does venture capital and why “Energy is life and the rest are just details”- 6:00
- What types of deals and companies Neal likes to work with - 9:55
- Why Tesla matters for climate tech VC investment - 16:05
- How decarbonization is driving VC investment today - 21:20
- Why conducting a decarbonization analysis can be difficult across the climate tech value chain- 24:30
- Jason explains about two ventures in microturbines including Dynamo Micropower - 32:20
- Why Neal thinks everyone should be an entrepreneur once - 37:50
- Is the term Energy Transition going to have staying power - 42:40
Learn more:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dikeman/
https://energytransitionventures.com/
Join collide.io and try CollideGPT: AI chat for the oil and gas industry.
52 episodes
Manage episode 352179373 series 3392492
Neal is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur with 9+ startups under his belt, and one of the best seed-stage hit rates in cleantech. Neal is a partner at Energy Transition Ventures based here in Houston. He helped launch the CVC fund at Royal Dutch Shell, co-founded 7 tech startups, and co-founded Jane Capital Partners a leading cleantech investor whose seed investees raised over $400M.
Neal Discusses:
- How Energy Transition Ventures Came Together and why we talk clean tech vs energy transition - 1:07
- Why he does what he does venture capital and why “Energy is life and the rest are just details”- 6:00
- What types of deals and companies Neal likes to work with - 9:55
- Why Tesla matters for climate tech VC investment - 16:05
- How decarbonization is driving VC investment today - 21:20
- Why conducting a decarbonization analysis can be difficult across the climate tech value chain- 24:30
- Jason explains about two ventures in microturbines including Dynamo Micropower - 32:20
- Why Neal thinks everyone should be an entrepreneur once - 37:50
- Is the term Energy Transition going to have staying power - 42:40
Learn more:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dikeman/
https://energytransitionventures.com/
Join collide.io and try CollideGPT: AI chat for the oil and gas industry.
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