Carbon Removal and How to Build a Deep Tech Startup with Carla Glassl

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Imagine a world where we could significantly reduce our carbon footprint, effectively giving our planet a much-needed breather. What if I told you that is the goal of my guest, Carla Glassel, the co-founder and CTO of Ucaneo Biotech?
With an ambitious target to extract 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2030, Carla joins us today to explain the cutting-edge technology and innovative methods her startup uses to combat the climate crisis.
In this fun and enlightning conversation, we talk about the intricate world of climate tech, exploring the challenges of bringing a hardware product to market. Carla shares a ton of advice and anecdotes about the importance of assembling a World Cup-level team, hacks to reduce experiments timelines with hardware, her plan to scale a hardware tech, and the secret to get to the finish line. And she doesn't shy away from sharing some of the mistakes she's made.
We conclude with a deep dive into the investor landcape for climate tech and the expected timeline for Ucaneo's product development. Plus, Carla shares her outlook on climate tech, why putting a value on CO2 is critical, and emphasizes the need for multiple solutions to tackle the climate crisis.
If you're a tech entrepreneur interested in fighting climate change, building a meaningful business, or getting into a hardware tech, this is the perfect episode for you!

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Chapters

1. Exploring Carbon Removal in Climate Tech (00:00:00)

2. Understanding Carbon Removal (00:01:34)

3. Ucaneo's company and tech develoment stage (00:02:22)

4. VCs on Hardware Technology's Scaling Factors (00:03:19)

5. What Ucaneo does with the CO2 it captures (00:05:17)

6. How Carla builds a new technology and runs a business (00:07:58)

7. The customers who can buy CO2 from Ucaneo (00:10:58)

8. Transitioning from Academia to the Startup Life (00:12:28)

9. How to Build a World-Cup Level Team When You're Developing a Brand New Technology (00:14:06)

10. Hacks to run fast experiment for hardware startups (00:16:51)

11. Is it easier to raise money for climate tech companies? (00:19:18)

12. When Is Ucaneo Going Live (00:21:19)

13. How to build a production line to drive revenue and allow for changes (00:23:22)

14. How does Ucanoe's magic carbon removal machine work (00:24:25)

15. The advantages of Ucaneo's container approach (00:26:30)

16. What industries are interested in buying pure CO2? (00:27:18)

17. The obstacles that still need to be overcome (00:28:30)

18. Carla's outlook and the important step that could completely change the game (00:30:08)

19. What Carla would do differently if she could start again (00:33:27)

20. One of Carla's biggest learnings (00:35:21)

21. The Mistake to Avoid When Working with Partners (00:37:19)

22. Why you should dig deeper if your gut is telling you not to follow someone's advic (00:38:25)