Powerhouse's Emily Kirsch: “Investing in saving our species”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Powerhouse's Emily Kirsch: “Investing in saving our species”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:45:10
• Published: 2022-04-01 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Emily Kirsch, founder of Powerhouse, to talk about starting the company in 2013 (2:50), launching a pilot venture capital fund (5:50), working as a community organiser and getting funding from Prince (7:00), taking lessons from her parents’ non-profit (10:00), starting in a bear market for green technology (13:20), the talent shift (16:45), getting big corporates to really change (20:00), why the software layer is important (24:30), choosing investors (31:05), creating a female-only firm (34:05), and the green investing wave (38:40).

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