Nick and Alex hear pitches from ten up and coming Australian startups working on climate solutions! *Vote HERE*

We’re back with our second pitchfest episode! And again teaming up with EnergyLab’s accelerator program, but this time it’s different - there will be a winner decided by YOU! 

We’ve secured some awesome prizes that will go to the People’s Choice startup. 

G+T Ventures, the startup arm Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin has donated a full day legal workshop to prepare a startup for their next fundraising round.

Cake Equity - an Australian software platform that helps startups manage their equity and stock options in minutes - has donated free access, premium support and mentoring. And there’s more prizes!

Each startup gets a 60 second free pitch then there’s some Q&A from us to better understand their unique solution and opportunity. All the startups are listed below and don’t forget to vote for the People’s Choice! Voting will close on Friday October 27.

The lineup

(00:00) Intro Alex and Nick

(04:09) Renewable Metals - Turning Battery Waste into Battery Metals (Luan Atkinson)

(10:09) Pyrochar - Biochar for Green Steelmaking (Cameron Bell)

(17:06) Dovetail -  Zero emission electric aviation (David Doral)

(23:37) Orkestra - Energy project feasibility just got easy, accurate and fast (James Allston)

(31:42) Tasmanion - Developing new aluminium-ion battery technologies (Shalini Divya)

(36:21) Elecsome - Solar panel recycling, reusing and upcycling (Neeraj Das)

(43:54) Savic -  Australia’s premium high-performance electric motorcycle company (Dennis Savic)

(53:16) Emmi - The platform to help investors assess the carbon impact of their portfolio (Michael Lebbon)

(61:13) Bygen - Low cost production of activated carbon from waste (Lewis Dunnigan)

(66:34) Perl Street - Enables distributed infrastructure companies to sell more, raise more and manage more  (Tooraj Arvajeh)

We are proudly supported by Bank Australia (www.bankaust.com.au).

You can hear last year's episode here.

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About the podcast

A Positive Climate is an uplifting podcast about tackling climate change. An entertaining look at the products, people and technologies making a real difference. 

Hosted by Australian climate technology experts Alex McIntosh and Nick Zeltzer, two friends on a mission to find the solutions to keep our existential crises at bay.

Previous guests have included innovators from JET Charge, 5B, Amazon, Zoomo, V2Food, All G Foods, Vow, Sea Forest, Great Wrap, Infravision, Zero Co, Hysata, Sicona, OneSmallStep, Tenacious Ventures, CarsGuide, AMSL Aero, Nori, EnergyLab, MicroTau and many more.

Music by the late, great Nick Weaver

Production by our hero Mark Spencer from Here.Media

Social Media, Comms and PR by Alistair Perkins

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