A Positive Climate's Startup PITCHFEST 2024 (feat. ten startups!)

A Positive Climate

Nick and producer-turned-”shark” Mark hear pitches from ten up and coming Australian climate startups!

Our third annual pitch episode with some incredible ~seed stage startups in the latest cohort from EnergyLab - Australia’s leading climate accelerator.

Previous guests on the Pitchfest and podcast have gone on to raise hundreds of millions in capital (you can review these here), so let's dive in to the latest group!

You can also watch on YouTube here.

The lineup:

(02:16) Stralis Aircraft - Hydrogen-electric planes for emission-free flights (Bob Criner)

(12:38) Enaxiom - Harnessing low-grade waste heat to decarbonize wastewater treatment (Tia Collings)

(23:58) OptiGrid - Smarter energy management for batteries (Sahand Karimi)

(33:31)GridStore Energy - Boosting solar panel output and profits (Garth Paton)

(42:47) CLT Toolbox - Structural design software to accelerate timber building (Adam Jones)

(53:51) Dewpoint Innovations - Novel coatings for passive cooling and atmospheric water collection (Dil Khosa)

(01:02:23) X-Centric - Accurate soil data for agriculture (Roozbeh Ravansari)

(01:11:22) Brownee - Empowering SMEs to thrive in a sustainable economy (Renate Crollini)

(01:21:06) InfigoLabs - Decarbonizing industries with ultra-high-temperature heat solutions (Prashant Parulekar)

(01:28:54) Planet Price - Quantifying the real costs of everything (Debbie O'Byrne)

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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 renewable energy and climate investment experts Nick Zeltzer and Alex McIntosh.

Previous guests have included innovators from JET Charge, Goterra, 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