Tackling Climate Change with Carbon Capture ft. Henrietta Moon (Carbo Culture) and Talal Hasan (44.01)

Climate change is a global threat and, without a doubt, one of the greatest challenges of our generation. 

According to PitchBook, VC investment in climate tech companies this year has already exceeded the previous two years by 37 percent. At the beginning of this year, Elon Musk offered a 100M$ prize to find the “best carbon capture technology” able to achieve low cost at gigatonne scale.

But what is carbon capture and how does it work? 

In this episode, we dive into the topic with Henrietta Moon, co-founder & CEO of Carbo Culture, and Talal Hasan, co-founder & CEO of 44.01. Carbo Culture is converting CO2 from plants into stable carbon while 44.01 is turning CO2 into rock.

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Topics

00:22 — Introduction with Roxanne Varza

Part I with Henrietta Moon, co-founder & CEO of Carbo Culture

01:33 — Henrietta Moon on what Carbo Culture does

06:03 — The story behind Carbo Culture

09:03 — How the company has evolved

10:30 — Carbo Culture's business model

12:10 — The different types of customers they have

13:35 — How Carbo Culture's technological approach differentiates itself

16:53 — The importance of reducing emissions

18:21 — Examples of companies that should be recognized for their approach to carbon reduction

20:40 — Carbo Culture's fundraising with True Ventures and Cherry Ventures

21:40 — The advantages of being based in Helsinki, Finland

23:59 — Clean innovations that Henrietta is excited about beyond carbon capture

26:20 — Henrietta's vision for Earth in 50 years

Part II with Talal Hasan, co-founder & CEO of 44.01

28:03 — What does 44.01 mean?

29:57 — The type of infrastructure that 44.01 uses

32:44 — Talal's view on the best-case scenario for our planet

33:48 — Why 44.01 is based in Oma

36:12 — The customers of 44.01

37:27 — Carbon credits provided by 44.01

39:03 — How ClimateTech can seduce investors in this space

42:18 — The KPIs that Talal tracks

43:05 — Carbon capture companies and technologies that Talal is excited about

46:03 — Talal's background: what brought Talal into the CleanTech space?

This episode is supported by TikTok, hosted by Roxanne Varza, produced by Cindy Yang, and edited by Grégoire Duhourcau. Art is by Gaëtan Lefebvre.