MCJ AMA: Sophie Purdom (Planeteer, CTVC) and Kim Zou (CTVC)
Join us in the MCJ Community Slack for our next MCJ Ask-Me-Anything with Sophie Purdom, Managing Partner at Planeteer Capital and co-founder of CTVC, and Kim Zou, CEO and co-founder of CTVC.
Let’s meet our guests…
Meet Sophie: Sophie invests in and supports early-stage climate tech founders & their companies via her venture capital fund Planeteer Capital. She's a co-founder of CTVC, a climate innovation newsletter & strategic data platform with 50,000+ subscribers. Prior, Sophie launched an ESG fund at a major endowment, learned to make pretty slides at Bain & Co., published a book on sustainable investing, and helped found an agricultural technology company that makes carbon-negative ammonia fertilizer.
Meet Kim: Kim is the CEO and Co-founder of CTVC. CTVC’s data-driven insights have been featured in channels including NYTimes, Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times, and TechCrunch. She was previously a climate tech investor at Energy Impact Partners. Prior to joining EIP, Kim was part of JPMorgan's Tech M&A investment banking team and graduated from Johns Hopkins University.
About Planeteer Capital: Planeteer leads Pre-Seed and Seed stage rounds for B2B climate companies across the hardware to software spectrum. They invest in founders who are pulling the future forward at the interstitial spaces between sectors like carbon management, industrial decarbonization, built environment, climate intelligence and insurance, and sustainable agriculture. Planeteer is anchor funded by an Ivy League endowment and Mike Schroepfer, Meta’s former CTO, and is actively investing.
About CTVC: CTVC is the leading source on the new climate economy. Their data-driven perspectives power 50,000 investors and operators to innovate on climate. With an emerging market intelligence platform, they recently announced a $1.75M round lead by leading climate investors such as John Doerr, Tom Steyer, Dawn Lippert, and AccelR8.
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Our AMA with Sophie and Kim will start on Wednesday 4th October at 8am PST - 11am EST - 4pm BST - 5pm CET and will run asynchronously in the MCJ AMA slack channel for 24 hours.
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In Cody's live episode with Sophie and Kim, they cover:
[2:33] How Kim and Sophie met and the early days of CTVC
[6:37] Kim's background
[10:14] The pair's early venture experience
[13:22] Sophie's background
[17:05] The origins of Planeteer Capital
[20:18] CTVC's evolution into a market intelligence company
[25:42] CTVC's Climate Tech Capital Stack
[28:51] Early stage dry powder
[31:36] Project finance and infrastructure financing
[36:56] Public funding and philanthropy
[40:06] Trends in philanthropic catalytic capital
[43:45] Corporate strategics
[46:34] The role of banks
[50:08] Insurance
[51:18] Sophie and Kim's predictions for the market in the near term
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