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For impact startups and scale-ups building a better future.

*Curated alongside New Wave's HackSummit limited podcast series.

Heights investment readiness brand audit

A self-assessment covering the six areas where brand and design most often determine how investors perceive your company. Read through, be honest, and note where things feel uncertain.

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Pitch deck design template

A fully designed, editable deck template built to Heights' standard. A reference point for founders who know what good looks like.

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What Seduces an Investor? New Wave insights

A distilled one-pager from New Wave's conversations with the investors shaping European cleantech. What they’re looking for, in their own words.

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What great impact design looks like right now

A curated report on the design decisions that make impact-driven companies stand out today. Five rebrands, what worked and why, and what founders can take away from each.

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The HackSummit conversations.

New Wave's series with the founders & investors shaping European cleantech.

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How Wave Energy Could Quietly Beat Nucleare

Patrik Möller, CEO of CorPower Ocean. Wave energy has spent decades being dismissed. Most of it, fairly. But the physics never went away, the proof points have finally caught up. CorPower Ocean has spent 14 years building the device that survives 18-metre storms and still produces full power in 3-metre swell. Patrik Moller on why this time is different.

Climate tech
Clean tech
Deep tech
Clean energy

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Clean tech
Deep tech
Clean energy

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From Eventbrite IPO to Climate VC

Why the next generation of climate champions will need more than early-stage capital to win.We’re joined by Renaud Visage, Co-Founder at SlateVC and former CTO of Eventbrite, for a deep dive into what it really takes to scale climate companies in Europe, from founder psychology to growth-stage financing.After helping build Eventbrite from startup to IPO, Renaud spent years angel investing and learning the mechanics of venture from the inside at Index Ventures and Point Nine. Today, with SlateVC, he’s focused on one of the biggest gaps in European climate tech: growth-stage capital.

Climate tech
Climate Growth Capital
Europe

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Climate tech
Climate Growth Capital
Europe

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How VCs Decide in 30 Minutes

What does it take to back a scientific founder before there's a product, revenue, or proof the science will work? Max Meyer built Nucleus to do exactly that, becoming the first institutional believer in pre-seed deep tech across food, bio, and industrials. In this episode, how he learned to evaluate breakthrough science without being a scientist himself, and why the best founders pair technical brilliance with the ability to tell a story.

Pree-Seed
Deep Tech VC
Europe

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Pree-Seed
Deep Tech VC
Europe

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Introductions.

Three teams with one shared obsession.

New Wave

New Wave is Hugo Rauch's podcast and newsletter where climate and deep-tech investing takes centre stage. Every week, Hugo charts the stories, strategies and insights behind Europe's boldest climate bets, trusted by 5,000+ subscribers.

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HackSummit

HackSummit brings together the founders, funders and operators rebuilding Europe's industrial core across energy, materials, biology and manufacturing.

The annual conference in Lausanne is where DeepTech moves from science to reality.

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Heights Digital

We're a brand and product design agency for tech startups and scale-ups driving environmental and social change. 


We work with funded founders from seed onwards, embedding as a strategic partner to help them reach more people and attract investment through design.

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