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.

Renaud Visage’s Next Billion-Dollar Bet

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.

Building Conviction Before the World Sees It

What it takes to back scientific founders before there’s a product, revenue, or proof that the science will work. We’re joined by Max, Founder & Managing Partner at Nucleus, a pre-seed venture fund backing scientific and technical founders across food, biotech, and industrial innovation. In this episode, we dive into what it really takes to become the first institutional believer in a company, often before there’s an MVP, customers, or even certainty that the underlying technology can scale. Max shares the lessons from building Nucleus from scratch, how he learned to evaluate breakthrough science without being a scientist himself, and why the best founders combine technical brilliance with the ability to tell a compelling story.

Assia spent two years in an Oxford lab trying to replace indium with copper. Nothing worked, until she found a 13th-century article in the college library about a Chinese alloy that Europe spent centuries mistaking for silver. Today Milvus Advanced is substituting the rare metals that everything from touchscreens to hydrogen catalysts depends on, backed by Lowercarbon Capital, MD1, and a cap table that has quietly shifted from climate to defence.

Beau-Anne joined Forward One because she was tired of soft impact. Her firm has been investing in deep tech since 2018, before it was fashionable, with two funds in the top 5% of their vintage. In this episode: why hardware is having its moment back, what the Series A playbook looks like for capital-intensive companies, and why a fund model that bets on unicorns is a fund model that fails.

Cement is responsible for around 8% of global CO2 emissions, and most of that comes from chemistry that’s over 100 years old. Andreas Saari co-founded Paebbl to build a carbon-negative alternative, using captured CO2 and olivine rock to create a cement material in about an hour. In this episode: why decarbonising cement is so hard, why Paebbl was built to work without a voluntary carbon market, and why Europe is sleepwalking into a supplementary cementitious material supply gap.