HeyJaredClimate CEOs: Scaling Startups (from EFI)
Weekly briefing for founders, investors & operators in climate tech, clean energy, and sustainability. Written by Dr. Chris Wedding, CEO of Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI), a peer group for 100 CEOs & investors w/ $40B of aggregate enterprise value or AUM.
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VC concentration • AI burnout • You problems (opens the original)
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Welcome to Climate CEOs: Actionable insights on capital, strategy, and technology for entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in energy, infrastructure, and climate. Built on insights from 300+ CEOs.Join 40,000+ readersFive things I learned last week:1. VC funding is up 55%. But most startups don’t feel it.H1 2026 climate tech VC funding was the strongest since 2022. Hooray. But wait.Deal count fell 25% <
Stranded IP • Strategic capital • Time wealth (#254) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Climate CEOs: Actionable insights on capital, strategy, and technology for entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in energy, infrastructure, and climate. Built on insights from 300+ CEOs.Join 40,000+ readersFive things I learned last week:1. Stranded IP may be tomorrow’s startup.Large corporations are busy.So busy that they forget the IP treasures gathering dust in their basements.Often the technology wasn’
Personal Incentives | 25-Year Plans | Bad Valuations (#253) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Climate CEOs: Actionable insights on capital, strategy, and technology for entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in energy, infrastructure, and climate. Built on insights from 300+ CEOs.Join 40,000+ readersFive things I (re)learned last week:1. Think in decades, execute in quarters.Most days, not completing our to-do list leaves us defeated. But if we aim for just three big goals per quarter for 25 years, that’s 300 b
Entrepreneurship = freedom to? Or freedom from? (opens the original)
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Read: 90 secondsHighlight: Freedom comes at a cost. Will you pay for it?Welcome to Climate CEOs: Actionable insights from my work with 300+ climate CEOs on growth, capital, and leadership. New here? Subscribe today.Join 40,000+ readersFirst, an invitationThe Off-the-Record Climate Tech CEO Dinner:New York Climate Week | 9/22 | 6-9 pm<
The 10-minute call that changed my life (#251) (opens the original)
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Read: 2 minHighlight: Your words of encouragement matter more than you think. Don’t wait to say them.Welcome to Climate CEOs: Actionable insights from my work with 300+ climate CEOs on growth, capital, and leadership.Join 40,000+ readers“Who deeply influenced the person and the startup leader you are today?”I posed this question in <
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