Julieta Moradei: Shaping the Future with Construction Technology to Achieve a Net-Zero Built Environment

On the show today, Apollo is joined by Julieta Moradei, Managing Partner of the recently launched Overlay Capital Build. Build is a consultancy working to accelerate the adoption of critical digital transformation technologies in the arena of construction and housing.

While most executives often score high in Prioritize on the PLE assessment, Julieta is Apollo’s first guest to score overwhelmingly high in Leverage. She guides us through her professional journey, highlighting her ability to automate organized work systems early in her career as an engineer.

As Julieta molds Overlay Capital Build, she tackles the question: “How can we shelter the 3 billion people who don't have adequate housing, by 2030?” Through optimizing the end-to-end value chain, reducing environmental impact, and implementing new technologies during the entire construction cycle, Julieta describes how she’s leaned into her Leverage orientation to re-imagine our built environment on earth.

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Guest Bio

Julieta Moradei is a structural engineer and architect turned social entrepreneur and venture capitalist, investing in early-stage startups and mitigating the biggest barriers in the built environment.

Julieta is the managing partner of the recently launched Overlay Capital Build, part of the asset manager Overlay Capital. Build is a consultancy working to accelerate the adoption of critical digital transformation technologies in the built environment by connecting innovative technologies with adopters.

Before joining Overlay Capital, Julieta was also a founding member and partner of Home Team Ventures, where she launched, fundraised, and managed operations of the venture fund investing in early-stage startups. She brought breakthrough technology to the world's largest, but least innovative industries: construction and housing.

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Guest PLE Score

• Prioritize - 32%
• Leverage - 60%
• Execute - 8%

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Guest Quote

“How do you leverage technology to make things easier? I'm not the kind of person that likes to hike up that mountain by myself. I never think that I'll be the smartest person in the room to do that. I wanna bring in the other mountaineers, that could do with me. When you're a VC, you're not an expert in one thing necessarily. Usually, you have a high-level understanding of a lot of different things and trends, and then you invest in those “geniuses”. You're investing in those people that will be actually creating this path, championing them, being optimistic, and helping them when you know there's barriers.”  - Julieta Moradei

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Time Stamps 

*(3:22) Julieta's Achievement Index

*(6:29) Julieta’s early career problem-solving as an engineer

*(12:04) Flipping your execute role into a prioritize and leverage experience

*(18:57) Innovating the “built environment” to address “the missing middle”

*(24:09) Introducing Overlay Capital Build

*(29:35) Can we repurpose the built environment to solve the housing crisis?

*(42:08) Apollo’s Takeaways

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Links

• Find out YOUR Achievement Index
• Connect with Julieta Moradei on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Overlay Build
• Connect with Dr. Apollo Emeka on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Apollo Strategy Group