Point 01

Today on Point 01, Manik Suri sits down with Anna Demeo, President of Racepoint Energy. Racepoint provides sustainable energy, lighting and smart home solutions. In this interview Manik and Anna talk about the future of the electric grid, the challenges of implementing sustainable solutions, and where she sees the utility sector headed in both the short and long term.

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Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Justin Webb of AgriWebb. Coming from a long line of farmers in Queensland, Australia, Justin was exposed to the joys and pains of agriculture from a young age. Combining this knowledge with his experience founding a hedge fund, Justin founded AgriWeb, a platform that aggregates data to create more efficient and sustainable plant and animal cultivation. In this interview, Justin and Aaro...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Shilpi Kumar, partner at Urban US. Shilpi’s path to joining Urban US led her through several roles as a consultant and product manager, along the way finding her passion for urban planning and social impact. Now, as a partner at Urban US, she has found herself at the intersection of the 2, with Urban US’s stated goal being to equip cities to deal with the reality of climate change. In t...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Noor Sweid, Partner at Global Ventures. Based in the UAE, Noor began her career in consulting before leading her family’s company through an IPO. From there, she rose through the venture ecosystem, along the way joining the board of directors for several high-profile companies. Currently, she is a general partner at Global Ventures, a VC firm that strives to help growth stage start-ups ...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Steven Berkenfeld, founder of Ecotopia Consulting. Steven is a lifelong climate advocate and member of organizations such as the Sierra Club; however, he spent much of his career working with Lehman Brothers. During the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, Steven came to reflect on the state of climate and business. He decided to channel his powers into galvanizing the cleantech move...

Today on Point 01, Manik Suri sits down with Dr. Satish Kumar, president of the AEEE, for the second installment of a 2 part conversation. During their last chat in November 2020, Manik and Dr. Kumar discussed the difficulties of scaling up India’s cold chain infrastructure to distribute the Covid-19 vaccines that had only recently been approved. With the global vaccination effort in full swing, Manik and Dr. Kumar discuss how this...

Today on Point 01, Manik Suri sits down with Jen Galvin. With a background in the sciences, notably epidemiology and public health, Jen then transitioned into film production, bringing a unique voice to the medium. In this interview, Manik and Jen discuss the importance of science in storytelling, her work with the Henry David Thoreau Foundation, and her new film “The Antidote.”

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Today on Point 01, Manik Suri sits down with Jake Levine, media commentator, climate attorney, and federal and state policy advisor. Jake’s diverse background in both the public and private sectors has given him a unique perspective on the challenges of combating the climate crisis. In this podcast, Manik and Jake talk about the role economic disparity plays in spurring action to fight environmental catastrophes, the challenges of ...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Anshuman Bapna, Founder of Terra.Do, an online learning platform that aims to educate today and tomorrow’s workforce on how they can focus their efforts towards making a difference in the climate space. After 2 decades as an internet entrepreneur and member of renowned companies such as Google and Deloitte, Anshuman elected to devote his next endeavor towards the goal of driving 100 mil...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Olya Irzak, Co-Founder and CEO of Frost Methane and Co-Founder of the Diamond List. A former software engineer at Google, Olya turned her attention towards climate and worked at various early-stage startups aimed at mitigating the climate crisis. This led her to found Frost Methane, a company focused on detecting, characterizing, and mitigating concentrated methane from arctic permafros...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Chris Hopper, Co-Founder, and CEO of Aurora Solar. Chris’s involvement in the Solar Power movement began ten years ago when working to electrify a school in East Africa. While this project was a resounding success, Chris became disillusioned with the logistics involved with executing the projects.  This led Chris to found Aurora Solar, which has designed over 2 million solar systems to ...

In this Cooling Conversation, Manik Suri sits down with Dimitris Karamitsos, Senior Energy Efficiency Business Development Specialist at the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, otherwise known as BASE. BASE is a Swiss non-profit organization aiming to drive investment in innovative sustainable technology, most notably in the developing world. In this interview, Manik and Dimitris discuss the finer points of Cooling as a Service, a...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Tyler Lancaster, Principal at Energize Ventures. Energize Ventures is a venture capital fund that works to accelerate digital innovation in energy and heavy industry. In this episode, Aaron and Tyler talk about a few of Energize’s new investments and their outlook for how the Biden administration will affect the future of the clean energy transition. 

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Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Jean-Louis Kindler, CEO of Ways2H. Ways2H is a patented technology that turns waste biomass into renewable hydrogen. By utilizing materials that would have otherwise gone into landfills, such as plastics and rubber, Ways2H has the potential to solve the garbage crisis while simultaneously creating a renewable source of energy to power homes, vehicles, and an infinite number of other app...

Today, in a very special episode of the Point 01 Podcast, Aaron Cohen hosts a round table of experts on the future of sustainable food production. Joining us today is Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, Keely Wachs, Head of Marketing for Full Harvest, and Danya Hakeem, Director of Innovation, Agriculture, and Circular Economy at Elemental Excelerator. 

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Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Sophie Purdom. Sophie is a climate investor, entrepreneur, and author of the ClimateTech VC newsletter. Her experience in the climate tech space is massive and began by putting into place an ESG fund at the endowment of Brown University. From there, she found herself at Bain and Company before shifting to help found fellow Point 01 alumnus Kula Bio. She is currently the co-founder and e...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Eddy Badrina, CEO of Eden Green Technology. Eden Green is a company that has developed an innovative method of vertical farming. By enabling farmers to grow up instead of out, their productivity per square foot increases exponentially, making it more sustainable and accessible to urban growers. 

If you want to stay up to date with Eddy, you can find him on Twitter @eddybadrina, or if you...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Aaswath Raman, Co-Founder of Sky Cool Systems. SkyCool is a company that has developed a revolutionary radiative cooling material designed to improve the efficiency of compression-based cooling systems. Additionally, Aaswath was a significant influence on the founding of Point 01, with his work significantly guiding our ethos. In this episode, Aaswath and Aaron talk about the genesis of...

Today on Point 01, Aaron Cohen sits down with Shefali Kapadia, Senior Editor of Supply Chain Dive, a digital news outlet that focuses on logistics, transportation, e-commerce, trade, and sourcing. In this episode, Shefali shares her findings on how Covid-19 has affected the rapidly changing international logistics infrastructure.  

If you want to stay up to date with Shefali, you can find her work online at supplychaindive...