The NatureBacked Podcast
Are you looking to understand the business of a better future? Welcome to NatureBacked. For three years and through more than 125 episodes, we've been on a mission to uncover how investors and entrepreneurs worldwide tackle climate change, from the complexities of emissions to the devastating reality of floods. We explore the personal choices and inspiring journeys driving this critical work. Join us to hear from the experts, innovators, and changemakers who are not just talking about change but actively creating it. As a top-three U.S. investment podcast and in the top 2.5% of all podcasts globally, NatureBacked offers the insights you need to navigate the evolving landscape of a sustainable world.NatureBacked was founded by Tarmo Virki, a passionate environmentalist who believes that nature has the solutions to many of the challenges we face today. In each episode, Tarmo or co-host Fiona Alston interviews a guest who shares their knowledge, experience, and vision on a specific topic related to nature and sustainability. We would love to hear from you, so feel free to email us at tarmo@naturebacked.com with your feedback, questions, or suggestions. Thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy the show!Stay curious and stay green 💚
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Fastscaling Startups with Patrick Flesner
"Startups do not fail because they run out of cash."
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Nordic Deeptech Unicorns In Sight, Say Butterfl...
41 min
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Scooters and Carbon Accounting Win Major Share ...
30 min
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Boosting Carbon Impact Startups in Food, Agricu...
"Investment is going towards sustainability; it is going towards impact startups."
29 min
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Evergreen Climate Investments With Kiko Venture...
"There's lots of stuff that needs to happen, from carbon capture to next-generation solar."
29 min
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Tokenising Nature's Work in Special Episode wit...
29 min
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Investing in Sustainable Technologies With Futu...
23 min
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Exploring Infinite Games of Family Offices With...
"You probably want to have an investor who, once they're on the ride, is there until the ride runs out."
32 min
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Tapping Climate Mitigation Opportunities with B...
"I'd love to see more climate mitigation products and services."
25 min
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How To Invest A Billion In Climate? With Giant ...
"I think climate tech is quite a hot space at the moment."
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Great Time For Deep Tech Investing With Outsize...
"We need to obviously speed up what we're doing in order to save our planet."
22 min
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New Materials, Food Innovations in Focus for In...
Impact is like super important on the agenda of pension funds, insurance companies, and public money.
14 min
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Climate Focus Brings Best Results, says World F...
"The companies that will deliver the highest climate impact will also be the ones delivering the highest financial impact."
23 min
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Chasing Uncompromising Impact Unicorns with Nor...
"Impact unicorn is still pretty rare ... it's a really high bar."
21 min
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Speedinvest Looks For Further Climate Tech Inve...
""We see that this climate tech is basically a maturing asset class."
27 min
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Fixing the Mess We Created, Tackling Climate Em...
"You can't; you can't be a climate VC and just invest in software."
28 min
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Sustainable Transformation in Focus for Japanes...
"I am still very optimistic that Europe is still the best place for cleantech."
39 min
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Why Old-School VCs Struggle to Get Into Climate...
"When Donald Trump says global warming is a joke, it's not a joke."
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Unhooking Europe, Led by Baltic Founders with C...
"We've been really hooked on this cheap energy, but it's been like getting energy from coffee."
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Finding Radical Climate Solutions with Pale Blu...
"I think that that's the way we should approach some of these problems, saying no, no, no, no, I'm not after that best child labour camp. I'm after no child labour.."
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Deepdive of East Europe Startup World with Flas...
"When it's like shock, people tend to change their behaviour."
36 min
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Urgency of Tackling Climate Change with Baldert...
"We're definitely not doing enough to tackle climate change. "
21 min
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Big Game of Energy Transition with Helen Ventur...
"If you think about the existential crisis that we are dealing with, we need to find the solutions."
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Looking into Climate Fintech World with Octopus...
"If you can move your pension to a green and sustainable pension, it's 27 times more effective than going vegan."
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Building GreenTech Ventures with Brainforest's ...
"We have very, very little time to solve a massive problem."
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