Grounds Up by Caffeine Daily Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/grounds-up-by-caffeine-daily Grounds Up is Caffeine's new podcast for the people behind New Zealand's most ambitious companies. Every episode is a real conversation with a founder, operator, investor or enabler about what building actually looks like — not the highlight reel. Because building is personal, and the story's always better than the press release. Caffeine Daily c24f94ff-b345-5af2-8791-76a6a8a26991 yes en Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:22:05 +1200 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:02:43 +1200 https://caffeinedaily.co/ https://img.transistorcdn.com/J5AASKQv921Ru6LGLtd75qnDxdGVqW9NrsJTbY3gx0g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYjEy/NjM4YmMyYThhYzg0/ZTQ4ZjM0N2Y2ZDIx/ZTljYS5wbmc.jpg Grounds Up by Caffeine Daily https://caffeinedaily.co/ episodic Caffeine Daily Grounds Up is Caffeine's new podcast for the people behind New Zealand's most ambitious companies. Every episode is a real conversation with a founder, operator, investor or enabler about what building actually looks like — not the highlight reel. Because building is personal, and the story's always better than the press release. Grounds Up is Caffeine's new podcast for the people behind New Zealand's most ambitious companies. Courteney Peters courteney@caffeinedaily.co Yes No Making it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it with Holly Beals and Ralph Chang 1 1 Making it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it with Holly Beals and Ralph Chang full 14a86579-ac1c-499f-9ca4-bde96e4589dc https://share.transistor.fm/s/0114aa39 Climatetech is about more than sustainability. It's energy, industrial decarbonisation, sustainable food systems, and a dozen sub-sectors in between, held together by one idea: these are businesses that make money by cutting carbon.

In the first episode of Grounds Up, Court sits down with Ralph Chang (Partner, Motion Capital) and Holly Beals (Lead, Aurora Climate Lab at Creative HQ), the two people running New Zealand's main pipeline from early climate tech idea to investable company. They talk about Motion Capital's investment thesis ("make it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it"), what actually happens inside a climate tech accelerator, and the funding gap that stalls deep-tech companies right before their first commercial plant gets built.

Also covered: Zethos's zinc dust process undercutting galvanising costs by half, Factor's exit to Gentrack, and why one 2024 report named climatetech New Zealand's fastest-growing tech investment category, ahead of software.

]]> Climatetech is about more than sustainability. It's energy, industrial decarbonisation, sustainable food systems, and a dozen sub-sectors in between, held together by one idea: these are businesses that make money by cutting carbon.

In the first episode of Grounds Up, Court sits down with Ralph Chang (Partner, Motion Capital) and Holly Beals (Lead, Aurora Climate Lab at Creative HQ), the two people running New Zealand's main pipeline from early climate tech idea to investable company. They talk about Motion Capital's investment thesis ("make it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it"), what actually happens inside a climate tech accelerator, and the funding gap that stalls deep-tech companies right before their first commercial plant gets built.

Also covered: Zethos's zinc dust process undercutting galvanising costs by half, Factor's exit to Gentrack, and why one 2024 report named climatetech New Zealand's fastest-growing tech investment category, ahead of software.

]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:22:05 +1200 Caffeine Daily Caffeine Daily 1900 Climatetech is about more than sustainability. It's energy, industrial decarbonisation, sustainable food systems, and a dozen sub-sectors in between, held together by one idea: these are businesses that make money by cutting carbon.

In the first episode of Grounds Up, Court sits down with Ralph Chang (Partner, Motion Capital) and Holly Beals (Lead, Aurora Climate Lab at Creative HQ), the two people running New Zealand's main pipeline from early climate tech idea to investable company. They talk about Motion Capital's investment thesis ("make it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it"), what actually happens inside a climate tech accelerator, and the funding gap that stalls deep-tech companies right before their first commercial plant gets built.

Also covered: Zethos's zinc dust process undercutting galvanising costs by half, Factor's exit to Gentrack, and why one 2024 report named climatetech New Zealand's fastest-growing tech investment category, ahead of software.

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