Podcast appearances and mentions of shaun abrahamson

Listen Time: Full Show 38:51 (no ads) | Free Preview 31:19Today, we are speaking with Shaun Abrahamson from Third Sphere. Third Sphere is a leading ClimateTech investor that also has a debt strategy for high-volume production startups in the hardware space. They have backed companies like ChargeLab, ClimateBase, Gradient, OneWheel, Therma, Revivn, & Wasted (check out the episode we did with Revivn). This is Shaun's third time on the pod — if this is your first time hearing him, you'll understand why because he is very thoughtful. During NY Climate Week, the Third Sphere team put on a great event titled “Climate Tech Exits.” It was really well beloved by many NY CW attendees. They covered:**Why exits are so crucial to the success of Climate investing **The state of climate tech exits**How it looks compared to tech broadly**What to learn from the original tech winners like Google & Apple **What the paths forward might be**The patterns of successful founders In today's episode, we recap the key points of their event and then dig into Shaun's advice to founders on how to ensure they are doing things right, in order to see an exit.We are sure you'll find it educational.

Recently, the MCJ Podcast experienced huge backlash for having Big Oil players on the show. This prompted us to bring back a past guest, Shaun Abrahamson from Third Sphere.----

NYCW was a pivotal moment for many of us current or aspiring climate professionals. It brought together large swaths of diverse talent all working in different assets to solve the climate crisis. Many of these gatherings were headlined by some of the smartest minds in climate and climate tech. An implicit goal we've had at the CleanTechies Podcast since then is to have as many speakers from the week as we can.I'm excited to introduce the speaker of one of the most popular talks at NYCW and Managing Partner of Third Sphere VC, Shaun Abrahamson. Shaun is an early-stage investor in the climate sector with a background in engineering and over a decade of focus on early-stage climate investments. Shaun's engineering mindset involves constructing narratives with numbers and employing simple models to assess the viability of proposed ideas but combines that with the perspectives of advertising professionals, emphasizing the importance of understanding human behavior — a facet engineers might overlook. --Topics4:10 Intro8:10 Balancing returns vs. impact11:36 Bad investment signals in climate20:59 What is Third Sphere27:47 Mistakes hardware founders make31:39 Design for Finance49:46 Which climate capital stack segments are underutilized 1:00:51 Insights1:03:45 IRA59:24 Climate x AI1:08:39 Hardware MVP1:14:15 Building a company right now1:17:47 Advice to founders1:23:25 Advice to VCs--LinksConnect with ShaunThird Sphere VCFor all your Climate, Renewables, and Sustainability recruitment needs, check out our sponsor NextWave Partners.This podcast is NOT investment advice. Do your homework and due diligence before investing in anything discussed on this podcast.Connect with Somil | Connect with SilasSupport the showWe are proud to continue working with NextWave as our official show sponsor for this podcast. NextWave and all of its staff are highly motivated to advance the ClimateTech revolution and are constantly innovating ways that they can help affect that transition. From experts in the talent space to ESG experts, NextWave is taking on Climate and Social responsibility head-on and helping companies build great cultures that not only make the world a better place but also increase workplace satisfaction. Reach out to NextWave Partners today to learn more about how we might partner with you today. https://www.next-wavepartners.com/ / info@next-wavepartners.com

Shaun Abrahamson co-founded Third Sphere, dedicated to shaping a post-climate change world through venture investments and founder support. Before Third Sphere, Shaun was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms and 3 unicorns between 2007 and 2013 including ZocDoc, Public, Trialpay, Refinery29, Skycatch, and Tonx. During this time, Shaun also led multiple sustainability-focused projects like Life Edited to design ultra-low GHG apartments in New York City as well as Betacup to cut paper cup waste for Starbucks.  Shaun began venture building at companies like MediaSentry, Starmedia Network, govWorks, and Oculus, with a foundation in climate work from MIT CADLab in 1997.  Shaun has an MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership and a BSc from the University of Cape Town. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning ⁠⁠PR agency VSC⁠⁠ has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like ⁠⁠Ample⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Actual⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Sesame Solar⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Synop⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Vibrant Planet⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Zume⁠⁠ among many others.

Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner of Third Sphere (fka Urban Us), walks us through the process of finding climate tech companies to invest in, the risks of investing in climate tech, and how we can vastly increase the market for climate tech by educating the built world.

Third Sphere funds are top quartile or decile on a net TVPI basis backing pre-customer companies that are transforming global energy systems. Ranked by Techcrunch as one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most, co-founder Shaun Abrahamson describes how he backs Climatetech Superheroes and then leverages his vast network of advisors and angel investors to build a full stack early-stage climate investing platform.

Today's guest is Shaun Abrahamson.  Shaun co-founded Urban Us to fund & serve startups that make cities better. Before Urban Us Shaun was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms between 2007 and 2013. In this episode, Shaun will tell us how he became an investor, what it means to invest with a 'Climate Thesis' and how his investments at Urban Us can contribute to more sustainable cities.

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As populations grow, and climates change, could cities be our salvation? With the right infrastructure, urban areas or megaregions can be the most carbon & economic efficient habitations. But cities face countless problems, in housing shortages, broken transportation, overflowing waste, and more. With Urban.us, Shaun Abrahamson & Stonly Baptiste seed startups solving for challenges to make our cities better and our futures more hopeful. Shaun & Stonly talk to Jason about what they're working on, why cities are so critical, what they look for in startups, which problems they are tackling, and much more.

As populations grow, and climates change, could cities be our salvation? With the right infrastructure, urban areas or megaregions can be the most carbon & economic efficient habitations. But cities face countless problems, in housing shortages, broken transportation, overflowing waste, and more. With Urban.us, Shaun Abrahamson & Stonly Baptiste seed startups solving for challenges to make our cities better and our futures more hopeful. Shaun & Stonly talk to Jason about what they're working on, why cities are so critical, what they look for in startups, which problems they are tackling, and much more.

Shaun Abrahamson's an angel investor and venture capitalist focused on the urbanization and transformation of cities. He's an investor in Blue Bottle, Soma Water, Refinery29, Skycatch, Blokable and dozens of other early stage companies. Previously he worked at and with several Dotcom and made a bit of money with an exit, leading into his investing... The post Driverless Cars and The Future of Cities and Government with Shaun Abrahamson of Urban.us appeared first on The Syndicate.

An excellent podcast with Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner at Urban.Us.

Can business muster the will, the know-how and the capital to take on the problems cities face? Shaun Abrahamson is betting on it. He is co-founder of Urban.us, a new public benefit corporation based in Miami - and a Knight Foundation grantee - that supports companies working to solve the most urgent urban challenges. Email me via: Coletta (at) knightfoundation.org.