Good news at last. But progress still slow.  Morrow Batteries, founded in 2014, has finally opened its first 1 GWh factory after ten...

What you can learn from First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) projects in nuclear? A lot, it appears.

Licensing, Buy-out or Project Finance? 

What is the first question you need to ask a greentech scaleup? 

22 minutes on YouTube could have saved investors $100M. That’s the harsh lesson from the rise and fall of Universal Hydrogen.

Investors think that hard tech climate scaleups lack generalist and financial expertise. While Founders agree only with the latter. Why?...

Strategic investors can be a double-edged sword for greentech scaleups. Here’s what to look out for. ⌛️Never before there was such a...

How much time do you need to rest? Two weeks? A day? A blink of an eye?

We all love success stories, but the truth is, we learn best from failures.

EU/US electric car markers and battery manufacturers are stalling. Here are the three main reasons why and two ways to deal with it.

80% of all my problems in all my projects came from having the wrong people on the team. Here are my 3 mistakes in hiring.

Last week, I tuned into an insightful interview with Yair Reems, Partner at Extantia Capital, conducted by Yoann Berno of Climate...

Securing that first sale can be a daunting challenge, especially if your customer isn’t also your investor, and you lack a government...

One rainy Amsterdam morning This was not going to be good. I was quietly contemplating how much money we could lose on this deal. I took...

What kind of problems should you be looking to solve as a startup founder? Here is a funny example from the heat pump market.

In 2016 I convinced Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear corporation, to invest $1B in wind energy and wind turbine manufacturing. Why did...

Startups like their technology. Can’t blame them. You get to witness awesome feats of engineering when you work with startups. But I tend...

Why would you refuse a board position? I want to share the thought process behind my decision in this post.

EU companies seem to be unable to get their gigafactories up and running. Britishvolt, Italvolt cancelled. Freyr and Beyonder are moving...

In the 90s Intel was considering switching to making a completely new chip. It was simpler and consumed less power. It was clear, that...