New MCJ episode #84: Roundtable with Shayle Kann from Energy Impact Partners and Abe Yokell from Congruent Ventures at the 1st SF MCJ Meetup!

Today’s guests are Abe Yokell and Shayle Kann, respectively Co-Founder and Managing Director at Congruent Ventures and Managing Director at Energy Impact Partners (EIP).

This is a special live episode recorded at the first SF MCJ meetup, a great event organized recently by MCJ listeners in the SF/Bay Area. Abe and Shayle are both cleantech 1.0 veterans, and the discussion largely centers around what happened last time, lessons learned, what is needed now, and the best ways for us to get there.

Founded in 2016, Congruent Ventures invests in early-stage startups in the cleantech space, and Abe and his team have developed a portfolio of 27 companies to date. Prior to that, Abe was an investor at Rockport Capital Partners, a private equity firm which was active during the first cleantech wave.

Shayle started his career in cleantech as a research analyst at Greentech Media. His current firm, EIP, has close to a billion dollars of AUM, much of which from some of the largest energy utilities, and invests in innovative startups across the energy space.

This was a great event, and I hope there are many more of them. They are starting to spring up in other cities as well, which is very exciting to me! The audio is a little rougher than normal since it was our first live taping, but it should feel more authentic as well :)

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Enjoy the show.

Best,

Jason