#129 A Decade of Energy Investing, Impact Investment Hurdles, & Launching a 2nd Fund w/ Jason Blumberg (Earth Foundry)

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Show notes:
In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Jason Blumberg from Earth Foundry. Earth Foundry came out of Energy Foundry, who after a successful decade of investing in energy technologies is expanding its scope to other areas of climate tech.

Jason Blumberg is the co-founder and Managing Director of Earth Foundry. As a former consultant and founder in the energy space, he has sat on many boards and has a wide array of knowledge about energy and beyond to share with us.

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1. #129 A Decade of Energy Investing, Impact Investment Hurdles, & Launching a 2nd Fund w/ Jason Blumberg (Earth Foundry) (00:00:00)

2. Intro + career (00:01:21)

3. How Energy Foundry became Earth Foundry (00:02:25)

4. Changing thesis (00:06:32)

5. Lessons from a decade of energy VC (00:09:40)

6. Experience raising a fund (00:21:24)

7. Being a repeat fund manager (00:22:55)

8. How discipline became fund success (00:31:23)

9. Energy VC vs. general VC (00:34:30)

10. Best cleantech industries to invest (00:38:56)

11. Advice to founders (00:57:08)