CRH Ventures’ drive to support First Of A Kind plants and tech commercialization

Join Eduardo Gomez Mendoza, SVP and Head of CRH Ventures as he shares his perspective on how we can scale the most-needed hardware tech to deliver industrial decarbonisation.  Welcome to this special edition of the Decarb Connect podcast featuring one of the 50+ speakers at Decarb Techinvest. We will be exploring, through a few conversations, how we scale up (beyond series B) and truly commercialise the hardware tech that transform our most essential, but co2 intensive, sectors. Eduardo Gomez Mendoza, SVP and Head of CRH Ventures, took on the mission to launch and grow CRH Ventures back in 2022 – in this conversation we talk about how his and the team’s focus has developed, along with his view of how we can scale the most-needed hardware tech to deliver industrial decarbonisation. We take a look at CRH Ventures’ 4 main areas of interest - Decarbonisation, Water, Circularity and Productivity… important to the core business as well as their sustainability goals. It was great to hear about the 4 announced investments in companies helping to create more sustainable outcomes for industry, there is also a a strong pipeline with more investments due to be announced this soon. Listen in to get Eduardo’s perspective on these points:Asset-heavy tech require significant capital to scale – can early tech show they can get the unit economics to work profitably at scale?What times of tech roadmaps and leadership team capabilities are essential for them?More capital is available for climate tech and hard tech and investors are more comfortable with asset-heavy businesses – but how are the expectations and needs of investors changing?The value in having strong technical and commercial teams around the world – what can CRH deliver that other CVCs may not?How are FOAK projects moving from plans to reality (with examples) Show Links: Connect to Eduardo Gomez Mendoza, Head of CRH Ventures and learn more about CRH VenturesConnect with Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect and find out more about our work with the leaders in industrial decarbonizationLearn more about Decarb TechInvest and the other speakers and guests joining Eduardo onsite If you’ve enjoyed this podcast –join us in Boston from 10-11 September 2024 for Decarb TechInvest.  Eduardo is one of over 50+ speakers from across the industrial decarb tech and investor space. This is the only event that brings both high quality investors (including Eduardo) together with best in class hardtech teams at Series B+. Join us and help drive the momentum and partnership models that will define the next decade of industrial climate tech expansion.  Learn about our Sponsor: Janno MediaMany thanks to our production partner and sponsor Janno Media for their support in delivering this podcast. They continue to facilitate great conversations that connect us with our audience, and their skills and expertise mean we can concentrate exclusively on generating great content to engage, inform and inspire.