GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The interview was conducted by Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch. This conversation was recorded live (remotely) as part of an interview series in collaboration with Powerhouse and Greentech Media. To learn more about future speakers and attending a live event, go to Powerhouse.fund and click on the events tab.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

In this episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch talks with Donnel about how he channeled his frustration and anger around racial unfairness into a business model for the energy transition. It’s about changing the fabric of underserved communities that are plagued by pollution and energy poverty.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 22, 2020

In that light, Station A’s main competition is large-scale developers’ in-house platforms for identifying and analyzing opportunities across the country, said Emily Kirsch, founder and CEO of Powerhouse and a Station A board member. What’s more, “nearly every project is planned and transacted individually.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This week on Watt It Takes : Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Mateo Jaramillo, the CEO and co-founder of Form Energy. Form is working on a new kind of long-duration battery. And Mateo has one of the longer-duration careers in the storage industry.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

In this episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch talks with Dan about the science behind the idea, how Opower evolved and expanded, and why the company was eventually sold to Oracle. The company went public in 2014 and was sold to Oracle in 2016. Listen to all our past episodes of Watt It Takes here.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Xavier Helgesen, the co-founder and chief technology officer at Zola Electric. This week on Watt It Takes : how a computer nerd who loved assembling electronics became obsessed with designing a solar-storage system to light up Africa.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 22, 2021

Anna Barber , partner at M13 Emily Kirsch , founder and CEO at Powerhouse and founder and managing partner at Powerhouse Ventures Julianne Zimmerman , managing director at Reinventure Capital Kameale C. Raise from women who you know and admire—that’s a great place to start,” Kirsch advised. “If Take care of yourself.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 30, 2021

Exposition Ventures Emily Kirsch ?—?Powerhouse Elemental Excelerator Emily Reichert ?—?Greentown —?Mycocycle Sarah Schlafly ?—?Mighty Mighty Cricket Industry Investors Jessica Droste Yagan ?—?Impact Impact Engine Amy Francetic ?—?Buoyant Buoyant Ventures Karen Kerr ?—?Exposition Powerhouse Ventures Cheryl Martin ?—?Harwich

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Laura Schewel, the founder and CEO of Streetlight Data. This week on Watt It Takes : How an energy researcher obsessed with electric vehicles stumbled upon a vast trove of transportation data and built a company that is reshaping infrastructure planning for mobility.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 26, 2021

Referencing a recent McKinsey study that showed that companies in the top quartile for ethnic and cultural diversity handily outperform those in the bottom, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch said that investors risk failure by overlooking diversity. Harris with Brain Brackeen, Emily Kirsch, and Harry Johnson II. Danielle J.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2022

Emily Kirsch , Founder and Managing Partner at Powerhouse Ventures Twenty-three percent of startups In Powerhouse Ventures’ first fund have underrepresented founders. Kirsch just announced Powerhouse Ventures Fund II , which clocks in at $70M; the majority of the new fund’s individual LPs are women.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To lower the upfront cost, Overstory offers its service on a per-mile, per-month basis, said Emily Kirsch, CEO of Powerhouse Ventures. 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E, “that is enough incentive for a utility to act," Kirsch said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

The flexibility they provide is valuable in its own right, Powerhouse Ventures Managing Partner Emily Kirsch noted in a blog post on Tuesday. If the customer base continues to grow, Axiom's services will shift grocery store power consumption away from the peak hours that drive disproportionate grid costs and carbon emissions.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Following opening remarks from Greentown CEO Emily Reichert and a spotlight on our member QuantAQ’s climate justice work , we kicked off the summit with a panel that zeroed in on the technology, policies, and investments needed to ensure the coming energy transition is a just one.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2021

Emily Kirsch, founder and CEO of Powerhouse, estimated that the market for grid planning and operations technology to support this growth stands at about $4 billion per year globally. Multiple studies indicate that the U.S.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“There are three areas: there’s us, there’s the founders that we decide to invest in, and there’s their teams—who they decide to hire,” said Emily Kirsch , founder and CEO at Powerhouse and managing partner of Powerhouse Ventures. Investing in climate solutions makes economic sense.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 3, 2016

Emily Kirsch is Co-founder and CEO of Powerhouse , an incubator dedicated to solar startups (formerly SfunCube). Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Fong dropped out of junior high school at the age of 12 to attend university and graduated at age 17. The Oakland-based incubator boasts 20+ startups and 100+ entrepreneurs.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

So I’m kind of being lucky to work there at the time of transition, that I am hoping to share my experience in the United States working with a lot of women role models such as Emily Kirsch from the Powerhouse Accelerator, Marubeni has a corporate partnership with.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

So I’m kind of being lucky to work there at the time of transition, that I am hoping to share my experience in the United States working with a lot of women role models such as Emily Kirsch from the Powerhouse Accelerator, Marubeni has a corporate partnership with.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 25, 2021

” To hear BlocPower’s story and track record of building an equitable clean energy future, catch Donnel’s recent appearance with our friend Emily Kirsch on the Watt It Takes podcast and his recent testimony before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce. It’s all good.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 22, 2020

Our fifth Investor Speaker Series panel featured three people who are leading the charge on investments with major sustainability impacts: Nancy Pfund , founder and managing partner of DBL Partners; Libby Wayman , investor at Breakthrough Energy Ventures; and Emily Kirsch , founder and CEO of Powerhouse and managing partner of Powerhouse Ventures.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

In this panel, Powerhouse Founder & CEO Emily Kirsch discusses how companies and investors can enable affordable clean energy for all. Yet many Americans, especially in low-income communities and communities of color, are excluded from the development and ownership of clean energy and mobility technologies. Are You Ready?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Emily Kirsch , Co-Founder and CEO of solar startup incubator Powerhouse , livened up the day with an interactive presentation — in which we all had a chance to share our own startup ideas. It’s part of the success story of solar, which Kirsch pointed out employs more people than Google, Apple, and Facebook combined.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

In that sense, GTM was very much a “business-model venture” in search of a new industry, as Scott told Powerhouse Ventures CEO Emily Kirsch in a 2018 podcast.

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