The Cleantech Startup Journey of Dandelion Energy - Livestream

Kathy Hannun will tell the story of founding and growing Dandelion Energy, a startup focused on replacing fossil-fueled furnaces and boilers with home geothermal heating and cooling systems. Kathy started Dandelion as a project within Alphabet's X lab before spinning it out as a standalone startup. As Dandelion's CEO, Hannun navigated raising venture capital for Dandelion, a startup taking on hardware and an operationally complex business model at a time when cleantech funding was scarce. In the time that's elapsed since Dandelion raised its initial seed round of funding in the summer of 2017, it has grown to become the largest home geothermal company in the US and brought renewed attention to geothermal heat-pump technology.In her talk, Kathy will discuss how to start and fundraise for a cleantech company, overcoming the challenges of hardware and operational complexity, the mistakes she made along the way, and why she sees so much promise in geothermal heat pumps as a tool for furthering the energy transition.

Speaker: Kathy Hannun, Dandelion Energy

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