Nurturing Deep Tech Startups to Address Climate Change: A Conversation with Andrew Gollach of HAX

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Welcome to this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet. Today, Dylan is joined by Andrew Gollach, Principal at HAX, a pre-seed and hands-on venture capital company for Hard Tech startups focused on climate change, sustainability, industrial automation, and human health. Join them as they discuss the challenges of hardware innovation, the importance of mining industry innovation, and the need for renewable energy scaling. They also touch on other innovation areas and investors' role in supporting climate tech. Listen in for an insightful conversation on solving climate change through hardware innovation and investing. Andrew has over ten years of technical and operational experience in renewable fuels and traditional oil and gas industries, and he has worked as an engineer in nine different countries. He has led a team in deploying a first-of-its-kind low-carbon fuels facility and contributed to the operations of many more large CAPEX projects. He leverages his engineering background and business acumen to help founders de-risk their technology, develop scalable go-to-market strategies, and secure additional funding.