My guest today is Laurent Barbezieux. Laurent is the co-founder of Aktio. Aktio is a company based out of Paris, France that delivers carbon accounting software and services to medium-sized companies in France and Europe.

Carbon accounting software has been a very hot area of VC investment in the climate tech space this year and we dive into this today.

We meet with Laurent to discuss the drivers of adoption of such solutions, the complexity of bringing internal data into one place such that an organisation can reasonably assess how much there carbon footprint and where it comes from, and the initiatives to reduce emissions that can then be identified and implemented. We will learn how Aktio helps them with that and get Laurent’s take on why there can be so many companies in this space without directly competing with each other.

A former strategy consultant with a passion for tackling climate change, Laurent started Aktio during the pandemic in March 2020.

Aktio managed to reach a scale of about 30 employees without much external funding - only raising a small undisclosed seed round.

I hope you enjoy my discussion with Laurent.