Hey everyone! Cherry Swayne here, Founder of Above and Beyond Recruitment, Carbon13 Domain Expert, organiser of online ClimateTech communities and Mother of two small, wonderful children. Most importantly to you though, I'm your Host of Two Pence Worth: Stories from Female Founders in ClimateTech👩💻
In a series of bitesize episodes, we will be taking you through their journeys, giving insight into what it’s like founding a business as a woman in the climate sector and the challenges that may be faced along the way, as well as an action toolkit to help you on your own journey.
Happy listening💫
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Hey everyone! Cherry Swayne here, Founder of Above and Beyond Recruitment, Carbon13 Domain Expert, organiser of online ClimateTech communities and Mother of two small, wonderful children. Most importantly to you though, I'm your Host of Two Pence Worth: Stories from Female Founders in ClimateTech👩💻
In a series of bitesize episodes, we will be taking you through their journeys, giving insight into what it’s like founding a business as a woman in the climate sector and the challenges that may be faced along the way, as well as an action toolkit to help you on your own journey.
Happy listening💫
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On our second episode of Two Pence Worth: Stories from female Founders in Climate, I spoke to Josephine Bromley: COO and Co-Founder at Mortar IO.
Josephine is the COO and Co-Founder at Mortar IO, the SaaS platform that creates virtual models of buildings to accurately simulate retrofit strategies and de-risk decarbonisation. The company is a graduate of Carbon13 (Co-hort 3), the venture builder for the climate emergency from the University of Cambridge. Previously, Josephine has contributed to companies such as Curve and Google.
00:00: Introduction to episode 2
01:10: Introduction to Josephine Bromley at Mortar IO
02:40: Josephine’s background and the story of Mortar IO
05:30: How was the Founder matching experience at Carbon13?
07:20: Did you go into the programme with the bones of the idea for Mortar or did you create it from scratch as a three?
08:00: Talk us through a brief summary of what the platform does and who uses it?
11:00: When did you graduate from the cohort?
12:00: How has the last 9 months since graduating been? What have you been working on?
13:45: Over this last 9 months what would you say you’re most proud of?
14:55: What are you most excited about moving forward post-grant?
16:10: What’s your experience as a female Founder? Have you recognised instances where you’ve faced adversity?
20:31: Do you find that there are times when your male Founders are spoken to but you’re not?
22:05: What support and resources have been the most impactful for you on your business journey?
23:40: How did you find those people who were just a fraction of the road further than you in your journey?
25:30: What people-related resource would you advise people connect with the help them?
26:25 What media-related resource would you advise people connect with the help them?
27:30: What female role model do you look up to?
28:55: Conclusion and what’s coming for the rest of the series
Video versions of these episodes are available here.
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