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Why Green Tech Startups Fail, And How to Fix It - Laurits Bach Soerensen (Nordic Alpha Partners)
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Why Green Tech Startups Fail, And How to Fix It - Laurits Bach Soerensen (Nordic Alpha Partners)

A deep dive into hyper-transformation, the framework that led to Tesla's acquisition of Wiferion

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As industrial greentech scales, it faces hypertransformation: disrupting value chains, deploying new tech, demanding huge capital, and struggling with rapid growth. This is a stage at which traditional startup playbooks can’t keep up.

So, how do founders and investors survive and thrive through this chaos?

Laurits Bach Sørensen, Co-Founder of Nordic Alpha Partners, shares a powerful new framework: Hypertransformation. This is how this growth fund sold Spirii to Edenred for €175M and Wiferion to Tesla for €82M.

In this conversation, we cover:

  • Why green tech needs more than capital to win

  • The $215 trillion reindustrialization opportunity

  • How the U.S. and China outplay Europe on policy

  • The 4 forces of hypertransformation

  • Why Northvolt failed, and how it could’ve been saved

  • … and more!

Watch the full conversation on YouTube 👇


⌛TIMESTAMPS

  • 00:00 Introduction

  • 02:13 Introduction to Nordic Alpha Partners

  • 5:24 The Need for Re-Industrialization

  • 11:42 Skepticism in Climate Tech

  • 15:18 Understanding Hyper Transformation

  • 19:01 Four Forces of Hyper Transformation

  • 27:54 Capital Expenditure in Hypergrowth

  • 36:48 Managing Hypergrowth

  • 39:20 Northvolt Case Study

  • 49:50 Free Tools You Can Use

  • 53:34 Rapid Fire Questions 🔥


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