Founders. Let me save you a few years.

Everything founders need, in one scroll.

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If you’re building in climate, deeptech, or anything that doesn’t get hyped by TechCrunch every 30 seconds...

You need leverage.

Not just good vibes and green logos.

You need frameworks that cut through noise, investor lists that open doors, pitch decks that actually raise, and hard-won lessons from people who’ve been through the fire, not some VC meme thread on X.

So here’s the deal:

I’ve spent 4.5 years writing this newsletter.
230+ deep posts.
Thousands of hours.
Hard convos with unicorn founders, top fund managers, and world-class operators in both the US and Europe.

I went back and pulled the most valuable, most actionable posts.
And put them right here for you.
No fluff. No B.S. No theory.

Just real tools to build real companies.

👇 Bookmark it. Share it. This is the founder cheat sheet I wish I had 5 years ago.

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🔥 What the best Founders are reading

→ 1% of Pitch Decks Succeed — Here’s Why
→ The Slide 95% of Founders Get Wrong
→ The Best Startup Pitch Deck Ever Built
→ 50 Pitch Decks That Raised Billions in Funding
→ 5 things to know before picking a co-founder
→ Two Game-Changing Tips for Founders
→ How to Create a Co-Founder Agreement
→ The Most Successful Investor Update Template
→ The VC list of VC lists - 51 databases listed
→ Why you hate networking and how to change that

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📊 What you need to spot early

→ What VCs Really Look for in Climate Startups
→ SAFE Note Dilution: How to Calculate & Protect Your Equity (+ Cap Table Template)
→ How to value your startup: 9 best methods for 2025
→ The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit
→ burnout isn’t the price of impact.
→ 15 Female-Founded pitch decks that raised millions
→ Here’s the Ugly Truth About Scaling Startups

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💰 Where the smart money’s going

→ 104 Nature-Based Solutions Investors
→ Water tech: the most undervalued climate bet right now
→ My Top 10 Climate Sectors to Watch in 2025
→ AI x Climate Tech: What’s Real and What’s Hype?
→ why AI took over the world and climate didn’t...

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💎 The Masterlists

→ 12,000+ VCs, Angels, and Family Offices
→ 140 Family Offices Backing Climate
→ 2,000+ US Funds + Angels
→ Top 158 Water Tech Investors. Top 100 Water Startups. Fully Curated.

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CALL TO ACTION FOR FOUNDERS

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