Powerhouse Founder Emily Kirsch

In this episode, Shayle Kann interviews our Watt It Takes host, Emily Kirsch.Emily is the founder and CEO of Powerhouse and Managing Partner of Powerhouse Ventures. In this episode, she shares her entrepreneurial story.Emily began her career as an organizer at the Ella Baker Center, working with green jobs pioneer Van Jones.Then, in the early days of cleantech in Oakland, Emily searched for a hub for clean energy innovation in the San Francisco Bay Area, but didn’t find it. So, along with Sungevity Co-Founder Danny Kennedy, she started it.Today, Powerhouse is an innovation firm and venture fund — working with the world’s leading companies to help connect them to hundreds of climate tech startups every year, and investing directly in software-focused clean energy and mobility startups through Powerhouse Ventures.This interview was recorded in March 2021.We’re brought to you by Google. Google is pioneering the electricity systems of the future with its effort to source 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030 — so that everyone can have round-the-clock, carbon-free energy everywhere they operate, every hour of the day. Learn more.