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About Venture Retros

Why capture founder post-mortems 

As a serial founder and investor in the climate and energy space, I often receive requests to share experiences on what has worked and what hasn't. I wanted to make these learnings, and those of other founders, available to more people, and not just in 1:1 networked conversations.

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In startup land, the "why hasn't someone done this" ideas often get recycled - they seem compelling initially, but are difficult to crack in practice. New cohorts of founders would benefit from learning through the failures of their predecessors. Many of the posts here are around Climate Tech because the business models in this space are particularly gnarly — taking comparatively more money and longer timeframes to scale, in addition to regulatory and incentive alignment challenges. 

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I'm also interested in broader ways that we can help founders make the most of what they've built during prior failures, and helping them move onto their next adventure. If you're noodling something similar please get in touch!

About the author

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Catherine was the co-founder & COO of Sunrock Distributed Generation.  SDG streamlines and standardizes how commercial properties finance, develop, and operate distributed energy assets through a proprietary tech platform. Sunrock raised $15M in Series A funding and $35M in project capital, and is now a team of 30+.

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Catherine has 10+ years of product, go-to-market, operations and investing experience. Previously she was an investor at Silver Lake’s energy and resources fund and a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She earned her MBA at Harvard Business School.​​​​​

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