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About Venture Retros

Why capture founder post-mortems 

I noticed a lot of "why hasn't someone done this" startup ideas getting unknowingly recycled. Aspiring founders would save time and resources learning from someone who has gone done the same path and failed. Many of the posts here are in Climate Tech because the business models in this space are particularly challenging given often high capex, longer timeframes to scale, regulatory changes and incentive alignment issues.

As a former 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.

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, a Series B startup streamlining and standardizing how commercial properties finance, develop, and operate distributed solar and storage assets. She was previously was an investor at Silver Lake’s energy and resources fund and a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce at Queen's University.

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