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Before It Scales is a podcast at the intersection of project development, policy, and capital markets. It's built for developers, investors, policymakers, and offtakers who are shaping Australia and the world’s clean energy transition. Each episode goes deep on what it takes to make a high-priority clean energy project bankable: not in theory, but in practice, and not just in Australia, but globally — drawing on the deal-makers, developers, and policymakers who have done it.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBefore It Scales is a podcast at the intersection of project development, policy, and capital markets. It's built for developers, investors, policymakers, and offtakers who are shaping Australia and the world’s clean energy transition.
Before It Scales is hosted by Cyan Ventures. The show has published 9 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Inside the Clean Deal Monitor, with Kumbi Gutsa and James Boyle" (27 September 2026, 50 minutes), "The five non-negotiables for financing first-of-a-kind, with Julia Reinaud (Breakthrough Energy)" (14 September 2026, 57 minutes), and "Inside the Green Fuels Accelerator, with Fraser Thompson (Cyan Ventures)" (24 August 2026, 45 minutes).
Before It Scales publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 9 episodes.
Booking probability for Before It Scales is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Before It Scales requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Before It Scales's contact route on record: verified email.
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Cyan Ventures hosts Before It Scales, a business podcast with 9 episodes published.
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Kumbi Gutsa is a Senior Manager at Cyan Ventures. James Boyle is Australia Country Lead at Mission Possible Partnership. Together they have been leading the Clean Deal Monitor, which tracks commercial-scale clean...
Episode #7
Julia is Senior Director, Europe at Breakthrough Energy, the climate innovation network Bill Gates founded at the Paris COP in 2015. She has spent more than two decades on industrial decarbonisation, starting as an...
Episode #6
Australia has at least twelve low carbon liquid fuel projects in development, around $19 billion of announced capital, and enough capacity between them to cover roughly 17 per cent of national aviation fuel demand. Not...
Episode #5
Australia takes 30 to 40 percent of its primary energy from liquid fuels. Dave Stribley's view is that we have barely started replacing them. Dave is co-founder of HAMR Energy, a low-carbon liquid fuels platform. He...
Episode #4
<p>Most clean industrial projects start as science in a university lab. Someone has to back that science years before it makes a dollar. Mike Molinari does exactly that.</p><p></p><p>Mike is the Managing Director of IP...
Episode #4
Most clean industrial projects start as science in a university lab. Someone has to back that science years before it makes a dollar. Mike Molinari does exactly that. Mike is the Managing Director of IP Group Australia...
Episode #3
<p>Australia has four million homes with rooftop solar and the highest penetration of the technology in the world. Renters and people in apartments have mostly been left out. That gap sits at the centre of Thom...
Episode #3
Australia has four million homes with rooftop solar and the highest penetration of the technology in the world. Renters and people in apartments have mostly been left out. That gap sits at the centre of Thom Woodroofe's...
Episode #2
In the last six months, 19 commercial-scale clean industrial projects reached final investment decision, worth USD $43 billion. That is more than double the pace of a year earlier, and 2026 is on track to be the...
Episode #2
<p>In the last six months, 19 commercial-scale clean industrial projects reached final investment decision, worth USD $43 billion. That is more than double the pace of a year earlier, and 2026 is on track to be the...
Episode #1
<p>What is a first-of-a-kind clean energy project, and why do they keep stalling?</p><p></p><p>The IEA estimates that about 35% of the emissions reductions needed by 2050 depend on technologies that aren't even...
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Senior International Fellow at the Smart Energy Council, Smart Energy Council
CEO, Mission Possible Partnership
Breakthrough Energy
Cyan Ventures
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