#101 - Juan Nieto - Zacua VC - "Cement is the world's 3rd largest emitter"
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Juan Nieto discusses the challenges and opportunities in decarbonizing the construction industry.
Subscribe to the newsletter: New Wave | Hugo Rauch | Substack **** Supported by: Leonard : The innovation and foresight platform of the VINCI Group, to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing VINCI’s businesses: the digital revolution, the accelerating pace of innovation, and the environmental transition. **** 🌊 The Next Climate Wave Is Built, Not Coded Why decarbonizing the physical world requires better materials, specialist investors, patient capital, and a new approach to industrial adoption. We’re joined by Juan Nieto of Zacua Ventures , an investor focused on the technologies reshaping construction, infrastructure, real estate, and the wider built environment. Juan began his career as a civil engineer before moving into private markets and later joining Cemex’s corporate venture capital team. There, he saw firsthand that many of the technologies needed to decarbonize construction simply did not exist yet. That realization eventually led him to help build Zacua Ventures: a specialist investment platform connecting ambitious founders with some of the world’s largest construction and industrial companies. In this episode, we explore why the built environment represents…
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Host: Hugo Rauch
Guest: Juan Nieto
Topics covered
- decarbonization
- construction
- climate tech
- investment
- infrastructure
Keywords
- cement
- emissions
- construction
- investment
- climate change
Sponsors
VINCI Group
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Zacua Ventures, Cemex, New Wave
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