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Why Green Tech Startups Fail, And How to Fix It - Laurits Bach Soerensen (Nordic Alpha Partners)

Why Green Tech Startups Fail, And How to Fix It - Laurits Bach Soerensen (Nordic Alpha Partners)

Update: 2025-06-26
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As industrial greentech scales, it faces hypertransformation: disrupting value chains, deploying new tech, demanding huge capital, and struggling with rapid growth. This is a stage at which traditional startup playbooks can’t keep up.

So, how do founders and investors survive, and thrive, through this chaos?

Laurits Bach Sørensen, Co-Founder of Nordic Alpha, shares a powerful new framework: Hypertransformation. This is how Nordic Alpha sold Spirii to Edenred for €175M and Wiferion to Tesla for €80M+.

In this conversation, we cover:

- Why green tech needs more than capital to win- The $215 trillion reindustrialization opportunity- How U.S. and China outplay Europe on policy- The 4 forces of hypertransformation- Why Northvolt failed, and how it could’ve been saved- … and more!

⌛TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

02:13 Introduction to Nordic Alpha

5:24 The Need for Re-Industrialization

11:42 Skepticism in Climate Tech

15:18 Understanding Hyper Transformation

19:01 Four Forces of Hyper Transformation

27:54 Capital Expenditure in Hypergrowth

36:48 Managing Hypergrowth

39:20 Northvolt Case Study

49:50 Free Tools You Can Use

53:34 Rapid Fire Questions 🔥

📚 STARTUPS AND FRAMEWORKS

Hyper-Transformation Framework

BCSA - Better, Cheaper, Simpler, Available

Hyper-Replication Model

Auto-Projections & BTM Model

Spirii – sold to Edenred for €175M

Wiferion – sold to Tesla for €82M

Northvolt – Swedish EV battery company

STABL – Nordic Alpha portfolio company using second-life batteries

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Apple Podcasts - https://shorturl.at/HIDcg

Spotify - https://shorturl.at/yDTfR



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