Friday Mar 10, 2023

Kentaro Kawamori, CEO of Persefoni: $114 Million Raised to Build the Climate Disclosure & Carbon Management Category

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Kentaro Kawamori, CEO of Persefoni, a climate disclosure and carbon management platform that’s raised over $114 Million in funding, about why it’s time sustainability caught up with the development of data in other industries, and why Persefoni sees a whole world of opportunities in the ongoing green economic revolution. Providing a comprehensive toolkit for collecting, curating and presenting critical data about a company’s carbon footprint, Persefoni provides that all-important transparency to everyone from government regulators to private equity investors, helping people make the real right choices for the future of our planet as well as their portfolio.

We also speak about why sustainability has always been a part of their life since growing up in a German farming community, why it’s time carbon reporting caught up with financial accounting, the regulations forcing companies to reconsider their approach to sustainability, and why, for most businesses, true environmental impact reports are only just becoming a part of reality.

 

Topics Discussed:

  • Growing up in a German agricultural community, where sustainability has always been synonymous with scarcity
  • Kentaro’s career across the tech sector, from big enterprise players to the startup space
  • The driving forces behind better carbon reporting, from regulators on one side and government regulators on the other
  • Why carbon reporting remains really left behind when it comes to data integration, and how Persefoni is planning to change all that
  • The complexity of contemporary supply chains and the real-world limitations of carbon footprint reporting confronting most firms
  • Why Kentaro didn’t seek out typical Silicon Valley investors on board at the start of Persefoni’s journey

 

Favorite book: 

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

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