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The Unlikely Journey From a Feature to a Globally Recognized Product Used by 500,000 Conferences
Talks about Startup, Conference and Entrepreneurship
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Marian Gazdik
Founding Partner at G
London, England
Overview
Marian Gazdik is the Founding Partner at G-Force in London, specializing in supporting climate-tech founders to make a significant impact in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. With a diverse investment portfolio in impactful sectors like TransportationTech and EnergyTech, Marian leverages skills in marketing strategy and business development to drive growth and innovation in startups focused on sustainability and clean technologies.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2021 - Current
G-Force is a pre/seed VC investing globally in mission-driven climate-tech startups that help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. We help startups and de-risk them in three key areas: A) Cash investment. B) Hands-on operational support (customer development, establishing commercial pilots, getting early customers, finding product-market fit, establishing strategic partnerships, securing media coverage, introductions to top VCs and strategic investors for follow-on funding rounds). C) Non-dilutive funding.
Investor
2022
Materials Nexus is using AI to discover and develop the next generation of new materials which are less rare, cheaper to produce and have improved sustainability characteristics. Rare earth and precious materials are required for many products associated with the energy transition ranging from batteries, electric motors, wind turbine rotors and much of consumer electronics. But many of these materials are increasing in price associated with increased demand which is slowing the transition.
Investor
2025
Enzidia is an engineering technology platform removing the fundamental bottlenecks of enzyme engineering. Up to 60% of the physical inputs into the global economy could come from synthetic biology, but this is a long way off due to the inefficiency of current enzymes (McKinsey, 2020). To usher in the bio-revolution, the enzymes we use require activity enhancement, less substrate specificity, stability improvements and better cost effectiveness.
Investor
2024
Alganize uses microalgae to regenerate/increase soil microbiome health. Think of microalgae as single-celled plants. Plants secrete 'root sap' to feed beneficial microorganisms and attract them to the roots. Alganize produces these "root juices", so that customers receive a liquid soil additive with useful prebiotics.
Investor
2017
GA Drilling provides scalable, modular solutions to zero-carbon emission energy production. Their flagship solution is contactless plasma that dramatically reduces drilling cost for the geo-thermal energy industry.
Board Member & Investor
2023
Solivus is on a mission to simplify the decarbonisation of the built environment with lightweight solar technologies and help businesses reduce their climate impact, have more energy security and reduce energy their bills.
Investor
2024
Tattva is developing a new bioengineered system of construction that is fundamentally based on the biological process of photosynthesis. The system aims to fulfil and outperform current standards of building construction but in the process sequester carbon dioxide.
Investor
2023
Ki Hydrogen uses biomass electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen from biomass waste, which has been demonstrated to reduce the energy required by up to 75%. They are on the mission to clean up the fossil fuel-intensive hydrogen production process through an innovative electrolysis process. In doing so, they aim to mitigate 100 million tonnes of CO2e every year.
Investor
2024
Brightly operates at the intersection of food insecurity and climate change. They work with food rescue organisations to create evergreen funding through the creation of high integrity carbon offset credits, and with corporate buyers seeking to achieve net zero goals.
Brightly funds Food Rescue Organizations, converting their efforts into trustworthy and ethical carbon credits.
Investor
2024
Synthetic biology and AI platform for discovery and optimisation of next-generation microorganisms for scalable and industry-ready precision fermentation.