Exploring Impact Investing and Sustainability: Insights on Climate Change and Breaking Hype Cycles
Ibrahim AlHusseini is a sustainability-focused entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist with over 25 years of experience in operations, sales, and finance. He has devoted much of his career to helping angel investors find clean technology and natural resource-related investments to advance social change around the world while generating significant returns for investors. As the founder of FullCycle, Ibrahim aims to reverse the effects of climate change by accelerating the deployment of climate-restoring technologies.
Ibrahim has built an exceptional network of industry leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs across the sustainability space through his work. He has raised over half a billion dollars of capital to support dozens of companies and was an early investor in Tesla Motors, Infenera, Bloom Energy, and Proteus Energy, among others, as well as Aspiration Inc., WePower, Cadence Health, Thrive Market, and CleanChoice Energy.
Throughout his career, Ibrahim has launched and sold several companies, including Natural Solutions Inc., PakIT Inc., Meca Communications, and EcoPerks. He is the founder and managing partner of The Husseini Group LLC, a firm dedicated to facilitating, financing, and guiding ventures that embrace social enhancement and ecological sustainability. Raised in Saudi Arabia by Palestinian refugee parents, Ibrahim moved to the United States for college, where he graduated from the University of Washington in the early 1990s, launching his first multi-million-dollar business out of his dorm room. Ibrahim currently sits on the boards of more than half a dozen organizations focused on positive environmental and humanitarian development, such as The Culture Project and The Global Partnership for Women and Girls.
IN THIS EPISODE, IBRAHIM TALKs ABOUT:
2:43: Ibrahim tells us about something he is proud of that has nothing to do with work
4:32: Ibrahim shared about his background and journey into entrepreneurship.
7:58: Ibrahim shared about his career shift into environment and climate.
10:55: Ibrahim shared some of the things that guided him along the way.
14:35: Ibrahim discussed how Full Cycle prioritize investments
19:22: Ibrahim shares about Full Cycle and how they bridge gaps in the industry
25:04: Ibrahim discusses hype cycles, social bubbles and the importance of representation.
29:10: Ibrahim shared about an act of kindness he has recently put forward.
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