Nathan Latka

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Guys, Action Energy Marketplace was launched just in fall of 2023.

She's based in Finland.

And as an example, she's launched a marketplace which connects, call it a housing project in Finland that wants to install something like an underground heating system.

She connects that housing unit with all those providers.

She's got a housing, a hundred of these sort of buyers, these housing companies and property managers on the platform, and also a hundred providers.

They put hundreds of thousands of dollars of project value through the platform in the first, call it, four, five, six months here.

The way she makes money is she charges a SaaS monthly fee.

Those providers, 100 of them, pay 29 euros per month.

So call it three grand a month in revenue.

But the real play she's building towards is the fund she's raising, an SPV of 10 to 15 million euros, so that when that provider gets the contract to put in a million-dollar heating unit, ground unit, with the housing unit, she can fund it and then sign a contract with the housing unit as a cash flow stream.

We'll see what happens.

If she can get that off the ground,

Hey folks, my guest today is Tara Teppo.