Climate Tech Cocktails
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Welcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where we grab a drink (or two) with best-in-class climate tech founders.
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Brimstone: Cody Finke
In this episode, we drink Bill Alebrton’s version of the _sneaky pete (rose + lager) _with Cody Finke, co-founder and CEO of Brimstone.
Cody's chemically charged adventures will react with your curiosity. He shares his time spent on a commercial lobster boat, living in his car and a tent, hiking the country’s mountains, and working on solving India’s wastewater treatment challenge. A chemist by trade, Cody is now decarbonizing cement. Tag along to learn a little chemistry, and share in the hope of achieving carbon-neutral construction.
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Nov 2, 2023
Lightship: Toby Kraus
In this episode, we drink a couple beers with with Toby Kraus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship.
Toby, an EV OG, walks us through his love of the outdoors, his journey from Wall Street to Tesla, and how he helped build the first electric travel trailer. So pack a bag and join us as we hit the road to explore how Lightship is forging the future of the electric mobility industry.
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Sep 19, 2023
Fork & Good: Niyati Gupta
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Niyati Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good.
Ever wondered how cultivated meat can help combat climate change? Or how hydroponics can revolutionize the way we look at food safety? This episode, we sit down with Niyati Gupta, the co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good, a startup pioneering new ways to address food safety and meet protein demands innovatively. Niyati takes us through her personal journey that brought her from Hong Kong to Harvard, from working with the Ministry of Agriculture in Nigeria to leading a vertical farming startup, ComCrop, in Singapore.
We're not just talking about farming and food safety though. We delve into the world of cultivated meat and its role in the battle against climate change. Niyati, with her experience in the agriculture sector and as the founder of Fork & Good, offers valuable insights into the challenges of food production. We also discuss the impact of African swine flu on the global hog herd and why innovation is so crucial in solving food security issues.
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Jul 31, 2023
Ryan Kushner Interviews Matt Myers
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to a very special episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
_It’s been a minute since the first episode of __Climate Tech Cocktails__ was released, 1,051,200 minutes to be exact (2 years). _
_To celebrate this milestone, Team CTC asked Matt if he’d be willing to sit down and chat with his climate tech colleague and close friend, __Ryan Kushner. _
_We’ve grown so much over the past two years, both online and _in _IRL. We wanted to provide an opportunity to learn more about Matt and his own founder journey._
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Jul 10, 2023
Regrow: Anastasia Volkova
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Anastasia Volkova, co-founder and CEO of Regrow.
Regrow’s mission is to make resilient agriculture ubiquitous. On every acre. Globally. Our vision is for agriculture to be driven by science and technology to restore the environmental balance globally to nourish the population and be equitable for everyone. Environment. People. Equity. In that order.
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Jun 12, 2023
Zero Acre Farms: Jeff Nobbs
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Jeff Nobbs, co-founder and CEO of Zero Acre Farms.
Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to remove destructive vegetable oils from the food system. And we’re not going to stop until restaurant deep fryers, home pantries, and packaged foods around the world are finally free of these harmful oils and fats.
We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cool beverage in hand.
🥃 What we drank during the episode: Bunratty Mead (Matt) and homemade mead (Jeff).
Enjoy the show!
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May 17, 2023
The Climate Not Too Late Show
Fellow Climate Warriors,
ICYMI: 🎥 Check out our _very first_ Climate Not Too Late Show with Matt Myers on the YouTubes HERE featuring guests Darko Mandich, Paul Robertson and Maricel Saenz!
🎧We’re happy to announce that the audio version of the show is now also LIVE to listen to wherever you get your podcasts.
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy, and Substack👉
🍸In this episode, we grab a drink with Darko Mandich of Melibio and Maricel Saenz of Minus.
🎭The evening was topped off with comedic relief by the one, the only Paul Robertson!
About Melibio:
‘_We at MeliBio know that without bees our lives on this Planet would be almost impossible. To protect the bees and support bee biodiversity, we created an alternative, science-driven approach in turning plants into honey, so that the precious keystone species could thrive. Read our State of the Bees report to learn more about the challenges bees are going through, especially 20,000 wild and native bee species whose story everyone should learn about.’_
About Minus:
Minus produces coffee using 94% less water than traditional coffee, 91% less GHG emissions, and shorter supply chains.
Minus was developed by a team of coffee-obsessed, planet-loving scientists. How did they do this exactly? They subtracted the beans, kept the caffeine, and dialed up the flavor through a precise fermentation process. Minus is dangerously smooth and consciously created; even the most discerning coffee snobs won't believe it's beanless.
What we drank during the episode:
🐝🥃 Darko and Matt: Bees Knee’s (ft. Melbio honey without the bees]
☕️🥃 Maricel and Matt: Carajillo (ft. Coffee without the bean from Minus!)
🙌This episode of the Climate Not Too Late Show could not have been possible without our incredible sponsor, Air Company.
Enjoy the show!
Companies/Startups/Things mentioned during the show:
Startups:
🔋 Air Company
🔋 Melibio
🔋 Minus Coffee
Places:
📍Shack15
📍Costa Rica
Things:
🌍 Climate Change and Home Runs
🌍 Wooly Mammoth Meatballs Discovered
🌍Plant Based Honey
🌍 Bee Extinction
🌍 Bumble Bees
🌍 Green Bee species
🌍 Carajillo Coffee Cocktail recipe
🌍 Robusta Coffee
🌍 Arabica Coffee
🌍 Coffee Environment Impact
Time Stamps:
[0:12] A Special Message from Matt Myers and Air Company
[0:45] Women and Puppies love how Matt smells with Air Company perfume
[2:20] Introductions at Shack15
[3:00] Matt’s Comedy Debut
[4:12] Climate Change and Home Runs
[4:26] Wooly Mammoth Meatballs and Matt’s Fiance’s Cooking
[5:10] Republic White Men News
[6:12] Josh Juice Tickles the Ivories
[6:50] Darko takes the stage and introduces the concept behind Melibio
[7:30] Darko explains the mission behind Melibio in a nutshell (or, in a beehive?)
[8:08] Darko meets his dark dies
[9:28] Matt asks a million-dollar question
[9:50] Matt is Winnie the Pooh in the eyes of the bees
[11:05] The connection between humans and bees
[12:05] Are Bees being put out of Bizzzness?
[12:55] Matt and Darko discuss what bees they identify as
[13:33] Matt identifies as a green bee
[14:43] Look for Melib expands to SF restaurants
[15:15] Josh Juice Sings a Jingle with the word honey in it
[15:40] Matt introduces Minus
[15:55] Matt x Maricel enjoy a coffee cocktail
[16:20] Marciel explains the science behind coffee without the bean
[17:45] Marciel and Matt’s Passion for Coffee.
[18:13] Coffee puts Costa Rica on the Map
[19:08] The Caffeinated Debate: Robusta vs. Arabica Blend
[20:03] Coffee’s Impact on the Environment
[21:40] Minus Coffee Hits the Market this Summer
[21:40] Matt Introduces Paul Roberstson
[22:12] Smart people only like Paul’s jokes
[22:53] Paul’s take on being adopted
[24:23] Paul loves his Jewish mother who loves a bargain
[25:46] Paul’s bit about being Asian
[26:37] Paul explains the annotation
[27:20] Parking cars in San Francisco
[27:59] Ailments x Technology
[29:42] Paul’s take on being an Asian Jew
[30:04] Wrap
[30:29] Josh Juice Musical Outro
[31:10] END
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Apr 24, 2023
Synonym: Edward Shenderovich
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Edward Shenderovich, co-founder and CEO of Synonym…
“Synonym is accelerating the world's biological future by developing, financing, and building commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities. We provide synthetic biology (synbio) producers – from startups to the Fortune 500 – with flexible production capacity while giving infrastructure investors access to a new, carbon-negative biomanufacturing asset class that we are calling “fermentation farms.”
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cool beverage in hand.
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
_“Ultimately, all company building activity comes down to -- market and people. The market needs to be there and you need to have an amazing team to figure out… what is the right product for market and what is the right way to bring that product to market”_
_-Edward Shenderovich, founder and CEO of Synonym. _
Find Edward on LinkedIn, and check out Synonym’s website here.
🍸 What we drank during the episode: Bombay Sapphire Gin Martini (Matt) and BeefEater Gin Martini 🍸(Edward).
Enjoy the show!
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com
Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🦠Synonym
🦠Knotel
🦠Delivery Hero
🦠Tradeshift
🦠Baker McKenzie
🦠Silicon Valley Bank
🦠Six Apart LTD. - Movable Type
🦠Live Journal
🦠Kite Ventures
🦠Newmark
🦠Capacitor.bio
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧠Beefeater Gin
🧠Bombay Sapphire Gin
🧠Edwardian Ball
🧠Burning Man
🧠Telluride Film Festival
🧠Deepak Chora
🧠Robert Burns
🧠Dr. Seuss
🧠Mark Rothko Artist
🧠Whitney Museum of Art
🧠MoMA Museum
🧠The Met
🧠San Diego Union-Tribune
🧠RSS
🧠Gregory W. Becker
🧠SVB Wine Practice
🧠Amazon Marketplace - Pacific Tower
🧠Andrew Paulson
🧠Brad Fitzpatrick
🧠Russo-Georgian War
🧠Lukasz Gadowski
🧠Amol Sarva
🧠Asset Class
🧠Genetech’s Insulin Fermentation
📚Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
📚Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
📚The Art of War - Sun Tzu
-TIMESTAMPS-
[00:00] Intro
[01:38] Drink of the Show
[02:40] Vodka, Whiskey & Cold, Dark, Lonely Places
[03:49] Edwardian Ball
[04:45] Edward Burning Man ‘96
[07:13] Telluride
[08:55] Stardust
[09:50] Edward’s Poetry
[13:18] How to Write Kid’s Poetry
[14:10] Dr. Seuss
[15:35] Stop Thinking
[16:13] Inspirations
[17:27] Museums
[19:27] Edward’s First Jobs
[22:43] Silicon Valley Bank
[23:57] Greg Becker
[26:47] Amazon Marketplace
[27:59] Moscow Trip
[28:19] Andrew Paulson
[29:31] Live Journal
[29:38] Brad Fitzpatrick
[30:29] Russia Invades Georgia in 2008
[31:35] Kite Ventures
[33:12] Delivery Hero
[37:45] Moving to Bio-Economy
[38:12] Knotel
[40:09] Became Passionate About Climate
[42:28] Synonym
[43:06] Asset Classes
[44:47] Business Model
[49:19] Fermentation Capacity
[50:03] Built Capacitor.bio
[53:17] Is Government Interested in Getting Involved
[58:19] Cool and Weird Things
[01:02:13] Bio-Economy/AI/Nuclear Energy
[01:06:51] Rapid fire questions
[01:06:54] Loved startups and founders
[01:08:08] Book recommendations
[01:14:43] Final thoughts
[01:16:22] END
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Mar 21, 2023
Floodbase: Bessie Schwarz
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Bessie Schwarz, co-founder and CEO of Floodbase (Formally known as Cloud to Street)…
“Floodbase has pioneered the field of satellite flood tracking, with our science appearing on the cover of Nature in 2021. Our Flood Intelligence Platform has enabled the United Nations and several national governments to improve flood disaster response. We are now powering a new type of flood insurance to help flood-vulnerable communities around the world access financial support and adapt in the face of increasing climate disasters.”
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cool beverage in hand.
⚡️ New to CTC? Sign up here!👉
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
_“We have realized that there are so many solutions that we have now and it’s a matter of investing in them that is the actual barrier to us adapting to climate change. Meaning, meeting the need with the money required at the time.” _
_- Bessie Schwarz, founder and CEO of Floodbase. _
Find Bessie on LinkedIn, and check out Floodbase’s website here.
🍺 What we drank during the episode: Calidad Beer (Matt) and Threes Brewing Beer 🍺(Bessie).
Enjoy the show!
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com
Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🌊Floodbase
🌊Yale University
🌊Threes Brewing
🌊Calidad Beer
🌊African Risk Capacity
🌊Near Space Labs
🌊Raincoat
🌊Aclima
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧠Dr. Beth Tellman
🧠Adaptation
🧠Atmospheric Rivers
🧠Parametric Insurance
🧠Mexico City
🧠FEMA
🧠COP 27
🧠Barbados
🧠Bridgetown Initiative
🧠Minister Mia Mottley
🧠The World Bank
🧠Nigeria Floods
🧠Marty Schneider
🧠Rema Matevosyan
📚The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
📚Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
📚Walking with the Wind - John Lewis
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[00:00] Intro
[01:38] Drink of the Show
[03:20] Bessie going to Mexico
[05:03] Where is Bessie from
[05:45] Hawt dawg not a hawt dawg
[06:16] Time at Yale
[07:15] Met co-founder (Dr. Beth Tellman)
[07:57] Working on adaptation
[10:07] 2 things to shift society
[11:31] Investments in adaptation
[13:03] Adaptation is hopeful
[15:05] Invest in what we have
[16:25] Experience working in developing countries
[18:12] Original funding
[20:23] What was learned from early work
[23:40] Parametric insurance
[26:02] African risk capacity
[27:36] What happens when prices increase
[32:20] Understanding flood insurance
[35:31] Barbados and Mia Mottley
[38:24] Understanding the loans
[42:52] What happened in Nigeria
[45:07] Source of Bessie’s drive
[49:07] Marty Schneider and Bessie’s mom
[54:28] 5 to 10 year vision
[58:25] Financial impact
[01:03:03] Rapid fire questions
[01:04:19] Book recommendations
[01:07:15] Loved startups and founders
[01:09:35] Final thoughts
[01:11:32] END
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Mar 6, 2023
Vibrant Planet: Allison Wolff
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Allison Wolff, co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet.
“Vibrant Planet harnesses data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change. Our goal is to help planners, and policymakers save lives, avoid trillions of dollars in infrastructure loss, and restore the ability of natural systems to store carbon, deliver clean water, and support biodiversity, local economies, and recreational habits.”
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cool beverage in hand.
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
_“We play out the Lorax, right? We literally cut every tree in North America; we deforest it like we’re deforesting the Amazon right now to build towns and railroads and mines.” _
_Allison Wolff, founder_,_ and CEO of Vibrant Planet. _
Find Allison on LinkedIn, and check out Vibrant Planet’s website here.
🥃 What we drank during the episode: Tequila hot toddy (Matt) and tequila hot toddy ☕(Allison).
Enjoy the show!
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com
Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🌲Vibrant Planet
🌲Casamigos
🌲George Clooney
🌲Netflix
🌲MTV - TRL (Total Request Live)
🌲Blockbuster
🌲Hollywood Video
🌲Amazon Web Services
🌲SYPartners
🌲McKinsey & Company
🌲eBay
🌲Google Green
🌲Facebook
🌲Open Compute
🌲Formerly known as Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance
🌲The Nature Conservancy
🌲Funga
🌲Dendra
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧠CDs/DVDs 💿
🧠Carson Daly
🧠Reed Hastings
🧠Neil Hunt
🧠Alexia Kelly
🧠Netflix Net-Zero + Nature
🧠Keith Yamashita
🧠Bill McDonough
🧠Cradle to Cradle
🧠Anthony Ravitz
🧠Bill Weil
🧠Bob Inglis
🧠Katherine HeyHoe
🧠Paul Hawken - Drawdown
🧠Amanda Ravenhill
🧠Truckee Tahoe
🧠Senator Feinstein
🧠California Fires
🧠California Forest Observatory
🧠Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
🧠Salo Sciences
🧠Gretchen Daily
🧠Planet
🧠Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
🧠Native Americans Forest Management
🧠COP 15
🧠The Dixie Fire
🧠The Bureau of Land Management
🧠Julia Butterfly Hill
📚Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough
📚The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
📚Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
📚The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
-TIMESTAMPS-
[00:00] Intro
[02:10] Drink of the Show
[05:02] Allison’s time at Netflix
[09:00] “Green” the global supply chain
[11:45] SYPartners
[13:51] Allison going on her own and takes on eBay
[15:34] Google Green
[18:30] What Worked
[19:40] Bob Inglis - progressives and conservatives on science
[21:15] Katherine Hey Hoe (Faith and Science)
[23:43] Allison’s upbringing and love of nature
[25:21] Paul Hawken and Drawdown
[27:41] Matt’s introduction to Drawdown
[28:36] Trail Running, bears, and mountain lions
[31:10] Truckee Tahoe
[32:43] Allison process, forming Vibrant Planet
[34:55] California Forest Observatory
[40:54] What can we do to protect forests
[42:24] Native Americans and forest management
[45:20] The value of ecosystem services
[46:18] What it takes to restore forests
[49:19] The Dixie Fire
[51:55] Collaborations to deal with fires
[55:44] Clarifying the use of Allison’s tool
[59:00] Matt gets controversial
[01:02:44] Co2 of California wildfires
[01:05:37] How to unlock billions of dollars
[01:08:55] The insurance play to invest in forest resilience
[01:10:00] Having a teenage daughter and running a startup
[01:12:14] Book recommendations
[01:14:47] Loved startups and founders
[01:16:33] Final Thoughts
[01:18:47] END
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Feb 14, 2023
Shiok Meats: Sandhya Sriram
🌊🍤 Shrimp, Stem Cells, Star Trek 🚀 Orange Juice 🍊 and more!
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Shiok
Meats. Shiok Meats is the world’s first cultivated crustacean meat company, and Southeast Asia’s first
cultivated seafood company. “Shiok” is a local slang that means fantastic, delicious, and simply,
pleasure. Their mission is to bring delicious, sustainable, and healthy seafood to your table,
using our technology to grow meat from healthy cells instead of animals.
📻 Listen to the episode on
Spotify,Apple Podcasts,Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cool beverage in hand.
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📝Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
_“I always questioned, “why do people eat meat?”..._
_And then, I came to the conclusion that I shouldn’t answer the why, I should just answer, how do we do this?” _
Sandhya Sriram, _co-founder and CEO of Shiok Meats. _
Find Sandhya on LinkedIn, and check out Shiok Meat’s website here.
🥃 What we drank during the episode: Decoy, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa (Matt) and Orange Juice 🍊(Sandhya).
Enjoy the show!
Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com
Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🦐Shiok Meats
🦐Decoy Wines
🦐BevMo Liquor Stores
🦐Innovate 360
🦐Ants Innovate
🦐Avant Meats
🦐Wild Earth
🦐Phyx44
🦐Kind Earth Tech
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧠Napa Valley
🧠Chennai, India
🧠Marina Beach
🧠Gujarat, India
🧠Abu Dhabi
🧠Dubai
🧠Kuwait
🧠Singapore
🧠Bollywood
🧠Karan Johor
🧠Aamir Khan
🧠Koffee With Karan
🧠Mark Post
🧠St. John’s Island
🧠Ryan Bethencourt
🧠Hong Kong
🧠Ira Van Eelen
🧠Willem Van Eelen
📚Ikigai - Book (Francesc Miralles & Hector Garcia)
📚First 90 Days - Book (Michael D. Watkins)
📚Zero to One - Book (Blake Masters & Peter Thiel)
-TIMESTAMPS-
[00:00] Intro
[01:20] Drink of the Show
[03:30] About Sandhya’s upbringing
[06:25] Indian Movies
[08:01] Sandhya’s Entrepreneurial Drive
[09:37] When she met her husband
[10:40] School studies and experience
[12:35] Stem cells for aging and other applications
[14:56] Stem Cell 101 - What is a stem cell
[16:19] Cloning vs. Stem Cells
[17:21] Mid-life crisis - PHD to starting a business
[22:03] About Shiok Meats
[22:55] Seafood and the Asian diet
[23:49] Seafood supply and demand
[26:15] Farmed vs. Wild - What to look out for when buying seafood
[27:24] Carbon footprint of shrimp
[29:02] Price volatility of shrimp and crustaceans
[30:22] What are we feeding shrimp and crustaceans
[31:06] Inspiration to start Shiok Meats and being vegetarian
[34:46] Deciding which meat to produce
[36:06] First time extracting shrimp stem cells
[37:36] St. John’s Island
[41:27] Singapore expanding in food biotech
[43:09] Other food biotech companies
[43:56] Fundraising series A during Covid
[45:12] When will the product be available and Singapore’s 30/30 plan
[48:42] Singapore leading the way in cultivated meat regulations
[50:04] Shiok Meat’s special sauce
[51:19] The products and distribution
[53:00] Market comparison to electric vehicles and scaling up
[53:55] Matt wants his own bioreactor
[54:54] Sandhya’s being an angel investor
[55:57] Loved startups and founders
[58:20] Book recommendations
[01:00:12] Final Thoughts
[01:02:49] END
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Jan 19, 2023
Demex Group: Steve Bennett
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Steve Bennett, co-founder, and chief climate officer of the Demex Group - the first company to offer comprehensive solutions for assessing and transferring climate risks at scale.
Demex uses modeling to evaluate weather risk and helps clients transfer that risk to maintain their resilience.
Steve’s background as a weather person at The Weather Channel and then Scripps Institution of Oceanography led to founding his first software firm, EarthRisk Technologies.
Continuing his mission to bridge the gap between weather volatility and business operations, Steve joined founder Ed Byrns in creating the Demex Group to meet the ever-increasing need of businesses to understand and guard against catastrophic and damaging weather events.
📻 Listen to the episode onSpotify,Apple Podcasts,Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
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Dec 22, 2022
Holiday Throwback: LanzaTech: Jennifer Holmgren
👩✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech_ on the premise of LanzaTech:_
“What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste. Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything else.”
Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector including a proven track record in the development and commercialization of fuels and chemicals technologies. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. Under her management, UOP technology became instrumental in producing nearly all of the initial fuels used by commercial airlines and the military for testing and certification of alternative aviation fuel. Today, under Jennifer’s guidance, LanzaTech is working towards deploying carbon capture and reuse facilities globally to make fuels and chemicals from waste carbon.
🥃 What we drank during the episode: scotch and whiskey, what else?
Enjoy the show!
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Dec 6, 2022
Eco Wave Power: Inna Braverman
Inna Braverman, co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power:
“Offshore, the waves don’t move in one direction. Your equipment can get hit by waves that are 20 meters in height. Near the shore, there’s a phenomenon called wave run-up where they actually build near the shore, and they’re all heading in one direction. The sector should start where it’s simple, and move from there.” - Inna Braverman, explaining why shore waves are the simpler clean energy solution.
🇺🇦 Born in Ukraine, Inna was given a second chance at life after the Chernobyl explosion nearly cost her everything. Her family moved to Israel when she was young, and she was raised in a small town called Akko. She studied political science and English literature at Haifa University and soon began working as an interpreter at an energy firm.
She began to research the viability of wave energy as a clean energy solution and met her co-founder David Leb. They launched Eco Wave Power in 2011.
Eco Wave Power installed…
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Nov 22, 2022
Thanksgiving Flashback: Air Company--Greg Constantine
Episode Notes
Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company_ on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis:_
“Imagination is everything. It’s what moves the world forward.” _-_Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company
@Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of @Air Company, Air company’s priority is to utilize as much CO2 as possible to slow the momentum of climate change, using consumer goods in the near term as an educational tool to show the world what is possible.
Since launching Air Company, Constantine and his team have won awards from NASA, The United Nations and XPRIZE. Air Company was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Products (2019) and Most Innovative Companies (2020), and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020. Constantine’s patent product design has won the highest design awards from Dieline and the Pentawards, and in 2019, Constantine was personally named The Spirits Business’ Youn…
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Nov 10, 2022
Syzygy Plasmonics: Trevor Best
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Trevor Best, co-founder and CEO of Syzygy:
_“Not only eliminating emissions but making energy low-cost is very important. So, the fact that we can use low-cost, renewable electricity, the fact that we can build our reactor out of aluminum, the fact that the hyper efficient lights result in a hyper-efficient reactor - all those are important factors so that we can make products at price parity with what’s out there today without producing emissions. And ultimately that’s the goal of the company.” _
- Trevor Best explaining why Syzygy Plasmonics works.
Trevor was born and raised in Midland, Texas and attended Texas Tech, where he and his cofounder, Suman Khatiwada, would meet with professors after hours about photocatalysts and reactors. He then traveled to China to teach English, and headed back to work for Baker Hughes in Oklahoma.
Trevor landed back in Midland (where oil was discovered in 1923) and got to work on a chemical reactor that uses a ph…
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Oct 10, 2022
Form Energy: Mateo Jaramillo
Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of Form Energy, on the importance of long-term energy storage:
_“Lithium Ion will continue to have a very important role to play, but there remains a key function which needs to be replaced on the grid, and that is a function that is currently being provided by coal and natural gas. That is the energy demand when you don’t have wind or solar. So, that’s the kind of moment we have to solve for from an energy storage perspective.” _
- Mateo Jaramillo on Scalable Multi-Day Storage Solutions
Mateo Jaramillo earned his AB in Economics from Harvard, and then earned a Master’s in Theology from Yale Divinity School.
Realizing he was more into solving scientific problems than vocational ministry, Mateo became COO and part of the founding team at Gaia Power Technologies, an energy storage firm.
In 2009, Mateo joined Telsa and oversaw product lines, business model definition, global policy and business development.
Mateo then co-founded Form Ene…
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Sep 26, 2022
Mzansi Meat: Brett Thompson
Brett Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Mzansi Meat, on effective solutions in food systems:
“I think there needs to be a bouquet of solutions. I don’t think plant-based is the only solution; I don’t think unprocessed, regenerative farming, any of those things alone are solutions - rather I think you need to add a hell of a lot of things to it. And I think cultivated meat adds to that, because there’s not one silver bullet. People want to eat meat, and this provides an opportunity… It’s about how we innovate and improve that process.”
Brett and co-founder Tasneem Karodia started the cultivated meat industry in Africa by establishing the first company of its kind on the continent. They introduce a more efficient, sustainable and ethical means of creating animal protein products, and have started with beef. Their methods contribute to long-term food security for many, and their harm-free, biology-driven approach is already inspiring other companies to venture into productio…
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Sep 5, 2022
Live at Techonomy (4/4)! polySpectra: Raymond Weitekamp
Raymond Weitekamp, Founder and CEO of polySpectra_, on moving towards massless:_
“PolySpectra A.R. is our new augmented reality tool to give massless prototypes to people in product development. The massless mission is to leverage distributed digital manufacturing to reduce global energy usage by 25% by 2050.”
Using the world’s most rugged photopolymer resins, Raymond’s company is also helping engineers print end-use components that actually hold up, reducing waste by lasting longer and being more viable for actual use.
Raymond received an AB in chemistry from Princeton and continued his education at CalTech where he worked in labs with Professor Bob Grubbs and Professor Harry Atwater. He invented a component for a polymer that can be light-activated and creates tough 3D-printed materials, and has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 under 30.
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Aug 15, 2022
Live at Techonomy (3/4)! Therma: Manik Suri
Manik Suri, Founder and CEO of Therma_, _on Smart Refrigeration:
“As we move into a world where we have more electrification and move off fossil fuels, we’re going to need a lot more utility infrastructure, so utilities are looking for ways to create extra capacity…
We’re starting to think of refrigeration as a battery; we’ve kept that battery at one hundred percent charge for the last hundred years - now we’re starting to explore temporarily discharging that battery, and creating a network of distributed batteries.”
Therma’s mission is to help protect our food, health, and planet. They build sustainability tools to improve refrigeration efficiency, which eliminates food waste and reduces emissions. Their technology is used by McDonald’s, Starbucks, Wyndham hotels and many others.
Their smart refrigeration monitoring protects food inventory and saves energy, and it’s overhauling the “refrigeration cold chain” by altering the way refrigerators operate around…
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Jul 27, 2022
Live at Techonomy (2/4)! GHGSat: Stephane Germain
Stephane Germain, Founder and President of GHGSat_, on the need to address methane emissions:_
“95% of what (methane) we detect isn’t acted upon today, and that drives me bonkers.”
GHGSat developed the first sensor for small satellites that can detect methane (CH4) emissions and locate individual sources of CH4 from around 500km above the Earth's surface - a huge leap forward in global emissions monitoring technology innovation.
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Jun 28, 2022
London Tech Week (1/2)! OLIO: Tessa Clarke
Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of O_LIO__ on the size of the food waste crisis:_
“If it were a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emission after the USA and China, and that’s because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that is never eaten.”
OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. For your convenience, OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.
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Jun 7, 2022
Live at Techonomy (1/4)! Living Carbon: Maddie Hall
Maddie Hall, Co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon_, on falling in love with plants:_
“Our little portion of human history is small compared to all of the plant life this planet has seen.”
Living Carbon’s mission is to responsibly rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the inherent power of plants. Living Carbon is growing genetically modified poplars and pines capable of absorbing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than regular trees. Also, They grow faster and produce more durable wood than their natural counterparts. Prior to Living Carbon, Maddie worked on special projects at OpenAI and held various roles in venture capital and product management.
☕️ What we drank during the episode: Kahula + coffee
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May 24, 2022
The EVERY Company: Arturo Elizondo
Arturo Elizondo, Founder and CEO of The EVERY Company_, on his life’s purpose:_
“I fundamentally believe my purpose on this Earth is to help enable a shutdown of the last factory farm in the world.”
EVERY exists to produce proteins that are better for people, the planet, and animals. Under Arturo’s leadership, the company has raised over $230 million dollars in capital from leading venture investors and some of the largest food companies on Earth to bring to market the world’s first animal-free egg and other animal proteins made without using animals. EVERY has been named one of the 50 Hottest Tech Companies in the World by Crunchbase, and has merited the award of the Top 40 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy and considered one of the 50 NEXT companies to Disrupt the World. His work at EVERY™ has also been featured in two books, _The Fate of Food_ and_ Clean Meat_ and in publications including Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Bloomberg News, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, I…
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May 3, 2022
Twelve: Etosha Cave
Etosha Cave, Co-founder and CSO of Twelve_, on the sacrifices she made while launching Twelve:_
“I had no money. I was living out of my car at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.”
Etosha became passionate about energy and climate change while growing up in Houston, and she went on to receive her PhD from Stanford University focusing on electrochemical approaches that could be used to convert CO2 and water into useful plastics and household cleaners. While at Stanford, Etosha co-founded Twelve, a startup pioneering a new market category called carbon transformation with its proprietary catalyst technology that transforms CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels that are conventionally made from fossil fuels. Using Twelve’s technology, industry brands can meet emissions targets faster while creating essential products–from the foam in running shoes, to the polymers in automobile dashboards, to aviation fuel, to laundry detergent–all while maintaining the same or higher qu…
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Apr 19, 2022
LanzaTech: Jennifer Holmgren
👩✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech_ on the premise of LanzaTech:_
“What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste. Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything else.”
Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector including a proven track record in the development and commercialization of fuels and chemicals technologies. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. Under her management, UOP technology became instrumental in producing nearly all of the initial fuels used by commercial airlines and the military for testing and certification of alternative aviation fuel. Today, under Jennifer’s guidance, LanzaTech is working towards deploying carbon capture and reuse facilities globally to make fuels and chemicals from waste carbon.
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Apr 5, 2022
unspun: Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin, Co-founder and CTO at unspun_ on the inefficiency of the current apparel manufacturing process:_
“It’s a $1.5 trillion dollar industry where 10-15% of everything produced every year gets burned and destroyed without ever being sold.”
Unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company building custom jeans for each consumer, on-demand. Their mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing—building the future of robotic apparel manufacturing right here in the US. By using the iPhone FaceID sensor to create a digital avatar, unspun can instantly design and then build each garment to the actual customer, delivering a completely custom product at off-the-rack prices— all while eliminating unsold inventory waste (a $150B/year loss industry-wide).
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Mar 8, 2022
Toucan Protocol: Raphael Haupt
Raphael Haupt, Founder and Chief Toucan at Toucan Protocol_ on the need for an all of the above solutions approach to carbon drawdown._
“Let’s unf*ck the environment…the only thing that’s clear is that the price of carbon needs to increase.” _-_Raphael Haupt, Founder and Chief Toucan at Toucan Protocol
Toucan is working to make DeFi work for the planet by building market infrastructure to bring carbon markets to public blockchains. Toucan launched in October 2021 as the infrastructure provider behind the Basic Carbon Tonne (BCT), Toucan’s first carbon reference token. In the first month of launch, BCT achieved $2B+ in trading volume and 150,000+ of tokenized carbon credits were retired within two months of launching.
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Feb 15, 2022
Air Company: Greg Constantine
Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company_ on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis:_
“Imagination is everything. It’s what moves the world forward.” _-_Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company
@Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of @Air Company, Air company’s priority is to utilize as much CO2 as possible to slow the momentum of climate change, using consumer goods in the near term as an educational tool to show the world what is possible.
Since launching Air Company, Constantine and his team have won awards from NASA, The United Nations and XPRIZE. Air Company was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Products (2019) and Most Innovative Companies (2020), and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020. Constantine’s patent product design has won the highest design awards from Dieline and the Pentawards, and in 2019, Constantine was personally named The Spirits Business’ Young Achiever of t…
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Feb 1, 2022
Perfect Day: Ryan Pandya
Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day_ on how nobody was working on microbe based dairy in 2014:_
“I will live and die never again having an idea that you can’t find on the internet.” _-_Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day
@Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of @Perfect Day, a consumer biology company on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow by developing new ways to make the foods you love today — starting in the dairy aisle. Ryan, in partnership with co-founder Perumal Gandhi, leads a diverse team of scientists, engineers, chefs, food developers, and storytellers who are working in harmony to make their dream of animal-free dairy a reality. Perfect Day, named one of TIME’s 2020 Best Inventions, is currently pioneering a new category in the dairy market by using fermentation to create proprietary “flora-made” dairy protein, without a single cow. Named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2019, Ryan is committed to making delicious, nutritious food…
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Jan 18, 2022
Climate Couples: Amanda Ravenhill + Ryan Kushner
On their creation Tikkun Olunch, based on the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, ”These lunches were an opportunity for us to get together once a week and ask, ‘Are you doing the most you can possibly do to make the world a better place? How can I help you think through that and how can I help you step up your game?’ _-_Amanda Joy Ravenhill, Executive Director of The Buckminster Fuller Institute
@AmandaRavenhill, Executive Director of @BuckyFullerInst, which is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of strategies that radically regenerate Earth's ecosystems. She previously held the role of Co-Founder and Executive Director of Project Drawdown, the comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Amanda Joy is a member of The Seastars, an acapella group blending harmonies with new narratives of a future that works for 100% of life. She is also an avid gardener, stewarding her small backyard farm to build soil, host pollinators, create medicines, and gro…
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Dec 21, 2021
Aether Diamonds: Ryan Shearman
“I like to say we’re not a mission driven company. We’re not a company with a mission.
We’re a mission with a company.” _-_Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds
@RyanShearmanNYC, Co-founder and CEO of @AetherDiamonds, a startup creating the world’s first positive-impact diamonds. Ryan Shearman is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Early in his career, Ryan joined David Yurman as one of the first hires on their new Men's team, where he was responsible for overseeing the development of some of the brand's most iconic and commercially successful collections at the time, shipping over $80M worth of product in under three years. In 2013 Ryan founded his first startup, Fusar, a direct-to-consumer brand that developed tech-enabled safety products for the motorcycle market. Ryan currently serves as the founder and CEO of Aether, where he combines his passions for technology and jewelry with his personal mission to help solve the climate crisis. In his free t…
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Dec 7, 2021
Dandelion Energy: Kathy Hannun
“How is everyone not working on climate change?...In my understanding of the science, I would say it will define the lives of people in my generation.” _-_Kathy Hannun, Founder and President of Dandelion Energy
@KathyHannun, Founder and President of @DandelionEnergy, the largest residential geothermal company in the United States. Before founding Dandelion, Hannun was a Rapid Evaluator at X, Alphabet’s innovation lab, where she focused on finding “Moonshots”. Kathy initiated Dandelion as an X project and then launched it into an independent startup company in May 2017. Dandelion has since raised millions in funding from top VCs, set a new standard for geothermal quality and cost-effectiveness, and empowered homeowners to avoid over 100 million pounds of carbon emissions and counting. In February 2021, Dandelion raised a $30MM Series B funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
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Nov 23, 2021
Gradient: Vince Romanin
“If the next 4 billion ACs are all heat pumps, they can also decarbonize heating while we’re expanding access to AC. If they have low carbon refrigerants we can solve the refrigerant problem. Lastly, if we make sure they’re all smart and WiFi connected we can help modernize the grid at the same time and have more solar and wind on the grid.” _-_Vince Romanin, Co-founder and CEO of Gradient_. _
Vince Romanin is the CEO of Gradient (@GradientComfort), which is on a mission to cool the world sustainably. Gradient plans to achieve this by increasing the efficiency of heating and cooling systems, removing harmful refrigerants, and electrifying the heating sector, all of which combined can offset about 2 GtCO2/year, or 7% of our total emissions today. Gradient’s first product is an easier-to-install and easier-to-use heat pump that is quiet and gives you your window back.
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Nov 2, 2021
ClearFlame Engines: BJ Johnson
“Globally we’re emitting about 5 Gigatons of CO2 from Diesel engines every year...so you’re looking at about 15% total emissions coming from that fuel in particular.” _-__BJ Johnson__, Co-founder and CEO of __ClearFlame Engines__. _
BJ Johnson (@bj_johnson87) is CEO and Co-founder of ClearFlame Engines (@ClearFlameEng), which is a startup taking the diesel fuel out of the diesel engine for heavy-duty industries. BJ leads business development, fundraising, and strategic planning operations at ClearFlame. BJ received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 2015 while developing the technology used by ClearFlame. At Stanford, BJ was supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) program, and Stanford’s School of Engineering. BJ was also a member of the USA Swimming national team, representing the United States at world championships, and participating as a leader in USA Swimming diversity camps.…
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Oct 12, 2021
Voltus: Gregg Dixon
“(in 10 years) The grid is a decarbonized, decentralized, and digitized network taking full advantage of the network effects that we all enjoy in a modern technology stack.” -_Gregg Dixon__, Co-founder and CEO of __Voltus_
Gregg Dixon (@gregg_dixon) is the Co-founder and CEO of Voltus (@voltusinc), connecting customers, investors, teammates, and the world with Voltus value, ensuring that the vision for the company, and its culture, is meeting their expectations. Gregg is a world-renowned expert in commercial and industrial energy management and has pioneered many of today’s innovations that unlock the economic and environmental benefits of “intelligent energy.” Prior to co-founding Voltus, Gregg was the Senior VP of Marketing and Sales and a founding executive at EnerNOC, a leading provider of demand response, energy procurement, and energy intelligence software.
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Sep 27, 2021
Wild Earth: Ryan Bethencourt
“The more I looked into it, the more broken the pet food industry was. It accounts for 25-30% of meat consumed in the U.S...it just makes no sense because we can make protein out of yeast, out of fungi, out of plants...and so I’m like, somebody needs to start this company.” -Ryan Bethencourt, Co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth.
Ryan Bethencourt (@ryanbethencourt) is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth (@wildearthpets), bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder, former Program Director, and Venture Partner at IndieBio (@indbio) and has invested in over 110 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation (@xprize). As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most…
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Sep 13, 2021
MicroByre: Sarah Richardson
“We need to make poop the new gold. We need to give new ways for poop to become the input, and for antibiotics to become the output...or for polymers or for bioplastics to become the output. That just means cozying up with bacteria, because they can do it.” -Sarah Richardson, Co-founder and CEO, MicroByre
Sarah is a computationally inclined microbiologist and science communicator: she speaks charmingly to computers, bacteria, and people. Sarah grew up in West Baltimore, and after completing a PhD in human genetics and molecular biology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sarah founded the biotech startup MicroByre (@MicroByre), where she leads a skilled and diverse team in the construction of genomic toolkits for non‐model prokaryotes. Trained to straddle disciplines, Sarah has a very unique perspective on the emerging technologies made possible by synthetic biology.
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Aug 31, 2021
Overview: Benjamin Grant
“The overview effect is an example of being exposed to something, perhaps one of the largest things possible, which is the entirety of the Earth all at once. It’s “awe” in one of the grandest scales imaginable.” -Benjamin Grant, Founder, Overview
Benjamin Grant is Founder of Overview (@DOverview). Overview uses satellite and aerial imagery to demonstrate how human activity and natural forces shape our Earth. Ben’s newest book "Overview Timelapse" was released in October 2020 and named one of Barnes and Noble’s best books of the year. Ben’s daily feature - Daily Overview - has attracted an Instagram following of more than 1 million followers, one of the largest for a brand with an environmental focus. And Ben’s first book "Overview: A New Perspective of Earth" has been critically-acclaimed by the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, CNN and was selected as one of the "Best Books of 2016" by Amazon, The Smithsonian, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Aug 16, 2021
Air Protein: Lisa Dyson
“Right now the process is so inefficient to make a steak. It takes two years to make a steak and the greenhouse gases from a cow is equivalent to a car. So it’s hugely more inefficient than it needs to be. It’s way past time to be redone, for us to figure out new ways to do it. We’re focused at Air Protein on making meat in a matter of hours and not days. Making it using the most sustainable processes on the planet. Making it highly nutritious and of course still delivering the flavors that my husband, a meat eater, wants to experience when biting into a juicy steak. ” -Lisa Dyson, Founder and CEO, Air Protein
Lisa Dyson is Founder and CEO of Air Protein (@AirProtein). Air Protein is a Bay Area based company that is working to reverse climate change and address food scarcity by making meat from elements of the air. Using a technology inspired by NASA, Air Protein makes the world's first air-based meat - using less land, water and other natural resources for the most sustaina…
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Aug 2, 2021
Aionics: Austin Sendek
“Spotify tells you the music you’re gonna like, Amazon tells you stuff you’re gonna buy, Netflix tells you which movies you’re gonna watch. All this is doing is saying ‘Hey, scientist, you tried these things and they didn’t work, you tried these things and they did work, here’s something you probably never would’ve thought of, but we think it’s gonna work.” -Austin Sendek, Founder and CEO, Aionics
Austin Sendek (@BatteryCowboy) is the Founder and CEO of Aionics (@AionicsInc), a Silicon Valley startup that is leveraging the power of A.I. to accelerate the development of new materials for a zero carbon future. Austin is widely credited with leading the first successful demonstration of A.I. outperforming humans in the design of new battery materials, which he led while he was a doctoral student in Applied Physics at Stanford University. His research publications have been cited over 1,200 times, and he was included in Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Energy list in 2…
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Jul 19, 2021
Modern Meadow: Andras Forgacs
“My hope is that bio-fabricated materials are not just going to be the province of luxury handbags years from now, but they’ll also be materials for our every day. They’ll be in our footwear, our apparel, and our furniture.” -Andras Forgacs, Co-founder and Director, Modern Meadow.
Andras Forgacs is the Co-founder of Modern Meadow, a company working to transform the world of materials by unlocking the power of nature for a healthier planet. Modern Meadow’s (@ModernMeadow) BioAlloy biomaterials are inspired by leather and made from plant-derived protein but not from animals. Andras is also Co-founder and Chair of Fork & Goode, which is innovating in cellular agriculture to produce delicious, nutritious and sustainable pork without animals. Previously, Andras had Co-founded Organovo which pioneered the use of 3D bio-printing to create human tissue for a range of biomedical applications.
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Jul 12, 2021
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS): Bob Mumgaard
“We’re building a machine we call Spark, where you show up and you push a button. This thing turns on and it makes hundreds of megawatts of thermal energy from effectively nothing.” -Bob Mumgaard, Co-founder and CEO, Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
Bob Mumgaard is Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (@CFS_energy), where Bob leads the strategic vision for the company. He received his PhD in plasma physics at MIT, focusing his work on developing techniques to measure the magnetic field inside tokamak plasmas. During this time, Bob contributed to the design of several small tokamaks using high temperature superconductors (HTS). Bob’s work has focused on strategies to leverage the collaboration of private finance and traditional academic resources to speed the path to commercial fusion energy.
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