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Climate Tech Cocktails
by Matt Myers
Welcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where we grab a drink (or two) with best-in-class climate tech founders.
Episodes
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Jason Cremerius: SPUN
The Climate Solution Under Your Feet: Mapping Earth's Hidden Fungal Networks Beneath every forest, grassland and farm is a living network most of us have never seen. Mycorrhizal fungi partner with about 90% of land plants. They trade nutrients for carbon in a relationship that is 450 million…
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Project Omega: Staff Sheehan
Guest bio Dr. Staff (Stafford) Sheehan is an American scientist and serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Project Omega, a nuclear recycling company rebuilding the US nuclear fuel cycle. Project Omega recycles spent nuclear fuel into long-duration, high-density power sources and…
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Norma: Monica Larrazabal
Norma: Mónica Larrazábal ☁️🔋Direct Air Capture, ⚡️Supercapacitors, 🥖Baguettes and more! Fellow Hope Dealers, welcome to another episode of Hope Dose. In this episode, we head to Paris to grab a drink with Mónica Larrazábal, Co-Founder and CEO of Norma. Mónica walks us through Norma’s radically...
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Climate Tech Coffee: Avalanche Energy (rewind)
☕ Climate Tech Coffee: Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy Fellow Climate Warriors, this is a replay of our Climate Tech Coffee episode with Robin Langtry of Avalanche Energy— this was the shorter, usually sober version of Climate Tech Cocktails. We are re-releasing a few coffee episodes as we...
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Mitra Chem: Vivas Kumar
🔋Batteries, ⛓️ Supply Chain Innovation, 🌍 Energy Transition, 🤺 Olympic Fencing, and More⚡ Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails! Get ready for some shrewd global insights with Vivas Kumar, CEO of Mitra Chem, here today! Swapping cocktails for hydrogen...
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Nature's Fynd: Thomas Jonas
🌱Alternative Proteins, 🌱Fungi Powered Nutrition,⚡️Infrastructure, and 💥More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails! Celebrating the poetic irony of sustainable protein rising from the ashes of Chicago's meatpacking past, Thomas Jonas, CEO and Co-founder…
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Bloom: Justin Kosmides
🚲 E-Bikes, 🏭 Manufacturing, ♻️ Circular Economy, 📍Detroit, and More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails! Coffee, E-bikes, the resurgence of American Manufacturing in Detroit, and a deep dive into the circular economy are all on the menu today as Justin...
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WeaveGrid: Apoorv Bhargava
🪩Disco,⚡️Energy Efficiency, 🚗EV Grid, 🎤Karaoke, and 💡More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails! Climate Tech Cocktails is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It’s all...
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Yard Stick: Chris Tolles
🌱 Soil health,💡Agricultural innovation, 🤝Humanitarian Aid,🌱Carbon offset, and💥More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails! Climate Tech Cocktails is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or...
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Jack Oslan: Diamond Age
🌱 Vertical Farming⚙️Construction Automation,💡Innovative Disruption and 💥 More! Joining Matt and his Athenaeum Whiskey today is the man, the myth, the legend - and Matt’s dear friend and mentor - Jack Oslan. This fantastically successful co-founder of the two blockbuster start-ups, Plenty and...
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EVRNU: Stacy Flynn
Matt welcomes Stacy Flynn, CEO & Co-Founder at EVRNU, to the podcast this week to enjoy some impressive Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs, and to discuss everything from Happy Gilmore and Prince to the ways in which her company is reshaping fashion's environmental impact. Together, they review…
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Cruz Foam: John Felts
We’re in a Manhattan state of mind this week as John Felts, Co-founder & CEO of Cruz Foam, bends an elbow, sharing the waves Cruz Foam is making in the sustainable packaging. Propelled by a deep connection with the ocean, powerfully forged in childhood, John’s journey from surfer to scientist and...
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Modern Hydrogen: Tony Pan
In this episode, we’re kicking back with a couple of diet cokes (one with gin 😜) as we dive into the life history of Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen, Tony Pan. From Taiwan to Scotland to Harvard, the brilliant Tony Pan shares the path that led him to Modern Hydrogen. After working for...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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Syzygy Plasmonics: Trevor Best
🎧 New podcast episode: 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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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London Tech Week (1/2)! OLIO: Tessa Clarke
Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of OLIO 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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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.…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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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,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where we grab a drink (or two) with best-in-class climate tech founders.
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