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Investable Universe
by Investable Universe
A podcast about real assets. Infrastructure, real estate, commodities and energy in the listed and private markets. Global trends in the market for physical things.
Episodes
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Polar Futures (2021) - Episode 5, Author Anne Kirstine Hermann
When we spoke with Greenland’s Foreign Minister Pele Broberg on his country’s efforts to secure greater economic and political self-determination from Denmark, he was very excited about a book that had just been released in Denmark that he believed could really change the conversation around...
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Polar Futures (2021) - Episode 4, Greenlandic Foreign Minister Pele Broberg
In the spring of 2021, a controversial rare earth metals mining project proposed in Greenland thrust the island’s “kitchen-table economic issues” to the very center of the geopolitical stage. A snap election was called over whether to mine critical metals at the site, called Kvanefjeld—an…
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Polar Futures (2021) Episode 3 - PolArctic CEO Leslie Cannavera
This is Part 3 of a five-part series, Polar Futures, produced by Investable Universe in 2021. When discussing the emerging Arctic economy, the focus is often on extractable natural resources, and how those are protected, exploited, or sustainably harvested. But what might be the ultimate...
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Polar Futures (2021) Episode 2 - Quintillion Chief Revenue Officer Mac McHale
This is Part 2 Investable Universe's five-part Polar Futures series produced in 2021. The next-phase of the Arctic region’s economic evolution will be data-driven—and that brings new focus, new demands, and new opportunities for investment in the region’s telecommunications infrastructure…
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Polar Futures (2021) Episode 1 - Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson
This is a special series produced by Investable Universe in 2021 as Polar Futures. For perspectives on the strategic challenges and opportunities in the new Arctic economy, our guest for Episode 1 was Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, who served as one of the top Senior Arctic Officials during…
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Megan O'Connor, Founder and CEO of nTh Cycle, on disruptive recycling technology--and an alternative commodity market-- for lithium-ion batteries
By 2030, there will be over 15 million tons of lithium-ion batteries ready for recycling, containing over $18bn just in the battery element cobalt. But while recycling seems like a no-brainer, current chemical-based battery recycling methods can leave a damaging and corrosive environmental...
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Turner & Townsend's John Robbins on Building Back Better in 2021...and impacts of the Biden Infrastructure Plan
Recovery from the economic impacts of covid-19 has meant supply chain bottlenecks, worker shortages and rising building costs to major cities around the world. Are these short-term supply hiccups, or longer-term threats to economic health? In this episode, John Robbins, U.S. Managing Director and...
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Entrepreneur Will Zell on a new kind of VC fund...plus what's disrupting U.S. manufacturing (and where)
Entrepreneur-investor Will Zell has made a mark in technology, real estate and other sectors. In 2014, he co-founded manufacturing disruptor Nikola Labs, which was a spinout from Ohio State University that scaled with the aid of venture capital, where he remained as CEO from its establishment…
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DTN's Mary Friedrichsen Tangen on the emerging golden age of precision agriculture
With tens billions of venture capital money being directed at agtech startups in recent years, how different will farming and agriculture look a decade from now? Our guest this episode is Mary Friedrichsen Tangen, Vice President of Agriculture Strategic Initiatives at DTN, the U.S. based firm…
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Phantom Space Founder/CEO (and former SpaceX founding member) Jim Cantrell on the future of space transportation
...If you thought (as we did) that space ridesharing (a la SpaceX or BlueOrigin) was the end-all, be-all of the emerging space transportation and infrastructure sector, think again. An even newer market is emerging in the field of small-rocket launches--which offer satellite clients greater...
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Can critical infrastructure hacks be behaviorally predicted? ClearForce CEO Tom Miller explains.
Attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure, from small but potentially lethal attacks on municipal water systems to this spring's Colonial Pipeline hack, have increased in frequency and severity. Amid calls for more robust defense of critical infrastructure--and current enthusiasm for infrastructure...
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OHMConnect Co-Founder Curtis Tongue on combining energy technology with...a touch of Hollywood
California's OHMConnect has a cool take on smart energy: the company's mobile platform, which functions like a "virtual power plant," pays users to curtail electricity use during peak demand periods, incentivizing them through fun flash events held during "OHMHours." With recent initiatives...
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Wade Guenther of Wilshire Phoenix Funds on a solid gold market for metal ETF's
Last year's covid-related market dislocations made gold shine as the preferred "flight-to-safety" trade. This year, with vaccination rollouts proceeding in many countries and bringing economies closer to a new normal, there's still a solid case for gold (any idea why...?). Our guest this episode…
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Nadeem Nauthoo, co-founder of "School of the Future" TKS, on energy technology as imagined by young people
Solutions to global issues like climate change and energy transition, and the advancement of emerging fields like quantum computing and ethical application of AI are being revolutionized as we speak...by the very young. This episode features Nadeem Nathoo, co-founder of Canada's TKS, or The...
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Silicon Valley rainmaker and TokenMaker founder Ben Way on NFT's and the emerging market for asset digitalization
Investable Universe takes a minor detour in this episode: while we've talked about tokenization and digitalization of real assets on several podcasts, this time we're talking about the realization of digital assets. That's one way of conceptualizing NFT's, non-fungible tokens. Is there a future…
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Kathy Hannun, Dandelion Energy Co-Founder and longtime Google X engineer, on geothermal energy in the U.S.
Why hasn't the United States embraced the potential of geothermal energy like other countries have? This question vexed Kathy Hannun, former engineer and executive at Google X, the "moonshot" innovation lab at Alphabet. So she founded Dandelion Energy, the home geothermal startup that just…
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Raghu Kilambi of PowerTap Hydrogen on the emerging hydrogen (infrastructure) economy
As the global economy transitions to renewable sources, along with new applications in fuel cell batteries, in electric vehicles, and rocket fuel, the hydrogen energy market is expected to top $208 billion in value by 2027 ($130 billion just in the U.S.) with the potential to create 700,000-plus...
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Ceylon Graphite Chairman and CEO Bharat Parashar on the future of the global graphite market
Are boom times ahead for the global graphite market? An essential component in EV batteries and energy storage, in smart materials and Internet of Things applications, in water treatment in lightweight composite materials used in aerospace, and in biomedical devices, graphite has been deemed so...
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Are we in a "green energy bubble?" Piva Capital's Bennett Cohen on venture capital and energy technology
A 2020 report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (cited by MIT Technology Review) found that from 2013-2019, early-stage venture capital funding in green technologies rose from $418 million to $16.1 billion – an increase of more than 3,750% during the period, or 3 times the growth rate of VC investment...
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Digital pioneer Sukhi Jutla on how her blockchain startup is revolutionizing the U.K.'s billion-dollar gold and diamond jewelry market
Sukhi Jutla is co-founder and COO of MarketOrders, which has developed and scaled a highly practical and relevant retail application for blockchain in the precious metals industry, connecting midstream with downstream in the U.K.’s billion-dollar market for gold and diamond jewelry. The company...
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Eric Wilson of Turner & Townsend on what's ahead for Texas energy infrastructure
We recorded this episode just over a week after a near-collapse of the Texas power grid following an unusual winter storm that was, in many respects, a “perfect storm” of weather, market, energy and infrastructure factors. As Texans continue to recover, five members of ERCOT, the non-profit...
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Dan Doney, Securrency CEO and Co-Founder and Former U.S. Intelligence Officer, on the Security Challenges of Cryptoassets
Cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance are approaching more mainstream adoption, and presenting new challenges to financial sector integrity as well as national security. On this episode, we talk with Dan Doney, CEO, Co-Founder and Lead Architect of Securrency, a firm that provides...
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Infinite Composites Founder and CEO Matt Villareal on the emerging outer space supply chain
The future is here...and it's pressurized! American entrepreneur and inventor Matt Villareal leads a pioneering company, Infinite Composites of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which designs, develops and manufactures liner-less composite pressure vessels for high-pressure gas storage used in aerospace…
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All About Secondaries with Christian Munafo, Chief Investment Officer of Liberty Street Advisors/SharesPost 100 Fund
In recent years, the number of publicly traded companies has sharply contracted, while startups have tended to stay private for longer. One key reason why venture capital-funded companies have been able to delay their public market debut has been the presence of the secondaries market, where...
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Gary Griffiths of Wisdom LLP on putting VC money behind veterans and older entrepreneurs
Creativity doesn't stop after age 30. Gary Griffiths is a former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine intelligence officer and longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who's launched a new VC fund, Wisdom LLP, that invests in disruptive startups by mature, non-traditional entrepreneurs: and particularly,...
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Juan Carlos Artigas, Head of Research at the World Gold Council, on why gold still glitters in 2021
Gold was one of the market winners of 2020 (with one of the lowest drawdowns over the course of the year), aided by a heightened risk environment, low interest rates, and strong price momentum, factors that show no signs of de-materializing anytime soon in 2021--not even with Bitcoin adherents...
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AgAmerica CEO Brian Philpot on market issues facing U.S. farmers in 2021
Over the past year(s), farmers have navigated not just the challenges of covid-19, but also a tough environment for trade and tariffs with foreign agriculture trading partners, a contentious U.S. election whose outcome will have effects on farm policy, and the disruptive technological forces that...
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Roofstock Co-Founder and CEO Gary Beasley on (disrupting) the market for U.S. single family rental housing
What does the ability to buy, sell and trade houses (or fractions of houses) online say about the way Americans are thinking and acting around housing decisions? While institutional funds have taken significant stakes in U.S. residential portfolios in recent months (especially in the Sun Belt), a...
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Amidi Group co-founder Rahim Amidi on investing in California real estate, venture capital, and entertainment
Real estate and venture investor Rahim Amidi has a success story straight out of Hollywood...and Palo Alto. One of the founders and principal managers of the Amidi Group of Companies, a privately held business conglomerate based in Los Angeles, since 1980 Mr. Amidi has leveraged his expertise in...
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Kairos Investment Management CIO Jonathan Needell offers a long-term, contrarian view on U.S. commercial real estate
Economic effects of the covid year 2020 have been expressed in a variety of ways in commercial real estate, with sectors like hotels and brick-and-mortar retail struggling, while industrial and last-mile real estate has continued to attract large institutional investors, pushing valuations ever...
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Harvest Returns Founder and CEO Chris Rawley on Crowdsourced Agriculture Investing and Veteran Entrepreneurship
Chris Rawley is the founder and CEO of agriculture finance platform Harvest Returns. Their platform allows investors to buy fractional shares of farmland (and timberland) in the U.S. (and abroad), as well as crowdsourced investment in grass-fed livestock and other agribusiness ventures, such as...
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Real estate investor Edward Mermelstein on the outlook for New York City's most rarefied real estate
Real estate developer and investor Edward Mermelstein has been a dealmaker in New York City luxury real estate for several decades, and a leading expert in closing complex deals and winning unique legal cases. Having been named one of the 10 most influential figures in New York City real estate,...
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Alto IRA Founder and CEO Eric Satz on democratizing alternative assets...and the future of retirement savings
AltoIRA is an investment "platform-of-platforms" that allows holders of individual retirement accounts to use their IRA funds to invest in startups and other private companies, real estate, crypto assets and more. We spoke with CEO and Founder Eric Satz on the quandaries of retail investors...
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AlgoDynamix founder, CEO and former Cambridge physicist Jeremy Sosabowski on quantum market forecasting
2020 looked nothing like anyone expected. Among the many who’ve had a difficult job of navigating this environment are investors and risk managers, who have traditionally relied on historical data to backtest trade strategies and assess risk exposures for current and future events. This has been…
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IceWind's Robert Gerber discusses a pioneering Icelandic turbine, wind diplomacy, and what's at stake in the Arctic
An Icelandic startup, IceWind, has an ingenuous approach to industrial materials and design that allows a vertical axis wind turbine to provide distributed energy in extreme climates, such as the Arctic. Newly launched for residential and commercial customers in the state of Texas, the company is...
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Pow! Vincent Zurzolo of Metropolis Collectibles on comic books as an emerging asset class
This episode features Vincent Zurzolo, co-owner of New York's Metropolis Collectibles, the world's largest vintage comic book dealership, and ComicConnect.com, the largest online vintage comic auction house. He and his partner, Stephen Fishler, hold five Guinness World Records for the most...
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Spatial STL Advisors President Andy Dearing on St. Louis's blossoming geospatial technology scene
Geospatial technologies, or earth mapping capabilities, have long been in use in military intelligence and defense. Today, they’re being deployed commercially and likely to have transformational impacts in the era of Industry 4.0, including agriculture, defense, transportation, health care,...
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Icelandic Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson on Iceland's role in the post-covid world
Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson speaks about the imperative for "building back better" through global cooperation in the post-covid world, and offers Iceland's experience as a pioneer in renewable geothermal technology, R&D, sustainable fishing and ocean stewardship practices, and gender...
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Nasdaq Iceland CEO Magnus Hardarson on a very bullish outlook for Icelandic listings
A highly successful secondary offering earlier this fall by Icelandair, a rapidly growing sustainable corporate bond market, a promising pipeline for Icelandic growth companies coming to market, the emergence of First North as a public market alternative to VC, and increasing interest from retail...
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Haraldur Ingi Birgisson, Partner/Tax & Legal Leader at Deloitte Iceland, on why you should definitely bring your company to Iceland
Iceland notches consistently high ratings on global business and societal indexes, and measures of competitiveness, education, human development, equality and peace. And now, you can add government tax incentives to that list. Ahead of the upcoming virtual investment expo "How Do I Invest in...
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Investination CEO Oded Eliashiv on the Israeli startup scene...and a new platform for investing in Israeli startups
When this year’s covid-related social and economic disruptions put a stop to venture capital roadshows, one Israeli investment firm knew exactly what to do. They disrupted the venture capital roadshow itself. The resulting platform, Investination—a brainchild of Israeli-American real estate and...
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Veteran journalist and political insider John Ellis on the post-election U.S. outlook
John Ellis has been in around the news business (and the American political establishment) for most of his adult life, working for NBC News, the Boston Global, CNBC, Fox News Elections and Business News and Newscorp. He also served as a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and was a...
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W.P. Carey's European director Christopher Mertlitz on investing in European real estate through sale-leasebacks
Publicly traded net-lease REIT pioneer W.P. Carey pioneered the sale-leaseback for real estate investment 50 years ago in the U.S., and has helped to grow and professionalize the European market in the decades since. We talk to their European head, Christopher Mertlitz, on the investment outlook...
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FarmTogether: Tech-Powered, Fractional Investing in the World's Oldest Asset Class with Founder/CEO Artem Milinchuk
Investment startup FarmTogether, which has received backing from Franklin Templeton Legg Mason and several venture capital partners, gives accredited investors direct access to fractional ownership in U.S. farmland, a $2.5 trillion asset class traditionally owned by actual farmers or very large...
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Getting philosophical on the future of crypto assets with Bitcoin bull (and value investor) Brian Estes
Bitcoin: Political protest vote, futuristic commodity, arcane fade, environmental conundrum, or genuine portfolio hedge--it's outperformed all other asset classes in 2020 for the year to date. Brian Estes, Chief Investment Officer of Off the Chain Capital, a $40 million long-only, non-leveraged...
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Battery expert Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud, CEO of Cadenza Innovation, on the future of lithium-ion technology
Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud, former Boston-Power CEO, founder and CEO of Cadenza Innovation, is a world-renowned expert on battery architecture and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In March, Investable Universe spoke with Dr. Lampe-Önnerud following her address to…
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Investing in Small Modular Nuclear (SMR) Energy with NuScale Co-Founder and CTO, Dr. José Reyes
In August, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted its first-ever design certification of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) designed by Oregon-based NuScale power. This regulatory milestone--a key safety certification to commercializing and deploying the technology for clean…
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Investing in the U.S. Farmland Market with UBS Asset Management's Jim McCandless
The global farmland market has been valued at $9 trillion, $2.5 trillion of which is situated in the United States. While institutional ownership by pension funds and other long-term investors has been on the rise in recent decades, the majority of U.S. farms are still owned (as has long been the...
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Metals and mining mastermind Ed Meir of Commodity Research Group talks nickel
Nickel--a scarce and environmentally burdensome metal that is needed for EV car batteries-- has become a headline commodity of late. Prices spiked earlier this summer when Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised a "giant" contract to any firm that could mine nickel efficiently and sustainably. His challenge...
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Investing in Natural Capital with Pollination Founding Partner Martijn Wilder and Partner John Morton
In August, HSBC announced a new joint venture with climate impact advisory and "natural capital" investment group Pollination. The two firms will join forces to launch family of funds giving investors opportunities to invest directly in global sustainability initiatives around the original "real...
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