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Climate Tech CocktailsSynonym: Edward ShenderovichFellow 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 yo...2023-04-251h 16Climate Tech CocktailsFloodbase: Bessie SchwarzFellow 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 incr...2023-03-211h 11Climate Tech CocktailsVibrant Planet: Allison WolffFellow 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...2023-03-071h 18Climate Tech CocktailsShiok 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 ShiokMeats. Shiok Meats is the world’s first cultivated crustacean meat company, and Southeast Asia’s firstcultivated 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 onSpotify,App...2023-02-141h 02Climate Tech CocktailsLive at Techonomy (2/4)! GHGSat: Stephane GermainStephane 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.Interested in sponsoring Climate Tech Cocktails (CTC)? Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.comFor show notes and past guests, please visit the CTC Substac...2022-07-2739 minClimate Tech CocktailsLondon Tech Week (1/2)! OLIO: Tessa ClarkeTessa 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 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...2022-06-281h 11Climate Tech CocktailsLive at Techonomy (1/4)! Living Carbon: Maddie HallMaddie 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...2022-06-0748 minClimate Tech Cocktailsunspun: Kevin MartinKevin 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 bui...2022-04-051h 18Climate Tech CocktailsToucan Protocol: Raphael HauptRaphael 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 ProtocolToucan 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...2022-03-081h 35Climate Tech CocktailsClearFlame 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 fellowsh...2021-11-0250 minClimate Tech CocktailsVoltus: 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 VoltusGregg 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 “intelligen...2021-10-121h 02Climate Tech CocktailsWild 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 fou...2021-09-271h 27Climate Tech CocktailsMicroByre: 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, MicroByreSarah 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 Postd...2021-09-141h 00Climate Tech CocktailsOverview: 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, OverviewBenjamin 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 Insta...2021-08-3155 minClimate Tech CocktailsAir 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...2021-08-1654 minClimate Tech CocktailsAionics: 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, AionicsAustin 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 dev...2021-08-031h 23
Climate Tech CocktailsModern 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 a...2021-07-2055 min
Climate Tech CocktailsCommonwealth 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 hig...2021-07-1254 min