🪩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 🍸Bombay Sapphire,🍸Citadelle Gin, disco-balled cocktail sha…

🌱 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 paid subscriber. Today, Matt is joined by Chris Tolles, Co-…

🌱 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 Diamond Age, comes armed with some Maker's Mark Reserve t…

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 Stacy’s unique career trajectory and how it has her led to …

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 entrepreneur has inspired a mission to provide a nat…

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 Goldman Sachs, Tony springboarded into the world of climat…

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…

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 th…

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 addr…

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, R…

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 everyon…

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 package…

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, Appl…

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 (synb…

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 Intellig…

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…

🌊🍤 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, …

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 a…

👩‍✈️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…

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 simpl…

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 utiliz…

🎧 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 lights result in a hyper-efficient reactor - all those…

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 …

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…

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 photopolym…

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…

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 sur…

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 never eaten.” OLIO connects neighbours with each other a…

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 popla…

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…

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 ap…

👩‍✈️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…

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. The…

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…

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 …

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, g…

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 …

“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 entreprene…

“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 Dan…

“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…

“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 fu…

“(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 worl…

“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 (@rya…

“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 microbi…

“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 demon…

“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 no…

“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 gon…

“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…

“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 str…