Oil and Gas Startups Podcast

This week we sat down with the OG of oil and gas investing, Kirk Coburn. He opens up about investing in more than 60 energy tech startups and the future of the energy tech community. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

What a weird 24 hrs. Collin went from tweeting about Gamestop stock shooting to the moon, to making it on three different news shows in the last day. So this is a little bit of a different episode. If you're a long time listener, you might remember we had Data Gumbo on the podcast back in the early days. I think they were literally one of the first 10 that we ever did. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Data Gumbo's CEO Andrew Bruce and Jason Modglin, the President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, to talk about their new partnership. A lot had changed for Data Gumbo since we first had them on so it was good to get an update on all the cool things they're doing in the space. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

Most VC's that we've had on the show typically only invest in Energy. Our buddy Mark Friday from Cathexis Ventures joined us on the show this week to talk about their deep energy roots, investing in Energy startups as well as all of the off-the-wall stuff they're interested in as well.   This was our first time recording in the new studio - so we were really excited about getting back to in-person chats. Remote just isn't quite the same. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

A few months back we sat down with the largest computer chip manufacturer in the world, Nvidia. We had a great conversation about the impact they’re making in the energy space. Similarly, this week we talk to Manas Pathak of Intel about how they are driving the future of digital oilfields. Intel’s IoT technologies and solutions provide the flexibility, standardization, and innovation the oil and gas industry demands to increase both operational and capital efficiencies. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

It's amazing how many processes across the industry are still on paper — paper tickets, invoices, etc Liquid Frameworks was probaby the first company on the scene to tackle this problem. Travis Parigi joined us this week to talk about how he identified the problem consulting for Schlumberger and how market demand transformed their FieldFX platform from field ticketing and invoicing to a full end to end field servicing suite of products. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

Cully Cavness of Crusoe Energy Systems came to talk about how they offer a solution to flaring for upstream operators without access to pipeline. Their Digital Flare Mitigation™ (DFM) systems convert otherwise wasted natural gas into electricity to power energy-intensive Bitcoin mining and other computing, right at the wellsite. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

In a quest to keep mixing it up and keeping it fresh - we decided we'd go where we haven't gone before - robotics. Nic Radford, Founder & CEO of Houston Mechatronics walks us through his journey from a career at NASA, to building the most cutting edge robots, to better service and access our underwater ecosystem. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

2020 has been rough for a variety of reasons including the tens of thousands of people across the industry that have been laid off. That’s why we think the timing of this episode couldn’t be more perfect. Vitaly Meyer with Petrocubic joined us to talk about he’s built a marketplace to connect petroleum projects with skilled industry experts. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

Believe it or not, our episodes with E&P guys have always been the most popular - Yousuf Chaudhary's episode is solid in first place, DRW was right on his heels and Seth Blackwell was right behind him. So our buddy, Ryan Keys, of Triple Crown Resources came on the show to talk about how they've built tech internally to help them weather 2020. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

Rachel Olney - Founder of Geosite and just and all around badass - joined us again to catch us up to speed on everything they're working on. If you didn't catch out last episode with Rachel - go listen to that one and we'll go a bit deeper into her background. But they're doing huge things in energy as well as in the Defense sector - always a fun convo with Rachel. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.