Oil and Gas Startups Podcast

The Dot Com bubble led to many businesses failing, our guest today took his company through an important pivot during that time and it ended up selling for $4 billion a few years later.Charles Dauber has an interesting point of view, not only did he survive during the Dot Com bubble, but now he’s navigating the current tech bubble — we discuss the comparisons of the two.Charles Dauber, CEO of Warm Commerce, talks about wearing boots in Silicon Valley, taking multiple companies public, and now how he is looking to disrupt and innovate across the supply chain in Oil and Gas. 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.

As the Oil & Gas industry becomes more and more digital, we’re also becoming more and more vulnerable to cyber attacks.<br />There have been many high profile attacks and data leaks in the consumer world over the past few years but there hasn’t been enough attention on cybersecurity in the industry.<br />Ted Gutierrez, Co-founder and CEO, of SecurityGate schools us on cybersecurity in energy. Enjoy the episode. 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.

Cottonwood Venture Partners is an investment firm partnering with technology companies that provide digital solutions for the energy industry. They have some impressive startups in their portfolio. Companies like:1. Ambyint (Episode 22)2. Engage3. MineralSoft4. Well Data Labs (Episode 43)5. Tachyus (Episode 24)6. SitePro7. Novi Labs (Episode 75)8. Hitched Inc. (Episode 40)We had the Managing Partners, Jeremy Arendt and Ryan Gurney, on and dove into how most people seem to forget that VC’s are entrepreneurs as well. We talk about the struggles they had raising money for their first fund.Reach out to Jeremy and Ryan. Learn more about Cottonwood Venture Partners. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Kelly Belcher, Director of Silicone Valley Bank, to hear about Kelly’s journey setting up their Energy Tech Division here in Houston. We met Kelly a while back and wanted to get him on to tell his story because SVB doesn’t operate like a traditional bank and they are one of the only banks that bank the “unbankable” aka startups. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Brian Gollehon, President and CEO of Accuscribe, to hear about Brians’s story as a directional driller and how Accuscribe is meshing hardware with software to help obtain the most accurate measurements as possible. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Jim Shaw, President and COO of LandVantage. We dove into Jim’s experience dealing with Land Admin at Chesapeake and how he was able to leverage that experience into building some pretty cool tech. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Armand Paradis, CEO, and Jeremy Gottlieb, CFO of Inside Petroleum. They are disrupting a space dominated by legacy players — if you are an engineer or finance guy, you are going to love this episode. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Brock Meyer, Founder of Wise Rock. If you have been laid off recently, this is a great and really inspiring  episode. Brock worked at Hess for seven years and one day was sent home with no explanation. He then had to downsize his lifestyle and went into a couple other jobs — which ultimately led to him starting Wise Rock. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Jon Ludwig, President at Novi Labs, who is actually a previous guest! Jon joined us again to talk about how they have pivoted to adapt to the new environment of the industry. 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 this episode, Collin and Jake sit with Eléonore Cluzel of gener8tor. Eléonore is the Director of gBETA Houston. gBeta is a free, seven-week accelerator for early-stage companies with local roots. Each program is capped at five teams, and requires no fees and no equity. 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.