Climate Tech Cocktails

🔋Batteries, ⛓️ Supply Chain Innovation, 🌍 Energy Transition, 🤺 Olympic Fencing, and More⚡Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails!Get ready for some shrewd global insights with Vivas Kumar, CEO of Mitra Chem, here today! Swapping cocktails for hydrogen water, Vivas shares his journey from Singapore & Tesla's supply chain to innovating iron-based cathodes. He and Matt cover Li-ion battery history (Korean War to Walkman!), the intense truth of entrepreneurship (what Stanford doesn't teach!), US funding's role, as well as fencing & travel tales from Tbilisi to South Africa. Drink up and enjoy this deep dive into tech, markets & climate drive!

🌱Alternative Proteins, 🌱Fungi Powered Nutrition,⚡️Infrastructure, and 💥MoreFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails!Celebrating the poetic irony of sustainable protein rising from the ashes of Chicago's meatpacking past, Thomas Jonas, CEO and Co-founder of Nature's Fynd, joins Matt for today’s stop on the "Here We Are" tour. Together, they unveil the magic of fungi-powered nutrition cultivated from a resilient Yellowstone microbe, and how it can revolutionize our plates and heal the planet. So buckle up for a thoroughly enlightening journey into the future of food, where microbes are the unsung heroes of a sustainable tomorrow!

🚲 E-Bikes, 🏭 Manufacturing, ♻️ Circular Economy, 📍Detroit, and  MoreFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails!Coffee, E-bikes, the resurgence of American Manufacturing in Detroit, and a deep dive into the circular economy are all on the menu today as Justin Kosmides, co-founder and CEO of Bloom joins Matt for a chat. A trailblazer in the electric mobility space, Bloom is building an operations-as-a-service platform to help e-mobility companies scale production and operate efficiently. Coming at you straight from Newlab Detroit, this is one electric ride!

🪩Disco,⚡️Energy Efficiency, 🚗EV Grid, 🎤Karaoke, and 💡MoreFellow 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 shakers and Karaoke with Apoorv Bhargava, co-founder and CEO of WeaveGrid. A trailblazer in electrifying the future of EV grid integration, WeaveGrid is connecting automakers, utilities and drivers to tackle the challenges to and boost EV adoption across the industry. Featuring a stirring performance from Apoorv, this is one episode you’ll want to sit back, take a sip, and maybe even sing along to!

🌱 Soil health,💡Agricultural innovation, 🤝Humanitarian Aid,🌱Carbon offset, and💥MoreFellow 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-founder and CEO of Yard Stick, an organization that is revolutionizing the way farmers measure their soil by making it accurate, instant, and affordable. While Chris sips on a Gangster Duck, and Matt quaffs both a Sparkle Pony and A Brew Hope, their discussion unearths the importance of soil health, its role as a carbon sink, and Chris’s fascinating journey from humanitarian relief worker to cutting-edge climate tech leader. So, go ahead, grab whatever beverage is calling your name right now, and let’s dig into the dirt together!

🌱 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 to discuss both his personal and professional life. From growing up next to a corn field in small town Illinois to being a two-time Silicon Valley tech founder to building shelters for war torn Ukraine, Jack leads a nobly purposeful existence helping out those most in need, and you get to share in his extensive experience and wisdom here today.

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 co-founding EVRNU - an industry leader “converting textile waste materials into ‘new’ engineered fibers, which can be recycled again and again.”

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 natural, sustainable, and easily integrated alternative to styrofoam. Cruz Foam is setting ‘a new standard for what it means to be a sustainable product.’

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 climate technology. Tony and his colleagues are transforming the way we utilize natural gas by turning it into clean hydrogen–point source hydrogen, that is–to power industrial processes.   

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 wastewater treatment challenge. A chemist by trade, Cody is now decarbonizing cement. Tag along to learn a little chemistry, and share in the hope of achieving carbon-neutral construction.