Mandeep Patel is the Founder and CEO of ElecTrip. For business leaders, lawyers, and consultants, ElecTrip offers city-to-city, door-to-door transportation in private, professionally driven Teslas to maximize productivity. Mandeep shares the trials and tribulations of building a business during COVID. Mandeep Explores: How the solution provided by ElecTrip allows businesses to increase productivity while reducing the carbon footprint of travel - 0:22 How Mandeep and co-founder Taylor Zhao saw th...
Feb 08, 2023•44 min•Ep. 17
Dr. Evan M. Erickson is the CEO of TexPower, a company commercializing cobalt-free lithium-ion battery technology that is higher in energy than other technologies without sacrifices to safety, cycle life, or compatibility with existing technologies. Evan has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working first in fuel cells, then transitioning to lithium-ion battery technology in a postdoc at Bar-Ilan University in Israel & later at the University of Texas ...
Jan 31, 2023•45 min•Ep. 16
Meet Natalie Campos Goodman, founder, and CEO of IncentiFind. IncentiFind is the go-to database of green building incentives, housing over 500,000 ways to save by building green and transforming U.S. real estate with $70 billion in incentives. Natalie Discusses: The lay of the land where incentives can be found for building incentives - 2:30 How customers can procure incentives once they are identified and selected - 7:35 How the additional $400B in capital from the IRA will flow through incenti...
Jan 17, 2023•46 min•Ep. 15
Neal is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur with 9+ startups under his belt, and one of the best seed-stage hit rates in cleantech. Neal is a partner at Energy Transition Ventures based here in Houston. He helped launch the CVC fund at Royal Dutch Shell, co-founded 7 tech startups, and co-founded Jane Capital Partners a leading cleantech investor whose seed investees raised over $400M. Neal Discusses: How Energy Transition Ventures Came Together and why we talk clean tech vs energy tran...
Jan 10, 2023•53 min•Ep. 14
Eunike Ventures is a Global Energy Platform for Technology Acceleration, Adoption & Commercialization. Amy and Thomas seek innovative technologies that transcend across the entire spectrum of the energy value chain and apply their industry insight to bringing technologies to market. Amy and Thomas discuss: What it means to work with Eunike Ventures — 1:20 An example of how Nesh went through Eunike’s process to grow — 4:40 What makes Eunike’s unique — 10:20 How Eunike works effectively with a...
Dec 20, 2022•54 min•Ep. 13
Tom Weirich, author of "We Took the Risk" talks about his new book; Tom is a key facilitator that has connected pivotal players in the global renewable energy industry for over 18 years, working with teams that have closed 300+ renewable energy transactions across a variety of technologies. Throughout his renewables journey, the stories of how colleagues got their start in renewables have continuously inspired and empowered him in his daily work. Hear Tom discuss: Why he wrote “We Took the Risk”...
Dec 14, 2022•50 min•Ep. 12
Ethan Novek is a multiple award-winning chemist and is the sole inventor of 25 granted utility patents with over 150 patent filings in the materials science and sustainable energy industries. He has invented 9 new platform technologies in heat transfer, electricity storage, gas separation, refrigeration cycles, calcium oxide & cement production, tidal power, power generation, and CO2 conversion. He is the inventor, founder, and CEO of SolvCor Technologies. Ethan delves into: How industrial c...
Nov 29, 2022•53 min•Ep. 11
Ian Bishop is the CEO and co-founder of Elemental Recycling (ER). Elemental has developed a single step process to recycle all plastics and tires into hydrogen and graphite /graphene. The process is also patented for electronics and greenhouse gases and has the potential to solve single stream recycling challenges while making money for plant operators. Ian Explores: How Ian and Ron made one small change with a Ph.D. chemist and developed a critical innovation for recycling - 1:15 How a culture ...
Nov 15, 2022•49 min•Ep. 10
Caitlin Smith is a policy entrepreneur who currently works as the Senior Director, Regulatory, External Affairs & ESG at Jupiter Power. Jupiter Power is a leading developer, owner, and operator of stand-alone, utility-scale battery energy storage. We have 650 MWh of operation projects in Texas with over 300 MWh in or near construction, including a 200MWh project in Houston. It is expected to be the first urban battery storage project of that size. Energy is complicated because of the broad s...
Nov 08, 2022•46 min•Ep. 9
Edward Eichstetter is the CEO of EKU Power Drives, an expert in the electrification and automation expert for the Oil and Gas industry. EKU has a number of technologies that reduce emissions, from the Engine Standby Controller which reduces idle time up to 90% through SOPHIA, a solution that taps into the cloud and allows fleet managers to better optimize their frack fleets. The founders of EKU tap into their shared history of developing electric formula racing cars to develop and deploy new pro...
Nov 01, 2022•47 min•Ep. 8
Daniel Basaldua is the CEO and founder of Euphree Electric Bikes, the maker of the most comfortable commuter style e-bike. Daniel a dyed in the wool entrepreneur started his early career in the upstream oil and gas industry and began looking at transportation as an industry that will transform the most in the energy transition. Daniel Explores: How his sister inspired his first e-bike - 4:20 How Houston has unique manufacturing strengths - 8:50 Why access to cost-effective energy is in fine bala...
Oct 18, 2022•44 min•Ep. 7
Zimri Hinshaw is the CEO and founder of Bucha Bio. Bucha unlocks unique creative design potential using biotechnology. Their team creates novel biomaterials by combining fermented cellulose with plant-based polymers to create products for applications instead of animal leather, polyurethane, latex, vinyl, epoxy, and so much more. Zimri Explores: What is SCOBY and what does it have to do with Bucha Bio - 1:56 How do novel materials get to end consumers - 6:40 How Bucha Bio uses branding as a stra...
Oct 11, 2022•42 min•Ep. 6
Grace Chan is a venture principal for New Markets at BP ventures. Grace focuses on venturing discovery and deal delivery in support of cleantech market entry offers in China, elsewhere in the Asia Pacific, and India as well as technology-led ventures in service of one or more of BP’s 'transition growth engines' - bioenergy, convenience, EV charging, renewables, and hydrogen. Grace Explores: How and where BP Ventures makes investments - 2:00 How Grace figured out she was destined for Corporate Ve...
Oct 04, 2022•45 min•Ep. 5
Trevor Best is a serial entrepreneur who is building the next big thing in chemical refining. His company, Syzygy Plasmonics is building a new type of chemical reactor driven by renewable electricity from making hydrogen or turning carbon back into useful molecules. The technology comes out of the very own Houston Grown Rice University and was built on top of 30 years of nano-photonics research. Syzygy is commercializing a photocatalyst, a material that uses light instead of heat to facilitate c...
Sep 28, 2022•57 min•Ep. 4
Eric Rubenstein is Managing Partner at New Climate Ventures. New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative carbon reduction and avoidance technology companies. Prior to founding New Climate Ventures, Eric held investment, fundamental strategy, and trading roles at Citigroup and Louis Dreyfus in their commodities and energy trading divisions. A psychology major with a focus on behavioral neuroscience, Eric graduated Yale University with a Bachelor’s degree. A...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 3
Moji Karimi is a self proclaimed carbon negative entrepreneur and old school millennial. As CEO and co-founder of Cemvita, he is bringing nature inspired technology solutions to address climate change. Moji talks us through the opportunities Houston has to offer; both in launching his career in oil and gas as well as the various startups he was able to start. A modern wildcatter, he explores: How O&G perceives risk - 3:45 Why now is the time to be excited about synthetic biology - 5:30 How s...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 2
