Climate Tech Cocktails

Matt Myers

Welcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where we grab a drink (or two) with best-in-class climate tech founders.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Climate Tech Coffee: Avalanche Energy (rewind)

    ☕ Climate Tech Coffee: Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy   Fellow Climate Warriors, this is a replay of our Climate Tech Coffee episode with Robin Langtry of Avalanche Energy— this was the shorter, usually sober version of Climate Tech Cocktails.   We are re-releasing a few coffee episodes as we prepare to evolve transition to Hope Dose.   🍾 This episode marked the announcement of FUSIONWERX, the first-of-it’s kind commercial-scale testing facility for advanced fusion technologies.   📣 READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE!   Avalanche Energy has since gone on to raise and addition $29m since posting this episode on Substack!   Join us as we sit down with Robin Langtry, CEO and Co-founder of Avalanche Energy, a fusion startup building micro-sized fusion reactors. We dive into how their “orbital fusion” technology works, why smaller might be better, and how this team of fusion rebels plans to electrify the future — one table-sized reactor at a time. Grab your favorite form of caffeine, and hop on board.   📝 Show Notes Below 👇   🎧 New podcast episode: “I just didn’t want to build software anymore — I wanted to build something that could change the physics of the planet.” — Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy   Enjoy the show!   🚀 Companies / Startups Mentioned ⚛️ Avalanche Energy 🛰️ DARPA 🚀 Anduril ⚡ Zap Energy 🔋 Helion ⚡ Oklo   🌎 People / Places / Things Mentioned 📍 Seattle 📍 Los Alamos 📍 Montana 📍 DOE (Department of Energy) 📍 Air Force 📍 Austin 🔬 Ion guns 🔋 High-voltage capacitors 🎮 Sci-fi inspired design   ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Intro [01:23] Meet Robin [03:48] From Montana to Micronuclear [07:15] Fusion in a Truck?! [12:45] Avalanche's Breakthrough [17:30] Competing with Big Fusion [22:00] National Security + Energy [28:49] The Road Ahead [33:58] Outro

    49 min

  2. 09/04/2025

    Mitra Chem: Vivas Kumar

    🔋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!

    1 hr

  3. 24/02/2025

    Nature's Fynd: Thomas Jonas

    🌱Alternative Proteins, 🌱Fungi Powered Nutrition,⚡️Infrastructure, and 💥More Fellow 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!

    33 min

  4. 03/02/2025

    Bloom: Justin Kosmides

    🚲 E-Bikes, 🏭 Manufacturing, ♻️ Circular Economy, 📍Detroit, and  More Fellow 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!

    46 min

  5. 31/07/2024

    WeaveGrid: Apoorv Bhargava

    🪩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 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!

    1hr 14min

  6. 27/06/2024

    Yard Stick: Chris Tolles

    🌱 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-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!

    1hr 18min

  7. 27/05/2024

    Jack Oslan: Diamond Age

    🌱 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.

    1hr 19min

  8. 01/04/2024

    EVRNU: Stacy Flynn

    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.”

    1hr 18min
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