CleanTechies Silas & Somil

Forget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬Ashwin Salvi is the Co-Founder and COO of AtmosZero. They create electrified boilers to replace traditional fossil-fuel-burning boilers in industrial settings.Steam touches a huge amount of products that we, as consumers, use every day, and AtmosZero is helping decarbonize that. Today, Ashwin shares his story, and we discuss:How they solved the cost issue by making a drop-in replacement How they built their pilot at the same scale as their commercial u...

Forget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬Today, we are talking to Toby Ferenczi from Granular Energy.In this electrifying (ha!) episode, we finally tracked down the elusive Toby Ferenczi, a man who juggles startups like they're hot potatoes. ⚡️Toby educates us about the world of electricity transparency and trading. Did you know you can trade electricity like stocks? Neither did we! And it doesn’t exactly work like that…but it got your interest, didn’t it?? 🤔From his days at Cambridge to co-founding Gr...

Forget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬Kevin Noertker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ampaire, a developer of Hybrid Aviation Propulsion Systems to Decarbonize Air Travel Today.Currently they are scaling up their tech. Their tech is proven to reduce fuel usage by about 50% for small aircrafts (anything with a propeller).Today, Kevin shares his story and we discuss:Aerospace Engineer to Ampaire: His story of co-founding Ampaire. Addressing Existing Stock: Electric aircraft is the future, but their s...

Forget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬Chad Mason is the CEO and Founder of Advanced Ionics, a company that has designed a revolutionary electrolyzer. They did this by designing their technology from scratch.They are currently scaling up this innovative technology and plan to sell these units, known as stacks, either directly or through licensing agreements.Today, Chad shares his journey:Early Inspiration: How he first learned about electrolysis at age 5 on a farm in North Dakota.Career Path: T...

Forget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬Jesse Henry is the CEO and Founder of Heartland Industries, a company that produces drop-in pellets made of hemp fiber. These pellets are used as an additive to plastics. They reduce the weight and cost of the products, improve strength, and lower scope 3 emissions. It's a quadruple-benefit product. Today, Jesse tells us his story - how he started Heartland - how he's the 3rd generation to work in the fibers industry - how they landed BASF as a partner and inves...

Forget Fan Mail, Fan Text Us! 💬Rahul broke down the nitty-gritty of how 2150 built (no pun intended) a leading ClimateTech VC fund focused on decarbonizing the built environment. We talked investing, fund modeling, learning from general VC, FinTech in ClimateTech, & more. This was a VC-fundamental extraordinaire, and super informative for anyone looking to learn more about venture capital. AND let’s not forget, Rahul spent his holiday with us to do this. Cheers to him. Enjoy 🥳👏.---🌎 Want ...