Markets already understand that it’s too damn expensive to keep powering our economy by digging up and burning old dinosaur bones. In most places today, solar and wind are cheaper and scale faster. What you might not know yet is that technologies that grow chemicals in bioreactors or boost crop yields are already outperforming 100-year-old industrial processes that are dirty and dangerous. We see this happening in protein, transportation, chemicals, building materials, and even mining too. This radical shift isn’t just because of some warm and fuzzies. These are real businesses, with insane growth, and some posting nine-figure revenue run rates. In simple terms, cutting gigatons of CO2, mass market adoption, and generating piles of money will go hand-in-hand.
READ MOREEvery so often, a cold email that lands in our inbox makes a splash. Now, before a phalanx of bankers smashes the send button about a waste-2-value deal code-named Project Phoenix that ‘might be up our alley,’ here are a few tips about getting a screen-addicted VC’s attention. If you don’t have a warm introduction,
READ MORESomewhere in Mumbai right now, a two-person crew is bolting solar panels to a concrete rooftop while the homeowner watches from the shade with a cup of tea. Tomorrow the team will do it again, three houses down. Then again, the day after. This is what India’s booming electric economy looks like up close. Odds
READ MORELast year, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany. That one stat tells the story: the freight train of European electrification is gaining steam. The tech works. The savings pile up. And a growing number of people want the peace of mind that comes from knowing their home heating comes from clean, local electricity instead
READ MOREIn the dark hours of a frosty November night, at an undisclosed location in Pennsylvania, a solar panel array hummed to life. Three miles overhead, a small propellor plane held the cells in the crosshairs of an invisible ray of near-infrared light. The panels drank it in, converting the beam into electricity as if it
READ MORESince Fuse’s seed round, we’ve had front-row seats as they raced from a pre-product company to a full-stack energy business generating more than $400m in ARR. This all-out sprint began the day they signed up their first customer in late 2023. This summer, they hit 50k users. Then blew past 150k months later. Behind the
READ MOREZanskar’s AI-meets-geoscience approach just pulled off something the geothermal industry hasn’t done in over 30 years: confirm a big, blind resource discovery at a site creatively named, well, Big Blind. This stretch of Nevada desert has no visible steam vents or hot springs, no historic exploration or datasets to work from—not even a suspiciously warm
READ MOREImagine you’re the next multi-billion dollar AI company, ready to crack consciousness or mine the latest crypto coin. You just dropped eight figures on signing bonuses for talent, your GPUs are firing, and your models are queued. On paper, you’re ready to scale…that is, until an operator for a decades-old utility tells you it’ll be
READ MOREWhen disaster strikes, what people need isn’t complicated: somewhere safe to stay, a place to rebuild, and the coverage to make them whole. Yet time and time again, those basics fall through. Following record flooding in Florida in 2024, fewer than ten percent of those approved for temporary housing actually got it. Six months after
READ MOREThe best battery upgrade? The one you can have right now. Recently, Chinese EV giant BYD and battery maker CATL made waves with some big promises about ultra fast-charging cars. But, those claims come with a catch: to reap the benefits these new batteries supposedly deliver, they will first need massive investments in brand new
READ MOREThe Colorado River, a lifeline for 40 million Americans, is so dry these days that the Hoover Dam’s turbines barely spin for months each year. Phoenix has halted some housing permits because the aquifer is just about tapped out. In the last few years, Mexico City and Cape Town nearly hit “Day Zero,” when residents
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