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Pepper Bio is the world's first transomics drug discovery company. Similar to how Google Maps combines various layers of data to provide the fastest and safest route to an end destination, Pepper Bio’s COMPASS platform simplifies the intricate world of biology into a navigable roadmap for researchers.

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Jay Kapoor & Vijay Chattha are the founders and general partners of VSC Ventures, a $21M Seed fund focused on industrial automation and climate adaptation startups. In their 50th episode of CLIMB, the duo discuss lessons from the past 49 episodes, which guests surprised them, what advice founders should never ignore, and sectors and trends that are over and under-hyped in 2023 and beyond.

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Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture firm that recently raised $1.2 billion across two new funds. Eclipse is a team of operators and investors building companies that are disrupting old-line industries. Lior Susan began his journey on a kibbutz and served in the Israeli Special Forces. In 2008, he co-developed Intucell, a software-defined networking solution, leading to its acquisition by Cisco in four years. Prior to launching Eclipse, Lior was Founder and General Partner at LabIX, the hardware investment platform of Flextronics. At LabIX, Lior led investments in companies across: energy storage, wireless/infrastructure, 3-D optics, additive manufacturing, and robotics. Lior founded Eclipse Ventures in 2014 to meet the unique and unmet needs of entrepreneurs building full-stack start-ups. He is particularly excited to work with founders who want to bring the full-stack approach to legacy industries and build digital bridges to the physical world.

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Shane Dyer is the CEO of Irrigreen. Irrigreen designs and manufactures an all-digital sprinkler system that uses software-controlled precision sprinkler heads to deliver water uniformly across your landscape and reduce unnecessary water usage. Shane has an extensive background in technology, especially in IoT development. Before Irrigreen, he was the founder and CEO of Arrayent, an IoT platform used by top brands like Whirlpool and Pentair. He also co-founded Propellerhead Studios, which collaborated with giants like Mattel and Hasbro, and established ActivePhoto Inc., connecting digital cameras to phones and serving clients like Allstate. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.

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Shaun Abrahamson co-founded Third Sphere, dedicated to shaping a post-climate change world through ventures investments and founder support. Before Third Sphere, Shaun was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms and 3 unicorns between 2007 and 2013 including ZocDoc, Public, Trialpay, Refinery29, Skycatch, and Tonx. During this time, Shaun also led multiple sustainability-focused projects like Life Edited to design ultra-low GHG apartments in New York City as well as Betacup to cut paper waste for Starbucks. Shaun began venture building at companies like MediaSentry, Starmedia Network, govWorks, and Oculus, with a foundation in climate work from MIT CADLab in 1997. Shaun has an MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, and a BSc from the University of Cape Town.

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Sarah Applebaum serves as a Partner at Pangaea Ventures. Pangaea Ventures is an unparalleled hard-tech investor that invests in firms utilizing the latest breakthroughs in materials science, chemistry, and biology to solve many of society's most pressing issues. Sarah brings almost a decade of venture capital and company-building experience to the team. Sarah has cultivated expertise in building entrepreneurial teams, scaling early stage ventures, and venture financing. Sarah is an active mentor to early-stage entrepreneurs and a startup community activator and advocate. Sarah led ⁠Pangaea⁠’s investments into pH7, PolySpectra and ⁠Correlia Biosystems⁠. Sarah holds a Bsc. From ⁠Dalhousie University⁠ and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

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Valerie Shen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at G2 Venture Partners, where she oversees all operational aspects of the firm and fund including fundraising / LP relations, recruiting / HR, fund administration, impact reporting, legal, compliance, and marketing. Prior to business school, Valerie was an analyst at Kleiner Perkins’ $1B Green Growth Fund, where she helped the team found G2. Before that she was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she worked across four continents, primarily on energy projects. She has also held positions at the U.S. Senate, X (Google’s “moonshot factory”), Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Capital, and The Wilderness Society. Valerie holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Environmental Science & Public Policy and Earth & Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. She holds an M.B.A. and M.S. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, where she was a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar.

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Molly is the Founder and CEO of ⁠Molly Wood Media⁠, an independent journalism and investing firm focused on climate solutions. She is also an angel investor and scout for the climate investment firm ⁠Amasia⁠, and was previously a managing director at LAUNCH, where she also co-hosted the podcast ⁠This Week in Startups⁠. Molly Wood is a veteran of national media (Marketplace on National Public Radio, the New York Times, and CBS Interactive) and began covering climate tech in 2018. At Marketplace, she created and launched a reporting series and documentary podcast called ⁠How We Survive⁠, looking at the business opportunities and technologies aimed at combating climate change. At Molly Wood Media, Molly is combining both career paths into one company. Her new podcast, ⁠Everybody in the Pool⁠, is accompanied by a newsletter of the same name.

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Vaughn Blake is a partner at Blue Bear Capital with a focus on the renewal energy industry. He is specifically focused on themes and opportunities where policy and technology catalysts interconnect. Prior to Blue Bear, Vaughn managed a portfolio of emerging and esoteric hedge fund and venture capital fund strategies at a Southern California-based Family Office. He is the founder and managing director of Autochrome Ventures, an early-stage venture firm investing in frontier technologies applied at industrial and enterprise scale.

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Tommy Stadlen is a technology entrepreneur and bestselling author. He is the Co-Founder of Giant Ventures. Giant builds and backs purpose-driven technology companies solving the world’s biggest challenges. They champion entrepreneurs in creating a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient planet. Giant is a multi-stage, thesis-driven firm based in London, LA, and Copenhagen. Previous to Giant Ventures, he was the Co-Founder of Swing Technologies, which exited to Microsoft in November 2017. Tommy is a former McKinsey consultant with global experience advising companies and governments. He previously worked for President Obama. Tommy is also the co-author of the international bestseller ‘Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically With Society’, written with former BP CEO Lord Browne. He appears regularly in the media and at conferences as a commentator on business, technology, and sustainability. Tommy graduated with First Class honors from Oxford and holds an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics. He is an advisor to NYU Stern School of Business and a One Young World Ambassador.

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Shomik Dutta is a dynamic force in the climate investment landscape. As the Co-Founder and General Partner of Higher Ground Labs venture fund, he brings a unique blend of experience and expertise to the table. With a background in private equity renewable energy, Shomik has a deep understanding of sustainable solutions. His journey has been nothing short of remarkable, having served as an Obama White House aide and contributing his skills to the Obama ‘08 & ‘12 campaigns. Shomik's advisory role to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski further underscores his commitment to meaningful change. Prior to his impactful roles in climate advocacy, he honed his financial acumen through his work at Morgan Stanley investment banking. With a trailblazing career spanning multiple arenas, Shomik is a driving force behind the intersection of innovation, policy, and investment in the pursuit of a greener future.

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Abe Murray is a visionary founder, accomplished builder, and distinguished product engineering lead with a remarkable track record in the tech industry. Currently serving as a General Partner at AlleyCorp Robotics, Abe leverages his expertise to drive innovation and excellence in the field of robotics and technology. Abe was previously a product and engineering leader at Alphabet. He launched Play Books and Magazines at Android, delivered $XXXM in business while building the Verily Life Science product teams and Boston office, and shipped AI /ML/computer vision across Google while building the Google Research product team. Before Google, he built a Web 2.0 startup and worked on UAVs in the defense industry. Abe has some shiny degrees (HBS MBA, WPI MS EE, URI BS Comp Eng) but says he learned the most when he dropped out of high school to run fishing boats and factory lines in the family aquaculture business.

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Ryan Gembala is a pre-seed and seed-stage technology investor & founder of Pathbreaker Ventures. As founder of one of the first deep tech funds in Silicon Valley, he is focused on solving complex global problems through novel hardware-software systems. In 2023, Ryan was named one of the Top 100 Seed Investors by Business Insider. Prior to starting Pathbreaker, Ryan was a deal lead on the corporate development team at Facebook where he worked with product and engineering teams to landscape technology ecosystems and execute acquisitions in pursuit of Facebook's mission. Acquisitions worked on include Oculus, PrivateCore, LiveRail, Teehan Lax, and NimbleVR. Emerging areas of technology were his focus, including AI/ML, deep learning, computer vision, virtual reality, applied hardware, and infrastructure technologies across security, video, messaging, and product design. Ryan earned his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he focused on finance, entrepreneurship, and early stage technology investing. While in business school, he and his team won the International Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) out of 56 MBA programs.

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Michael DeLucia is the Sector Lead for Climate Investing at Wellington, an investment management firm with over $1 trillion assets under management. Before joining Wellington Management in 2021, Mike was a founding partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP), where he led all aspects of the investment process for companies and projects in the infrastructure technology space, focusing on investments in the energy transition and the built environment. SIP is a spin-off of Alphabet’s cities-of-the-future arm, Sidewalk Labs, where he worked as associate director, investments. He was also previously a vice president in the Energy Markets Division of Macquarie Group, investing directly in the energy and power sectors. Mike began financing energy companies as a project finance analyst at HSH Nordbank, then as an investment associate at Nereus Capital. Mike holds a B.A. in philosophy and economics from Brown University

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David McColl is currently the Executive Director of Stanford Climate Ventures and is a Graduate Research Fellow at the ⁠Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance⁠. He is also a Partner at ⁠Echelon⁠, an early-stage venture capital firm, and its affiliate Shoreline Capital. David received a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering and an M.S. in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University. He is a nationally-ranked beach volleyball player.

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Nazlican Goksu is a Design Director at IDEO, the design studio behind breakout products like Apple’s first usable mouse, the Simplisafe Security System, and Ford’s next-gen vehicles. She has collaborated and supported the launch of IDEO's Climate Portfolio, where she leads a team of designers in building products, services, and ventures that help advance climate goals. Sustainability, climate action, and circular design are all passion areas for her, and she believes design can play a critical role in addressing today’s global challenges. Before joining IDEO, she co-founded her own design studio in New York which she successfully ran for four years. Her background in Design Research and Industrial Design has helped her develop a deep understanding of the design process and the importance of human-centered design. She earned her B.A. in Product Design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Post Baccalaureate Program in Human Sciences at Columbia University.

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Shawn Xu⁠ is a venture capitalist and current Chief of Staff at ⁠Lowercarbon Capital⁠. Shawn believes in audacious founders and bold solutions to the climate crisis and we wanted to have him on CLIMB because he's not just an investor; he's also a relentless builder helping to expand Lowercarbon's platform and founder products. Shawn has personally partnered with ~50 companies to date and brings with him a wealth of knowledge on helping founders go zero to one, from ideation to product-market fit. As a Partner at ⁠On Deck⁠'s venture fund and accelerator, he successfully backed companies in over 20 countries, earning a perfect founder NPS of 100. Prior stints at ⁠Floodgate⁠ and ⁠First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund⁠ propelled him into Forbes' 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital. Before his investing career, Shawn was a startup executive leading international expansion for companies like Square. His commitment to social impact led him to serve as a tech policy advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom. A Silicon Valley native, Shawn earned his MBA/MA in International Affairs from Wharton and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania after completing his undergraduate studies at UC San Diego.

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Sophie Purdom is a leading climate venture capitalist at Planeteer Capital, specializing in early-stage climate tech startups. Sophie's passion for climate and innovation is also expressed through her highly popular newsletter, Climate Tech VC. With a community of over 50,000 subscribers, she explores cutting-edge advancements in climate technology and sustainable innovation. Her diverse experience includes launching an ESG fund, strategy development at Bain & Co., publishing a book on sustainable investing, and co-founding a successful agricultural tech company that raised more than $65 million.

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Rachel Beals is a seasoned writer and editor with over two decades of expertise. She is currently the Assistant Managing Editor and Lead Climate Writer at MarketWatch. Over a 25-year career, Rachel has covered traditional commodities markets, alternative energy and the major global conferences on emissions and biodiversity. She's also written on a range of investing and personal finance topics. Rachel originated two columns at MarketWatch aimed at helping investors, retirees and homeowners plan for global warming and a more sustainable future: Living With Climate Change and The Upcycler. As she continues to analyze and articulate the pressing climate issues of our time, Rachel's insights have become an indispensable resource for her readers at MarketWatch and beyond.

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Arvind Gupta⁠ co-leads ⁠Mayfield⁠’s engineering biology practice and is Founder and Venture Advisor at IndieBio. He was the first investor in breakout bio companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite and Memphis Meats. As Founder of ⁠IndieBio⁠, Arvind redefined the pace and possibilities of early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies in five years, defining human and planetary health, and growing the IndieBio portfolio into billions of dollars in value. Prior to founding IndieBio, Arvind was Design Director at IDEO in Shanghai where he earned numerous international design awards.

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Ian Rountree is the Founder & General Partner of Cantos Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with $90M under management dedicated to backing deeply technical founders at inception across climate tech, computational biology, aerospace, and next-generation computing. Ian started making angel investments in 2012 while on the early teams at SoFi Bank and then Invisible Technologies. He founded Cantos in 2016 to continue backing world-positive startups at pre-seed & seed stage. In September 2022 they raised $50M for their third fund to invest in “near frontier” startups, which have the potential to mitigate climate change, disease, armed conflict, poverty, and existential risk on a global scale.

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⁠FootPrint Coalition⁠ invests in high-growth, sustainability-focused companies. They are a coalition of investors, donors, and storytellers committed to scaling technologies to restore our planet. ⁠Jonathan Shieber⁠ is the Chief Editor and a Venture Partner at FootPrint Coalition. He previously worked as Climate Editor, Contributors Editor, and a Senior Editor and writer at TechCrunch. ⁠Manuel Waenke⁠, Director at FootPrint Coalition, is an experienced leader in the sustainability and climate tech industry. He previously served as the Head of Corporate Strategy & Development at an agriculture biotech startup.

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Tim De Chant is a Senior Climate Reporter at TechCrunch and Founder and Editor at Future Proof, a publication covering climate and energy. Future Proof helps you make eco-friendly decisions when it comes to the stuff you buy with the goal of helping you to reduce your carbon footprint, one purchase at a time. He is a lecturer in MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing and has written for Wired, the Chicago Tribune, and NOVA Next, among others.

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⁠Mike Jackson⁠ is the Managing Director at ⁠Earthshot Ventures⁠, where he invests in entrepreneurs solving the toughest climate challenges. He has built an impressive career as an investor, entrepreneur, board member, and advisor in sectors such as clean energy, food & agriculture, buildings, mobility, and public safety. Drawing from his extensive experience across all stages of startup growth, Mike is dedicated to helping climate startups scale. Previously, Mike was a partner at the ⁠Westly Group⁠, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with over $400m under management in the clean energy sector. Starting as an intern, he quickly rose to partner in under five years. At the Westly Group, Mike's 10 deals raised over $1.1 billion in follow-on funding, with three successful acquisitions, one IPO, and five active, growing companies in the portfolio.

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⁠Allison Agsten⁠ is the inaugural director of ⁠USC Annenberg’s Center for Climate Journalism and Communication⁠. In her role, she conceptualizes programs, develops partnerships, and collaborates with faculty and students to shift public perception and response to climate change. Previously, she has worked in journalism, communications, and public engagement capacities including as a producer at CNN, Director of Communications at ⁠LACMA⁠, and Curator of Public Engagement at the Hammer Museum. In addition to her appointment at the Annenberg School, Agsten serves as the ⁠USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies⁠’ first curator. In that position, she organizes exhibitions and other arts programs that focus on climate change. Allison holds a BA from UCLA and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Amy Francetic is the founder of ⁠Buoyant Ventures⁠, a new woman-owned venture fund in Chicago that invests in digital climate solutions. Her journey began at ⁠Evergreen Climate Innovations⁠, where she co-founded and led the company as CEO, before moving on to ⁠Energize Ventures⁠, a $165 million venture fund that propelled cutting-edge digital technologies to optimize energy equipment and infrastructure. As a member of the Advisory Board for the WISER Institute at the ⁠Illinois Institute of Technology⁠, Amy's influence extends beyond her ventures, shaping the future of sustainable solutions. Her remarkable contributions have been recognized with numerous accolades, such as "20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans," Crain's Chicago "Tech 50 Leader," and the "Leading Woman in Technology" from the Illinois Technology Association.

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For over 15 years, ⁠David Roberts⁠ has been exploring and writing about a variety of topics related to news and culture. From 2015 to 2020, he was with ⁠Vox,⁠ a news and culture publication for which he still occasionally writes and contributes. Previously, he was with ⁠Grist⁠, a publication focused on environmental news, and has also written for Outside. He has appeared on TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts such as All In with Chris Hayes, On the Media, Pod Save America, and Why Is This Happening? His work has been cited by numerous people, from Al Gore to US senators to pundits and media analysts, to name a few. In 2020 David left Vox to start a newsletter/podcast called ⁠Volts⁠ about clean energy & politics.

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Catherine Boudreau is senior sustainability reporter at ⁠Insider⁠. She previously spent six years at ⁠POLITICO⁠, first covering food and agriculture policy and then helping launch the company's first sustainability beat focused on corporate accountability on environmental and social issues. She started her journalism career at Bloomberg BNA. Her reporting has also been featured in ⁠Bloomberg Businessweek⁠ and on WAMU's 1A and WBUR's On Point.

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Tom Chi is the Founding Partner at At One Ventures based in San Francisco. At One Ventures focuses on backing early-stage startups that use deep technology to reduce planetary footprint. He's played a significant role in established projects with global reach (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Search, Google), and scaled new projects from conception to significance. Tom holds a Master's of Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and is currently utilizing his passion for climate to mentor social entrepreneurs and help the next generation of climate tech startups scale.

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⁠Alex Brown⁠ started his career in the tech world and served as Chief Engineer before turning his attention to science. He is now the Co-Founder and CEO of ⁠Alga Biosciences⁠, which has set its sights on transforming the agricultural industry. With a mission to eliminate methane produced by enteric fermentation, Alga has created a model to stop cattle from burping methane and make a dramatic impact on ⁠global methane emissions⁠. Through collaborations with cattle-owners, ranchers, and scientists, Alga is working to bring their model to the world in the fastest, cheapest, and most scalable way possible.

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⁠Leo Banchik⁠ is a Partner at ⁠Global Founders Capital⁠, leading their early-stage climate tech venture fund. He has a strong passion for sustainable technology and a unique combination of engineering and sustainability consulting experience. A mechanical engineer by background and graduate of the ⁠Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)⁠, Leo has conducted research at two US National Labs and holds a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermofluids. Before Global Founders Capital, Leo was a product manager at an early-stage desalination startup and spent 5 years in a ⁠global consultancy⁠'s sustainability practice.

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Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist specializing in transformative technology and innovation. She started her reporting career on the business news desk of United Press International, and her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. Heather was the launch editor for the Fortune Data Sheet, the magazine's newsletter dedicated to the business of technology, and she co-authored the Amazon best-seller for entrepreneurs, "Niche Down, How to Become Legendary By Being Different." In her role at GreenBiz, Heather chronicles the role of business model innovation and technology in enabling corporate climate action and transitioning to a clean, inclusive and regenerative economy.

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Dylan Welch is the Founder & CEO of Green.Org and Dylan Welch Media. He has a long history in television production and business development, having produced over 1,000 TV shows with ABC, NBC, CBS, and Amazon, before starting his own company with a focus on clean technology, renewable energy, and sustainability. Since then, Dylan has interviewed hundreds of scientists, CEOs, and experts in the renewable energy space, and has shared their stories to millions of people.

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Laurie Menoud is a Partner at At One Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in a world where humanity becomes a net positive to nature. A biotechnologist by training, Laurie’s played roles in the chemical industry, she’s built a dozen ventures out of DoD research programs, and she’s currently focused on finding, funding, and growing teams that catalyze planet-positive industries. Some of At One Venture’s funded companies include robotic indoor farming company Iron Ox, earth digestible foam packaging company Cruz Foam and zero water textile dyeing company Alchemie Technology.

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Michael Grunwald is a Miami-based journalist who fled the mainstream media after three decades with the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Time Magazine & Politico Magazine. He wrote books for Simon & Schuster called The Swamp (about the Everglades and Florida) and The New New Deal (about the Obama administration), and now is working on another one about how to feed the world without frying the world. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, and the Society of Environmental Journalists award for in-depth reporting. Currently, Michael is a columnist at Canary Media and Co-host of the Climavores podcast, a show about eating on a changing planet.

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Areeb Malik is the Co-Founder of Glacier, a company using AI & Robotics to fight climate change and extract value from the $123B worth of recyclables that fill landfills and oceans. Before founding Glacier, Areeb worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook. This episode centers around the complexities of the recycling industry, why it's such an intriguing yet technically challenging space for robotics, and the staggering global waste management market which was valued at USD 989.20 billion in 2021, and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% from 2022 to 2030.

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Stonly Baptiste Blue is a founding Partner of Third Sphere, a venture platform that works for founders accelerating the transformation of global systems to better serve humanity and the planet now and into the future. At Third Sphere he and his team invest in pre-seed tech for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Stonly previously founded Veddio Cloud Solutions, an enterprise software company, which was acquired after a year of self-funded growth. He is a serial entrepreneur, having built five ventures spanning different sectors from technology to real estate and international markets, including Brazil and Canada. He has also taught at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and lectured at Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley.

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Andrew Beebe is the Managing Director at Obvious Ventures, a venture capital firm with over $1 billion AUM that invests in early-stage, purpose-driven entrepreneurs reimagining trillion-dollar industries. Andrew joined Obvious Ventures at the firm’s inception to lead investments in climate tech and clean energy solutions, and his investment thesis has led the company to invest in companies, like Proterra (an electric bus company, $PTRA), Lilium, (an electric flight company, $LILM), and Amply (an electric fleet management company).

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Gagan Dhillon is the CEO & Co-Founder of Synop, creators of an end to end fleet and energy management platform that automates EV operations by helping businesses handle tracking, billing, reporting, and cost management under one unified, data-centric platform. Prior to co-founding Synop, Gagan witnessed first-hand the challenges that businesses face when transitioning to commercial electric vehicles. Previously at REIN, an InsurTech startup, he worked with major commercial OEMs and global insurance carriers on solutions for the commercial auto space.

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Janelle has held numerous leadership positions as a startup CEO and Founder, Mayor of Sausalito, and trusted advisor to startups across a range of technologies. Janelle’s current work focuses on innovation, public service, and climate change leadership. Her organization, The Center for Sea Rise Solutions (CSRS), is a global nonprofit focused on empowering local decision makers to take action around sea level rise and coastal resilience.

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Lauren is a lifelong entrepreneur, strategic advisor and angel investor, and Co-founder & CEO of Sesame Solar. Sesame Solar manufactures the world’s first 100% renewably powered Mobile Nanogrids, which can be set up in 15 minutes with minimal training by one person. Easily transported by a variety of means, the Nanogrids are used in essential services and emergency response around the world by the US Air Force, telcos, and emergency services.

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For the past 10 years, Nick Halla has helped build Impossible Foods from the ground up, forming an amazing team and developing and commercializing delicious, sustainable plant-based foods to address many global food production issues - efficiency, scalability, safety, health, food security, and more.

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Harsh Patel is the Managing Partner and Co-founder at Wireframe Ventures, where he invests in seed & early-stage startups aiming to improve human health and the planet. He was an early investor in companies like Palantir, Mammoth Biosciences and Goat.

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Presso is the maker of the world’s first automated, eco-friendly, express garment care machines that offer garment cleansing at a fraction of the carbon footprint, water consumption and on-demand speed of previous solutions.

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In our latest episode of CLIMB by VSC, we speak with Levi Tillemann, an American entrepreneur, author, and policy expert. He is the founder and CEO of Valence Strategic, an advisory firm specializing in clean energy, and the author of the book The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future. Currently, Levi serves as Vice President for Policy & International Outreach at Ample, an innovative platform for electric vehicle battery swapping. We speak with Levi about all things electric vehicles, and get his predictions on the future of clean energy and mobility.

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Our latest guest on Climb by VSC is a dear friend Meera Clark. She is an investor at Redpoint Ventures, a firm that has invested in some of the world's leading technology companies over the past 20 years. Names that you will know and recognize like DraftKings, HIMS, Netflix, Ramp, Snowflake, Stripe, and many, many more.

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In our latest episode of CLIMB by VSC, we speak with Tommy Leep, founding partner of Jetstream, where he invests in pre-seed climate sustainability and biodiversity startups. Tommy previously worked at AngelList, Haystack and Floodgate, and invested in startups like Robinhood, Patreon, Clubhouse and Mercury.

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In our latest episode of CLIMB by VSC, I’m thrilled to be joined by our friend Allison Wolff, co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet, a startup that leverages data-driven science and cloud technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

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Our guest this week on CLIMB by VSC, is Sundeep Ahuja, who is an investor and syndicate lead of Climate Capital and Duro Ventures. As an investor, Sundeep has invested in businesses ranging from Good Eggs, Substack, and Notable Labs and more recently has back leading climate companies including Mosaic, NCX, Arcadia and many more.

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Our guest this week on CLIMB by VSC, is Raj Kapoor, a VC investor and founding partner of the venture capital firm Climactic. Prior to becoming a founding partner alongside Josh Felser, Raj has a depth of experience as both an operator - Raj as CSO at Lyft and previously CEO of Snapfish and Fitmob before that - in addition to his experience as an investor at Mayfield Fund.

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Our latest guest on CLIMB by VSC, is Katelin Holloway, an investor and founding partner of the venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Prior to becoming a founding partner alongside Alexis Ohanian, Katelin was the former head of people and culture at Reddit, and an investor at Initialized Capital.

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In case you missed it, we launched our new video series last week: Climb by VSC! Highlighting expert conversations on scaling climate innovation, this series will feature the industry-leaders paving the future of climate tech.

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We're entering one of the best times to invest in early-stage companies, in possibly a generation, with 90% of our fund left to deploy.

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Enara is a digital health obesity care platform that enables physicians and cardiologists to deploy and deliver integrated care for obesity and other chronic care conditions

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Propel is an end-to-end PR software that helps PR Professionals discover journalists and track, analyze, measure and monitor media coverage

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The.com is a reimagined website builder for today's era of modern web development. Think “Legos for Web Design”.

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As every venture firm attempts to adopt a the full-stack approach and offer a suite of services beyond simply capital, TechCrunch wanted to cover our approach and why it has resonated so strongly with our co-investors and portfolio companies

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GraphWear Technologies is developing a skin-surface-level wearable made of graphene that will unlock needle-free glucose monitoring for the 35M+ Americans & 450M+ people globally who live with diabetes

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Goodcall enables small business owners to answer calls via their AI assistant, triages customer queries across voice and text, and improves accuracy of responses through feedback loops.

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We are so thrilled to share with you our first update for VSC Ventures.

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