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Time is running out to get tickets to Powerhouse’s annual climate party, New Dawn! We’re on track to sell out this month so don’t miss your opportunity to join us in Oakland on October 24th. Grab your spot via the link below.

This month on Watt It Takes, our Founder and CEO Emily Kirsch sat down with Sean Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Amperon. Amperon provides the highest precision electricity forecasting and analytics solutions to improve grid reliability, manage financial risk, optimize renewables, and accelerate decarbonization. Tune in below. #decarbonization #AI #climatetech

At Powerhouse, we support corporate and investor clients in identifying and partnering with leading #climatetech #startups, helping advance their innovation and sustainability goals. 🤝 As a result of a technical workshop facilitated by Powerhouse, DNV has invested in HST to accelerate #cleanenergy #finance and #projectdevelopment. Clean energy project developers are the backbone of the energy transition, but getting projects to completion has become increasingly difficult in recent years. DNV is a global leader in #assurance and #riskmanagement, supporting hundreds of GW of renewable project development. Read more about this collaboration here: https://lnkd.in/gvBKJm7e 🖥️ View, HST’s digital marketplace with integrated DNV technology, helps project developers contract quickly with qualified #landowners, #offtakers, #lenders and #investors. They can tap into HST and DNV’s standardized View project readiness score to facilitate project red flag analysis, accelerating financing timelines. We’re excited to support them in their journey to scale up a decarbonized grid. 💫 Powerhouse is proud to help DNV partner with innovative companies like HST. We look forward to working with Kaare Helle, Dana Olson, Nermina Ek, Lise Sværi, Simon Ratcliffe, Embla Holten, Jens Christian Aune, Marion Hill, Jackson Moore, and the entire DNV team to help startups like HST achieve scale. ❔Curious how Powerhouse can expand your firm’s engagement with the climate tech startup ecosystem? Get in touch!

This month in Circuit: New Watt It Takes episode featuring Jennifer Holmgren of LanzaTech, our Quarterly Dealflow release, and lots of Powerhouse Ventures companies who are #hiring. See what else we've been up to below.

This month on Watt It Takes, Emily Kirsch sits down with Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, which uses bacteria to turn carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into ethanol, the building block for materials like plastics, polyester, and jet fuel. In this episode, Jennifer shares her journey, from growing up in Columbia, to her four decade career in renewable energy and fuels, to her time as CEO of LanzaTech, which, in no small part thanks to her leadership, operates six commercial plants around the world, partners with industry heavyweights, and employs over 400 people worldwide. Special thanks to Microsoft for making this episode possible. #circulareconomy #SAF #fermentation

New Dawn ticket prices go up THIS WEEK. Powerhouse’s annual party, New Dawn, is coming up on October 24th and, per usual, tickets are going fast. Prices on VIP and General Admission tickets go up on Wednesday, July 31st at 5pm PT so snag your tickets at powerhouse.fund/newdawn24 before they do. In the words of Shayle Kann: “New Dawn is the climate tech party of the year because Powerhouse is the climate tech convening organization in the country. Just come to this party next year. If you weren’t here, it was a mistake. But it’s okay, you can rectify it because there will be more New Dawns and you will have more opportunities. I will see you there next year.” Don’t make a mistake, get your New Dawn tickets while you can at powerhouse.fund/newdawn24. Thank you to our sponsors Silicon Valley Bank Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, DLA Piper, Shell Ventures, Baker Botts, and Technip Energies for helping us get this party started. #newdawn2024 #climatetech

It was a pleasure to have Matanya Horowitz, Founder and CEO of AMP join us for our summer live recording of Watt It Takes. Matanya talked about his journey from growing up in Denver to building his first prototypes of the AMP robot using materials from Home Depot and all of the unsuccessful techniques used to sort waste before they landed on AMP’s current process. Thank you to Microsoft and JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking for making our conversation and this episode possible. Look for the wide release of the episode coming later in August! #artificialintellignece #robotics #wastemanagement #wattittakes

Next week Powerhouse is joined by AMP Founder and CEO Matanya Horowitz for a happy hour and live recording of our podcast Watt It Takes. Join us for appetizers, drinks, and to hear how AMP’s breakthrough AI platform and robotics system transforms the world’s waste from liability to asset by automating the identification and sorting of recyclables from mixed material streams. Thank you JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking and Microsoft for making the evening possible. #artificialintellignece #wastemanagement #robotics

💡 With over 11,000+ climate tech startups in our database, our team receives insights and fundraising details from hundreds of startups each quarter. Powerhouse’s Quarterly Dealflow for Q2 2024 features the top 50 startups that Powerhouse spoke with this quarter, reflecting significant market activity across #enegygeneration and #gridassets (19 startups), #builtenvironment and #assetresiliency (9 startups), and #smartgrid & #gridtransformation (9 startups). 🔍Powerhouse’s deal flow scouting is the aggregate of insights pulled from hundreds of lead sources in combination with our Client Services & Technology team’s intel gathered from in-market interactions with #founders, #venture, and #strategic partners. Here are a few of the companies that we have recommended to our corporate and investor clients in the past quarter. ☀️🤖 GRITT  (Pre-Seed) Optimizing solar farm construction with a software-first robotics platform. Powerhouse Perspective <o> We have seen a handful of new startups developing automated construction technologies for solar, reflecting the fact that construction costs are now the dominant bottleneck. Gritt is a finalist for the DOE's American Made Solar Prize, and is focused on converting off-the-shelf construction equipment into autonomous robots. 💧⛽ TURN2X  (Seed) Producing on-site renewable natural gas from water and biogenic CO2. Powerhouse Perspective <o> Biogenic CO2 will become a scarce resource in the future, so upgrading biogas is a critical solution. We like that Turn2X's reactor can work with fluctuating power sources. 📜🏗️ Shovels (Seed) Building permit data and contractor analytics for integration. Powerhouse Perspective <o> Building permit data is critical for electrification and decarbonization, so we like that Shovels' API makes it easy to get this data for residential, commercial, and industrial electrification efforts. 📏☑️ Terradot  (Seed) Prioritizing MRV through ground truth sampling, biogeochemical modeling and remote sensing. Powerhouse Perspective <o> We think Terradot's approach using reactive transfer models to improve carbon removal is promising, potentially overcoming traditional rock weathering limitations. 🔋🏢 Noon Energy (Series A) 100 to 1,000 hour solid-state carbon-to-CO2 storage for initial behind-the-meter applications. Powerhouse Perspective <o> Targeting 10 hour-storage is no longer economically attractive, due to the introduction of 8-hour Li-ion battery projects. We like that Noon’s high-density storage innovation can fit over 10 MWh into a single shipping container, unlocking the multiday storage market. ______ Powerhouse Innovation is an independent team of technical advisors who helps our clients more efficiently understand and engage with the most innovative technologies and startups in climate tech. Interested in targeted deal flow and consultation through Powerhouse’s Conduit service? Let's talk!

Join us in two weeks on Wednesday, July 24th for a live recording of our podcast, Watt It Takes, featuring Matanya Horowitz, Founder and CEO of AMP. AMP’s breakthrough AI platform and robotics system transforms the world’s waste from liability to asset by automating the identification and sorting of recyclables from mixed material streams. Our last live episode sold out two weeks ahead of the event so grab your tickets today. Huge thank you to J.P. Morgan and Microsoft for making this episode and live recording possible. #artificialintellignece #wastemanagement #robotics