Daniel Basaldua is the CEO and founder of Euphree Electric Bikes, the maker of the most comfortable commuter style e-bike.  Daniel a dyed in the wool entrepreneur started his early career in the upstream oil and gas industry and began looking at transportation as an industry that will transform the most in the energy transition.

Daniel Explores:

• How his sister inspired his first e-bike - 4:20
• How Houston has unique manufacturing strengths - 8:50
• Why access to cost-effective energy is in fine balance as we transition energy - 10:45
• Why e-bikes are essential to transforming mobility and accessibility - 25:05
• How Houston can change its infrastructure to better serve commuters 34:10

Reach out if your hands on a Euphree ebike

https://euphree.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbasaldua/

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Zimri Hinshaw is the CEO and founder of Bucha Bio. Bucha unlocks unique creative design potential using biotechnology. Their team creates novel biomaterials by combining fermented cellulose with plant-based polymers to create products for applications instead of animal leather, polyurethane, latex, vinyl, epoxy, and so much more.

Zimri Explores:

• What is SCOBY and what does it have to do with Bucha Bio - 1:56
• How do novel materials get to end consumers - 6:40
• How Bucha Bio uses branding as a strategy to bring its technology to market - 10:00
• What it's like to raise capital in Houston - 19:15
• How Houston entrepreneurs founders support each other - 24:40
• Why Houston was a top destination for Bucha Bio as it grows - 26:30
• What it takes to be a surfing legend on the Gulf Coast - 29:30
• Why Houston will be a biotech hub - 34:50

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Zimri’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zimrithinshaw/

Bucha Bio’s website: https://bucha.bio/

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Grace Chan is a venture principal for New Markets at BP ventures. Grace focuses on venturing discovery and deal delivery in support of cleantech market entry offers in China, elsewhere in the Asia Pacific, and India as well as technology-led ventures in service of one or more of BP’s 'transition growth engines' - bioenergy, convenience, EV charging, renewables, and hydrogen.

Grace Explores:

• How and where BP Ventures makes investments - 2:00
• How Grace figured out she was destined for Corporate Venture Capital - 3:15
• How Grace’s personal history led her to work in her current role looking at Energy Transition investments in Asia - 7:00
• How energy companies have three strengths that make them natural partners for the Energy Transition - 9:08
• How BP is reimagining energy: Bioenergy, EV Charging, convenience, Renewables, and Hydrogen - 14:55
• Why being a corporate VC presents unique challenges - 17:50
• Why now is the time to make investments in climate tech - 19:10
• How AllRaise is helping female and non-binary trailblazers support the innovation ecosystem - 23:10
• How Houston’s gritty and active the innovation is, and how many people in Houston are from all over the world - 27:10
• Why Hydrogen technology is complex t make investments in - 33:13
• Why Geothermal is exciting - 36:30

Reach out if you want to get connected. Find Grace in the ION at Suite 288. She invites founders and co-investors to meet in person to grow your network.

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Trevor Best is a serial entrepreneur who is building the next big thing in chemical refining. His company, Syzygy Plasmonics is building a new type of chemical reactor driven by renewable electricity from making hydrogen or turning carbon back into useful molecules. The technology comes out of the very own Houston Grown Rice University and was built on top of 30 years of nano-photonics research. Syzygy is commercializing a photocatalyst, a material that uses light instead of heat to facilitate chemical reactions. This photocatalyst is orders of magnitude higher performing than any other in history. Trevor
Trevor Explores:

• How photocatalysts will remake chemical plants - 2:08
• How experiences in O&G prepared him for leading a startup - 5:14
• How entrepreneurs can deliberately (or not) learn to build a business - 10:55
• Why green hydrogen is a great market - 17:25
• What type of customers you want to pilot energy technologies with - 21:50
• How far the Houston innovation ecosystem has come - 27:20
• Where to find top talent in Houston - 31:17
• His top climate technologies which will change the world - 46:22
• How to win in scrabble — 52:43

If you are working in an energy company and are working on chemical reactions or need hydrogen or have CO2, please reach out!
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/company/syzygy-plasmonics/
https://plasmonics.tech/

plasmonics.tech

Syzygy Plasmonics

Learn how Syzygy Plasmonics, a deep decarbonization company, is electrifying the chemical industry.

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Eric Rubenstein is Managing Partner at New Climate Ventures. New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative carbon reduction and avoidance technology companies. Prior to founding New Climate Ventures, Eric held investment, fundamental strategy, and trading roles at Citigroup and Louis Dreyfus in their commodities and energy trading divisions. A psychology major with a focus on behavioral neuroscience, Eric graduated Yale University with a Bachelor’s degree. After graduating Yale, Eric received his MBA from Temple University with a focus on global business and entrepreneurship.

Eric Shares with us:

• What stage of business New Climate Ventures invests in - 2:40
• How the Houston investment landscape look as as investor - 7:25
• How Houston can reach innovators from the coasts - 13:50
• Learn about NCV’s Portfolio - 20:50
• How Regulators are informed by innovators - 29:50
• How Houston as a city adapts to a void of startup funding programs - 38:20
• How technology focus will change as we move through the energy transition - 45:00

If there are ways to partner with New Climate Ventures or its portfolio, be it co-investing, sharing deal-flow, or as a corporate partner. Please reach out. https://www.newclimateventures.com/portfolio
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric--rubenstein/

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Moji Karimi is a self proclaimed carbon negative entrepreneur and old school millennial. As CEO and co-founder of Cemvita, he is bringing nature inspired technology solutions to address climate change.  Moji talks us through the opportunities Houston has to offer; both in launching his career in oil and gas as well as the various startups he was able to start.
A modern wildcatter, he explores:

• How O&G perceives risk - 3:45
• Why now is the time to be excited about synthetic biology - 5:30
• How synthetic biology can address hard to abate markets like aviation fuel - 10:30
• New exciting work Cemvita is doing with gold hydrogen – 15:50
• Why Houston talent is the bet for launching a climate tech startup – 37:45
• How we should turbocharge the Houston innovation ecosystem – 42:45
• Why the Energy Transition may never be completed – 50:05
• Lastly words of wisdom to live by – 1:01:15

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mojikarimi/
https://www.cemvitafactory.com/

cemvitafactory.com

Cemvita Factory Inc. | Economical carbon-negative solutions for a sustainable future

We utilize C02 to create carbon-negative solutions for a sustainable future on Earth and Mars.

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