Scaling Climate Tech

Paul Gross - Remora: from reading a PhD paper to running a 45 people carbon capture company


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Paul Gross is the co-founder and co-CEO of Remora, a carbon capture solution for heavy-duty trucks. Using work from Christina Reynold's PhD thesis at the University of Michigan (Remora other co-CEO), they created the company in 2020, joined Y Combinator and raised $5.5M to now be a 45 people strong company about to deploy their product at some of the largest American trucking companies.

In this episode, we talk with Paul about:

  • his early childhood and what drove his interest for climate
  • how the Remora idea originated at Yale and how he assembled a dream team to get the project off the ground
  • what carbon capture is, how it works and why it’s a critical technology to fight climate change
  • how can we recycle or store carbon and how is this carbon valuable
  • the role of hydrogen, electricity and biofuels for trucking decarbonization
  • how to scale their system from a pilot unit to 2m trucks

Enjoy the show!

To learn more about Remora and carbon capture:

  • Vox carbon capture primer (~30mn read)
  • ClimateTech VC primer on carbon credits (15mn read)
  • Christina Reynold original PhD thesis(160 pages!)

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