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Energytech Startups

Energytech Startups

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They say everything's bigger in Texas, including climate change. That's why Houston is leading the energy transition. Here in H-Town, the fourth largest city in the United States, entrepreneurs from across Texas and around the world are gathering to work with titans of industry to build the technology that will reduce emissions and power a low carbon future. Welcome to Energytech Startups with Nada Ahmed and Jason Ethier. We sit down with those change makers and wildcatters who are solving the toughest energy challenges with trillions of dollars on the line. We dig into how Houston will bring technology to market on a massive scale. Join us as we talk with the leaders of the energy capital of the world as they show us how the energy transition gets done.2025 Digital Wildcatters, Inc Economía Finanzas Personales
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  • Donald Kendall from New Climate Ventures

    Donald Kendall from New Climate Ventures
    Mar 31 2026

    Venture capital in the energy transition is getting more complicated, but Donald R. Kendall Jr., General Partner at New Climate Ventures, says the multi-trillion dollar opportunity isn't going anywhere. We get into how they find picks and shovels plays in crowded markets, what $100 oil means for climate startups, why management teams matter more than technology, and what it actually takes to get a first-of-a-kind project financed.

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    0:00 New Climate Ventures and Investment Thesis
    8:00 Data Centers, Cooling, and Energy Independence
    10:00 $100 Oil and What It Means for the Energy Transition
    14:00 SAF, Carbon Alternatives, and Portfolio Companies
    21:00 Don's Background in Project Finance and Early Renewables
    26:00 SolarCity, Financial Engineering, and Residential Solar
    32:00 What Makes a Fundable Team
    38:00 The State of Venture Capital for Climate
    42:00 Why Invest in Climate Over AI
    43:00 Houston's Role in the Energy Transition
    49:00 Most Exciting Technologies Right Now
    51:00 Wildlife Conservation and Closing

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  • Ashish Gupta & Siddhartha (Sid) Paul from KonsciousPlanet/KP Labs

    Ashish Gupta & Siddhartha (Sid) Paul from KonsciousPlanet/KP Labs
    Mar 17 2026

    Critical metals like nickel and cobalt are slipping through the cracks and into landfills, and KP Labs is on a mission to get them back. Dr. Ashish Gupta and Siddhartha Paul, CEO and CTO and co-founders of KonsciousPlanet/KP Labs, break down how bacteria can pull valuable metals from e-waste, why recycling is really just energy independence in disguise, and why they're calling it urban mining.

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    0:00 - Intro and KP Labs origin story
    3:26 - How the e-waste recycling technology works
    8:39 - Black mass, battery chemistry, and the logistics problem
    11:00 - America's recycling problem
    14:40 - Democratizing the recycling process
    18:29 - Commercialization plans and funding
    24:02 - Founders' backgrounds and how they met
    30:00 - Challenges in energy transition investing
    35:39 - Houston ecosystem and helpful resources
    38:07 - Investor misconceptions and how to pitch it right
    42:58 - Reframing the business as urban mining
    44:13 - What KP Labs is looking for right now

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  • Imran Kizilbash & Abhinav Jain from Titanium Innovation Investments

    Imran Kizilbash & Abhinav Jain from Titanium Innovation Investments
    Mar 3 2026

    The industrial world is still running on manual processes and siloed data while our phones got smarter ten times over, and that gap is exactly where Titanium Innovation Investments is placing its bets. Abhinav Jain and Imran Kizilbash, co-founders and managing partners at Titanium Innovation Investments, break down what it actually takes to sell tech into enterprises that move slow by design, why product market fit is something you can lose just as fast as you find it, and how they evaluate founding teams when the revenue is basically zero. Plus some real talk on Houston's startup ecosystem and whether the city has the deal flow to back up the ambition.

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    0:00 Introduction
    1:00 Titanium Innovation Investments thesis and origin story
    4:17 Why industrial tech adoption lags behind consumer tech
    7:01 Data as an asset in M&A and enterprise transactions
    10:23 Imran and Abhinav's career journeys from field to finance
    15:04 What product market fit actually looks like at seed stage
    19:24 Unit economics and business models in hard tech vs software
    29:56 Cutting through the AI hype in industrial applications
    34:23 Data ownership, legal challenges, and enterprise selling
    40:16 Change management and why adoption cycles are longer
    43:21 Portfolio construction and sector diversification
    50:13 Houston's startup ecosystem and deal sourcing nationally
    1:04:18 Advice for founders on fundraising and building trust

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