Planetary Health
5 Takeaways from Climate Week 2024
Last week in New York City, global leaders and innovators came together for ClimateWeekNYC to tackle solutions in clean energy, green infrastructure, and private sector...
Blinging out microprocessing
The amount of computing power needed to power new AI models from one generation to the next is increasing tenfold. All this energy produces performance-limiting...
Ushering in the AI Era of Scientific Breakthroughs
At Obvious Ventures, we see generative science as the next big wave in AI innovation. Last week, I sat down with three brilliant minds to...
Generative Science: Our Contrarian View of AI
Large science models will deliver transformative solutions in climate, biotech, and robotics
The E.T.H.I.C.S. checklist to sustain and grow AI responsibly
The age of generative AI is upon us, and it’s already proving to be a disruptive new technology. Generative AI has already shown how it...
How Geothermal is Heating Up to Power the Electrification of Everything
The world is waking up to a powerful fact about the future: we need substantially more energy than anyone thought, and we need it soon.
Charging Toward a More Resilient Grid
The story of Synop began 18 years ago when Dhillon met Andrew Blejde in an engineering class on their first day of high school in...
Climate Ag’s Moment in the Sun
Decarbonizing any industry delivers benefits that go way beyond sustainability. How we cultivate soil, grow crops, and raise livestock has been in a state of tech-enabled...
Fixing the Carbon Market, One Credit at a Time
Building a blockchain-based carbon marketplace
Special Episode: Kim Stanley Robinson On Our Climate Future
Host Andrew Beebe speaks to one of the greatest living writers of science fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson.
10 Climate Tech Predictions for 2023
2022 was a big year for Climate Tech, particularly in the U.S. The Inflation Reduction Act, also known as the Climate Bill, was a shot...
The Clean, Quiet Trucking Revolution
Forum Mobility’s mission to electrify a huge industry you’ve never heard of
The Climate Bill’s Hidden Win
The climate bill, or the Inflation Reduction Act in DC-speak, represents a sea change in American climate policy. The financial impacts on climate funding have...
Engineering Culture Like an EV
How Lightship’s Head of Manufacturing is building sustainable RVs and an inclusive culture
BONUS: Series Wrap Up with Andrew Beebe and Emily Brady
For this bonus episode, we’re flipping the script.
Accelerating Fast Charging with Cathy Zoi
Cathy Zoi is the CEO of EVgo, America’s largest fast charging network for electric vehicles.
Why We Need Nuclear with Rachel Slaybaugh
Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh is a nuclear expert and investor at DCVC, where she focuses on climate tech.
Why a Payments Company Went All In On Carbon Removal
Nan Ransohoff is Head of Climate at Stripe. As part of her role, Nan leads Frontier, an advance market commitment for carbon removal.
From Journalist to VC with Molly Wood
Molly Wood is an investor at the early stage venture firm LAUNCH, and co-host of This Week in Startups.
Building ‘Stuff That Matters’ with Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell led the teams that brought us the iPod, iPhone, and the Nest thermostat.
The Optimistic Path Forward with Jason Jacobs
Jason Jacobs is the creator and host of My Climate Journey, a podcast that demystifies climate change and helps people make a difference.
Making Big Companies Change with Maria Fujihara
Maria Fujihara is Founder & CEO of SINAI Technologies, the world’s leading enterprise software platform to measure, analyze, price, and reduce emissions.
Building a Climate Army with Jigar Shah
To begin the series, we speak with Jigar Shah, Director for the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy.
10 Climate Tech Predictions For 2022
Spoiler alert: Growth will be ubiquitous in the Decarb Decade
Maria Fujihara Decarbonizes the World
SINAI Technology’s Founder & CEO on getting fired in Brazil, hiring herself in the Bay Area, and the climate tech revolution ahead
These Robots Learn. Meet Their Teacher.
Dexterity CEO Samir Menon draws on neuroscience, mathematics, and computer science to build robots of the future, today. He’s also a poet.
The Frictionless Future
Urban infrastructure brings us closer to exponentially better living
Industrial IQ: Where High Tech Meets Low Tech
Tech is breaking out of the Silicon Valley sandbox, transforming traditional, trillion-dollar industries in the process.
A Tale of Two Cities, 2030 Edition
A great migration forces an existential question for the modern metropolis: how might entrepreneurs upgrade urban living over the next ten years?
A Sea Change in Seafood
XpertSea Co-founder and CEO Valerie Robitaille is transforming aquaculture systems with technology, and making it a family affair.
Building Better Machines That Are Better for Humans
Canvas Co-Founder and CTO Maria Telleria brings her vision, values, and Ph.D. to bear on a construction industry in need of reinvention. Maria Telleria became...
Preparing for Liftoff
Electric flight will transform our cities for the better, and it will happen sooner than you might think
The Seeds of a Building Revolution
With purpose as its foundation, Plant Prefab pursues a half trillion dollar market
Pouring New Foundations in Construction Tech
In 1943 Abraham Maslow published his seminal paper titled A Theory of Human Motivation, in which he posited a prioritization protocol for human needs, now know...
The Death of “Alternative Energy”
Fifteen years ago, when I joined the early ranks of clean energy entrepreneurs, we were nearly dead in the water on climate. Oil was $15...
The Coming Electrification of Everything
At Obvious Ventures, we believe stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in...