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✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Meet John Yuksel, @MatineYuksel, and Edip Yuksel, J.D., founders of @beltways_inc. Beltways is a US-based mobility company that builds high-speed, modular pedestrian walkways, helping cities become more walkable and people-centered. Inspired by a vision first conceived over 40 years ago, their Accelerators integrate seamlessly with public transportation systems to extend last-mile connectivity in locations such as airports, campuses, and urban centers. By offering a clean, efficient alternative to slow-moving walkways and car-dependent infrastructure, Beltways aims to reduce congestion, improve safety, and support a more sustainable future for urban mobility. Read more here 👉climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-john-ma…

🎙️ This week on CC Pod: Host @d_gershenson interviews @guido23, CEO of @DexmatInc, about their role in the materials transition powering the global shift to clean energy. DexMat is scaling Galvorn, a carbon-based conductive material designed to replace copper and steel. By stripping carbon from greenhouse gases like methane, Galvorn is as conductive as copper, 15x stronger than steel, and lighter than aluminum. With a zero-loss, circular manufacturing process, DexMat is addressing the looming copper shortage while enabling a more sustainable and scalable energy transition. Listen here ➡️climatecap.substack.com/p/scaling-carb…

Big news 🚀 TI Bluetooth Low Energy chips will now ship with global connectivity via Hubble and Texas Instruments. • 90M+ terrestrial gateways worldwide • No GPS • No cellular • No gateways to deploy See it live at #CES2026 — TI Booth N115 Details: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Meet @ga1ex, founder of @oursphereorg. Sphere makes climate-friendly retirement savings simple and accessible, helping employers offer 401(k) options that align with a clean energy future. The Sphere 500 Fossil-Free Index tracks the Top 500 US companies by market capitalization and excludes fossil fuel companies to avoid stranded asset risk.  Sphere is on the largest 401(k) platforms and helping shift trillions toward a cleaner future. Read more here 👉 climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-alex-wr…

✨THANK YOU✨ As 2025 comes to a close, we are proud to share a snapshot of an incredible year for Climate Capital. Across the Seed Fund, Network Fund, and Syndicates, we continued to back exceptional founders and strengthen our focus on high-impact climate innovation. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported our journey. We can’t wait to see what 2026 brings! Read the full year in review ➡️ climatecap.substack.com/p/climate-capi…

✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Meet @guido23, @dtsentalovich, and Matteo Pasquali, founders of @DexmatInc. DexMat is a US-based advanced materials company pioneering Galvorn, a pure carbon nanomaterial that is lighter, stronger, and more conductive than traditional metals. By converting low cost feedstocks like methane and biogas into high performance materials while producing clean hydrogen, DexMat offers a sustainable alternative to emissions-intensive metals like steel, aluminum, and copper. Read more here 👉 climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-bryan-h…

🎙️New CC Pod episode: Guest host @d_gershenson sits down with Joseph Kao, PhD, founder and CEO of Magnefy, a Stanford spin-out pioneering a new way to keep the power grid healthy and resilient. Magnefy’s edge AI and high-frequency magnetic sensing platform brings real-time predictive maintenance to transformers, switchgear, and generators. Their $500 non-invasive sensor gathers 250x more clean, high-frequency data than legacy systems, spotting early warning signs like partial discharge long before traditional tools can.  Listen here ➡️ climatecap.substack.com/p/predictive-m…

@alexmodon Excited to support!

For most of my life, I assumed technology only moved in one direction: Faster, better, cheaper. Progress felt inevitable. But if you look at the industry that once embodied American ambition, that's not happening. Over the past 50 years, our ability to build large construction projects has not just stagnated, it has eroded. We built faster, better, and cheaper in the 1960s than we do today. What a shame. This is happening at the exact moment we need to build more than ever. More energy to win the AI race, more critical minerals to secure our supply chain, and more advanced manufacturing to reindustrialize. In the last decade, China built an order of magnitude more energy infrastructure than the US. This is not how we win. That is why we’re building Unlimited. We are an AI-native, vertically integrated construction company. We’ve raised a $12M seed round co-led by @a16z (@KTmBoyle) and CIV (Abhijoy Mitra) to redefine how humanity builds. We’re going to automate construction end to end and ensure a future of radical physical abundance. A world where cities rise at the push of a button. Today we are designing and building $100M+ data centers, power plants, and mining facilities. Our AI platform compresses engineering timelines from months to days and delivers optimized designs that simply are not achievable through manual effort. The thing I am most proud of is the team we are building. A small, hyper talented group of multidisciplinary builders who work with intensity, care about craft, and genuinely give a shit. If you want to tackle problems that reshape the physical world and define the new playbook for how civilization builds in the decades ahead, reach out. We are hiring across mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, simulation, and software. We started the company earlier this year, raised money, built out the core technology and team, and kicked off our first real projects. And we’ve done it all under the radar until today. Excited to continue building the team that will build the future of our physical world. It's time to build. @unltdindustries

⏪ Founder Spotlight Rewind ⏪ Meet Chad Massura, founder of Rosy Rosy is reinventing gardening with carbon-negative soil. By blending biochar, compost, and beneficial microbes, Rosy turns captured CO₂ into regenerative growing media, helping gardeners nurture soil, plant, and planet health. Read more here 👉climatecap.substack.com/p/founder-spot…

✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Meet @ColeHAshman, founder of @PilaEnergy. Pila is building the next generation of home batteries, offering modular plug-in systems that deliver backup power and smart energy management without the need for electricians or permits. Their mission is to make energy resilience accessible to everyone by enabling households to own distributed energy assets and helping modernize the power grid from the edge out. Read more here 👉 climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-cole-as…

✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Meet Ted McKlveen, @davestjar, and Bav Roy, founders of @VernePower. Verne exists to accelerate the transition to zero emissions by providing on-site power and cooling solutions for data centers, helping them reach power faster while maintaining efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. The team is developing scalable solutions that meet the massive power demands of today’s AI-driven world while paving the way toward a zero-emission future. Read more here 👉 climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-ted-mck…

✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Meet Jack Rusk and Brad Jacobson, founders of C.Scale. C.Scale is a predictive SaaS platform that uses AI and ML to deliver comprehensive carbon insights early in the design process. It empowers portfolio managers, architects, and engineers to plan toward decarbonization even when data is scarce. C.Scale democratizes access to carbon mitigation strategies without the high cost of specialized consulting. Read more here 👉climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-jack-ru…

✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Featuring Joseph Kao and Yutong Zhu, founders of Magnefy. Magnefy is a Stanford spin-out pioneering AI-powered magnetic sensing to safeguard critical power assets. Their $500 IoT solution captures 250x more data at one-tenth the cost of legacy systems, enabling predictive maintenance that prevents outages, extends transformer life, and strengthens grid resilience. Read more here 👉 climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-joseph-…

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✳️ Founder Spotlight ✳️ Featuring Patrick Chapman and Bryan Thomas, co-founders of @stormentum . Stormentum is accelerating energy independence by making storage-first residential solar truly affordable. Their next-generation modular inverter platform puts installers back in control, lowers costs, and delivers the flexibility today’s market demands, all while coming in at less than half the cost of typical systems. Read more here 👉climatecap.substack.com/p/meet-patrick…

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⏪ Founder Spotlight Rewind ⏪ Featuring @Mojikarimi and Tara Karimi, co-founders of @Cemvita Cemvita is fermenting the future with synthetic biology. They reprogram microorganisms to convert carbon emissions into sustainable oils, biofertilizers, and other essential chemicals, turning waste into a resource and fueling the circular bioeconomy. Read more here 👉 climatecap.substack.com/p/founder-spot…

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