SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Free | Virtual | Oct 14-18) > Main Stage Session > " ?? Steel and Cement's Electrifying Future"
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At 7-8% each, #steel and #cement production are responsible for 15% of global emissions. Since 2020, investors have funded dozens of startups – $2.8B for steel and $925M for cement – aiming to decarbonize these indispensable #industrial sectors.
Today, the best approaches are far from settled. Both Massachusetts Institute of Technology-spinout?Sublime Systems?and?Electra?use novel electricity-based (as opposed to heat) technologies to create green cement and steel, and both are on the path to their first production plants – Sublime with an $87M federal grant, and Electra with an $85M round backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The greening of steel and cement may hinge on their success.
Featuring:
- Leah Ellis, Co-founder & CEO, Sublime Systems
- Sandeep Nijhawan, Co-founder & CEO, Electra
Moderated by Julia Attwood, Industrial Decarbonization Specialist, BloombergNEF
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? Agenda of Main Stage & Breakout Sessions: https://lnkd.in/dBXKxEcG
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Some of the Main Stage Sessions (15+ sessions):
?? 2024: A new Chapter in Climate VC?
?? Crossing the Chasm to Series B
?? Climate Tech is Too Capital Intensive. (But Not Always)
?? Battery Wars: Can The Best Tech Win?
?? Koloma: The Clean H2 Under Our Feet
?? Nuclear Fission: Terrapower’s Wyoming Reactor
?? Energy at Big Tech
??? Steel and Cement’s Electrifying Futures
?? SPF 1000: Modifying Solar Radiation
Breakout Session Partners (15+ interactive sessions):
ARPA-E, Cipher News, Collaborative Fund, DCVC, Energy Impact Partners, Engine Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Goodwin, HAX, IndieBio, Khosla Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, MCJ, Pale blue dot, Syensqo Ventures
Great roundup! ??