About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 96 episodes
- Dr. Mathias Schlecht from ColdStream Energy · 59 min · Episode 105Burning rich field gas in compressor engines wastes valuable NGLs, and Dr. Mathias Schlecht, President and CEO of ColdStream Energy, has a better idea. Jason and Nada dig into…
- Janice Tran from Kanin Energy · 40 min · Episode 104Waste heat is the most boring thing on an industrial site until someone turns it into clean baseload power and hands you the savings. Janice Tran, co-founder of Kanin Energy…
- Dana Vazquez from Coflux Purification · 48 min · Episode 103One drop of PFAS can contaminate an Olympic sized swimming pool, and 90 percent of us are carrying it in our blood. Dana Vazquez, cofounder and Chief Commercial Officer at Coflux…
- Jacob Vizinat & Jason Harry from Iron Stag Advisory & Pontem Analytics · 1 h 5 min · Episode 102Two engineers who spent years driving innovation inside a major oil company get honest about why the offshore world will land a robot at 20,000 psi but won't swap the pen and…
- Gabe Cuadra from Powerhouse Ventures · 50 min · Episode 101Flat load growth is dead, and AI just flipped the whole power sector on its head. Gabe Cuadra of Powerhouse Ventures gets into what that means for founders chasing capital in…
- Arindam Bhattacharya from Tailwind Futures · 60 min · Episode 100Most climate money chases decarbonization while a bigger problem piles up: two thirds of the losses from extreme weather and disasters go completely uninsured. Arindam…
- Mitra Miller from Houston Angel Network · 1 h 14 min · Episode 99Writing the check is the easy part. The marriage that comes after is what nobody warns founders about until they are five years deep. Mitra Miller, President and Board Member of…
- Gary Martin from Scan Ninja AI · 50 min · Episode 98Cybersecurity is invisible until it isn't, and Gary Martin, CEO and founder of Scan Ninja AI, is on a mission to make continuous vulnerability management affordable for startups…
- Mo (Mohammed) Saadat from Stratahub · 50 min · Episode 97Pouring billions into AI without first fixing data logistics is exactly why most of those investments stall. Mohammed "Mo" Saadat, CEO of Stratahub, sits down with Jason and Nada…
- Eric Rubenstein from New Climate Ventures · 1 h 10 min · Episode 95Eric Rubenstein, managing partner at New Climate Ventures, joins Jason and Nada live from Ceraweek to make the case that what we're calling an energy transition is actually a new…
- Donald Kendall from New Climate Ventures · 54 min · Episode 94Venture 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…
- Ashish Gupta & Siddhartha (Sid) Paul from KonsciousPlanet/KP Labs · 47 min · Episode 93Critical 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…
- Imran Kizilbash & Abhinav Jain from Titanium Innovation Investments · 1 h 9 min · Episode 92The 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…
- Jamal Khawaja from Symplii.ai · 54 min · Episode 91Jamal Khawaja, founder and managing director of Symplii.ai, sits down to talk about his journey from studying scorpion mating habits in Brazil (seriously) to 25 years in tech at…
- Mehrab Momin from aiCTO · 55 min · Episode 90AI has been “old news” since the 1950s, but Mehrab Momin of aiCTO Services breaks down why it suddenly feels everywhere, how founders should actually think about AI (data first…
- Thomas Chepucavage from Zenthos Energy · 46 min · Episode 89Zenthos Energy is tackling two big challenges at once: energy storage and carbon capture. Their aluminum batteries aren’t just safer and cheaper than the usual lithium or cobalt…
- Sandy Guitar from TEX-E · 58 min · Episode 88Houston’s got big plans for the energy transition, and Sandy Guitar is right in the middle of it. As Executive Director of TEX-E, she’s helping connect Texas universities (and…
- Emily Avagliano from Resollant Inc. · 56 min · Episode 87Resollant is shaking up hydrogen production with a twist that sounds almost too good to be true, turning natural gas into hydrogen and graphite, without the need for air permits…
- Aaron Fitzgerald from Mars Materials · 1 h 7 min · Episode 86Turning CO₂ into carbon fiber sounds like science fiction, but Aaron Fitzgerald and the crew at Mars Materials are making it happen. Their process creates carbon-negative…
- Rekha Patel from Xrathus, Inc. · 1 h 4 min · Episode 85Innovation doesn’t have to be slow or siloed and Xrathus is out to prove it. Rekha Patel walks us through how her platform is breaking down barriers between teams, helping…
