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Impossible Metals is building a fleet of autonomous underwater robots to harvest critical minerals from the ocean floor. CEO Oliver Gunasekara breaks down the tech, the business model, and why he thinks commercial deep sea mining is two to three years away.
Impossible Metals is building a fleet of autonomous underwater robots to harvest critical minerals from the ocean floor. CEO Oliver Gunasekara breaks down the tech, the business model, and why he thinks commercial deep sea mining is two to three years away.
AidKit builds the infrastructure that helps governments and nonprofits get money into the hands of people who need it, faster and with less fraud. CEO Brittany talks through the business model, the AI fraud challenge, and what the next five years look like.
Lupus has long been one of medicine’s most complex and underfunded diseases. Now, with a stronger clinical pipeline and growing industry interest, Lupus Ventures is stepping in to close the funding gap and prioritize return on mission over return on capital.
Funding History · 2012–2022 Grove Collaborative From Seed to Public Markets Round-by-round capital raised, cumulative funding, and SPAC IPO on
Tony's Chocolonely transformed from a Dutch journalist's investigative project into a $200+ million chocolate company by
Aspiration was a California-based neobank founded in 2013 that positioned itself as the sustainable alternative to traditional banking. The company
Nick Dilks explains how Ecosystem Investment Partners restores wetlands and streams through regulated mitigation markets, showing how private capital supports development and long term environmental restoration across the United States.
In Episode 92, Rehana Nathoo joins the show to discuss her path from development finance in East Africa to leading impact and ESG strategy at Spectrum Impact.
In this conversation, JFFVentures shares how it aligns a forty-year-old nonprofit’s mission with a traditional venture capital fund to expand economic mobility for underserved communities.
AidKit builds the infrastructure that helps governments and nonprofits get money into the hands of people who need it, faster and with less fraud. CEO Brittany talks through the business model, the AI fraud challenge, and what the next five years look like.
Kate Williams, CEO of One Percent for the Planet, shares how the organization turns business revenue into verified environmental impact, why progress matters more than perfection, and how companies can make climate action practical and nonpartisan.
Lyft Chief Policy Officer Jerry Golden breaks down the policy battles shaping rideshare, what autonomous vehicles really mean for drivers, and how Lyft’s Round Up and Donate program has raised $42M for nonprofits through simple, everyday giving.
Hey friends, Welcome to this week's edition. We are looking at the "unsolvable" problems, from the
Hey friends, This week is all about infrastructure for permanence, how we swap throwaway habits, extractive finance, and fragile systems
Hey friends, Welcome to this week's edition. We’re exploring how "old-school" industries—from chocolate to
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