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We can't keep building the way we have for centuries... 🏰 The materials we use need to be more resistant to fire, water, and pests – which currently damage or outright destroy buildings. Human health is also at risk. 🩺 Mold, for example, is a problem in nearly half (47%) of residential homes in America. 🏚️ 😷 So we need to build better. We need better materials from which to fashion our siding, roofing, panels, beams, blocks, and trims. Materials that won't burn down, be a host for mold, or get eaten by termites. And, while we're being demanding, how about a material that won't cost more 💰 and the manufacturing of which won't pollute the planet? 🌏 We got you. 👍🏽 MOXY, our latest investment, has created a strong, climate-resilient "super material" made from lignocellolosic waste, or plant and tree fiber. 🪵 Just like how nature petrifies wood, their mineralization process transforms waste fiber into a material that is durable, but still workable with carpentry tools. We have some samples in our office, and when you touch it, it feels like a hybrid of wood and tile. And it's insanely strong! We saw test results from potential customers where they fired fist-sized hail balls at 200mph in a roof material testing facility, and placed the material under a blowtorch for 3 hours. 🔥 It sailed through those tests beyond anything they'd seen in a biomaterial and outperformed a wide variety of common construction materials. We are extremely excited to back the founding team at MOXY as the lead investor of their $11M funding round and to work with Robert Bedard, Dylan Tinker, and Robert Gagne, CIPM, CISM, CISSP, CRISC on the growth of their company. Read more about why we invested in MOXY: https://lnkd.in/etWD9zpZ

A drone the size of a small car…that can deliver cargo to businesses? Yes please. See the detailed profile of founder Manal Habib and her dream + reality of MightyFly.

On the tails of the blistering and truthful piece by Eric Niiler in the The Wall Street Journal last week about why climate policies fail, we wanted to resurface this op-ed by Partner Laurie Menoud which takes the story one step further. "Subsidies and regulations rarely worked to reduce emissions, the study found, unless they were combined with price-based strategies aimed at changing consumer and corporate behavior." By price-based, the author was referring to 🥕 carrot (financial incentives, subsidies) and 🔨 stick (taxes, penalties). But, Laurie argues, we can't rely on carrots and sticks from governments. Rather, we need solutions that are inherently cheaper. "There is only one way that brown-field industries will ever adopt green practices and technologies, and that’s through superior unit economics," she wrote in TechCrunch last year. What do you think? Are we on track? What examples have you seen of companies that offer a green option that is at cost parity, or less expensive, than the incumbent? Tell us in the comments. https://lnkd.in/gMUdFjZe

Our VP of Business Development and Government Affairs, Mothusi Pahl, is representing Modern Hydrogen at the National Conservative Energy Summit in #Houston, Texas this week.🏙️ The summit aims to gather leading voices in clean energy. Mothusi is engaged in discussions about innovative energy solutions, including hydrogen's vital role in our path to a sustainable future. Key topics in the agenda include transforming transmission and transportation, hydrogen advancements, and innovations in carbon capture and utilization—each crucial to reducing emissions and ensuring energy independence. Modern Hydrogen is committed to leading in these areas and advocating for smart, sustainable energy policies. Contact Mothusi and our team at Modern Hydrogen to learn more at [email protected]! #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #Hydrogen #ConservativeEnergy #NationalConservativeEnergySummit2024 #HydrogenInnovation #Texas

It's HERE 🌱 🐈 and Ready to BUY on our website! We're delighted at Wild Earth to announce the launch of Unicorn Pate, our FIRST #Vegan Nutritionally Complete Cat Food (Get ready for the Meat industry to loose their mind) 😂 https://lnkd.in/e-_Kvp_Y

Cuby is thrilled to be awarded “Overall Construction Tech Innovation of the Year” by PropTech Breakthrough Awards. https://lnkd.in/eQ9URmZE 

If you're (really good at) selling something, we might not want to buy it... Because there's a very good chance that your founder charisma is covering up the fact that the technology just isn't very good. Or there's no product-market fit. Or any number of other red flags. 🚩 “Charisma distortion is when you talk with an investor and they basically say: ‘Oh my God, you’ve got to meet this entrepreneur. They’re amazing. They could sell ice to an Eskimo,'” Tom Chi told Allie Garfinkle at Fortune. “It means you can make people believe things that aren’t true. And that, to me, is a major risk. It’s not a benefit.” You can probably guess the types of now-very-public situations where investors were made to believe something that just wasn't true, and it blew up in everyone's face. 💣 So, what’s the actual difference between a vision and a lie? – Garfinkle asks, and does this mean you should not invest in charismatic founders? “Look, charisma distortion doesn’t mean that you have to pass on the deal," Tom replied. But [...] you need to make sure that you don’t get bamboozled." Tom's checklist: ☑️ Do everything to make sure that what this person is saying is true at a foundational level. ☑️ Earmark things that might be distorted. ☑️ Look at the numbers they give twice rather than once. ☑️ And pay attention to the language: "The boring person is going to just tell you what the number is…But the charismatic person? They’re probably going to tell you how this all is going to revolutionize everything.” Read the full piece on Fortune's Term Sheet: https://lnkd.in/dBf8xUVp

Beavers sequester carbon. Tom Chi, Managing Partner at At One Ventures explains how.

What comes before The Drop? 💧 The Drizzle 🌧️ We are hosting the official unofficial happy hour before The Drop event in Sweden next month, in collaboration with our friends at MCJ Collective, Pale blue dot, 2150, Superorganism and Streetlife Ventures. 📆 16th September ⌚️ 5-7pm  📍Hyllie Brewery in central Malmö RSVP here to get on the list! https://lu.ma/tuebwo4n Every year this event hits maximum capacity weeks before, so the time is now.

Today the National Venture Capital Association shared their Q&A with our founding partner Tom Chi – honored to be spotlit on their website/blog, and it's also an honor to be a member, of course #venturecapital #tradeassociation