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Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: For the environment and for our health, we must learn to produce more food, more efficiently

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: Innovators are finding better ways to lean on nature to remove carbon from the atmosphere

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: We must get better at managing methane

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: The increasing volatility of electrical supply and demand means it’s time to invest more in grid-stabilizing technologies

Radiant raises $300 million+ Series D toward portable nuclear energy at scale

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: One way to stop adding carbon to the air is to get the carbon we need from the air

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: Skyrocketing electric demand requires deeper investments in carbon-free energy

Fervo raises $462M to power the grid’s zero-carbon future

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh, Zachary Bogue

A new precision power market

Company Profile

Flexible Power for an inflexible grid: Why DCVC backed Mainspring Energy

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DCVC DTOR 25: Deep tech will solidify the United States’ advantage as a global manufacturing powerhouse while sparing the environment

Automated, localized, fast: why a top apparel leader is getting behind unspun’s fabric tech

Radiant’s Kaleidos to be first new reactor tested at DOME

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2024: Industry is turning to unconventional water sources for fresh water and critical minerals

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2024: Drop-in replacements are a way to start decarbonizing the economy, now

In a deep-tech twofer, Brimstone aims to secure U.S. aluminum supply

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2024: New storage and generation technologies will make the electrical grid cleaner and more resilient

CH4 Global opens the world's first commercial-scale Asparagopsis production facility

By Zachary Bogue, Dr. Justin Kern

DCVC announces incubation of Circularity Fuels

By Zachary Bogue

Alta debuts with $5.1 million Seed to sustainably separate critical minerals using advanced biochemistry

By James Hardiman

Radiant Industries raises $100 million DCVC Climate–led Series C to speed microreactors to market

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Climate tech’s lemons-to-lemonade moment: how the private sector can ensure a durable, clean American industrial renaissance

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2024: It’s time to start making AI greener

How Equilibrium Energy is managing increasingly volatile power grids

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

DCVC Announcements

DCVC closes $700 million+ in new funds for a healthier planet and healthier lives; releases second-annual Deep Tech Opportunities Report and first-annual DCVC Climate Impact Report

Twelve raises $645M to turn CO2 into sustainable jet fuel

By Zachary Bogue

A sea change in sustainable magnesium production

By Earl Jones, Jason Pontin

Unspun’s 3D weaving—a literal revolution for the clothing industry

By Milo Werner, Zachary Bogue

DCVC Announcements

DCVC welcomes Milo Werner

ZwitterCo is growing—because the easy water is no longer easy

By Jason Pontin, Earl Jones

CH4 Global set to launch world's first commercial scale Asparagopsis production facility

DCVC proud to back ElectronX in its quest to build the first-ever direct-access regulated derivatives exchange for the electric power markets

Pivot Bio's microbial nitrogen technology proves its potential

Why Fourth Power is the key to a clean, affordable grid

Brimstone's $189 million federal award is a game-changer for cement decarbonization

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Twelve’s historic sustainable aviation fuel deal with IAG is deep-tech gold

By Zachary Bogue

Kairos Aerospace—rebranding as Insight M—raises $52 million Series D to reduce methane emissions

By Zachary Bogue

Davos 2024: A decisive moment for DCVC’s deep tech investment thesis

By Zachary Bogue

ZwitterCo launches Innovation Center

By Jason Pontin, Earl Jones

At COP28, the promise and vitality of deep tech was clear

By Zachary Bogue

Fourth Power will send wind and solar energy to the grid

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

Harder than people think: hydrogen energy

Company Profile

Twelve finds a sustainable source for jet fuel: waste CO2

Fervo’s first commercial geothermal plant comes online: a major step toward a decarbonized grid

By Zachary Bogue, Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

Harder than people think: direct air carbon capture and storage

MycoWorks expands to address the soaring need for high-end leather alternatives

By Dr. Kiersten Stead

CH4 Global aims for gigaton-scale emissions reductions by 2030

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

Next-generation Nuclear Power

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

Electrification at scale presents tremendous possibilities

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

Ensuring water plentitude is an opportunity and an imperative

Cows eating special formula

With climate crisis calling for speed and impact, CH4 Global answers

By Zachary Bogue, Dr. John Hamer

An inspiring and sobering New York Climate Week

By Zachary Bogue

Fervo breaks ground in Utah on world’s largest next-gen geothermal project

By Zachary Bogue, Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Brimstone receives ASTM certification for its OPC: can now replace 98% of world’s cement

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Twelve breaks ground on commercial-scale plant for sustainable aviation fuel made from CO2

By Zachary Bogue

Advanced nuclear reactor company Oklo to go public; a boon for our shared clean energy future

By Zachary Bogue

Sarah Jewett: Fervo Energy

Company Profile

Brimstone: Rock Stars of the Cement Industry

Congratulations to Amogy in its big Series B-1 to scale up its 10X better ammonia “cracker” key to zero-carbon power for trucks and cargo ships

By James Hardiman, Zachary Bogue

From the toughest wastewater, clean water and precious resources: DCVC co-leads $17 million Aquafortus Series A1

By Jason Pontin, Earl Jones

DCVC Announcements

Rachel Slaybaugh promoted to Partner

ZwitterCo: Helping an increasingly dry world reuse water

By Jason Pontin

Twelve Creates the World’s First Industrial-Scale Carbon Transformation Platform

By Zachary Bogue

Why We Invested in Zap Energy

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

DCVC Announcements

Welcoming Climate Investors Matt Trevithick and Rachel Slaybaugh to DCVC

DCVC Announcements

DCVC Welcomes 2022

Reinventing Cement for a Zero-Carbon Future

By Zachary Bogue

Eliminating Cow Burps to Save Civilization

By Dr. John Hamer, Zachary Bogue

Make No Small Plans: Kairos Aerospace and Pulling Today's Biggest Levers

By Zachary Bogue

The Future is CO2Made: Twelve Raises $57M Series A

Atoms, After Bits

Computationally-bred microbe fertilizer for corn decreases pollution, saves farmers money and time, and increases crop yields 4.4%+ in world of <1% recent yield gains

By Matthew Ocko, Zachary Bogue

Zymergen, Series Seed and Series A led by DCVC, Raises $400M+ Series C: Revolutionizing global industry through molecular manufacturing

By Matthew Ocko, Zachary Bogue

More Productive Farmers, a Cleaner World, $212 Billion a Year of Revenue on the Table

By Matthew Ocko, Zachary Bogue

Zymergen, Mesosphere, Citrine & Desktop Metal named World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers

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