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DCVC’s perspectives on the energy & climate founders building deep tech solutions to decarbonize the global economy.
Inside: portfolio updates and analysis spanning advanced nuclear, next-gen geothermal, carbon transformation, water, and grid resilience.
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Deep Tech Opportunities Report
Deep Tech Opportunity: Water offsets are giving big water users a responsible way to keep growing
Deep Tech Opportunities Report
DCVC DTOR 2025: One overlooked source of clean water is polluted water
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
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Radiant raises $300 million+ Series D toward portable nuclear energy at scale
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
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Fervo raises $462M to power the grid’s zero-carbon future
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A new precision power market
Company Profile
Flexible Power for an inflexible grid: Why DCVC backed Mainspring Energy
Deep Tech Opportunities Report
DCVC DTOR 25: Deep tech will solidify the United States’ advantage as a global manufacturing powerhouse while sparing the environment
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Automated, localized, fast: why a top apparel leader is getting behind unspun’s fabric tech
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Radiant’s Kaleidos to be first new reactor tested at DOME
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
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In a deep-tech twofer, Brimstone aims to secure U.S. aluminum supply
Deep Tech Opportunities Report
DCVC DTOR 2024: New storage and generation technologies will make the electrical grid cleaner and more resilient
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CH4 Global opens the world's first commercial-scale Asparagopsis production facility
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DCVC announces incubation of Circularity Fuels
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Alta debuts with $5.1 million Seed to sustainably separate critical minerals using advanced biochemistry
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Radiant Industries raises $100 million DCVC Climate–led Series C to speed microreactors to market
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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
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How Equilibrium Energy is managing increasingly volatile power grids
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
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Twelve raises $645M to turn CO2 into sustainable jet fuel
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A sea change in sustainable magnesium production
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Unspun’s 3D weaving—a literal revolution for the clothing industry
DCVC Announcements
DCVC welcomes Milo Werner
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ZwitterCo is growing—because the easy water is no longer easy
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CH4 Global set to launch world's first commercial scale Asparagopsis production facility
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DCVC proud to back ElectronX in its quest to build the first-ever direct-access regulated derivatives exchange for the electric power markets
Q&A
Pivot Bio's microbial nitrogen technology proves its potential
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Why Fourth Power is the key to a clean, affordable grid
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Brimstone's $189 million federal award is a game-changer for cement decarbonization
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Twelve’s historic sustainable aviation fuel deal with IAG is deep-tech gold
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Kairos Aerospace—rebranding as Insight M—raises $52 million Series D to reduce methane emissions
Thoughts
Davos 2024: A decisive moment for DCVC’s deep tech investment thesis
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ZwitterCo launches Innovation Center
Thoughts
At COP28, the promise and vitality of deep tech was clear
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Fourth Power will send wind and solar energy to the grid
Deep Tech Opportunities Report
Harder than people think: hydrogen energy
Company Profile
Twelve finds a sustainable source for jet fuel: waste CO2
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Fervo’s first commercial geothermal plant comes online: a major step toward a decarbonized grid
Deep Tech Opportunities Report
Harder than people think: direct air carbon capture and storage
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MycoWorks expands to address the soaring need for high-end leather alternatives
Q&A
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
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With climate crisis calling for speed and impact, CH4 Global answers
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An inspiring and sobering New York Climate Week
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Fervo breaks ground in Utah on world’s largest next-gen geothermal project
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Brimstone receives ASTM certification for its OPC: can now replace 98% of world’s cement
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Twelve breaks ground on commercial-scale plant for sustainable aviation fuel made from CO2
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Advanced nuclear reactor company Oklo to go public; a boon for our shared clean energy future
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Sarah Jewett: Fervo Energy
Company Profile
Brimstone: Rock Stars of the Cement Industry
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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
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From the toughest wastewater, clean water and precious resources: DCVC co-leads $17 million Aquafortus Series A1
DCVC Announcements
Rachel Slaybaugh promoted to Partner
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ZwitterCo: Helping an increasingly dry world reuse water
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Twelve Creates the World’s First Industrial-Scale Carbon Transformation Platform
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Why We Invested in Zap Energy
DCVC Announcements
Welcoming Climate Investors Matt Trevithick and Rachel Slaybaugh to DCVC
DCVC Announcements
DCVC Welcomes 2022
Thoughts
Reinventing Cement for a Zero-Carbon Future
Thoughts
Eliminating Cow Burps to Save Civilization
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Make No Small Plans: Kairos Aerospace and Pulling Today's Biggest Levers
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The Future is CO2Made: Twelve Raises $57M Series A
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Atoms, After Bits
Thoughts
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
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Zymergen, Series Seed and Series A led by DCVC, Raises $400M+ Series C: Revolutionizing global industry through molecular manufacturing
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More Productive Farmers, a Cleaner World, $212 Billion a Year of Revenue on the Table
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