Fellow Climate Warriors,
🎉We are excited to share the newest member of the family with you: Climate Tech Coffee!
🍸→☕️ Exclusive for Climate Tech Cocktails Substack subscribers, Coffee is a shorter caffeine-infused version of Cocktails. 🦸🏻♀️Are you interested in early-stage climate tech startups, 🚀climate tech companies bringing wicked cool products to market, 🔬crazyish climate tech science, and who knows where else our morning ritual will lead us? Then this is the place for you!
😅Don’t worry! Cocktails isn’t going anywhere! We’re just working hard to provide more fun yet informative content for the CTC community.
👥 Coffee will ultimately be for paid CTC Substack subscribers only in order for CTC to remain powered by the people. i.e. we’re doing our darndest not to be sellouts.
Thank you for your support and, as always, be a circle, not a square.
Warmly,
Team CTC
🔔 ICYMI, we launched the application for the 2nd cohort of our CTC Fund Fellowship. Do you want some hands on climate tech VC experience while helping lay the foundation for CTC Fund II? Say no more and APPLY HERE for the fund fellowship today!
🤳🏽Also, we launched our very first CTC Marketing Fellowship! Learn more about our marketing fellowship and APPLY HERE while the gettin’s good!
Avalo: Mariano Alvarez
🤖Machine Learning, 🍅 Ketchup, 🌱Resilient Agriculture and ☕More
Today, we’re charging up with a cup of coffee as we sit down with Mariano Alvarez, co-founder and CSO of Avalo.
From the future of ketchup, to our everyday dinner tables, Avalo is revolutionizing the agricultural industry through AI and climate-resilient seeds. Mariano shares his path from Duke to Avalo, and how a company formed over beers has expanded throughout the small but mighty start-up community in Durham, North Carolina. Come along for the journey for our very first Climate Tech Coffee episode as Mariano guides us through the future of sustainable food systems.
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We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cup of caffeine in hand.
Enjoy the show!
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
"We're addressing the challenges of agriculture and climate change by making the food system more resilient." - Mariano Alvarez, CSO of Avalo
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Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com
Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🌱 Avalo
🍅 Heinz
🌱 IndieBio
🌱 SOSV
🌱 Monsanto
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧑💻Po Bronson
🧑💻Bob Mumgaard
🧑💻Tom Chi
-TIMESTAMPS-
[00.00] Intro
[01:04] Meet Mariano
[02:04] Coffee Talk: What's in Your Cup?
[05:41] Ketchup Talk - Heinz or Hunts?
[08:13] The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture
[12:01] Climate Resilient Crop Development
[15:06] Plant Forecasts with AI
[16:01] From Academia to Startup
[17:27] Forming startups over beers
[21:04] Market outlook
[23:57] The Seed Business
[28:12] The Future of Rice Cultivation
[32:04] Fundraising and Hiring
[35:46] Outro
Avalo: Mariano Alvarez