Diving In - What A Summer in Climate Venture Really Teaches
Venture-backable climate startups span everything from alternative plastics and water filtration to building materials and green chemicals. Over the past few months, I’ve helped Propeller recruit and screen founders for...
Ocean Innovation is All Over the Climate Market Map
Each year, our friends at CTVC release the iconic “climate market map”—a crisp snapshot of where innovation and capital are flowing across seven key sectors: Energy, Transportation, Food and Ag, Industry, Built...
Rethinking Ocean Energy, Part 2: Where the Energy Goes
In part one of this series, I explored how we're rethinking sources of ocean energy — from thermal gradients to nuclear SMRs to currents. But understanding energy in the ocean means looking at both sides of the...
Rethinking Ocean Energy, Part 1: A New Way of Looking at How the Energy Transition will be Powered
When most people think of energy from the ocean, four primary sources typically come to mind: offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, wave, and tidal power. And for good reason — these are the legacy sectors that have...
Propeller at SFCW 2025 "What does it mean to lead in this climate?"
“In the ocean, no two waves are the same, and no two days are the same.” Wise words from professional big-wave surfer Greg Long and that was just one of many lessons learned from a life in the ocean that are extremely...