Saying the quiet part out loud?

Amazing Taco Tuesday Climate Week Earth Day 2025 Edition (Also, Lucky 13!)

Congruent Ventures, G2 Venture Partners, Union Labs Ventures with support from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Andersen, and Silicon Valley Bank.

(and my 🚲 ride co-founders Nate Williams and Brook Porter!)

Modern day spice harvester.

Timeline cleanser. Dawn from the summit of Mt Tam.

If you can’t smell the roller rink every time you hear Van Halen’s Jump! Are you even GenX?

#228 How to Invest in ClimateTech in 2025 like a Day 1 Investor w/ Joshua Posamentier (Congruent Ventures) Lessons learned from over a decade 60+ investments in ClimateTech 🤯

#228 How to Invest in ClimateTech in 2025 like a Day 1 Investor w/ Joshua Posamentier (Congruent Ventures)
open.substack.com/pub/cleantec...

having fun with sample cap tables

Fervo Energy Secures Additional $255 Million Funding to Meet Unprecedented Energy Demand Fervo Energy has secured $255 million in new funding and capital availability through both opportunistic corporate equity and new debt financing.

1/In 2024, we have seen unprecedented energy demand as the grid has been swamped with new growth from AI and other sources. Historically, lack of funding has kept geothermal from being a serious solution. Today we take another step forward to close that gap.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Happy Thursday!

behind on the internet bill probably. :(

I'd call this a negative climate coefficient. Somewhere we need a damping factor...or positive feedback source...

Ah, electronic holiday greeting season. Also, 'tis the season to remove myself from the hundreds of email lists I never subscribed to.

Pretty sure 27% of CA vehicles is >> 27% of CO vehicles. This is a game of absolutes, not relative numbers!

Sadly not actually me, but one of my partners, Kevin - mind if I send him your way? Love to catch up eventually - maybe in the new year? I'll also be back in DC for the ARPA-E summit at the latest...

Want to limit carbon and curb wildfire? Create a market for small trees - Berkeley News Forest thinning treatments are critical to reducing wildfire risk – but they come at a high cost, and can release stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

Interesting. Relevant to kodama.ai

news.berkeley.edu/2021/12/13/w...

Narrative violation

You know who else is thankful today? These guys.

If I had any whipped cream…

Yep. My kids are younger but so many of my friends’ kids knew them. It’s a small town here and everyone is so connected so it’s especially painful.

Literally. 3 kids from the class if 23

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

Even riding in the rain is worthwhile (because sometimes it’s warm and sunny where you’re going)

More ventilation in response to global warming.

Winter is coming…

I realize I should repost this now that there are like 10X the people that can see it.

A good intro to what we are working on at Fervo.

Rhapsody in Blue(grass) Béla Fleck, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton · Rhapsody in Blue (grass) · Song · 2024

Amazing. Bela Fleck is amazing as always.
open.spotify.com/track/0zx3Ci...

Love to see overall energy mix inclusive of methane and oil as well.

It’s like nobody remembers that Alf was an acronym.

@posamentier.bsky.social is here.
so is @obvious.bsky.social.