At One Ventures

Warms our heart to not just see Annette Kleiser's winning smile grace the digital cover of Forbes... https://lnkd.in/gWP73k3S But also to hear her full story come through through the pen of Senior Editor Amy Feldman, who took the time to hear the larger, more ambitious vision of Dalan Animal Health, Inc. to vaccinate and protect other invertebrates (e.g., shrimp) from disease. With so many stories told around destruction it's a laser-beam of hope for a constructive solution with a positive trajectory, if not a full-on happy ending. #climatetech #savethebees #stewards #planetpositive

What is the biggest struggle for a growing VC firm... that no one likes to admit? Logistics! 🗂️ 🛬 ⌚️ That's right, coordination of meetings, travel, and everything in between in order to maximize our most valuable resource: TIME. Being passionate in the pursuit of creative business solutions, highly curious and analytical, and extremely independent in our work style serves us well as venture capital investors. But not so well when it comes to time management and creating efficient workflows. That's why we're grateful to bring on Alanis Quinland as our new Executive Assistant, to streamline operations and help us coordinate both internally and externally, freeing up valuable time so we can focus on achieving our goals. She has already proven to be a highly dynamic team member, managing tight timelines as we close out the year and jumped right in to planning our next strategy offsite taking place next month. Welcome Alanis to the At One team! #newhire #venturecapital #climatetech

A huge milestone for Material Evolution. Many months of hard work from a dedicated team of specialists, trusted suppliers and partners have got us here today. We celebrate them all as we take a huge step towards realising the green transition in the UK with the opening of our first-of-a-kind facility. Many more exciting things to be announced in the coming weeks, but if you'd like to know more about our ultra-low carbon cement or be part of our journey, please get in touch. #MaterialEvolution #SustainableFuture #Decarbonisation #GreenCement #MevoCem

At One team member Brian Steinberg at the MaRS Climate Summit today... ready to see some promising #deeptech startups solving the biggest issues in climate 🌍

Developing new, resilient crop varieties is critical to food security as climate events become harsher and more frequent… But it’s also important to prevent further damage, breeding crops that require fewer inputs like fertilizer and pesticides which then get into our ecosystems. And, as Brendan Collins points out in this CNN segment which aired last week, you can also create varieties with more soft, edible components, like broccoli - which then reduces organic food waste. Watch the Bold Pursuits special (12 mins in) to learn more about how Avalo, Inc is speeding up crop development with ML and AI techniques to bring these to farmers in a few years vs. a decade or more. Video: https://lnkd.in/ekbS9Gqk Article: https://lnkd.in/eNfsaBTw

For over a decade Tom Chi has taught entrepreneurs that the formula for disempowerment is to have all your problems be large, abstract, and far... And the formula for empowerment is to explore your problems as small, concrete and near.  Our work is everything that is small, concrete, near, and important to us. Our work is to build as much of the world we wish to see with the communities we care about. If we know our hands to be hands that can help build a world, the tribulations ahead just become moments to build again. #climatetech #build #entrepreneurship #venturecapital

When you’re coming together to build out new manufacturing, solve problems on the production line, create jobs, and build something that improves the world, people get energized and optimistic.  They feel what they are doing matters, and they feel accomplished and hopeful for their future. These feelings are not political, they are universal. #letsbuild #engineering #jobs #createtogether #solveproblems #climatetech

What happens inside a factory... doesn't stay inside the factory. 🏭 If you're in an industry like chemical production, petroleum refining, paper manufacturing, etc. you spend a lot of energy on processes to separate mixtures into their individual components. This is called Industrial Separations, and it is a mass emitter of carbon dioxide – 4.9 gigatons annually, to be exact. In fact, up to 50% of the energy used in industrial operations (or 15% of total global energy consumption) is for separations. But what can we do about it? Read At One Analyst Alisha Jani's take on the problem and the four pathways she concludes are the best way to decarbonize this process – and prevent those factories from spewing more CO2 into our atmosphere. https://lnkd.in/ehJSvzim #decarbonization #climatetech #industrial #factory #energyuse

Our core investing approach still holds... We decided early on that winning unit economics would be central to our work and it means that our companies do not need government subsidies or regulation to enable commercial success. None of our portfolio companies will have their business models invalidated. That said, there could still be second order effects on how much capital decides to participate in the green economy because of changes in policy and tone, and there will be direct negative effects to projects that would have gotten government support. Thus, first-of-a-kind clean tech builds that had benefited from government grants/debt will become harder to accomplish as more of the risk will be shouldered by the private markets.   The free-market dream is that the private markets will step in to take these risks, or if they don’t do so immediately, the problems will get bad enough over time that the profit potential in solving them finally overcomes the capital intensity risk.  It’s a dangerous way to play with the future as many of the environmental issues we are facing get far more expensive to deal with the longer we wait – so reward and risk would both be moving up over time.  A more active strategy is to continue to push on approaches to lower capital intensity (where our team has been building an interesting playbook), and redirect portfolio company activities to more supportive geographies.

Thrilled to join Web Summit panel today on what makes a great deep tech investor! A top-tier deep tech investor brings more than just capital. They offer real technical or industry expertise that can make or break a venture. Scaling deep tech, especially physical solutions, is incredibly challenging. Founders need partners who understand scale-up and can get creative with funding in CAPEX-heavy environments. As a biotech engineer with a career in commercializing deep tech, from military tech to chemicals, I know the difference the right expertise can make. At At One Ventures, 2/3 of our team has a technical background or hands-on industry experience. So, what do you think defines a great deep tech investor? Share names if you have any favorites. I’m always on the lookout for strong co-investors! Great meeting you Mike Butcher ✍️ at TechCrunch, Ekaterina Almasque at OpenOcean, Jeff Crusey at 7percent Ventures and Lars Frølund at the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). And thanks for the pic Zahlen Titcomb! #DeepTech #ClimateTech #VentureCapital