Energy Startups
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
3 statements about Energy Startups, every show
Mignano: Early-stage scientific energy startups are not capital intensive initial bets
“And where there's innovation, you can find early teams that are doing science experiments before anyone else is thinking about them. ... I think those are the best places to bet as a venture capitalist, because in the earliest days, they're actually not that c…”
Bullard: US energy startup investment dropped from over $8B in 2022 to $2B in 2025
“Investment in U.S. Energy startups, which, this is Carta data, went just over eight billion dollars in twenty-twenty-two, and barely tipped past two billion in twenty-twenty-five, last year.”
Energy startup buyouts bring pay cuts, not tech-style windfalls
“You know, about five startups later and three buyouts later, I realized the startup world in energy was much different than Google. It was more of a pay decline. Type of buyout rather than a, you know, million dollar buyout you see in the tech world.”