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Alyssa Peterson

Founder & CEO, SeaAhead · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alissa Peterson co-founded and leads SeaAhead, an ocean-tech venture builder and platform supporting startups focused on maritime decarbonization, coastal resilience, and ocean health. Previously, she worked in business development and product marketing leadership roles at venture-backed cleantech companies including Primus Power and NanoSteel.

12statements → 9claims → 6claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.75/5average certainty → 1.92/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

4 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alyssa argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Peterson: Transoceanic shipping cannot currently be electrified due to energy density
“When we're talking about getting things, you know, across oceans, right, something from Shanghai to LA, then we need to talk about decarbonization a little bit differently, because doing that through electrification is just not possible right now. And based up…”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 11:24 What climatetech can learn from the oceans

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Alyssa Peterson on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Alyssa Peterson said on Catalyst that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Peterson: Shipping decarbonization is harder than aviation due to lower margins
“So this is like aviation, but harder because there's not as much money.”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 11:47 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Insight
Peterson: Offshore wind startup opportunities are around edges, not turbines
“Turbines is a large company game, right? And so when we look at the interesting areas for innovation in offshore wind, we're really looking around the edges, right? So we're looking at how does one monitor and protect cables under the water? How does one think…”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 16:15 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Peterson: Blue tech will avoid high-voltage transmission permitting gridlock
“Why I think there's that the, why this won't be the high-voltage transmission of you know, corollary Is because we just need to be supportive of the, of this group of companies that are trying to solve you know, solve these impact issues.”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 32:39 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Opinion
Peterson: Most viable blue tech startup opportunities are coastal, not deep sea
“We actually think that most of the interesting venture and startup type opportunities are coastal in nature in any case, because It's so difficult and time-consuming and expensive and energy-intensive to do things that are out in the middle of the ocean anyway…”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 8:26 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Supported
Peterson: Transoceanic shipping cannot currently be electrified due to energy density
“When we're talking about getting things, you know, across oceans, right, something from Shanghai to LA, then we need to talk about decarbonization a little bit differently, because doing that through electrification is just not possible right now. And based up…”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 11:24 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Prediction Held up
Peterson: First large US offshore wind projects will build within years
“Permitting is the biggest of them, but it looks like some of those for the first large projects are happening now, and so we expect to see some of the first projects getting built over the next couple of years”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 15:48 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Partly supported
Peterson: Fish carbon footprint is comparable to soy and nuts
“Protein from the ocean, whether it's conventional or unconventional, has a much lower carbon footprint than, you know, sort of traditional terrestrial-based sources of animal protein. So if you looked at fish, just sort of, if you looked at, if you just looked…”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 19:02 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Supported
Peterson: Verified carbon credit processes for ocean biomass sinking do not exist yet
“So those are still areas that we don't have all of the data that we would require in order to know those things in order to create you know, verified credits, and so that's why those haven't, those aren't you know, those processes aren't in place yet.”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 23:38 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Partly supported
Peterson: The United States holds the world's largest exclusive economic zone
“The U.S. Has the largest EEZ in the world”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 7:57 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Supported
Peterson: Seaweed and shellfish are the lowest-carbon marine foods
“And how do we think about the opportunities for even lower carbon alternatives like, ah, seaweed and shellfish, right? Which are the lowest carbon ways that you can produce. You know, food from the ocean.”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 20:34 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Peterson: Only a handful of funds focus specifically on ocean innovation
“In general, there's really, blue tech as a theme is really early right now, and there's really only a handful of funds that are focused on the ocean and ocean innovation”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 33:32 What climatetech can learn from the oceans
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Peterson: Climate and food venture funds are sourcing deal flow from oceans
“What we're starting to see is more generalist funds and adjacent funds, folks that have either a climate focus or a food focus that are now looking at the ocean as a potential source of deal flow for them and of pipeline.”
Alyssa Peterson Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 33:49 What climatetech can learn from the oceans

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
What climatetech can learn from the oceans Oct 13, 2022 21m
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