Shreya Dave

Co-founder & CEO, Via Separations · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. Shreya Dave holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT and co-founded Via Separations in 2016 to commercialize graphene oxide membrane filtration for industrial manufacturing. In recognition of her decarbonization work, she was named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2018.

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4 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 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 Shreya 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

Dave: Via Separations membrane cuts industrial separation energy use by 90%

“Which at the industrial scale is 90% lower energy, fully electrifiable, and more modular and therefore demand responsive.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 5:17 The risk of scaling 100x

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What they said10 Episodes1

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Insight

Dave: Component lead times make 10x scaling take as long as 100x

“The 10 X step, though, easier engineering was going to take just as long as getting to a hundred X because our lead time was defined by system components. When you purchase an electrical box or purchase a pump or purchase a component that has a long lead time,…”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 10:15 The risk of scaling 100x

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Dave: Hypothesized project finance for FOAK systems did not exist in 2022

“What I learned was that the project finance that I had hypothesized was out there for first of a kind systems was not.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 11:47 The risk of scaling 100x

Assertion Supported

Dave: Via Separations membrane cuts industrial separation energy use by 90%

“Which at the industrial scale is 90% lower energy, fully electrifiable, and more modular and therefore demand responsive.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 5:17 The risk of scaling 100x

Insight

Dave: Hardware startups must be upfront about first-of-a-kind deployment risks

“When we were negotiating that contract, it was very Explicit to all of us that this was a first commercial system, that this was the first, that, that we'd never done this before, that we'd never delivered a project before. And some might look at that and say,…”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 7:41 The risk of scaling 100x

Disclosure

Dave: Via Separations acted as its own general contractor

“Well, we decided to be our own general contractor so that we could stay very close to the engineering, the EPC, the engineering procurement and construction phases of the project.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 14:03 The risk of scaling 100x

Disclosure

Dave: Via Separations took on cost overage risk using time-and-materials contracts

“We didn't have a firm fixed price contract. So we were working on a time and materials basis with a number of different partners, all who contributed very important things to the project, which also left us as the sort of general contractor exposed to cost ove…”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 16:27 The risk of scaling 100x

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Dave: Very few climate tech companies operate at commercial scale

“There are very few climate tech companies who can say they're operating at commercial scale and that the customer is accepting the product.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 20:42 The risk of scaling 100x

Opinion

Dave: Climate Finance Lacks Offtake Frameworks Beyond Solar and Wind

“We are starting to build the vocabulary and the talking points, but we're not quite there yet because we've historically really only done solar and wind.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 23:35 The risk of scaling 100x

Assertion Supported

Dave: Separation steps account for 70% of chemical production costs

“So about 70% of the cost of producing a raw material or chemical is the separation step, and largely because of the energy that it consumes.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 3:53 The risk of scaling 100x

Disclosure

Dave: Via funded FOAK plant with 10% grants, loans, and equity

“The grant was roughly ten-ish percent and then it was roughly a fifty-fifty split after that.”

Shreya Dave Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 13:39 The risk of scaling 100x

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The risk of scaling 100x	Nov 27, 2024	19m

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