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8090 Industries is a venture capital firm with over $250M in AUM focused on leading the next industrial revolution. The firm serves as the go-to partner and investor for industrial breakthrough technologies focused on decarbonization and national security. geothermal energy at a scale that could satisfy human energy consumption for millions of years. Uniquely backed by and working in partnership with over 20 of the world’s leading energy and industrial titans, 8090 Industries invests in and accelerates category-defining, next generation trillion dollar industrial businesses.

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Cemvita, Oklo, Infinium, Gold Hydrogen, Varda, Quaise Energy, Regent, Circ, OrbitFab, Atomic Industries, Infraclear, Liberation Labs and more.

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A Texas-based leading clean energy company using microbes to produce clean hydrogen from depleted oil wells for less than $1 a kilogram.

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The Earth Biogenome Project is a moonshot global biological initiative, to sequence the DNA of all life on Earth in 10 years, founded by renowned American biologist, Harris Lewin, PhD, and create an open database of genomic data of each and every species of plant, animal and microorganisms on the planet.

Loomis Labs pays homage to the late Alfred Lee Loomis, the 20th century industrialist, arbiter of scientists and pioneer of radar technologies to help defeat Nazi Germany in WWII.

Loomis Labs identifies, marshalls and nurtures the world’s greatest scientists and their breakthroughs and accelerates their path for commercialization to yield maximum benefit to humanity.

Decarbon Weekly is a weekly newsletter that provides thought-provoking, long form and engaging content on the people, innovations and forces shaping the energy transition and our efforts to decarbonize our planet. With over 5,000 subscribers, Decarbon Weekly is read by leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, F500 C-Suite executives, founders, leading investors and foundations.

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Oklo is developing next-generation nuclear fission reactors to produce abundant, affordable, clean energy at a global scale - starting with the Aurora, which can produce up to 15 MW of power and operate for 10 years or longer before refueling. Oklo's fast reactors incorporate inherent safety features and can recycle waste.

Cemvita uses synthetic biology to create nature-inspired, economical and industrial scale solutions to empower the energy transition.

Circ is the world leader in fashion textile waste recycling. Its pioneering hydrothermal technology returns polycotton waste back to the raw materials from which it was made, so that fashion brands can reuse fibers and reduce harm to the Earth in the process.

Maple Materials is on a mission to be America's largest and the world's cheapest producer of synthetic graphite battery anodes.

Quaise Energy, an MIT spinout, is developing a millimeter wave drill to vaporize enough rock to create the world's deepest holes and harvest geothermal energy at a scale that could satisfy human energy consumption for millions of years.

A solutions oriented think tank and community for Texas economic progress and prosperity

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Co-Founded by husband and wife, Rayyan Islam Patwari and Chelsea Baker Patwari, the Patwari Foundation support the daring, the bold, the brilliant and their efforts towards meaningfully improving society. Key areas of focus include human rights, on the edge” expeditions and field work to advance knowledge and discovery in the fields of archaeology, paleontology and anthropology and finally highly scalable, “ground zero” ideas for meaningfully advancing society.

Private agency and contractor dedicated to accelerate and equip mission-critical science and advanced technology capabilities on behalf of the US goverment, US Department of Defense and American allies around the globe.

In progress of writing the Dawn of Decarbonization, a book that highlights and humanizes a new class of industrialists shaping today’s new era industrial revolution: Decarbonization.

In progress of writing the Nuclear Renaissance, co-authored by Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of Manhattan Project pioneer - J. Robert Oppenheimer, the book provides a frontline view into a new nuclear renaissance underway, shaped by a new generation of innovators, entrepreneurs and industrialists.