Powerhouse Circuit - June 2024 - Join us for Two Live Events

Powerhouse People,

This month we released tickets for two upcoming Powerhouse events; a live recording of our podcast Watt It Takes, and our annual party, New Dawn. If you would like to join our illustrious group of sponsors for either event, please reach out to sponsor@powerhouse.co. Read on for details and for more on our work this month. 

Live Watt It Takes on July 24th Featuring Matanya Horowitz of AMP

Join us on Wednesday, July 24th from 4:30-7:00 pm at Powerhouse for a live recording of Watt It Takes featuring Matanya Horowitz , Founder and CEO of AMP. AMP’s breakthrough AI platform and robotics system transforms the world’s waste from liability to asset by automating the identification and sorting of recyclables from mixed material streams. Learn about his journey from growing up in Colorado, to earning four bachelor degrees and a PhD, to building his first prototypes for AMP using random materials found at Home Depot, to launching 400 automated sorting systems around the world. Grab your tickets here. 

Powerhouse Ventures Invests in Sesame Sustainability

Earlier this month, Powerhouse Ventures announced our investment in Sesame Sustainability . Sesame enables industrial companies to understand the economic and environmental implications of decarbonization and optimize their decarbonization strategies at scale. Powerhouse Ventures co-led Sesame’s $2.4M seed round with Flybridge Capital Partners IV LP . Check out our announcement and learn why we invested.

Powerhouse Maps the GETs Landscape 

As you’ve likely heard, Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) are hardware and software solutions that are deployed within existing transmission systems to help increase capacity, flexibility, and efficiency of power transfer. Powerhouse mapped the GETs landscape, highlighting relevant startups in the space. Check out our market map and see how these startups are working to meet the increase in load demand on our energy grid. 

New Dawn Tickets are Live and Going Fast 

Leave your business cards at home and get ready to party on Thursday, October 24th with the most inspiring people in climate. Early-bird pricing for both VIP and General Admission tickets are available until July 31st. Don’t miss your chance to attend the hottest party of the year with those keeping the climate cool. Huge shout out to our Host Committee (tagged below).  And thank you to New Dawn 2024 sponsors SVB , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , DLA Piper , Shell Ventures, Baker Botts , and Technip Energies for helping us get the party started. 

Power on, 

Emily Kirsch

Powerhouse Ventures Portfolio Companies in the News

• Amperon featured in Utility Dive on AI applications in the utility sector
• Leap , Raptor Maps , and Terabase Energy featured in Guggenheim “Leading Private Companies” Report
• ThinkLabs AI, Inc. Launch featured in Betakit, Latitude Media, and Crunchbase News 
• Zeti announces Series A Investment from HYCAP Group

Powerhouse Ventures Portfolio Companies are Hiring

• SPECIFIX is hiring a Director of Operations
• AmpUp is hiring an Account Executive
• Sesame Sustainability is hiring for a couple engineering roles 
• …30+ additional roles on our Portfolio Companies Job Board

New Dawn Host Committee 

The magic of New Dawn wouldn’t be possible without our illustrious 2024 Host Committee: 

Abe Yokell , Andrew Beebe , Andrew Ponec , Brandon Middaugh , Brian Janous , Christian Okoye , Cyrus Wadia , Etosha (Eee-tah-sha) Cave , Joel Makower , Kate Gordon , Kate Brandt , Ken Alston , Kojo A. , Libby Wayman , Lila Preston , Lynn Jurich , Marc van Gerven , Michael Liebreich , Milo Werner , Neha Palmer , Raj Atluru , Ryan M. Macpherson , Scott Jacobs , Shayle Kann , Veery Maxwell , and Victoria Beasley .