Minus Materials

🐈 Last meow for alcohol. 🏄♂️ Dimensional Energy is bringing surf wax made of captured carbon. 📐Yard Stick PBC is apparently going to be lugging around a soil probe. 🔋Sylvatex (SVX) is showing off a demo kit. 🤖Aionics, Inc. is rocking a VR headset that enables you to build batteries in the metaverse 📞Standard Potential Co. is helping us top up our phones with a sodium-ion powered phone charging station 🦠Minus Materials is brewing up some algae in test tubes and showing up samples of their limestone 🫵🏼 What cool thing do you want to showcase at our one time, epic ARPA-E Summit partay at Meow Wolf Irvine (the UNREAL real) next Thursday?!? 🤳🏽Hit me up! 🫣 Check out the venue: https://lnkd.in/e4W9UHhG 🧑🏾💻RSVP HERE: https://lnkd.in/e7gS4Hxt Jason Salfi Virginia Klausmeier Chris Tolles Kevin Meissner Ryan Kushner Activate Calvin A. Cupini Molly Wood EarthEn Karthi Chakaravarty Anna Dai, Human Varea Energy Found Energy Peter Godart Jin Kao Bilen Akuzum, Ph.D. Karin Calvinho Javier Infante Anurag Kamal Andrew Wang Kaitlyn A. Suarez Gregory Houchins Beth Zotter Joe Zhou Andy Zhao Branko Zugic Dr. Surinder Singh Drew Lilley Austin Sendek Aionics, Inc. Andrew Wang Sarah Williams, PhD

We are thrilled to share the Decarbonized Cement & Concrete Alliance (DC2) with the world! 🏗🌍 Our CEO, Sarah Williams, PhD, commented on the initiative, “Concrete is the second most used material on Earth after water, and it will take a village to decarbonize it! Minus Materials is proud to be laying the foundation for that village alongside the rest of the DC2 by promoting collaboration throughout the ecosystem and working to advance our shared policy goals.” Thanks as always to our amazing partners in DC2 - Biomason, Blue Planet , Brimstone , CarbonBuilt, Chement, Fortera, Queens Carbon, Sublime Systems, and Terra CO2 Technology. Teamwork makes the dream work!

Pouring the Progress: Microsoft's investments in low carbon building materials are a great example of how our Climate Innovation Fund is advancing climate technology markets. We need more low carbon materials to reach our own sustainability goals and to help the world reach net zero. Learn more about our incredible Climate Innovation Fund portfolio companies and how we’re working to reduce the carbon footprint of our datacenters. 

Marine algae can help the world reduce the emissions associated with building and construction. Discover how we’re investing in low-carbon materials to build the datacenters of the future: https://msft.it/60469leeE

Super exciting to see Microsoft continue to lead the way to adoption of low-carbon building materials for datacenter construction, including Minus Materials' carbon-negative, biorenewable limestone! Sean James said it best: "“You need to get out of PowerPoints and get into the dirt and actually build it as soon as you can... Because then you’re going to learn what [the] speed bumps are and you’re going to have a lot more time to figure out how to deal with them.”

Huge thank you to Sarah Williams, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Minus Materials, for joining Equity Residential's latest Investments Team call to share her pioneering work in the world of sustainable building materials. Sarah founded Minus Materials alongside Wil V. Srubar III, PhD and Danielle Beatty with the mission of creating carbon-negative cement from microalgae. Together their team has developed a technology with the potential to revolutionize the cement industry and help us build a more sustainable future. Sarah helped us break down: - Why conventional methods of limestone and cement production are so detrimental to the environment - How Minus Materials' technology upends this process with product that already meets existing performance standards - Their growth plans to scale operations with the goal of achieving cost parity with traditional limestone EQR looks forward to following Minus Materials' exciting journey! Thank you also to Andrew Sullins, Ben Stoll, and Alec Brackenridge for the opportunity to host this call. #sustainability #realestate #construction