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“Talking about mobility without talking energy is like talking about computers without talking about the internet,” writes Cyrus Sigari in the UP.Partners Moving World Report. And while there’s a useful level of pragmatism that needs to be incorporated when we’re inventing, creating, and adopting clean energy solutions, many transformational energy technologies have actually outpaced their growth forecasts over the past decade. Check out the slide below for data on wind, solar, and battery growth compared to predictions from the past — and download our full research report for more info and analysis about the future of mobility: https://lnkd.in/gjU_d5rC #CleanEnergy #Innovation #SustainableEnergy #UPPartners #VentureCapital #Technology #Entrepreneurship #Wind #Solar #EVs #MovingWorldReport

We are very proud to share the following news from one of our portfolio companies! Dr. Venkat Viswanathan, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Aionics, Inc., has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Energy Lectureship Award for Energy Storage by ACS Energy Letters. Dr. Viswanathan is an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he leads a pioneering interdisciplinary group working on technologies that can accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation and aviation. His contributions to the field have been recognized through numerous awards, including MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, and the National Science Foundation CAREER award. As Chief Scientist at Aionics, Dr. Viswanathan champions the deployment of machine learning-based approaches to industrial R&D. He believes that the Aionics commitment to high-quality science and innovative data and modeling tools positions the company to make a significant impact in the field of clean energy. Please join us in congratulating Venkat on this recognition and in celebrating his ongoing contributions to advancing energy storage technologies. Read more about the 2024 Energy Lectureship Awards for Energy Storage below. #EnergyStorage #Innovation #SustainableEnergy #UPPartners #Innovation #VentureCapital #Technology #Entrepreneurship #UniversityOfMichigan #GoBlue #Aionics #ACSEnergyLetters

🌍 Exciting times from last year’s UP.Summit 🌍 Each year, UP.Summit gathers some of the world’s most innovative minds to explore the future of transportation. Take Gregory Constantine for example — Co-Founder & CEO of AIR COMPANY, his team is revolutionizing how we address climate change by turning CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), directly addressing the aviation industry’s carbon footprint. Through commercial partnerships with airlines like JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic, and support from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Department of Defense, AIR COMPANY is making significant strides in creating a sustainable future. Watch the video to learn more about how AIR COMPANY is transforming CO2 into a resource and leading the charge against climate change. 🌱✈️ Presentations like this are just one feature of our annual UP.Summit. With the 2024 event just around the corner, stay tuned to all of our channels for news about this year’s UP.Summit! #ClimateAction #Sustainability #Innovation #Aviation #UPSummit #UPSummit2024 #AirCompany #VentureCapital #Technology #Aerospace #Entrepreneurship 

Where does AI show up in mobility? You probably first think about autonomous/semi-autonomous driving or flying, AI’s role in supply chain management, factory automation, or design — but another area of AI influence is the development of general purpose walking robots. With numerous companies already developing "humanoids," these robots could start to work in warehouses where costs have dropped below parity amidst a tighter labor market. Surprised? We’ve got more on this topic in the 2024 edition of The Moving World Report. Download it now to explore the future of AI in mobility: https://lnkd.in/gjU_d5rC #EconData #MacroReport #VentureCapital #Innovation #Technology #Aerospace #Entrepreneurship #RobotAutomation #MovingWorldReport #Data

Space connects your world in ways you probably know about, like GPS and telecoms, and also in ways you might not think about as much — such as balancing the energy grid and enabling security and timing for international banking transactions. Point being, there’s a whole host of commercial applications that are dependent on the growing space economy. And in this fascinating presentation from the 2023 UP.Summit, Andy Lapsa (Co-Founder of Stoke Space) details three significant milestones that his team recently achieved in their work to build out the space economy. Highlights include national security concerns via reliance on space assets for defense operations, increasing space mobility with a reusable vehicle to expand private space travel (for both goods and people), and funding the development of hardware and software for space travel. Watch Andy’s presentation from the UP.Summit to learn more about the many facets involved in connecting earth and space! #UPSummit #Space #SpaceTravel #SpaceForce #SpaceX #StokeSpace #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital

The business of unmanned cargo drones is real and booming! Outside of the defense industry, last year Walmart was the largest driver of drone development in the world — having brought drone delivery to 1.8 million households in the Dallas-Fort-Worth area. Besides parcel delivery, cargo drone applications include automation of intralogistics, medical goods supply, and air freight transportation to rural areas. The Moving World Report — our investment research piece — delves into the macro and micro trends to watch on each mobility front, from air and ground to sea and space. Download your copy here: https://lnkd.in/gjU_d5rC #Walmart #Drones #Aviation #VentureCapital #Innovation #Technology #Aerospace #Entrepreneurship #Freight #MovingWorldReport

Imagine a flight from New York to Paris in 90 minutes. That’s a future that Hermeus is working toward — building hypersonic aircraft that will usher in a new age of travel and make global destinations feel regional. One of the key enabling technologies of Hermeus aircraft is their hybrid engine — part turbojet, part ramjet — that’s capable of taking off, breaking the sound barrier, and accelerating to hypersonic speeds. From designing these aircraft to building and certifying them, the technical challenges are enormous. To hear how Hermeus is planning to address these challenges, listen to AJ Piplica, their CEO and Co-Founder, from his presentation at the UP.Summit. #Hypersonic #Aviation #VentureCapital #Innovation #Technology #FAA #Aerospace #Mobility #Entrepreneurship #UPSummit

The largest energy transition investor is China, at nearly $400 billion, while the U.S. strategic petroleum reserves is at a 40-year low. Meanwhile, in Arkansas, one of the world’s largest brine aquifers offers to be a promising lithium production powerhouse (with room to scale). Download the Moving World Report for more, including a detailed map of all the lithium chemical production facilities under construction in the USA and the sites of those with potential 2024 start dates: https://lnkd.in/gjU_d5rC #EnergyTransition #Investment #China #US #Lithium #Renewables #MovingWorldReport #Innovation #Technology #Entrepreneurship #Markets #Startups #VentureCapital #Economy #Sustainability #ClimateChange #Energy #Resources #CleanTech

“Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufacturer Beta Technologies has achieved a milestone few eVTOL companies have reached,” wrote FLYING Magazine in a recent piece (“Beta Makes First Crewed eVTOL Transition Flight,” April 26, 2024). And it’s true that Beta has made incredible progress turning their eVTOL vision into reality — milestones which Kyle Clark, CEO of BETA TECHNOLOGIES, covers in his UP.Summit presentation. Watch his full presentation below to learn more. #eVTOL #Aviation #VentureCapital #BetaTechnologies #Innovation #Technology #FAA #UPSummit

We had a major trucking recession in 2023 — with 50,000 companies ceasing operations from May 2022 through the end of 2023. In the words of Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves: “This freight recession is unlike any other in history.” However, used truck prices have returned to earth since accelerating in 2021, as have ground freight prices. For more data on this, plus the essential macro themes driving ground and sea freight — download your copy of The Moving World Report: https://lnkd.in/gjU_d5rC #Trucking #Freight #SupplyChain #TheMovingWorld #VentureCapital #Transportation #Innovation