Can This Clean Hydrogen Startup Disrupt the Energy Industry? | Caleb Boyd, Molten Industries | E1
04/24/23 • 40 min
Caleb Boyd is the Co-Founder & CEO of Molten Industries. Molten is commercializing breakthrough technology to produce the lowest-cost, cleanest hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industrial sectors such as steel, fertilizer, fuels, and plastics. He attended UC Berkeley for his bachelor’s, and then graduated from Stanford with a PhD in materials science and engineering. After graduating, he moved to Germany and become a venture capitalist in Munich, working with UVC partners, an early-stage deep tech VC firm. Eventually, he moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area to co-found Molten Industries. Recently, he was named a 2023 Forbes 30 under 30. Caleb and his co-founder, Kevin Bush, were also recently named as two of Bill Gates’ 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellows.
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Caleb Boyd is the Co-Founder & CEO of Molten Industries. Molten is commercializing breakthrough technology to produce the lowest-cost, cleanest hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industrial sectors such as steel, fertilizer, fuels, and plastics. He attended UC Berkeley for his bachelor’s, and then graduated from Stanford with a PhD in materials science and engineering. After graduating, he moved to Germany and become a venture capitalist in Munich, working with UVC partners, an early-stage deep tech VC firm. Eventually, he moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area to co-found Molten Industries. Recently, he was named a 2023 Forbes 30 under 30. Caleb and his co-founder, Kevin Bush, were also recently named as two of Bill Gates’ 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellows.
🎥 Watch the video version of this episode on the Next Unicorn YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/wYIlG4QgCLw?si=lVN0lUMbKjAdAyQd
Follow Caleb Boyd:
👥 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-c-boyd/
🐦 X: https://twitter.com/Caleb_C_Boyd
💻 Molten Industries Website: https://www.moltenindustries.com/
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Credits:
Video/audio editor and engineer – Oleksii Kyrkach
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