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While working on Hint, I keep coming back to how much easier homeownership gets when you have the right people in your corner. I’ve spent my life building those connections. Now I want every homeowner to have that advantage. If you’re already on the waitlist, share your link with someone who needs this. The three people who bring in the most referrals will receive a personal video from me with insights about their home. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gwdAW3Fd
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Homes don’t come with a manual. Hint is changing that. Today, our co-founder and CTO Kyle Rush joined Schwab Network to talk about a reality every homeowner knows: most people learn how to care for their home through trial and error, and those errors can get expensive. Kyle shared how Hint brings together the information homeowners already have scattered across emails, texts, PDFs, inspection reports, insurance documents, and utility bills, then turns it into guidance specific to their home. Martha Stewart has spent 40 years mastering home management, and that knowledge is built directly into Hint, alongside expertise from builders, home inspectors, and insurance professionals. Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/gtipRCuZ Join the Hint waitlist at https://lnkd.in/gActJSHG
We're excited to announce Montauk Capital's participation in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)'s Evergreen Program, and could not be more proud to support innovation in the State of New Jersey. If you are building a great Electron Economy business in New Jersey or are considering relocating to the Garden State, we would love to chat.
As a longtime New Jersey resident, from childhood to Rutgers and now raising my kids in Ho-Ho-Kus, I'm bullish on the Garden State's capacity for innovation, especially with regard to opportunities to advance the Electron Economy as we see it here at Montauk Capital. I'm proud to announce Montauk Capital's participation in the NJEDA Evergreen Program, an initiative accelerating the development of emerging New Jersey-based businesses bringing new technology, employment opportunities, and economic development to the State. As part of the program, qualifying startups can receive a co-investment from the State of New Jersey alongside an investment from Montauk Capital. This is exactly the kind of public-private partnership that makes New Jersey a compelling home for founders building the next generation of innovative companies. If you're currently building an Electron Economy business in New Jersey, or thinking about relocating to the best state in the U.S. (though I may be biased), we'd love to chat. Special thanks to New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) & Alexander Pachman, Ram Akella, John Wisniewski, and Kremena Mironova.
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Calling all runners (and fast walkers) working on critical infrastructure! On Tuesday, July 7, Montauk Capital, Closed Loop Partners, and Superorganism are hosting a morning run and coffee recharge to start the day. If you’re a founder, investor, or operator working in energy, resilience, adaptation, efficiency, or anything in between - sign up at the link in the comments. See you soon :)
Birch Geothermal and Mike Matson are utilizing best-in-class learnings from oil and gas to advance geothermal as the world's most reliable source of fast, firm, clean power in our age of electrification. Thanks Forbes for the coverage -- time to build!
Geothermal energy is hot right now. Energy demand is surging, driven in part by data centers, while power generation lags behind because of delays in gas turbine production and the Trump administration’s push to fight wind power. Geothermal–which uses hot water underground to generate electricity–is a stable source of baseload power that has bipartisan support. Mike Matson is excited to step into the market. He’s the CEO and cofounder of Birch Geothermal, which launched Friday as a portfolio company of VC firm Montauk Capital. Keep reading to learn more: https://lnkd.in/dtcXfhvQ (Photo: Birch Geothermal)
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At Montauk Capital, we have gone deep into hot rocks, new generation power technology, baseload power and carbon free energy. We are happy to be partnering with Birch Geothermal & Mike Matson to build the future of geothermal power. Forbes coming in with a nice write up about what Birch is pursuing. https://lnkd.in/eysjjGG3
Featured in Forbes: Montauk Capital portfolio company Birch Geothermal's mission to build next-generation geothermal systems optimized for cost-competitiveness by way of leveraging learnings from the oil-and-gas world to advance the geothermal space. CEO Mike Matson and team are excited to step into the market and deliver firm, clean, cost-competitive power as power demand surges in the near-term. Read more via the link in the comments. ⬇️
Here's what happened last week in the Electron Economy. Last week's top stories: 💡 Broadcom, Apollo Global Management, Inc., and Blackstone launched the AI XPV Platform to finance 20+ GW of AI compute through 2028, opening with a $35B tranche behind Anthropic's expansion at Fluidstack. Private credit at a scale not previously attempted. 💡 Seattle's City Council voted 9-0 for a one-year moratorium on new data centers above 20 MVA, joining Denver, Baltimore, and Indianapolis in restricting large-load siting. 💡 Entergy raised its five-year capital plan from $33B to $67B, anchored by Meta's 5 GW Richland Parish campus. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Meta pitched investors directly at the June 9 Investor Day. 💡 Voltus acquired Brightfield AI, adding an agentic battery development platform as it targets PJM's forthcoming emergency backstop procurement. We are looking forward to another great week of progress in the Electron Economy. Are you also tracking the space? Link in the comments to get in touch.
We're proud to officially welcome Patricia Tang as Senior Associate / Chief of Staff at Montauk Capital. Patricia joins us from The Wharton School, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellow and Moelis Fellow, and led a team of 14 MBAs and undergraduates to invest at pre-seed across sectors at The MBA Fund, including investments in critical industry and proptech. Patricia started with us as an MBA intern, quickly scaling up to become an instrumental part of the team. Patricia contributes robust building expertise to Montauk, having previously served as Product Manager of New Ventures at ThredUp leading software engineers and designers to build new products from the ground up and bring ThredUp's B2B services from zero to scale. Further, she contributes software-focused investing experience from Amino Capital and Virta Ventures, where she focused on applications of AI in the physical and digital worlds.
This week in the Electron Economy, regulators moved to rein in data center growth while grid operators scrambled to keep up with demand. Here are this week’s top stories: 💡 The EU will set minimum energy efficiency standards for new and existing data centers by 2030. 💡 New York State proposed a one-year moratorium on new data centers over 20 MW, a first for any state. 💡 ERCOT shifted to batch-based interconnection as it faces requests for 438 GW, over five times the state’s record peak demand. 💡 The House passed bipartisan geothermal permitting reform by voice vote. Are you tracking the Electron Economy? Link in our comments to get in touch.