Projects
Leading go-to-market efforts for Coreshell's novel battery cell coating technology. Focused on introducing the technology to robotics and autonomous vehicle manufacturers seeking next-generation energy storage.
Converting a quarter-acre city plot into a maximally productive food garden. Experimenting with raised beds, companion planting, and seasonal rotation to optimize yield in a Midwest climate.
Deploying capital on behalf of a close-knit group of mission-aligned investors into early stage companies. Focus areas include deep technology, climate tech, and material science.
Early Stage Tech Advisory
Refiberd uses hyperspectral imaging and AI to detect fiber composition in textiles — solving a multi-billion dollar problem of material misidentification across fashion supply chains. Winner of eBay's 2025 Circular Fashion Fund.
Popper Power transforms existing street lighting infrastructure into EV charging points — deploying at 60% lower cost than traditional methods. Their SLEV platform turns 15M+ streetlight poles into a distributed V2G charging network.
Wasted* is reimagining sanitation as a resource recovery system. Their portable toilets feature urine diversion technology that converts human waste into recycled fertilizer — proving that sustainability and sanitation aren't mutually exclusive.
Alchemist Chicago is a two-phase deep tech accelerator run in partnership between Alchemist and the University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The program connects pre-seed and seed-stage founders to Silicon Valley best practices, capital pathways, and UChicago's world-class research and national lab ecosystem.