For first time entrepreneurs, planning for growth, alongside financing, conducting product R&D, and operations as well as decision making around hiring, can be a daunting experience fraught with potential missteps and missed opportunities. Steve Oldham, CEO at Captura – a Caltech spin-out company that removes atmospheric CO2 via the ocean – will share his considerable experience at growing deep tech startups, and detail successful strategies and pitfalls to avoid.
Meet & Greet to follow. Office hours available on request.
Before joining Captura in early 2022, Steve was CEO at another carbon removal company – Carbon Engineering. There he grew the company from 10 people through to a recent $1.6Bn sale to a strategic investor, helping to build global awareness of the need to combine emission control with CO2 removal. Under his watch Captura secured an initial round of $12m investment. Prior to carbon removal, Steve was a senior executive at Canada’s largest Space company, running the businesses that built the Canadarm on the International Space Station and performed the world’s first robotic brain surgery. Steve is a Maths & Computer Science graduate from the University of Birmingham in the UK.
