#96 – Future of Mobility LIVE – Sustainable Infrastructure & Applications with Santosh Sankar and Tyler Lancaster

This episode comes from the panel discussion portion of the first Future of Mobility LIVE virtual event, recorded on March 24, 2022. The conversation features Santosh Sankar, Founding Partner at Dynamo Ventures, and Tyler Lancaster, partner at Energize Ventures. Key topics include: · The importance of quickly and effectively cleaning up our grid if we want to realize the benefits of electrification · The most attractive technologies for automating logistics · Why soft costs play a critical role in electrified vehicle adoption · The role of software in transforming our future mobility and energy ecosystems · Finding the “picks and shovels” within the current shift in mobility Links: · Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/FoMLIVE2 · Tyler’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-lancaster-2108/ · Engergize Ventures’s website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/energize-ventures/ · Santosh’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santoshsankar/ · Dynamo Ventures’s website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dynamovc/ Santosh’s bio: Santosh Sankar is a Founding Partner at Dynamo Ventures. Santosh has been an early investor in several distinguished supply chain technology startups including Stord, Gatik AI, and SVT Robotics. Prior to his career in venture capital, Santosh was a public equities analyst. Santosh started his first company, an IT support business, when he was 13 years old. Santosh was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2017. Tyler’s Bio: Tyler Lancaster is a partner at Chicago-based Energize Ventures, a leading global alternative investment manager focused on the digitization of energy and sustainable industry, where he drives investment activity and portfolio management. Prior to joining the Fund, Tyler worked at Accenture Strategy, where he shaped new business models and investment plans for Fortune 500 electric utilities and private equity. His work focused on distributed energy resources, regulatory innovation, grid modernization, and transportation electrification. Tyler is a Board Director for Aurora Solar, as well as a Board Observer for Volta Charging and Jupiter Intelligence. Additionally, he helps manage and support Energize portfolio companies Matroid and Optimus Ride. Tyler began his career building commercial solar PV and energy efficiency projects for an energy services company. He holds a B.S. in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University, where he was an Egleston Scholar. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licen