YCNCC Hosts Lab-to-Market Panel at Yale Innovation Summit

At last week’s Yale Innovation Summit, the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) hosted a panel discussion, Built Different: Inside the Yale Teams Turning Climate Research Breakthroughs into Investable Companies, on how the Center is translating research at Yale into scalable climate solutions with real-world impact.

The panel featured Yale faculty and founders at the forefront of climate innovation, including David Kwabi, Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering; Noah Planavsky, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Conor Rooney, Co-Founder and CTO of Oxylus Energy; and Mary Yap, Co-Founder and CEO of Lithos Carbon. YCNCC Managing Director Toby Bryce moderated.

The discussion explored how university labs and startups play distinct roles in advancing innovation; the journeys of Lithos and Oxylus from student research at Yale to impactful and growing commercial enterprises; the different categories of capital required for startups to scale; financing challenges in the current economic environment; and “research through deployment” as a YCNCC strategy to advance science.