Astor Perkins: “We need deep tech to solve the climate crisis”

PARTNER UPDATE. “All things deep tech and survival” is the subject matter of Astor Perkins, a deep tech venture capital firm and one of We Don’t Have Time’s newest partners.

Just how does space relate to what’s happening here and now in the climate crisis on Earth? We Don’t Have Time met with Scott Amyx, Managing Partner at Astor Perkins, to find out.

Based out of New York, Astor Perkins partners with companies that they see leading the way to build and protect future cities on Earth and in space.

“As a deep tech venture capital firm,” says Scott, “Astor Perkins invests in some of the most innovative startups in sustainability and survival.

Astor Perkins’ focus areas of investment include longevity, agriculture technology, food technology, climate change mitigation and adaptation, robotics, autonomous vehicles, quantum computing, space, satellites, space tourism, and terraforming — to name a very few.

Scott makes the connection to the climate crisis clear. “Much of the focus on climate action has been on activism, policy, and storytelling,” said Scott. “Astor Perkins takes the road less traveled. We exclusively focus on deep tech that addresses climate change mitigation and adaptation — through direct frontier tech in renewable energy, regenerative farming, food tech, carbon capture, sequestration and reporting, and horizontal capabilities such as AI, robotics, and autonomy. In order to solve one of our greatest existential threats, more often than not, complex science, engineering and advanced technologies are needed.”

Those technologies are exactly what Astor Perkins engages in.

“From plant-based and/or lab cell-based meat, aqua, and dairy products; and complex radiomagnetic spectrum satellite imagery that provides hyperspectral, metaspectral, thermal, infrared and radar technologies to measure and report on carbon footprint and decarbonization progress; to quantum computers that can potentially develop sophisticated climate, ocean, atmosphere, environmental and carbon sequestration models to help create scalable and cost-efficient solutions to climate change, Astor Perkins looks at the deep science and technology that frankly very few organizations are well equipped to do.”

As a We Don’t Have Time partner, Astor Perkins is utilizing their new Climate Dialogue platform to forge the connections between deep tech and climate action.

“Whether it’s the latest Nature peer-reviewed articles on microplastic filtration advancement, wireless charging of electric vehicles while in transit on freeways, or startups tackling some of the hardest science, engineering, and technologies to solve climate change adaptation and mitigation, Astor Perkins is the definitive source on all things deep tech and sustainability, and that’s what you can expect to see on the We Don’t Have Time app and our Climate Dialogue page,” says Scott.

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