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 They say everything's bigger in Texas, including climate change. That's why Houston is leading the energy transition. Here in H-Town, the fourth largest city in the United States, entrepreneurs from across Texas and around the world are gathering to work with titans of industry to build the technology that will reduce emissions and power a low carbon future. Welcome to Energytech Startups with Nada Ahmed and Jason Ethier. We sit down with those change makers and wildcatters who are solving the toughest energy challenges with trillions of dollars on the line. We dig into how Houston will bring technology to market on a massive scale. Join us as we talk with the leaders of the energy capital of the world as they show us how the energy transition gets done.2025 Digital Wildcatters, Inc Economie Finances privées
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  • Imran Kizilbash & Abhinav Jain from Titanium Innovation Investments

    Imran Kizilbash & Abhinav Jain from Titanium Innovation Investments
    Mar 3 2026

    The industrial world is still running on manual processes and siloed data while our phones got smarter ten times over, and that gap is exactly where Titanium Innovation Investments is placing its bets. Abhinav Jain and Imran Kizilbash, co-founders and managing partners at Titanium Innovation Investments, break down what it actually takes to sell tech into enterprises that move slow by design, why product market fit is something you can lose just as fast as you find it, and how they evaluate founding teams when the revenue is basically zero. Plus some real talk on Houston's startup ecosystem and whether the city has the deal flow to back up the ambition.

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    0:00 Introduction
    1:00 Titanium Innovation Investments thesis and origin story
    4:17 Why industrial tech adoption lags behind consumer tech
    7:01 Data as an asset in M&A and enterprise transactions
    10:23 Imran and Abhinav's career journeys from field to finance
    15:04 What product market fit actually looks like at seed stage
    19:24 Unit economics and business models in hard tech vs software
    29:56 Cutting through the AI hype in industrial applications
    34:23 Data ownership, legal challenges, and enterprise selling
    40:16 Change management and why adoption cycles are longer
    43:21 Portfolio construction and sector diversification
    50:13 Houston's startup ecosystem and deal sourcing nationally
    1:04:18 Advice for founders on fundraising and building trust

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  • Jamal Khawaja from Symplii.ai

    Jamal Khawaja from Symplii.ai
    Feb 17 2026

    Jamal Khawaja, founder and managing director of Symplii.ai, sits down to talk about his journey from studying scorpion mating habits in Brazil (seriously) to 25 years in tech at IBM, Deloitte, and Accenture before starting his own AI company. He breaks down why AI has been around since the 1960s but only recently became useful, how emergent capabilities let models do things they were never programmed for, and why entry-level jobs are facing the roughest market he's ever seen. Jamal explains his pivot from building an AI marketplace to focusing on last mile AI solutions for small companies, walks through a real example of AI agents listening to law firm client calls to auto-fill forms, and shares why being AI-first means doing the work yourself instead of delegating it to interns.

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    00:00 - Welcome and Jamal's background
    02:12 - From biology to self-taught tech
    07:16 - Houston's pragmatic startup culture
    08:07 - AI history since the 1960s
    11:24 - From precision to statistical significance
    14:17 - Emergent capabilities and what models can do
    17:37 - Can AI actually think?
    19:16 - Leaving IBM to start Symplii
    21:18 - Entry-level job market collapse
    24:57 - Are people getting lazy with AI?
    30:54 - Claude projects and AI workflows
    34:16 - Taking the leap with family support
    36:15 - Pivoting from marketplace to last mile AI
    41:06 - Law firm client intake automation example
    45:27 - Building for future context awareness
    48:32 - AI guardrails and pragmatic reality
    50:35 - Advice for being truly AI-first

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  • Mehrab Momin from aiCTO

    Mehrab Momin from aiCTO
    Feb 3 2026

    AI has been “old news” since the 1950s, but Mehrab Momin of aiCTO Services breaks down why it suddenly feels everywhere, how founders should actually think about AI (data first, buzzwords later), and why Houston’s physical-world industries might be the perfect playground for the next wave, from vision models to humanoid robots.

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    00:00 Show intro and guest setup
    01:10 Fractional AI CTO explained
    03:10 Early AI work and swarm intelligence
    05:10 AI “flavors” from ML to deep learning
    07:10 Transformers and the LLM leap
    09:10 Where AI shows up in industry
    12:00 Language, context, and why LLMs work
    18:00 Energy AI applications and examples
    19:30 Computer vision basics and VLMs
    23:30 Open source models and fine-tuning
    26:20 Houston vs Bay Area AI maturity
    29:20 Solar, drones, and practical vision AI
    31:00 Humanoid robots and physical AI
    33:20 Edge computing and model stacks
    36:00 Testing, validation, and “AI going rogue”
    37:20 Common startup mistakes with AI
    40:20 Human intuition vs machine intelligence
    48:00 Language preservation and climate tech link
    51:20 What’s next for Houston startups
    53:50 How to connect and wrap-up

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