Dr. Carly Anderson - The Race to Power America’s Energy Future

Dr Carly Anderson, PhD is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Timescale Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that backs founders transforming critical industries on a faster timescale.

Timescale Ventures partners with pre-seed and seed stage software and hardware companies leveraging emerging technologies and AI to make industries more efficient, durable, and profitable.Before starting Timescale, Carly was an investor with deep tech venture firm Prime Movers Lab and SF-based climate tech firm Prelude Ventures. She was the first engineer at advanced materials startup Mosaic Materials, which was acquired by Baker-Hughes.

Dr. Anderson began her career with engineering consulting firm DEI, where she developed and deployed new technologies in commercial nuclear power plants internationally. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

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NB - Recorded on Thursday 17th September 2026 PM UK Time.

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This wide-ranging podcast covers:

* Energy systems worldwide face tightening constraints in supply chains, permitting, and generation capacity, making speed the defining advantage for new companies.

* In the U.S., the urgent question is how to build more electricity generation quickly amid data-centre backlash and long project timelines.

* Microreactors (roughly 1–20 MW) because their smaller size allows equity-funded first units, faster learning curves, and factory-style mass manufacturing.