Webinar
Ventures To Know: Energy & Strategic Minerals
Join Mason Hale, Principal at Alumni Ventures, as he breaks down the venture opportunity in energy and strategic minerals — two sectors increasingly viewed as the foundation of national security, AI infrastructure, and the next industrial cycle.
In this session, Mason Hale, Principal at Alumni Ventures, will walk through how the AV team is thinking about energy and strategic minerals as a venture category — covering the structural drivers reshaping these sectors, where private capital is flowing, and the types of companies that are well-positioned to lead. He’ll share the lens AV uses to evaluate opportunities in this space and what separates a defensible startup from a commodity play.
The conversation will go beyond surface-level themes to examine why energy and strategic minerals have moved from niche to strategic priority — and how venture investors are positioning around the buildout of AI compute, electrification, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain resilience. Mason will offer a grounded perspective on where the real risk and the real upside live in this category.
Whether you’re already exposed to energy or minerals in your portfolio or evaluating the space for the first time, this session will offer a clear framework for understanding what makes these companies investable. Reserve your spot to see how AV is approaching one of the most consequential venture categories of the next decade.
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Why Attend?
- HomeDiscover why energy and strategic minerals have become a defining venture category — and which sub-sectors are attracting the most serious capital
- HomeGain insight into the criteria Alumni Ventures uses to evaluate startups operating in capital-intensive, infrastructure-driven markets
- HomeUnderstand how individual investors can gain venture exposure to the energy and strategic minerals theme through Alumni Ventures
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About your presenter
Before joining Chestnut Street Ventures, Mason attended Waseda Business School in Tokyo, Japan where he earned an MSc in Finance and wrote a master’s thesis linking founders’ attributes and strategic partnerships to firm performance in new ventures. While attending Waseda Business School, Mason was selected as a G51 Venture Scholar and participated in the Global Venture Catalyst where he served as a graduate startup advisor. Mason also holds a BA in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin.