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Nicolas Pinkowski

Founder & CEO, Nitricity

Nico Pinkowski is co-founder and CEO of Nitricity, a company electrifying and distributing the production of fertilizer. As it is done today, fertilizer emits as much as  5-7%/yr of total global GHG emissions. Nitricity and Nico have been awarded numerous awards and grants from Stanford, MIT, Caltech, ASU,  Forbes 30 under 30, NSF, USDA, and ARPA-e SBIR, and a recent $5M venture finance round.  Prior to Nitricity, Nico received a PhD in Mechanical engineering from Stanford.