Coffee & Capacitors: Climate x Hard Tech Breakfast

​📅 July 22, 2025 | 🕢 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM

​Start your day with strong coffee, bold ideas, and the people building the future of climate tech. Coffee & Capacitors: Climate x Hard Tech Breakfast is a high-voltage breakfast gathering of founders, funders, and builders pushing real solutions — from hardware to software and everything in between.

​Expect rapid-fire insights, candid conversations, and a hands-on crowd that's not afraid to prototype, iterate, and scale what matters—no fluff — just climate tech that ships.

​Whether you're deep in the trenches or just climate-curious, come hungry (literally and intellectually).

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​​Dipalo Ventures is a Chicago-based early-stage deep tech VC firm investing in manufactured innovations across health, connected devices, energy, and climate. We invest in deep tech at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our product design and development-focused Residency to de-risk investments and accelerate growth.

​Partnered with;

​EHI Cleantech Ventures is backing early-stage climate and energy startups with capital, technical expertise, and strategic support. With a mission to accelerate the clean energy transition, EHI partners with bold founders tackling hard problems across industrial decarbonization, grid resilience, and the built environment.

​Kadeya is revolutionizing hydration with its patented closed-loop beverage system that will eliminate single-use bottles forever. Similar to vending machines, Kadeya's stations conveniently and quickly dispense filtered water, as well as carbonated and flavored beverages. Unlike a vending machine, however, Kadeya's patented station dispenses your drink of choice in a reusable stainless steel bottle. When done with the bottle, consumers return it to any station in the network where it is autonomously cleaned, sanitized, inspected, and refilled - all within the same station. Think bike-sharing, but for bottles, and it's reshaping the way we hydrate on the go.

​Sponsored By:

​​​CSC Leasing is a leading specialty finance company providing custom, straightforward, and non-dilutive capital solutions for equipment and technology leasing. With $1 billion in assets under management, we've partnered with companies of various sizes, stages, and industries across the globe, enabling them to efficiently manage capital, maintain equity, and scale their businesses. For nearly 40 years, we have provided the transparency, flexibility, and administrative ease needed to drive innovation in an ever-evolving marketplace.

​​Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has a nationwide team of over 750 attorneys who are trusted advisers to some of the world's leading businesses—including many Fortune 500 companies—and institutions, associations, governments, professional firms, and individuals. Clients rely on Dinsmore to provide high-quality, commercial, and cost-effective advice. The caliber of Dinsmore's clear, concise counsel is steadily expanding its client base and fueling the firm's position as one of the fastest-growing in the country.