A vertical farm under grow lights, the studio and the thesis.

Conversations with the people building what's next.

Investors, founders and leaders on the purpose behind what they build, and the capital that makes it real.

01 The Show

Forty-minute conversations. No script. Venture, corporate, climate, AI and the people funding them.

No panels. No fluff. One conversation that inspires change.

02 Why This Matters

01

The next twenty years are being built now.

In AI, energy, health and the systems we all depend on. Most of the people building them are still underfunded and unheard.

02

Venture and corporate need each other.

Startups need distribution. Corporates need what startups build. The best deals start as conversations, long before a term sheet.

03

Capital is the most powerful creative force on earth.

And most of it is still flowing to the past. The question isn't whether the next infrastructure layer gets built. It's who funds it, and how early they were willing to be wrong before they were obviously right.

The vertical farm where Future Roots is recorded.

On the farm

The set isn't a backdrop. It's the argument.

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04 The Host

Emiliano Gutierrez

Founder & CEO of Raiz (Techstars '24), putting vertical farms inside hotels, starting with the first Hilton in Portugal to grow its own herbs at the bar. Partner at GTM Ventures, helping VCs and founders build revenue and close deals. Building at the intersection of climate tech, cities, and frontier investment.

This isn't a podcast made by someone who covers the space. It's made by someone inside it, because the conversations he wants to have don't exist anywhere else yet.

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Ponte 25 de Abril over the Tagus, Lisbon.

The thesis

Built before the market understands it.

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