Powering AI: Compute vs. the Grid with Alex Robart from WestRiver Group

​WestRiver Group (WRG) is a thematically-driven investment firm leading direct investments, fund investments, and managing proprietary venture funds to build category defining companies across the global innovation economy. WRG's new Disruptive Growth Fund (DGF) provides growth capital for enabling technologies across the physical AI, energy, and industrial infrastructure layer. DGF is led by experienced operators and scalers in the domain, who have build and scaled hard-tech businesses across the physical value-chain.

​Alex Robart is a Partner with DGF, based in Seattle.  He has 20 years of operating experience across energy and industrials, with companies including Microsoft and IHS/S&P. He has scaled and sold multiple companies in the sector and built a venture portfolio under his family office, Unconventional Capital.

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