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The D3 Insights Blog: Industry

Accelerating Industrial Innovation in Cement, Steel, and Chemicals

Last week, Third Derivative welcomed 31 startups to our Industrial Innovation Cohorts alongside our first general cohort of 2025. Today, we’re excited to highlight 26 new startups..

Low-Carbon Cement: Key Considerations for Investors

Concrete is one of the planet’s most used materials, second only to water. No other material can match its durability, cost, or flexibility — it plays an irreplaceable role in our..

Three Pathways to Innovation in Low-Carbon Cement

Concrete and cement have helped form the complex and varied built environment of the 21st century. The problem is, the process of producing cement also produces large amounts of..

Bringing Low-Carbon Cement To Market

Cement is quite literally the glue that holds much of the modern world together. It is the most widely used industrial commodity today, and the world consumes about half a ton of..