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Danielle Bennett discusses her journey from a non-geoscientist to a startup operator in the geoscience-adjacent mapping industry.

On this episode of Planet Geo, we welcome Danielle Bennett—a startup operator with a venture capital background (and not a geoscientist by training) who’s been talking with tons of geologists, hydrogeologists, and engineers while helping build a geoscience-adjacent mapping company at Deep Earth Tech. Danielle shares how growing up with entrepreneur parents (who ran a groundwater-focused engineering firm) shaped her path, why she started a social-impact company in college, and how she moved fr...

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Hosts: Chris, Jesse

Guest: Danielle Bennett

Topics covered

• geology
• deep tech
• venture capital
• geoscience
• entrepreneurship
• social impact

Keywords

• geology
• deep tech
• venture capital
• mapping company
• social impact
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deep Earth Tech, groundwater-focused engineering firm

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