Mark Cupta brings an unusually technical background to climate investing, with both BS and MS degrees in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech plus MBA from Stanford, combined with corporate operator experience at Celanese Corporation before joining Prelude Ventures. He focuses specifically on entrepreneurs applying emerging technologies to established industries that use significant energy or physical resources, and is a vocal early proponent of quantum computing as a climate tool, arguing it could become one of the most important technologies for climate change mitigation. Mark Cupta brings an unusually technical background to climate investing, with both BS and MS degrees in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech plus MBA from Stanford, combined with corporate operator experience at Celanese Corporation before joining Prelude Ventures. He focuses specifically on entrepreneurs applying emerging technologies to established industries that use significant energy or physical resources, and is a vocal early proponent of quantum computing as a climate tool, arguing it could become one of the most important technologies for climate change mitigation.