# Kevin Bush

> Kevin Bush is the co-founder and CEO of Molten Industries, an Oakland-based deep tech company using methane pyrolysis to crack natural gas into clean hydrogen and battery-grade synthetic graphite. A Stanford-trained materials scientist who set perovskite solar efficiency records before co-founding Swift Solar, Bush is a Breakthrough Energy Fellow and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. He started Molten in a Stanford garage in 2021 and raised a $25M Series A in 2024 to build its first modular commercial reactor.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Molten Industries
- **Organizations:** Molten Industries, Swift Solar, Breakthrough Energy Fellows
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, PhD Materials Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of Molten Industries, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy, Breakthrough Energy Fellow

## Career timeline

- **Undergrad** — At Vanderbilt, built anaerobic digestion systems, a biodiesel-powered subsonic ramjet engine that won a NASA student launch competition, and an amphibious vehicle for a DARPA project.
- **PhD** — At Stanford, developed record-efficiency perovskite-on-silicon tandems and the world's first perovskite-on-perovskite tandems; co-authored 25 papers with over 5,000 citations in 3.5 years.
- **Pre-2021** — Co-founded Swift Solar, commercializing high-performance, lightweight, flexible perovskite solar cells.
- **2021** — Co-founded Molten Industries with Caleb Boyd, starting by building chemical reactors in a Stanford garage.
- **2024-06** — Molten closed a $25M Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures to build its first modular commercial reactor in Oakland.
- **2024-2025** — Molten led a strategic partnership with U.S. Steel and CPFD Software to pioneer carbon-neutral steel production.

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of Molten Industries
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy
- Breakthrough Energy Fellow
- Holds 7 patents
- Co-authored 25 papers with 5,000+ citations in 3.5 years
- Developed the world's first perovskite-on-perovskite tandem solar cells
- Co-founded Swift Solar
- Raised $25M Series A for Molten (total funding ~$32.4M)

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Molten Industries raised a $25M Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures to build its first modular commercial reactor in Oakland.
- **2024** — Molten led a strategic partnership with U.S. Steel and CPFD Software to develop carbon-neutral steel production.

## Links

- Website: https://moltenindustries.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-bush-602709a8/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Molten_Ind

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Last updated: 2026-06-11