WTR Small-Cap Spotlight

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight podcast, Chris Cooper, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of XCF Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAFX), joins WTR’s Peter Gastreich, Managing Director of Energy Transition and Sustainable Investing, and host Tim Gerdeman, Co-Founder of Water Tower Research. Following approval of XCF’s three-way combination with Southern Energy Renewables and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of WTR Small-Cap Spotlight, Tommy Barletta, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of ALDIS Institutional Services, joins host Tim Gerdeman, Co-Founder of Water Tower Research, to discuss what next week’s midterm elections could mean for healthcare investors. ALDIS Institutional Services is an independent research provider that pairs policy expertise with Washington and W...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight podcast, Joanne Freeze, President and CEO of Xali Gold Corp. (TSXV: XGC, OTC: XGDF), joins WTR Analyst Dmitry Silversteyn and host Tim Gerdeman, Co-Founder of Water Tower Research, to discuss the company’s flagship Pico Machay gold project in Peru, its historical resource of more than 700,000 ounces, and the opportunity to revisit a p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight podcast, Dr. Ragula Bhaskar, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of FatPipe, Inc. (Nasdaq: FATN), joins WTR Analyst James Kisner and host Tim Gerdeman, Co-Founder of Water Tower Research. FatPipe sells routers, firewalls, SD-WAN, cybersecurity, and network visibility as a single software stack, with a co-managed service aimed at SMB customer...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Robert Sassoon, Managing Director and healthcare analyst at Water Tower Research, joins host Tim Gerdeman to discuss his newly published initiation of coverage on eXoZymes (Nasdaq: EXOZ) and its cell-free biomanufacturing platform. Robert Sassoon explains how the technology works, the significance of the reported 10-fold productivity improvement in NCT manufacturi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight podcast, Matt Martin, Chief Technology Officer, and Jeff Lewallen, Vice President of Burners at ClearSign Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: CLIR), join WTR’s Peter Gastreich, Managing Director of Energy Transition and Sustainable Investing, and host Tim Gerdeman, Vice Chair, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Water Tower Resear...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight podcast, Nadab Akhtar, President and CEO of Project LightShift, the quantum antenna technology partner of Quantum Cyber N.V. (Nasdaq: QUCY), joins WTR Analyst James Kisner and host Tim Gerdeman, Vice Chair, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Water Tower Research. Quantum Cyber is developing an autonomous defense platform for ba...

Send us Fan Mail  In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Dmitry Silversteyn, Managing Director for Chemicals and Materials Technology, joins Tim Gerdeman to recap the critical minerals and advanced materials companies he hosted at the WTR Insights Conference on September 22 and 23.  The conversation covers the two overarching themes that emerged across six very different companies: the sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Analyst Perspectives podcast, Peter Gastreich, Managing Director of Energy Transition and Sustainable Investing at Water Tower Research, joins host Tim Gerdeman to recap the eight companies he hosted at the WTR Insights Conference, spanning renewable fuels and carbon management, waste to value, clean tech, environmental solutions, and metallurgical coal....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Jeff Robertson, Managing Director of Natural Resources at Water Tower Research, joins Tim Gerdeman to recap the nine energy companies he hosted at the WTR Insights Conference on September 22 and 23, including seven E&P names and two oil field service companies. Jeff Robertson breaks down what management teams said about capital d...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded as a featured session at the WTR Virtual Insights Conference, Joseph Lucosky, Managing Partner of Lucosky Brookman, joins Shawn Severson, CEO and Founding Partner of Water Tower Research, to break down what has changed for emerging growth companies coming to market in 2026. Joseph Lucosky explains how NASDAQ's December 2025 discretionary listing rules reset the marke...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Natural MedTech CEO and Co-Founder Luke McFarlane joins WTR healthcare analyst Robert Sassoon and Shawn Severson to discuss the company's biosynthetic psilocybin manufacturing platform and its position within Australia's evolving psychedelic medicine landscape. The conversation covers the authorized prescriber pathway, including adoption trends, treatmen...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Shawn Severson, Co-Founder and CEO of Water Tower Research, joins host Tim Gerdeman, Vice Chair, Co-Founder, and Chief Marketing Officer of Water Tower Research, to preview the WTR Virtual Insights Conference, running September 22 and 23. The two-day event features more than 40 presenting companies across seven sectors. Shawn Severso...

Send us Fan Mail In this inaugural episode of WTR Analyst Perspectives, Peter Gastreich, Managing Director for Energy Transition and Sustainable Investing, joins Tim Gerdeman to share his read on the renewable fuels sector coming off its strongest earnings season in years. Peter unpacks the five themes most relevant to investors: record mandates and August policy noise, the geopolitical supply squ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, Chief Executive Officer of LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNZA), joins WTR's Peter Gastreich (Managing Director, Energy Transition and Sustainable Investing) and Tim Gerdeman (Vice Chair, Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer). Jennifer discusses how LanzaTech's continuous fermentation technology...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Our Bond, Inc. Founder and CEO Doron Kempel joins WTR's James Kisner and Tim Gerdeman to introduce the company's AI-powered preventative personal security platform and the profound gap it addresses. With 140 million Americans reporting they feel unsafe walking alone at night and 500,000 women severely sexually assaulted ann...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Joseph Lucosky, Managing Partner of Lucosky Brookman LLP, joins WTR's Tim Gerdeman to discuss his new seat on the SEC's Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, NASDAQ's stayed $5 million continued listing rule, and Q2 2026 microcap IPO data showing the first signs of a thaw. Lucosky also covers the rise of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Cloudastructure Chairman and CEO James McCormick and CFO Greg Smitherman join WTR's James Kisner and Tim Gerdeman to discuss the company's cloud-native, AI-powered video surveillance and remote guarding platform, which deters 98% of threatening events and drives 99% customer retention. The conversation covers strong Q2 resu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Waheed Hassan, Founder and CEO of ZMH Advisors, joins Tim Gerdeman to break down shareholder activism and what small and mid-cap boards need to know before an activist comes knocking. Bloomberg ranks ZMH among the top five global strategic advisors for shareholder activism, and Hassan brings 25 years of experience across ISS, the Blu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Ambiq Founder and CTO Scott Hanson joins WTR's James Kisner and Tim Gerdeman to discuss how the company's ultra-low-power semiconductors are enabling on-device AI across personal, medical, industrial, and smart-home markets. Hanson traces the origins of Ambiq's proprietary Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT)...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, WTR Managing Director for Natural Resources Jeff Robertson joins Tim Gerdeman to assess the second half of 2026 and early 2027 budget outlooks for the U.S. energy sector. The conversation covers how producers are managing continued oil price volatility driven by the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruptions, with WTI averaging $...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, First Phosphate CEO John Passalacqua joins WTR's Dmitry Silversteyn and Tim Gerdeman to discuss the company's recent NASDAQ listing and what it means for First Phosphate's next phase of development. The conversation covers the unique ADR structure that allowed the company to uplist without share consolidation or a dilu...

Send us Fan Mail In this WTR Small-Cap Spotlight showcase, host James Kisner joins virtually with WTR's Mike McCormack on the ground in Munich with Elena Coles, Head of Investor Relations at Circus SE (XETRA: CA1), the German AI robotics company building autonomous kitchen systems for commercial and defense customers. Coles walks through the portfolio: the flagship CA-1, which cooks up to six...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Comstock Inc. CEO Corrado De Gasperis joins WTR's Peter Gastreich and Shawn Severson to follow up on questions submitted by investors during the company's recent fireside chat. De Gasperis provides an update on the ramp-up of Comstock's Nevada solar panel recycling plant, its competitive advantages over rivals, and how...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the WTR Small Cap Spotlight, Drone Volt Chairman Stefano Valentini joins WTR's Senior Equity Research Analyst Dr. John Roy and Tim Gerdeman to discuss the company's solid first half 2026 results and its strategic evolution toward higher-value Drone-as-a-Service operations. The conversation covers Drone Volt's position as an aeronautical manufactur...