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CleanFiber, LLC develops cellulose insulation materials for attics, walls, and floors of residential and commercial new construction and retrofit applications. CleanFiber, LLC was formerly known as UltraCell Insulation, LLC and changed its name to CleanFiber, LLC in September 2018. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Blasdell, New York with additional office in Buffalo, New York.

REsurety is a provider of risk management products to the buyers and sellers of clean energy. It empowers the clean energy-fueled future through better risk management. It works at the intersection of physical science, big data, and financial engineering to help our clients understand and mitigate the risks in buying and selling energy from renewable, intermittent fuel sources. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States. Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design, installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services. Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

CIMCON Lighting provides software powered lighting controllers and Internet of Things enabled Smart City lighting management solution. The company helps cities run smarter while decreasing energy and maintenance costs. The company's solution has been implemented in over 50 cities in 16 countries. The company uses LED lighting to create a wireless sensor network and platform enabling cities to implement variety of Smart City applications to manage outdoor lighting, monitor air quality, meter electric vehicle chargers, improve public safety and security, optimize parking, traffic, installation of small cell towers, pedestrian safety, video analytics, and waste management to improve quality of life for city residents. CIMCON Lighting was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

ClearFlame decarbonizes heavy-duty engines while reducing operating costs, to protect the future from the challenge of diesel fuel. The company's technology enables heavy-duty engine manufacturers to produce engines at a lower cost, while simultaneously providing their customers with higher performance and fuel cost savings. Founded in 2016 by BJ Johnson and Julie Blumreiter, ClearFlame Engines is headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois.

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REsurety is a provider of risk management products to the buyers and sellers of clean energy. It empowers the clean energy-fueled future through better risk management. It works at the intersection of physical science, big data, and financial engineering to help our clients understand and mitigate the risks in buying and selling energy from renewable, intermittent fuel sources. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Leading Edge Crystal Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and manufacturing of silicon wafers that fit into existing module manufacturing processes without any changes. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

PowerHouse Dynamics, Inc. develops enterprise energy and asset management systems for portfolios of small commercial facilities. It offers SiteSage, an enterprise energy and asset management platform that centralizes control, analysis, and management of energy-consuming equipment. The company’s platform also provides modules for remote equipment and HVAC control, food safety, and utility bill management; and offers rebate management, deployment management, and support and advisory services. It serves restaurants, convenience stores, retail stores, homes, and other commercial facilities. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts. As of April 1, 2019, PowerHouse Dynamics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Middleby Corporation.

MultiSensor Scientific offers a non-thermal optical gas imaging camera platform for detection. Its services focus on gas detection, identification, and safety. The company is currently working on is developing a machine vision software and sensing platform for creating color images of gas leaks across leak inspection and gas safety industries. MultiSensor Scientific was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nth Cycle is a start-up company designed to redefine the electronics manufacturing supply chain through low-cost electronics recycling. It aims to disrupt the electronics manufacturing and recycling industries by changing their linear material model into a more efficient, circular one. It helps transition the U.S. away from its reliance on primary mining and refining of metals overseas to the recycling of rare earth and specialty metals domestically both the manufacturing process of electronics and the recycling of the rare earth from devices at their end-of-life.

WeSpire Inc. is an engagement platform that provides sustainability and responsibility programs to global corporations. The company helps client companies engage people in sustainability and responsibility initiatives with persuasive technology that builds awareness, drives behavior change, and measures business results. It focuses on energy, water, waste, transportation, food, volunteerism, and corporate citizenship projects. The company was formerly known as Practically Green, LLC and changed its name to WeSpire Inc. in April 2014. WeSpire Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bevi aims to eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. We envision a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered. It is an ambitious goal, but we are on it!

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60Hertz provides a Maintenance Management Software platform designed specifically for people managing remote energy assets such as microgrids.

Volexion Inc. manufactures lithium ion batteries. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Energetic Insurance unlocks solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations. It is a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) with a novel, data-driven approach that develop new risk management products to unlock exponential growth in the renewable energy industry. For solar industry participants who want to do more projects and deploy more capital, EneRate Credit Cover unlocks solar project financing for unrated and below investment grade counterparties by covering payment default risk.

CleanFiber, LLC develops cellulose insulation materials for attics, walls, and floors of residential and commercial new construction and retrofit applications. CleanFiber, LLC was formerly known as UltraCell Insulation, LLC and changed its name to CleanFiber, LLC in September 2018. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Blasdell, New York with additional office in Buffalo, New York.

ConnectDER LLC designs and manufactures a solution that enables the connection of grid-ready distributed energy resources (solar photovoltaic systems) by creating a connection point to a collar that installs between a residential electric meter and a meter socket. It also offers ConnectDER Cloud, a system that enables fleet operators to retrieve metering and operational data, commission and decommission ConnectDER units, and manage operating parameters and firmware. ConnectDER LLC was formerly known as Infinite Invention LLC and changed its name to ConnectDER LLC in February 2015. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

7AC Technologies Inc. develops a disruptive membrane-isolated plastic plate technology that enables the design of liquid desiccant based HVAC solutions. 7AC Technologies Inc. was formerly known as 7Solar Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to 7AC Technologies Inc. in September 2011. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts. As of November 23, 2020, 7AC Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co.

Rebound Technologies, Inc. manufactures and supplies embedded thermal energy storage systems for commercial freezer environments and off-grid cooling environments. It offers IcePoint, a low temperature refrigeration cooling equipment for supermarkets; and SunChill, an off-grid refrigeration solution that enables increased agricultural productivity by removing field heat from crops immediately following harvest, and provides continued product cooling at local markets and central processing facilities. The company’s products are used by retail stores and farmers in the United States. Rebound Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Commerce City, Colorado.

Skystream Markets Inc. operates as an institutional transaction platform for the environmental markets in the United States and internationally. Its platform offers automation in the trade cycle, including execution, trade capture, processing, and reporting. The company also acts as a neutral intermediary for market participants in the environmental markets; provides client support, which includes structuring customized physical and financial hedging strategies in the spot, option, and forward markets; and builds auctions and electronic markets for the primary and secondary markets in renewable energy certificate (REC) markets. In addition, Skystream Markets offers transaction services in REC markets. Further, the company operates a trading platform that connects pools of capital with renewable power projects through an electronic process. It serves power producers and major trading counterparties. Skystream Markets was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with a sales office in Boston, Massachusetts.

VCharge, Inc. develops intelligent infrastructure for transactive electric loads for energy management in Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The company offers VNet, a power management platform that coordinates the activities of distributed transactive load assets; SmartBricks and SmartHydro that are asset controllers for electric thermal storage heating systems to handle loads of electric car charging stations and compressed air systems; and VConsole, a Web-based user interface that offers information and control for end users, utilities, and maintenance personnel. The company also serves customers in Germany, North America, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. VCharge, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of February 9, 2017, VCharge, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OVO Energy Limited.

Pika Energy, Inc. is a Westbrook, Maine-based manufacturer of direct current (DC) power electronics. Our nanogrid technology is installed throughout the United States and Canada and in several overseas markets. All Pika Energy products are designed, tested, and manufactured in the United States, using domestic materials. Founded in 2010 by MIT-educated engineers, Pika Energy manufactures high-efficiency, bidirectional inverters and charge controllers, small wind turbines, and substring solar optimizers.

VoltServer Inc. manufactures and supplies electrical power distribution products for telecommunications, data centers, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. It offers power transmitters and receivers; and develops a technology for digitization and management of electrical power in discrete packets. The company’s solutions include wireless densification, intelligent building, and indoor agriculture. It serves customers through its industry partners. VoltServer Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States. Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design, installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services. Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

SunDensity has developed a groundbreaking Photonic Smart Coating (PSC™) technology that enables the up and down conversion of the wavelengths in white light (UV to IR) to match the desired band which can solve several in-efficiencies in photonics. By conversion of spectrum, they have developed, and field tested a patent-pending PSC™ that significantly reduces the cost of electricity generated by solar photovoltaics (PV) applications, customizes thermal and optical behavior of architectural glass, and increases the quantum efficiency of optoelectronic instruments.

Altus Thermal specializes in rethinking thermal energy in the home. It aims to deliver higher efficiency, greater comfort, an improved user experience, and increased benefits to the electrical grid. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

VoltServer Inc. manufactures and supplies electrical power distribution products for telecommunications, data centers, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. It offers power transmitters and receivers; and develops a technology for digitization and management of electrical power in discrete packets. The company’s solutions include wireless densification, intelligent building, and indoor agriculture. It serves customers through its industry partners. VoltServer Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Pearl is a national firm that provides third-party certification of healthy, safe, comfortable, energy, and water-efficient homes. Working with real estate agents, contractors, and builders, the company helps sellers recoup the value of their home investments by increasing buyer confidence in one of the most important transactions of purchasing a home. Founded in 2015, Pearl Certification is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

MultiSensor Scientific offers a non-thermal optical gas imaging camera platform for detection. Its services focus on gas detection, identification, and safety. The company is currently working on is developing a machine vision software and sensing platform for creating color images of gas leaks across leak inspection and gas safety industries. MultiSensor Scientific was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Solantro is a leader in module integrated electronic technology for intelligent solar solutions. The company has assembled a team of proven entrepreneurs with deep experience in system architecture, semiconductors, power conversion, RF and distributed communications systems.

Quidnet Energy is a technology-driven energy company that powers the carbon-free electric grid. Its technology is a form of hydroelectric energy storage using time-tested well-drilling and construction technologies to pump water under pressure into subsurface geological reservoirs to store energy. When variable renewable energy is not available, this water is released to drive hydroelectric turbines to power the electric grid. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Houston with offices in San Francisco and Saratoga Springs, New York.

ndustrial.io offers analytical engines that help businesses control production, improve energy efficiency, and eliminate waste. They help organizations, primarily mid-tier manufacturers, become more competitive through energy efficiency, waste elimination, and other fiscally responsible, environmentally intelligent solutions. With a proprietary industrial operating system, the company integrates legacy data, streamlines deployments of new Industrial IoT assets, and hosts model predictive control algorithms. ndustrial.io services include energy efficiency retrofits, real-time energy analytics and sustainability monitoring software, renewable energy technologies, and sustainability consulting. It also deploys real-time cloud=based applications for factories and industrial facilities around the world. ndustrial.io was founded in 2015 and is based in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

LineVision enables utilities to improve transmission line capacity, resilience and safety through advanced, non-contact sensors and analytics. LineVision’s solution provides utility clients with previously unavailable visibility on asset health and safety for optimized asset management. LineVision’s turnkey, non-contact systems can be rapidly deployed without the need for outages, live line work or specialized equipment. LineVision is dedicated to helping utilities optimize the performance of the electric power grid.

Skystream Markets Inc. operates as an institutional transaction platform for the environmental markets in the United States and internationally. Its platform offers automation in the trade cycle, including execution, trade capture, processing, and reporting. The company also acts as a neutral intermediary for market participants in the environmental markets; provides client support, which includes structuring customized physical and financial hedging strategies in the spot, option, and forward markets; and builds auctions and electronic markets for the primary and secondary markets in renewable energy certificate (REC) markets. In addition, Skystream Markets offers transaction services in REC markets. Further, the company operates a trading platform that connects pools of capital with renewable power projects through an electronic process. It serves power producers and major trading counterparties. Skystream Markets was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with a sales office in Boston, Massachusetts.

FINsix Corporation develops power electronic systems. Its product portfolio includes Dart adapters, which are used to charge laptop and USB devices. FINsix Corporation has a strategic partnership with Toyota Industries Corporation. The company was formerly known as OnChip Power Corporation and changed its name to FINsix Corporation in November 2012. FINsix Corporation was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

ClearTrace is a software company that provides automated energy and carbon accounting for investors, enterprises, and real estate owners. Its digital assets represent the purest form of proof and immutability for the real-world impact of energy generation and consumption. ClearTrace allows companies to stand behind their claims of carbon reductions, sustainability, and renewable energy to prevent greenwashing and provide a source of truth for corporate decarbonization. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Autonomous Marine Systems Inc. is a marine data services company that collects and transmits hydrographic data across the surface of the globe. It offers customized surveys to customers in defense, energy, shipping, fishing, and research communities. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

SparkMeter offers comprehensive low-cost metering solutions for everything from rural micro-grids to existing urban central grid utilities. Our products help make access to electricity possible in hard-to-reach places and underserved markets.

MultiSensor Scientific offers a non-thermal optical gas imaging camera platform for detection. Its services focus on gas detection, identification, and safety. The company is currently working on is developing a machine vision software and sensing platform for creating color images of gas leaks across leak inspection and gas safety industries. MultiSensor Scientific was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PurposeEnergy, Inc. provides consultative service to Food and beverage manufacturers, that is an in-depth audit that evaluates a customer’s current wastewater strategy and solution and provide organic waste remediation and technology recommendations for their plants. It also offers wastewater system management services. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

LineVision enables utilities to improve transmission line capacity, resilience and safety through advanced, non-contact sensors and analytics. LineVision’s solution provides utility clients with previously unavailable visibility on asset health and safety for optimized asset management. LineVision’s turnkey, non-contact systems can be rapidly deployed without the need for outages, live line work or specialized equipment. LineVision is dedicated to helping utilities optimize the performance of the electric power grid.

SparkMeter offers comprehensive low-cost metering solutions for everything from rural micro-grids to existing urban central grid utilities. Our products help make access to electricity possible in hard-to-reach places and underserved markets.

EnergySage, LLC operates an online marketplace for solar and other clean energy technologies for homeowners, businesses, and non-profits. It offers educational, analytical, and shopping tools to help consumers determine suitable clean energy solutions and proceed with installing solar, wind, geothermal, or other technologies. EnergySage, LLC was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Aqua Membranes LLC manufactures reverse osmosis (RO) membrane filtration for commercial and household sectors. The company offers three-dimensional (3D) Printed Spacer Technology, an open channel membranes for water treatment, and optimization of flow patterns and turbulence. It offers the technology for home RO, sea water desalination, commercial purifiers, food processes, concentration process, and mobile RO. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Pearl is a national firm that provides third-party certification of healthy, safe, comfortable, energy, and water-efficient homes. Working with real estate agents, contractors, and builders, the company helps sellers recoup the value of their home investments by increasing buyer confidence in one of the most important transactions of purchasing a home. Founded in 2015, Pearl Certification is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

OutSmart Power Systems, LLC provides lean energy management software and services for C&I buildings. It offers EnergyMate a miniature metering technology for monitoring energy and power parameters; and OSAP, OutSmart analytics platform for storing and analyzing data to identify problems and opportunities. The company also helps in categorizing and prioritizing activities related to energy and the equipment using it; and provides energy consumption and equipment health data on critical refrigeration, HVAC, and lighting loads. In addition, it offers basic, advanced analytics and reporting program, and OutSmart total energy savings program services. The company serves industries, such as grocery stores, convenience, and cold storage. OutSmart Power Systems, LLC was founded in 2008 and is based in Natick, Massachusetts.

SparkMeter offers comprehensive low-cost metering solutions for everything from rural micro-grids to existing urban central grid utilities. Our products help make access to electricity possible in hard-to-reach places and underserved markets.

MyEnergy is a personalized guide to energy savings; helping households across the United States reduce energy consumption and save on utility bills. By logging onto the free site, users have access to energy saving tips and incentives, including the ability to compare energy use with others, set goals, and track progress. Users can also earn rewards by lowering energy bills. MyEnergy is compatible with hundreds of utilities across the country and will soon be able to serve over 90% of the U.S. population.

Energetic Insurance unlocks solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations. It is a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) with a novel, data-driven approach that develop new risk management products to unlock exponential growth in the renewable energy industry. For solar industry participants who want to do more projects and deploy more capital, EneRate Credit Cover unlocks solar project financing for unrated and below investment grade counterparties by covering payment default risk.

LineVision enables utilities to improve transmission line capacity, resilience and safety through advanced, non-contact sensors and analytics. LineVision’s solution provides utility clients with previously unavailable visibility on asset health and safety for optimized asset management. LineVision’s turnkey, non-contact systems can be rapidly deployed without the need for outages, live line work or specialized equipment. LineVision is dedicated to helping utilities optimize the performance of the electric power grid.

Energetic Insurance unlocks solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations. It is a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) with a novel, data-driven approach that develop new risk management products to unlock exponential growth in the renewable energy industry. For solar industry participants who want to do more projects and deploy more capital, EneRate Credit Cover unlocks solar project financing for unrated and below investment grade counterparties by covering payment default risk.

VoltServer Inc. manufactures and supplies electrical power distribution products for telecommunications, data centers, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. It offers power transmitters and receivers; and develops a technology for digitization and management of electrical power in discrete packets. The company’s solutions include wireless densification, intelligent building, and indoor agriculture. It serves customers through its industry partners. VoltServer Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to capture CO2 emissions from point sources, such as power plants, by over a million times and has technically validated the performance of its end products in over 10 different industrial markets. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in the plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as one of the 10 Carbon X-Prize Finalists. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.

Developer of curbside electric vehicle charging facility intended to cater to cities and offer access to clean vehicles for drivers who park their cars on the street. The company offers charge posts that are sturdy enough to survive in tough urban environments, with a minimal footprint and plug-and-play charging, they utilize existing, privately owned electrical infrastructure, helping users in the equitable transition to the new electrified economy.

Leading Edge Crystal Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and manufacturing of silicon wafers that fit into existing module manufacturing processes without any changes. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

ClearTrace is a software company that provides automated energy and carbon accounting for investors, enterprises, and real estate owners. Its digital assets represent the purest form of proof and immutability for the real-world impact of energy generation and consumption. ClearTrace allows companies to stand behind their claims of carbon reductions, sustainability, and renewable energy to prevent greenwashing and provide a source of truth for corporate decarbonization. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Next Step Living provides home energy evaluations and solutions for individuals and organizations. It offers energy assessment and diagnostics, air sealing and insulation, and multi-family retrofit services. The company also provides customized solutions, such as HVAC repair and replacement, window replacement and installation, solar or geothermal systems installation, building automation, interior and exterior lighting design, and custom retrofit services. Its sustainability solutions include water efficiency and purification, landscape design and management, and indoor air quality services. The company provides assessment and diagnostic processes to heating and cooling, domestic hot water, and electricity and lighting needs. Next Step Living partners with more than 400 municipalities, civic organizations, contractors, and corporations to deliver energy-efficient and environmental-friendly solutions to its customers. Those solutions include home energy assessments, weatherization work, energy-efficient windows, efficient heating, and cooling solutions, and access to solar solutions. Next Step Living was founded in 2008 by Geoff Chapin and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.