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Ravel is a waste management company specializing in textile recycling. It offers purification services for blended textiles and manufactures recycling machines that convert end-of-life clothing into market-grade fiber, promoting a circular economy.

Moment Energy specializes in battery energy storage systems that utilize repurposed electric vehicle batteries. Its solutions aim to provide clean, reliable, and cost-effective energy storage for both on-grid and off-grid applications.

Founded in 2019, Zitara Technologies specializes in predictive battery management software for electric vehicle fleets. Its platform offers real-time operations and analytics, enhancing safety and extending battery lifespan.

Climatize is a crowdfunding platform based in Santa Cruz, California, founded in 2019. The company operates a mobile app that allows clients to invest in renewable energy projects by utilizing their spare change. By connecting individual investors with various renewable energy initiatives, Climatize aims to promote sustainable investment opportunities and facilitate the transition to greener energy sources.

Matereal is a manufacturer specializing in biobased polyurethane, aiming to replace traditional, toxic polyurethane products. The company focuses on producing environmentally safe plastics, particularly for the fashion and outdoor gear industries, providing sustainable coatings and adhesives. By offering these alternatives, Matereal helps its clients transition to a cleaner, more sustainable chemical supply chain.

Founded in 2022 as a spin-out from UC Berkeley's Chemical Engineering Department, SirenOpt accelerates sustainable manufacturing of advanced materials. It pioneers real-time, non-destructive material characterization using cold atmospheric plasma and machine learning, enabling intelligent decision-making to enhance product performance and optimize processes across various industries.

Breaking is a company that specializes in plastic degradation and synthetic biology. It operates by utilizing microorganisms that naturally consume plastic chemicals and compounds, offering a solution to reduce plastic waste buildup in the environment.

Gradient’s mission is to cool the world by transforming every home to be more comfortable and healthy for the people who inhabit it — without compromising the environment. Today, heating and cooling equipment emits more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, and expansion in the use of cooling is projected to double these emissions in the next 30 years. However, comfortable buildings are critical for health and productivity, especially among communities that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Gradient’s vision is a future where everyone has access to comfortable buildings that are fully decarbonized. Our launch product is a direct-to-consumer high-efficiency and low-carbon heat pump.

Founded in 2021, Hohm Energy is a South Africa-based company that operates an online marketplace connecting customers with accredited solar providers, product suppliers, and financiers. Through scalable technology, it manages the entire solar transition journey, from initial scoping to installation, operations, and maintenance.

Altus Thermal, founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, focuses on transforming thermal energy solutions for residential settings. The company aims to enhance efficiency, comfort, and user experience while providing benefits to the electrical grid. Altus Thermal develops energy technology designed to electrify residential heating, cooling, and hot water systems. By maximizing performance and facilitating better integration with renewable energy sources and other distributed energy resources, the company enables homeowners to electrify their living spaces in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Beltways designs and manufactures modular accelerating walkways for urban pedestrians, aiming to enhance mobility while minimizing carbon footprint. Their systems integrate a SaaS platform offering insights into passenger movement, energy usage, incident detection, and maintenance.

Byterat develops an artificial intelligence-driven data platform for secure and scalable battery data management. Its cloud-based machine learning solution forecasts battery performance in real-time using electrochemical data, benefiting users with early insights into energy asset performance.

Inlyte Energy specializes in developing and manufacturing grid-scale batteries for energy storage. Their core product is an innovative iron-sodium battery, which utilizes abundant and low-cost materials like iron and sodium chloride (table salt) to create a safe, efficient, and scalable energy storage solution. This technology supports the global shift towards renewable energy by providing a reliable and cost-effective alternative to traditional battery systems.

CarbonFarm Technology facilitates regenerative agriculture for farmers, making it profitable while assisting corporations in meeting their net-zero emission targets. It uses satellite data and AI to provide transparent carbon credit monitoring.

Bedrock Energy develops autonomous drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable geothermal heating and cooling, with the aim of making geothermal installations for buildings more widespread, affordable, and accessible, while helping construction projects reduce costs and support sustainability.

Voltpost is a company that transforms lampposts into smart electric vehicle charging stations, enhancing accessibility for users. By converting these lampposts into a modular and upgradable Level 2 EV charging platform, Voltpost provides a solution that is both convenient and affordable. This innovative platform is controlled via a mobile app, making it user-friendly. The company's approach not only accelerates electric vehicle adoption but also supports cities and businesses in developing scalable parking lots and curbside charging options. Voltpost's technology aims to reduce the costs, time, and physical footprint associated with traditional charging solutions, thereby democratizing access to electric vehicle charging and contributing to decarbonizing mobility.

Unspun, Inc. is a digital apparel company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in creating custom jeans tailored to individual consumers using advanced body scanning technology, fit algorithms, and additive manufacturing. The company aims to address environmental challenges by minimizing pattern-cutting waste and unsold inventory, thus contributing to a reduction in global carbon emissions. Unspun's innovative approach enables on-demand production of jeans in under ten minutes, utilizing localized manufacturing processes designed to be zero-waste. Its technology has gained recognition, including being named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2019, and supports a B2B platform that facilitates digital customization for major apparel brands.

Quilt is a company focused on smart home climate solutions, specializing in advanced home temperature control technology designed to enhance energy efficiency. Its AI-driven systems seamlessly integrate into various home environments, providing users with room-by-room control and occupancy awareness features. This technology not only optimizes energy use but also incorporates predictive capabilities to ensure comfort. Additionally, Quilt's ductless heat pump system operates with zero carbon emissions, utilizing clean energy sources to promote sustainability and help users transition away from traditional combustion methods. Overall, Quilt aims to deliver a sleek and intelligent solution for modern heating and cooling needs, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Terraform Industries produces carbon-negative 'natural gas' through a process that extracts CO2 from the atmosphere using sunlight and air. This technology aims to displace conventionally drilled natural gas, reducing net carbon transport to the atmosphere and oceans.

Avalanche Energy develops compact fusion reactors for distributed energy applications. Its modular reactor design enables clean energy production with high energy density, facilitating decarbonization efforts.

Noya develops carbon capture technology that enables industrial facilities to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by retrofitting existing equipment. The company adds a non-toxic CO2 absorbing chemical blend to current cooling towers, allowing simultaneous cooling and carbon capture without major mechanical changes to the towers. The captured CO2 is then sold to companies that use it as a raw material, supporting other industries' climate initiatives. Noya's approach is aimed at accelerating the world’s transition toward a carbon-negative economy by providing a modular, retrofit-based solution that tackles emissions from industrial cooling processes.

GaeaStar manufactures eco-friendly single-use cups using patented technology that prints thin clay cups from locally sourced materials. This innovative approach aims to reduce waste and promote sustainability in the face of increasing pressure to move away from traditional, non-recyclable cups.

Spring Free EV is a financial technology company focused on accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles through innovative financing solutions. Its flagship Mileage Purchase Agreement lowers upfront costs for EVs by applying a fee per mile of use, making electric fleets more affordable and accessible. The company aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and support a shift to sustainable, cost-effective fleets by enabling businesses to build business credit with each lease payment and by simplifying fleet financing.

Evergreen is creating a marketplace for clean energy projects that is accessible to all, ensures additionality, and quantifies the impact of every Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) over the life of every project.

Senken helps companies procure high-quality, audit-ready carbon credits. The platform unifies strategy, due diligence, procurement, retirement, and reporting in one workflow, enabling teams to act faster, reduce risk, and make defensible climate claims. A go-to partner for enterprise buyers in Germany, Senken works with customers such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom.

Reflect sells sunlight from space.

Return Protocol is a company focused on enabling consumers, businesses, and communities to engage in transparent and value-aligned climate action. It has developed a blockchain-based infrastructure tailored for the mass adoption of regenerative finance within the Web3 space. The company’s innovative environmental offsetting protocol integrates with on-chain wallets, allowing users to fund current or future climate projects through on-chain environmental assets. This system provides a comprehensive and automated offsetting solution for transactions conducted via these wallets, facilitating effective contributions to combat climate change.

Beltways designs and manufactures modular accelerating walkways for urban pedestrians, aiming to enhance mobility while minimizing carbon footprint. Their systems integrate a SaaS platform offering insights into passenger movement, energy usage, incident detection, and maintenance.

Clarasight operates a sustainability analytics platform designed to help organizations analyze, forecast, and implement effective carbon emissions reduction strategies. The platform integrates with various existing software systems and utilizes artificial intelligence to generate actionable insights and recommendations for sustainability initiatives. By providing dynamic carbon planning and real-time analysis, Clarasight enables companies to set and track sustainability goals at both team and individual levels. This approach empowers organizations to embed sustainability into their operations and support their journey toward achieving Net Zero emissions.

Jasmine Energy develops an AI-powered platform designed to automate back-office operations for solar developers and operators. The platform uses artificial intelligence to read facts about solar generators from unstructured data such as PDFs and populate information on government or regulator websites, while also enabling users to track prices, verify renewable energy generators, and buy and sell Energy Attribute Certificates. By facilitating data extraction and regulatory entry, the solution supports investors in diversifying their portfolios with sustainable assets that align with investment strategies.

Hgen develops modular electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen, aiming to decarbonize industries such as steel and ammonia production. By utilizing renewable energy sources, Hgen enables affordable green hydrogen solutions for deep decarbonization.

Mootral is an AgriTech company founded in 2017, headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland, with a British presence. It develops natural feed supplements that reduce methane emissions from ruminants and aims to eliminate antibiotic use in livestock. The company supplies its solutions to farmers, agribusinesses, and governments, supporting sustainable and safe food production while addressing climate change and antimicrobial resistance.

Pina Earth facilitates European forest owners' participation in carbon markets. It offers a platform that combines remote sensing technologies and AI to accurately measure and monitor forests' carbon storage. Pina Earth assists landowners in implementing climate-resilient practices, generating additional carbon credits over time.

Paces is developing a data platform aimed at enhancing the development and operation of green infrastructure projects. By providing actionable data signals across 3,500 U.S. counties, the platform encompasses a variety of critical information, including environmental, permitting, zoning, interconnection data, and competition risks. Additionally, Paces offers modeled signals that assess climate risks, profitability forecasts, and parcel rankings. This granular data is tailored to specific land parcels and green infrastructure assets, enabling developers, operators, and investors to make informed decisions about profitable construction and investment in sustainable projects.

Modern Synthesis is a biotechnology company that develops biofabricated materials by converting bacterial nanocellulose, a by‑product of fermentation, into sustainable textiles and coatings. Its materials offer performance and aesthetics without plastics, petrochemicals, or animal inputs, enabling durable options for the fashion industry and beyond. The process leverages abundant raw materials and integrates with existing manufacturing infrastructure to scale production without starting from scratch, helping brands replace animal leather and plastic‑based textiles while reducing environmental impact and expanding design possibilities.

Ecolink AI is a climate verification and reward platform enabling businesses to verify their sustainable goods and assets, create interactive "nutrition labels" and issue digital token rewards. Ecolink AI is part of the broader Ecosapiens community of 1M+ followers and subscribers.

MicroByre, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. It specializes in the genetic engineering of non-model micro-species, particularly bacteria that are challenging to manipulate for industrial applications. MicroByre has developed an innovative platform for bacterial domestication, employing an automated characterization pipeline that identifies underutilized bacteria capable of efficiently converting unrefined biomasses into commodity chemicals. This platform leverages a unique dataset to inform minimally precise genetic modifications, enhancing the bacteria's flexibility, yield, and contamination resistance while reducing the need for nutritional additives. By bridging the gap between promising biological research and practical industrial applications, MicroByre positions itself as a valuable partner for various companies seeking to improve their fermentation processes and compete with traditional petrochemical synthesis.

Olympian Motors is a New York-based startup manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs) using a proprietary modular system that reduces tooling and labor costs by 80% and speeds up production lead time by 60%. The company aims to revolutionize traditional car manufacturing in the U.S., bringing agility, speed, and cost-efficiency to the industry. Olympian Motors produces EVs in Brooklyn and Detroit facilities, with an initial capacity of 320 vehicles annually, planning to expand to 20,000 vehicles by 2025. Their EVs prioritize aesthetics, nature, and minimalism, using steel, wood, and recycled materials instead of plastic.

Mootral is an AgriTech company founded in 2017, headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland, with a British presence. It develops natural feed supplements that reduce methane emissions from ruminants and aims to eliminate antibiotic use in livestock. The company supplies its solutions to farmers, agribusinesses, and governments, supporting sustainable and safe food production while addressing climate change and antimicrobial resistance.

Founded in Singapore in 2019, DiviGas specializes in the development of advanced membranes for hydrogen purification and gas separation. Its innovative membranes demonstrate exceptional resistance to heat, pressure, acidity, and plasticity, enabling efficient and cost-effective hydrogen purification using eco-friendly methods.

microTERRA harnesses Lemna, an aquatic plant with water-cleaning capabilities, to produce sustainable functional ingredients for the food industry. Its flagship product, Flora, enhances sweetness perception while reducing sugar and masking unwanted notes from high-intensity sweeteners.

Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market. It allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it and access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future. Leap aims to make global energy markets accessible to anyone, starting with demand response and expanding into generation and ancillary services. Leap was founded by Thomas Folker and Remco Van Den Elzen.

CarbonBuilt is a clean technology company focused on carbon capture and utilization within the concrete industry. The company has developed innovative technologies aimed at significantly reducing carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Its flagship product, Reversa® Binder, serves as a low-carbon alternative to traditional cement, allowing for the creation of concrete with a markedly lower carbon footprint. By directly injecting carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into proprietary low-carbon concrete formulations, CarbonBuilt enables base industries to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions while producing materials that conform to industry standards.

Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers inspired by nuclear power plant cooling. The company offers subcooled boiling-based thermal systems that improve heat dissipation, reduce physical footprint, and boost processing efficiency, enabling data centers, AI infrastructure, and crypto mining operations to lower energy consumption, cooling costs, and environmental impact. By targeting the large share of electricity wasted on cooling, the company aims to deliver substantial reductions in operating costs and carbon footprint while enabling higher chip performance and density.

Cemvita employs synthetic biology to develop cost-effective solutions inspired by nature. Its CO2 Utilization platform mimics photosynthesis to produce nutrients, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals, facilitating sustainable energy transition.

SINAI Technologies, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in enterprise decarbonization software. Its platform monitors, analyzes, and provides actionable recommendations to reduce carbon emissions across various departments and processes within a company. Key modules include carbon footprint tracking, low carbon scenario analysis, carbon pricing design, and target setting. The software enables organizations to automate carbon analysis and reporting, fostering a more sustainable and efficient business environment.

Lightship is an early-stage hardware startup founded in 2020 by former Tesla employees, based in San Francisco. The company is focused on revolutionizing the recreational vehicle (RV) industry, which is valued at $26 billion, by developing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer. This innovative vehicle aims to provide an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional gas-powered RVs, alleviating issues such as noise, emissions, and range anxiety. By prioritizing sustainability, Lightship seeks to enhance outdoor travel experiences while promoting the preservation of nature. The company’s approach allows travelers to reduce fuel costs and minimize their environmental impact, making it easier to explore the outdoors responsibly.

Aerial and Cypher provide sustainability software platforms that track and manage carbon emissions. Aerial measures and manages emissions for individuals, enterprises, and blockchain ecosystems, partnering with artists, celebrities, and brands such as Calvin Harris, Shakira, Sia, Martha Stewart, David Lynch, TikTok, Pepsi, Budweiser, Levi’s, ASICS, and Etihad Airways. Cypher develops software that estimates carbon footprints from lifestyle habits, facilitates offsets to verified reforestation projects, and delivers climate insights from credible science writers, helping organizations manage emissions and encourage sustainable behavior.

Founded in 2016, Carbo Culture produces biochar from waste biomass using a patented process that permanently stores carbon. Its high-quality biochar is used for soil remediation and enhancement, while also generating renewable energy and creating tangible carbon credits.

Swift Solar is a solar technology company that designs and manufactures lightweight solar panels and systems for aerospace, automotive, and building applications. Founded in 2017 and based in San Carlos, California, with a facility in Golden, Colorado, the company focuses on perovskite solar cell technology to deliver higher efficiency and lower costs. Its approach involves ultra-thin perovskite films and tandem cell architectures that capture different parts of the solar spectrum to improve conversion efficiency while reducing weight. Swift Solar emphasizes domestic manufacturing to support scalable production and aims to advance photovoltaic solutions suitable for demanding environments and large-scale deployment.

Sway is a company based in San Francisco that specializes in regenerative design solutions aimed at addressing plastic pollution. Co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer, Sway focuses on developing bioplastics made from seaweed, which serve as compostable alternatives to single-use plastics, specifically starting with flexible packaging. The company's products are engineered to match the essential performance qualities of conventional plastics while being compatible with existing infrastructure, allowing clients to scale their operations effectively and achieve sustainability goals.

Shiru, Inc. is a food technology company based in Oakland, California, established in 2019. It specializes in the development and production of proteins aimed at replacing dairy products and eggs within the food industry. Utilizing artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and precision biology, Shiru focuses on the discovery and creation of novel, sustainable protein ingredients. By leveraging computational design, the company aims to provide enhanced protein solutions that support environmentally friendly practices while meeting consumer demands. Shiru's innovative approach positions it at the forefront of efforts to create sustainable and healthier food options.

Upshift is a mobility company offering car subscriptions and autonomous vehicle-as-a-service for urban users, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. It provides an identical vehicle on demand, delivered and operated by a remote driver, enabling predictable access without traditional ownership. The service targets low-mileage urban drivers for personal and business use, with all-inclusive, usage-based plans starting around $299 per month for four days of use. The company aims to simplify travel by combining delivery, remote operation, maintenance, insurance, and data-sharing features from a single platform, and is headquartered in Oakland, California.