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NAPIGEN is a biotechnology company focused on genome editing, specifically in mitochondrial engineering. The company develops innovative solutions aimed at enhancing food supply by creating hybrid crop plants with significantly improved yields. By producing robust male sterile lines, NAPIGEN offers advantages over traditional lines, ensuring stability and elite genetic backgrounds. This technology facilitates the development of non-GM hybrid seeds for crops that are primarily non-hybrid, such as wheat. Additionally, NAPIGEN's expertise extends to the genome engineering of various organisms, including plants, microbes, and animals, by targeting mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are essential for energy production in cells. The company's advancements are designed to meet societal needs and promote public acceptance of its biotechnological innovations.

Electrified Thermal Solutions is a company focused on decarbonizing industrial processes by replacing fossil fuels with renewable heat. Founded in 2021 and based in Medford, Massachusetts, the company originated from research conducted at MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Its innovative approach involves developing energy storage technology that converts intermittent renewable electricity into constant heat using low-cost conductive ceramic blocks. This technology enables various industrial sectors to utilize zero-carbon heat, contributing to a significant reduction in energy consumption's carbon footprint. Through its efforts, Electrified Thermal Solutions aims to facilitate an energy revolution that promotes sustainability in industrial applications.

Travertine process accelerates the Earth’s natural carbon cycle to precipitate carbonate minerals from carbon dioxide in the air, permanently storing carbon in the solid phase.

MicroByre, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company focuses on developing genetically tractable strains from non-model micro-species, specializing in the domestication and genetic engineering of bacteria that are typically resistant to industrial applications. By utilizing a unique technology platform, MicroByre creates a reliable and generalizable domestication pipeline that supports fermentation processes. Its machine-learning platform analyzes a comprehensive dataset to identify bacteria that meet specific industrial functional criteria, facilitating precise genetic modifications. This approach provides clients with enhanced flexibility and yield while reducing the need for nutritional additives and improving contamination tolerance and phage resistance. Overall, MicroByre serves the biotechnology sector by addressing challenges in microbial utilization for industrial purposes.

Concrete-AI is a data science company that delivers cost-savings and embodied carbon reductions in concrete production. By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), Concrete-AI’s platform designs and proportions the optimal concrete for any construction application. This reduces costs and embodied carbon footprint of concrete, while ensuring certainty of performance, compliance with existing codes and standards.

Developer of impact investing solutions designed to increase the flow of capital into ventures solving global and local challenges. The company's services discover and make impact investments, using their donor-advised fund, family office, or private foundation assets and transform the way to find opportunities to invest money for good, enabling philanthropic and financial institutions and their clients to discover, execute and monitor impact investments.

Vibrant Planet provides land management services and technology solutions to accelerate land restorations. The company collaborates with scientists, land management leaders, and policymakers to build a cloud-based system that informs and facilitates collaborative planning. Vibrant Planet was founded in 2004 by Allison Wolff and is based in Incline Village, Nevada.

Infinium specializes in the production of electrofuels designed to decarbonize the transportation sector. By offering a net-zero carbon alternative to traditional liquid fuels, Infinium's electrofuels serve as drop-in replacements for petroleum-derived products, allowing immediate use in various transportation fleets, including planes, ships, and trucks. This innovative solution enables clients to significantly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions without the need for extensive capital investments or time-consuming upgrades to existing infrastructure.

Developer of gaming software designed to inspire people to take individual and collective action to positively impact climate change. The company develops games that involve planting trees, growing and protecting trees, making forests flourish, and building ecosystems, enabling players to have fun while having a positive impact on the environment.

Lilac Solutions has developed a new ion exchange technology to address the challenges faced by lithium producers. Lilac's technology cuts capital and operating costs, accelerates project startup, boosts lithium recovery, and unlocks new resources. Their process is modular and can be ramped up quickly through pilot and commercial projects. Lilac is a mining technology company and is building partnerships with brine developers and operators around the world.

Lilac Solutions has developed a new ion exchange technology to address the challenges faced by lithium producers. Lilac's technology cuts capital and operating costs, accelerates project startup, boosts lithium recovery, and unlocks new resources. Their process is modular and can be ramped up quickly through pilot and commercial projects. Lilac is a mining technology company and is building partnerships with brine developers and operators around the world.

Hazel Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures packaging inserts to reduce the spoilage of fruits and vegetables. It offers packaging inserts called sachets that are placed in boxes of the produce by growers at the time of harvest, extending the shelf-life of produce by slowing aging in produce and preventing fungus or decay. The company also provides agricultural and horticultural consulting services. Hazel Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional location in Salinas, California.

Trace Genomics, Inc. specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based diagnostic tools for farmers, focusing on soil health and crop quality. The company offers a soil microbiome test that utilizes DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence to analyze microbial species in agricultural soils. By interpreting key indicators of soil health and disease risk, Trace Genomics enables early predictions of soil diseases, benefiting agronomists and their corporate partners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, with an additional office in Ames, Iowa, Trace Genomics aims to enhance agricultural practices and maximize the value of every acre for the farming community.