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WexEnergy LLC, founded in 2018 and located in Rochester, New York, specializes in enhancing the energy efficiency of single-pane and double-pane windows. The company offers a solution that improves single-pane window energy efficiency by 49% and double-pane efficiency by 23%, all at less than 15% of the cost of window replacement. WexEnergy sells its products both business-to-business, targeting landlords looking to upgrade rental property windows, and business-to-consumer through e-commerce and direct sales. The company's innovative WindoWare™ technology ensures a custom fit by taking precise window measurements with a single digital photo, thus streamlining the installation process.

Soteria Battery Innovation Group, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, focuses on developing advanced battery technology that eliminates the risk of fire in lithium-ion batteries. By creating a unique material architecture, the company addresses the internal spark risk that can lead to battery fires, making its technology suitable for a wide range of applications, including drones, electric vehicles, power tools, and e-bikes. Soteria aims to ensure that its innovative materials are accessible to battery manufacturers through local production and a diverse supply chain, allowing for the safe use of battery-powered devices in various sectors, from hearing aids to electric buses.

Amperon Holdings, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in New York with an additional office in Houston, specializes in developing predictive tools for energy retailers and grid operators. The company focuses on utilizing AI and real-time operational grid intelligence to provide accurate electricity demand forecasts. By leveraging data from over 70 million smart meters installed across the country, Amperon delivers detailed energy data for various ratepayers, including residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. This innovative approach allows utilities and energy suppliers to effectively manage costs and address grid volatility caused by factors such as climate change and global disruptions. Amperon's efforts aim to advance the transition to a smarter energy grid, optimizing the utilization of previously untapped data.

Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Dollaride offers a technology platform that connects people living in transit deserts to private ride-sharing networks called dollar vans. Its cashless platform offers operator business dashboard, fleet management system, automated fee collection, and territory expansion features, technical resources, web assistance for operators so that they can manage their fleets with transparency and legal compliance, insurance brokerage, scheduling, and dispatch services, enabling drivers to earn more and keep a track of their daily earnings from their phone and passengers to hail a van instantly and save time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

simuwatt, Inc. develops and provides energy efficiency application and platform for commercial buildings to identify, collect, analyze, and act on energy efficiency opportunities throughout the entire building lifecycle. The company offers Energy Auditor, a cloud-based tablet and desktop software application that provides commercial building energy assessments while preserving the data to facilitate reporting, portfolio-wide tracking, and reuse. Its application connects and reports on data through a web browser, iPad, and Windows 10 interface to generate and organize data, which is used to drive energy-based capital improvements for building energy modeling and analysis. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.