Elemental Excelerator

Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time. Each year, it finds 15-20 companies that best fit its mission and funds each company up to $1 million to improve systems that impact people's lives: energy, mobility, water, agriculture, and beyond. To date, it has awarded over $30 million to 82 companies.
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Lauren Tonokawa

MD of Communications

Past deals in Risk Management

Feasible, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Feasible, Inc. designs and develops a battery analytics system. The company offers a battery intelligence platform, known as EchoStat, that uses ultrasound waves to detect differentials within one cell, between multiple cells, and between production lines. It also provides a screening and analytics platform that analyses data generated through EchoStat. The company caters to automotive, residential storage, grid storage, and consumer electronics industries. Feasible, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California.

GOmeter

Seed Round in 2016
Most water meters do not provide real-time monitoring or much insight into the water use of a facility; they are designed to clock in on a monthly basis for billing. GOmeter turns traditional water meters into smart water meters by using a low-cost, camera-based system combined with a sophisticated data-crunching backend. GOmeter allows residents, businesses, and cities to monitor water usage without going through the more intrusive and costly process of installing smart meters. The GOmeter device transmits time-stamped pictures of user’s water meter displays, creating an automated extraction of user data. With only 24 hours of monitoring, GOmeter can sift through a facility’s water data and identify, in nearly real-time, any costly and wasteful water patterns such as high usage spikes, pipe leaks, and appliance malfunctions.

Kando

Series B in 2021
Kando develops wastewater treatment solutions. The company allows water utilities and industrial customers, the ability to detect, track, and anticipate pollution events in real-time. It provides smart sensor system which monitors water toxicity levels, detecting a pollution event the instant it occurs, and taking a sample of the toxic discharge for analysis; analysis and data where the exact composition of the taint is analyzed; identification; and enforcement where it automatically calculate penalties according to local regulation. Kando was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Haifa, Israel.

BioCellection Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Novoloop gives plastic trash new life. We transform packaging waste into high-performance materials, OISTRE™, used in shoes, cars, homes, and more. Our materials perform like those made from fossil fuels and they contain up to 50% post-consumer recycled content and reduce carbon emissions up to 45%. Our low-carbon manufacturing method, ATOD™, offers meaningful sustainability while maintaining quality for consumers, brands, and the materials industry as a whole.

PastureMap, Inc.

Grant in 2017
PastureMap helps ranchers and farmers make profits building healthy grasslands. The company builds a global regenerative agriculture movement that is restores soil health, sequestering carbon, and provides clean water while feeding local communities.

BioCellection Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Novoloop gives plastic trash new life. We transform packaging waste into high-performance materials, OISTRE™, used in shoes, cars, homes, and more. Our materials perform like those made from fossil fuels and they contain up to 50% post-consumer recycled content and reduce carbon emissions up to 45%. Our low-carbon manufacturing method, ATOD™, offers meaningful sustainability while maintaining quality for consumers, brands, and the materials industry as a whole.

Heliogen

Seed Round in 2016
Heliogen, Inc., a clean energy company, develops a technology that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen and syngas fuels. It offers HelioMax, a closed-loop control system used for electricity generation and process heat applications; HelioHeat, a carbon-free and ultra-high temperature heat that is used in industries, such as cement, refining, and mining; and HelioFuel renewable fuels used in applications, including transportation, heavy equipment, and household heating. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Solstice

Grant in 2018
Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. develops customer management software for solar power companies. It provides an online platform for solar marketplace that offers subscriber aggregation and management services to solar developers, utilities, and other providers of shared solar energy. Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Solstice Initiative, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Smart Yields Inc.

Grant in 2017
Smart Yields Inc. develops Smart Yields, a mobile and desktop application that enables to analyze, predict, and alert farmers of environmental conditions for control over farm health from various sensors. Its application facilitates to get a real-time view of farm conditions and farm statistics; receive alerts notifying the farmer when something happens on their farm good or bad; collect data needed for farming through various types of sensors that monitor conditions in water, air, and soil; and send and retrieve data from available sources. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

HST Solar Farms Inc.

Grant in 2017
HST Solar Farms Inc. develops a web-based Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) platform to allow companies to directly contract with utility scale clean energy projects. Its platforms provide solutions to clean energy developers looking to perform feasibility and energy marketing, and it provides solutions to clean energy buyers looking to buy energy at cheaper rates than the grid. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

in2lytics LLC

Grant in 2017
in2lytics LLC develops software solutions that enable data- and analytic-intensive planning and forecasting for the electric grid worldwide. It offers In2lytics software, a database technology with integrated tools for data analytics, data visualization, information sharing, and extensibility. Its software combines SCADA, AMI, irradiance, PV, wind, and other data to provide insights into the grid. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Opus 12 Incorporated

Grant in 2017
Opus 12 captures carbon emissions where pollution is generated and turns the CO2 into chemicals like methane, ethylene, and ethanol. Their technology bolts onto any source of CO₂ emissions, and with only water and electricity as inputs, transforms that CO₂ into some of the world's most critical chemical products. The company plans to recycle CO2 emissions into liquid fuels and chemical precursors cost-competitively with petroleum-sourced products. It also develops a profitable solution to carbon emissions by recycling CO₂ into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. It is based in Berkeley, California.

Zero Mass Water

Venture Round in 2018
Zero Mass Water is a developer and manufacturer of solar-powered devices designed to extract drinkable water from the atmosphere. The company's solar-powered hydro panels utilize advanced materials science to pull water from even the driest conditions, producing pure water that is mineralized and delivered to a tap, enabling users to get clean water essentially anywhere. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

BlocPower

Venture Round in 2020
BlocPower provides solar power and energy efficiency technology products for churches, schools, small businesses, non-profits, and homeowners to slash their energy bills. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.

People Power

Series A in 2014
People Power Company is an IoT software company specializing in the development of smart home and smart building solutions delivered through service provider brands. Its IoT Suite enables rapid connection, engagement, delivery, and management of IoT projects for forward-thinking business partners who understand the opportunity of delivering connected lifestyle improvements to their customers. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Blue Ocean Barns

Grant in 2019
Blue Ocean Barns sources, processes, and markets seaweed to use as a cattle feed additive to reduce methane emissions. The company is based in the United States.

Dollaride

Grant in 2023
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.

Amber Kinetics

Seed Round in 2014
Amber Kinetics, Inc. engineers and develops modular flywheel energy storage projects. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Union City, California.

People Power

Series A in 2014
People Power Company is an IoT software company specializing in the development of smart home and smart building solutions delivered through service provider brands. Its IoT Suite enables rapid connection, engagement, delivery, and management of IoT projects for forward-thinking business partners who understand the opportunity of delivering connected lifestyle improvements to their customers. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

OhmConnect, Inc.

Series D in 2022
OhmConnect, Inc. develops software that provides monetary compensation to users in lieu of energy saving. It assists users to turn real-time household energy savings into cash payments for reducing household energy use at peak hours. The company also sells wireless connected smart-plugs for remote shutoff of refrigerators, window air conditioners, and household machines. OhmConnect, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.

Trove

Series B in 2014
Trove builds technology that allows brands to take control of their resale marketplaces, deepening customer loyalty and generating new profits. The company provides white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands such as Levi’s, Patagonia, REI, Eileen Fisher and Arc’teryx. Trove enables brands to take back items from customers’ closets while maintaining control of their brand equity and owning their customer experience, data and relationships. Rooted in a commitment to sustainability, Trove aims to create a world where all consumers have access to better products with less waste.

Chargetrip B.V.

Seed Round in 2018
Chargetrip B.V. designs and develops software platform for electric vehicle (EV) drivers and the EV industry. It reduces range anxiety with stations and route planning. The company’s EV Route Planning tool provides planning algorithm using revolutionary graph database technology and its EV Metrics tool secures EV data-warehouse, which includes charging station data, POI (Point of Interest) data, user journey data, and charge-station penetration data. Chargetrip B.V. was founded in 2016 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in Norway and Switzerland.

Stem, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Stem brings and optimizes energy consumption to business through its distributed storage technology. Since 2009, Stem has been analyzing how various types of businesses use electricity and how they are charged for it. The company uses this information to design a solution that protects companies from unnecessarily high electricity costs without requiring any changes to the way they run their businesses. Stem combines big data, predictive analytics and energy storage to reduce electric costs for businesses and in aggregate, deliver services to the grid.

Planet FWD

Series A in 2022
Planet FWD produces snacks from regenerative ingredients to reduce carbon emissions in the food system and promote carbon-capturing farming practices. The company source from farmers whose practices help capture carbon from the atmosphere. Also, the company operates a regenerative food platform that connects brands and consumers who want to create climate-friendly products. Planet FWD is based in San Francisco, California.

Swiftly

Series A in 2020
Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility. Built by transportation experts for transportation professionals, the Swiftly platform harnesses billions of data points and sophisticated algorithms to improve transit system performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Swiftly’s technology platform is installed in over 50 cities from coast to coast, improving transportation services for millions of riders each day. Swiftly was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Flywire Cameras, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Flywire is a patented video technology that translates video-enabled fisher data into actionable insights at a fraction of the cost. They work with fishers and seafood suppliers to provide at-sea verification of sustainable fishing efforts, translating video-enabled fisher data into actionable insights at a fraction of the cost. At FlyWire they create technology to verify what happens on the water and deliver the data needed for more sustainable seas and a more transparent supply chain.

Ceres Imaging

Grant in 2017
Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses. Using proprietary sensors, analytics, machine learning models, and plant science, Ceres delivers university-validated imagery-based intelligence to farms in the US and Australia. This enables customers to identify pest, disease, water, and fertilizer issues weeks before they are visible to the naked eye.

Pono Home

Seed Round in 2016
Pono Home offers green home consulting services for homeowners and renters. It offers its clients with personalized, in-home assessments: vampire power assessment, lighting assessment, appliance audit, and water assessment and leak check. The company provides a free audit of a customer’s home, assessing various aspects of kitchen, bathrooms, living rooms, and bedrooms. It then assesses major appliances, on site, for potential improvements, maintenance or upgrades. Customers get a free report detailing their opportunities for improvements. Its maintenance services include leaning refrigerator condenser coils, setting energy saving settings in dishwashers, sealing drafts in windows and doors, pumping up car tires, and more. Pono Home was founded in 2013 by [Scott Cooney](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/scott-cooney#/entity).

Solar Analytics

Grant in 2017
Solar Analytics is an innovative greentech company based in Australia that develops solar PV monitoring to help customers get their solar energy systems working to capacity.

Ibis Networks

Seed Round in 2014
IBIS Networks, Inc. provides energy management solutions for the enterprise sector. The company offers Ibis Plug Load Management System that include InteliSockets that are the energy meters and control points, which plugs in between equipment and the wall sockets; InteliGateways that handles various communications between InteliSockets and InteliNetwork; and InteliNetwork, a cloud-based reporting and control dashboard that provides advanced data visualization, scheduling, and configuration capabilities. It serves schools and higher education, hospitality, and office building markets. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii with additional offices in California and Washington.

Buoy Labs, Inc.

Grant in 2017
Buoy Labs offers a smart device that measures and categorizes homeowners’ household water usage, provides leak notifications, and allows remote water shutoff. The company focuses on helping its users save money on their utilities and costs associated with water damage. Calliope Waterworks was founded in 2015 by Keri Waters and Joel Boutros.

Via Science, Inc.

Grant in 2017
VIA helps energy companies across the globe realize the value of their data through AI and blockchain. The company enables an encrypted analysis of confidential and classified data. It solves asset management and operational issues alongside key players in the energy industry and works with governments, regulators, and large global utilities on AI initiatives like predictive maintenance and contingency planning. Founded in 2016, VIA is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

ConnectDER

Grant in 2015
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.

Go Electric Inc.

Grant in 2017
Go Electric is a green-tech early stage company, developing customer side of the meter energy solutions and services that serve facilities and utilities. Its energy products and services accelerate a renewable energy future by integrating renewable energy, advanced batteries, and generators to reduce energy costs, assure energy security, and enhance grid stability. Go Electric is based in Anderson, I.N.

Leap

Series A in 2020
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.

Spider9

Grant in 2015
Spider9 is a clean technology startup that provides renewable energy storage solutions and software control systems. It develops residential and small commercial solutions, commercial and industrial solutions, utility and large commercial solutions, and control solutions. The company’s products include Spider Vault: a product line designed to meet home, small business, and community energy storage needs that can be used to reduce utility demand charges, increase solar self-consumption, provide backup power, and take an entire home or facility off-grid; Spider Rack Pro: a modular energy storage unit used for emergency backup power, electricity bill reduction, electrical islanding, renewable microgrid operation, and more; Spider Vault Max: a solution that integrates Spider Rack Pro energy storage units into a standard shipping container modified to include all mechanical support structures, HVAC, fire suppression, lighting, and safety controls; and OSE: a system that allows energy storage systems to build operation protocol from data drawn from demand response software, building management systems, and utility signals as well as to serve as a site controller for microgrids and other energy networks. Spider9 was founded in 2011 and is based in Michigan, United States.

Bright Light Systems - BSL

Seed Round in 2015
Bright Light Systems is an American manufacturer focused on light emitting plasma and LED luminaries. The company provides lighting for harsh operating environments such as ports and harbors, rail and intermodal, aerospace, warehouses, airports, highway, and military. It integrates light emitting plasma luminaries with intelligent lighting controls and data management solutions thereby putting customers in control of their energy expenses, fostering green businesses while delivering cost savings and reducing operational expenses. Bright Light Systems was founded in 2010 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

TransitScreen, Inc.

Grant in 2014
TransitScreen's software platform provides live transportation information to real estate owners and employers internationally. Our original software product TransitScreen powers live transportation displays in building lobbies that feature public transit, shared bikes, cars and taxis, taxi and ridehailing, and private shuttles. CityMotion is a custom mobile app for commuters that adds employer shuttles and parking, and new product CommuteWise is an education app that creates custom commute plans that make your onboarding process to a new job (or your return to the office) a cinch.

kWh Analytics, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
kWh Analytics is the market leader in solar risk management. By leveraging the most comprehensive performance database of solar assets in the United States (20% of the U.S. asset class) and the strength of the global insurance markets, kWh Analytics’ customers are able to minimize risk and increase equity returns of their solar portfolios. kWh Analytics invented the Solar Revenue Put to help solar investors reduce their biggest cost: the cost of capital. The credit enhancement has been valued by the leading project finance banks and implemented by top investors on $500M+ of solar projects. We wrote the book on “risk management” for solar investors, and our software solution, HelioStats, supports the market’s largest financial institutions on their data management and compliance obligations. kWh Analytics is backed by private venture capital and the US Department of Energy. kWh Analytics was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TransitScreen, Inc.

Grant in 2014
TransitScreen's software platform provides live transportation information to real estate owners and employers internationally. Our original software product TransitScreen powers live transportation displays in building lobbies that feature public transit, shared bikes, cars and taxis, taxi and ridehailing, and private shuttles. CityMotion is a custom mobile app for commuters that adds employer shuttles and parking, and new product CommuteWise is an education app that creates custom commute plans that make your onboarding process to a new job (or your return to the office) a cinch.

BlocPower

Series A in 2021
BlocPower provides solar power and energy efficiency technology products for churches, schools, small businesses, non-profits, and homeowners to slash their energy bills. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.

Shifted Energy, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Shifted Energy, Inc. develops software solutions and controllers that converts electric water heaters into valuable demand response assets, that enables utilities to stabilize its grid while accelerating the integration of renewable energy. It offers Grid Maestro, a virtual power plant for electric water heaters; as well as Tempo, an electric water heater retrofit controller. Its software technology serves utilities, distributed energy aggregators, building managers, homeowners, and renters. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

BlocPower

Series A in 2021
BlocPower provides solar power and energy efficiency technology products for churches, schools, small businesses, non-profits, and homeowners to slash their energy bills. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.

Fervo Energy Company

Series B in 2021
Fervo Energy is a next-generation geothermal developer generating clean power in new places. Fervo Energy commercializes proprietary technology to own, develop, and operate geothermal assets as the dispatchable foundation to a 100% clean energy future.

Kunoa Cattle Company

Seed Round in 2015
Kunoa Cattle Company, LLC provides large-scale local food production powered by renewables for the cattle. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Kilauea, Hawaii.

Rebound Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
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.

Autowatts

Seed Round in 2014
Autowatts develops a sales software package that simplifies the selling process for dealers of electric vehicles (EV) and photovoltaic solar power production systems. The company offers a sales portal and learning platform that allows salespeople to discuss tax incentives, driving habits, charging costs, fuel sources, true cost of ownership, and financing with customers. Autowatts was founded in 2013 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Carbon Lighthouse

Seed Round in 2016
Carbon Lighthouse is on a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to eliminate carbon emissions caused by wasted energy. The company’s unique approach to Efficiency Production goes deep into buildings to uncover and continuously correct hidden inefficiencies that add up to meaningful financial value and carbon elimination that lasts. Since 2010, commercial real estate, educational, hospitality and industrial customers nationwide have chosen Carbon Lighthouse to enhance building comfort, increase net operating income and achieve their sustainability goals.

FreeWire Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
FreeWire Technologies, Inc. manufactures mobile electric vehicle (EV) chargers. It offers Mobi Charger v0, a mobile EV charger that charges vehicles at speeds of up to 5kW using a J1772 AC plug; Mobi Charger v1, a charging as a service that provides an attendant and manually-operated Mobi units; and Mobi Charger v2, a semi-autonomous EV charger that outputs dual level 2 (J1772 AC) and single level 3 (CHAdeMO or SAE Combo) charging. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Leandro, California.
Opus One Solutions Energy Corporation, a software engineering company, provides operating system solutions. The company offers GridOS, a real-time operating system that offers real-time electrical model; integrated distribution planning solution; DER management solutions, such as impact and scenario analysis, online power flow, constraint management, and online loss computation services; micro grid management solutions that includes onsite power management, distribution automation, and energy management; and transactive energy management solutions including DER valuation, virtual power plant for wholesale, and transactive energy platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Richmond Hill, Canada with additional locations in Somerville, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Toronto, Canada.

GrubTub

Grant in 2017
GrubTubs is dedicated to reconnecting communities with local family farms.

RideScout

Seed Round in 2015
RideScout is a technology platform that aggregates public, private and social rideshare on its free iOS and Android apps, allowing people to search and compare ground transportation options on demand and in real time. Hailed as the Kayak™ of ground transportation, RideScout shows users transit, taxi, ride share, bike share, carpool, walking, biking, driving and parking in one view. The company is based in Austin, TX, with a Washington, DC, office at startup campus 1776.

Sighten

Grant in 2017
Sighten, Inc. develops a software toolset to manage the complexity of distributed solar. The company offers a platform that spans the entire lifecycle of a solar asset ranging from tools that streamline origination, system design, and sales/operations to features that automate ongoing reporting and analytics. It also offers a reporting and analytics portal that brings solar up to speed with mature asset classes and real-time access to data and analysis tools; a pricing engine that accommodates the complexity of the structures used to finance solar and allows for sophisticated asset pricing logic and decisioning; and a downstream toolset that allows organizations to sell solar more effectively and manage the entire financing workflow from lead to operating asset. The company’s customers include tax equity investors, lenders, finance companies, developers, and installers. Sighten, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

OhmConnect, Inc.

Series C in 2020
OhmConnect, Inc. develops software that provides monetary compensation to users in lieu of energy saving. It assists users to turn real-time household energy savings into cash payments for reducing household energy use at peak hours. The company also sells wireless connected smart-plugs for remote shutoff of refrigerators, window air conditioners, and household machines. OhmConnect, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.
Blue Planet Energy Systems, LLC develops a pre-packaged energy storage system for residential and commercial solar photovoltaic systems. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.

eMotorWerks

Grant in 2017
eMotorWerks is the creator of JuiceNet - a market-leading IoT platform that organizes distributed networks of electric vehicle charging stations into multi-megawatt Virtual Power Plants providing critical demand flexibility services to utilities and grid operators. The company’s mission is to attain control of 100% of EV charging load using its innovative driver engagement tools and a disruptive business model based on recurring revenues and third-party project financing. With 8,000+ of its own charging stations in operation, access to 50,000+ stations from its partners, and access to the entire installed base of 500,000 EVs through its innovative IoT charge adapters and relationships with leading OEMs, eMotorWerks is the largest aggregator of EV charging load today and has contracts with all three largest California utilities to provide energy services from that capacity.

UtilityAPI, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
UtilityAPI is a mission-driven software company that enables standardized data transactions for the new energy economy. Hundreds of companies use this everyday for quote generation, feasibility analyses, and asset management, measurement, and verification. UtilityAPI is based in oakland, California.

WaterSmart Software

Grant in 2016
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer engagement, and analytics platform have been proven to reduce costs, protect revenue, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. The company has won the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to impact business and society through the design, development, and implementation of new technologies and innovation.

Solar Analytics

Series B in 2018
Solar Analytics is an innovative greentech company based in Australia that develops solar PV monitoring to help customers get their solar energy systems working to capacity.

Geli

Seed Round in 2014
Geli, which stands for Growing Energy Labs, Inc., provides software and business solutions to design, automate, and manage energy storage systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform.

BrightBox Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
BrightBox Technologies, a Bay Area based start-up, develops and markets advanced HVAC controls to large commercial buildings to improve performance and comfort while significantly reducing operating costs. While most other energy efficiency software companies are focusing on monitoring and/or fault detection in buildings, the BrightBox platform provides actual control and real-time, ongoing system optimization, along with diagnostics and verification of results. They partner with local HVAC controls contractors to provide a complete solution to their customers.

Blyncsy, Inc.

Grant in 2017
Blyncsy, Inc. provides big data solutions. It offers Blyncs sensors that are deployed in indoor and outdoor locations, such as in locations as remote as ski resorts and as intimate as college campuses; an analytics platform that provides insights and backend analytics; and Blyncsy Systems and Services that monitors everything from the number of available parking spaces to the demand on public transit systems. It also offers Mercury, a contact tracing product that manages current and futures contagion contact tracing for universities. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Shifted Energy, Inc.

Grant in 2017
Shifted Energy, Inc. develops software solutions and controllers that converts electric water heaters into valuable demand response assets, that enables utilities to stabilize its grid while accelerating the integration of renewable energy. It offers Grid Maestro, a virtual power plant for electric water heaters; as well as Tempo, an electric water heater retrofit controller. Its software technology serves utilities, distributed energy aggregators, building managers, homeowners, and renters. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Whisker Labs

Grant in 2017
Whisker Labs provides a smart home DIY sensor and software technology delivering home intelligence and peace of mind. Its sensing and software platform mines the home electrical network to monitor and alert to tiny arcs and sparks that are happening anywhere in the home. One plug-in sensor installs in one minute to monitor the whole home for these electrical fire hazards. No installers or electricians are needed to activate the Ting service.

Oroeco Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Oroeco Inc. provides a service that rewards users and their friends for taking action to fight climate change. It offers Oroeco, an information management service that allows members to consolidate and interact with personal spending and/or investment information. The company uses environmental life-cycle assessment data to calculate the climate impacts of products, services, and investments with values converted to carbon dioxide equivalent. Oroeco Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lastwall Networks, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Lastwall is building new internet security systems, broadly based on new ways of authenticating users and strongly enforcing identity. The company's API gives full control over security implementation and allows to add extra user security with just a few lines of code. Lastwall has a full developer documentation for many of the major web platforms.

Green Momit

Grant in 2017
momit drives innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) arena with focus in Energy Efficiency At momit, we design, manufacture and sale smart and connected devices With a strong focus on R&D and internationalization, momit delivers the smart solutions that customers need It was founded in January 2012 and is based in Madrid, Spain. momit has commercial offices in London, UK

Blockchain Water

Pre Seed Round in 2020
NEER is a comprehensive integrated real time water management platform. The Platform uses Machine Learning, to model and assess the risk condition of drinking water distribution mains, sewer and stormwater collection systems.

BIDGELY, INC.

Series B in 2015
Bidgely (which means "electricity" in Hindi) is a highly energetic and innovative startup working on something that has never been done before. They have developed ground-breaking analytics that can itemize home energy usage data to the appliance level without using any plug-level monitors. Now, they are setting out to deliver this technology to millions of households across the world and help save energy on a massive scale.

Signol

Grant in 2017
Signol, our software as a service, harnesses cutting-edge behavioral science to tackle the triple bottom line (people, planet, and profits). Building upon our team’s unique behavioral research in aviation, we combine big data analytics and behavioral science to provide airline captains with refined performance feedback that motivates them to make fuel-efficient decisions when possible - significantly reducing airline fuel costs and CO2 emissions. What’s more, Signol’s behavioral science approach makes captains happier. Signol could improve firm profits, reduce pollution, and increase job satisfaction.

Bandwagon

Seed Round in 2014
Bandwagon facilitates real-time sharing of taxis and hired vehicles. Through web and mobile apps, they connect people who are traveling in the same direction. Shared trips are affordable, fun, and environmentally-friendly. Bandwagon builds transportation software and systems. Their primary area of expertise is building products that increase the efficiency of for-hire vehicle fleets, and increase the connectivity of these fleets with traditional transit systems. Bandwagon also offers transportation strategy consulting to large organizations, municipalities and transportation management agencies. Bandwagon was inspired by an ethic of repair and a belief that cities are fundamentally collaborative & creative enterprises. The Company’s mission is to create products and services that increase urban access to mobility and reduce energy costs and pollution, by reorganizing existing transportation infrastructure. Their products provide efficient access to traditional transportation networks where they exist, and create new mobility where traditional transportation infrastructure is underdeveloped.

People Power

Series A in 2014
People Power Company is an IoT software company specializing in the development of smart home and smart building solutions delivered through service provider brands. Its IoT Suite enables rapid connection, engagement, delivery, and management of IoT projects for forward-thinking business partners who understand the opportunity of delivering connected lifestyle improvements to their customers. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Allume Energy

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Allume Energy Pty. Ltd. provides solar powered electricity to apartment residents. It sells and installs solar energy systems in apartments and provides a related real time application to track usage. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

kWh Analytics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
kWh Analytics is the market leader in solar risk management. By leveraging the most comprehensive performance database of solar assets in the United States (20% of the U.S. asset class) and the strength of the global insurance markets, kWh Analytics’ customers are able to minimize risk and increase equity returns of their solar portfolios. kWh Analytics invented the Solar Revenue Put to help solar investors reduce their biggest cost: the cost of capital. The credit enhancement has been valued by the leading project finance banks and implemented by top investors on $500M+ of solar projects. We wrote the book on “risk management” for solar investors, and our software solution, HelioStats, supports the market’s largest financial institutions on their data management and compliance obligations. kWh Analytics is backed by private venture capital and the US Department of Energy. kWh Analytics was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

T-Rex Group, Inc.

Grant in 2016
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.

UtilityAPI, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
UtilityAPI is a mission-driven software company that enables standardized data transactions for the new energy economy. Hundreds of companies use this everyday for quote generation, feasibility analyses, and asset management, measurement, and verification. UtilityAPI is based in oakland, California.

kWh Analytics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
kWh Analytics is the market leader in solar risk management. By leveraging the most comprehensive performance database of solar assets in the United States (20% of the U.S. asset class) and the strength of the global insurance markets, kWh Analytics’ customers are able to minimize risk and increase equity returns of their solar portfolios. kWh Analytics invented the Solar Revenue Put to help solar investors reduce their biggest cost: the cost of capital. The credit enhancement has been valued by the leading project finance banks and implemented by top investors on $500M+ of solar projects. We wrote the book on “risk management” for solar investors, and our software solution, HelioStats, supports the market’s largest financial institutions on their data management and compliance obligations. kWh Analytics is backed by private venture capital and the US Department of Energy. kWh Analytics was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SheerWind

Grant in 2017
SheerWind, Inc., an energy technology company, develops INVELOX, a wind power generation system. The company’s technology captures, accelerates, and concentrates wind energy. It serves various markets, including onshore/offshore utility-scale wind farms; small-wind systems for buildings and off-the-grid applications; and micro-wind power generation for military, FEMA, homeland security, and consumer products. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Chaska, Minnesota.
Nnergix collects weather and energy data from multiple sources from the industry in order to feed owned machine learning based algorithms to run several analytic solutions with the main goal to help any player in the field to be more efficient during operations and reduce costs.

Ibis Networks

Seed Round in 2013
IBIS Networks, Inc. provides energy management solutions for the enterprise sector. The company offers Ibis Plug Load Management System that include InteliSockets that are the energy meters and control points, which plugs in between equipment and the wall sockets; InteliGateways that handles various communications between InteliSockets and InteliNetwork; and InteliNetwork, a cloud-based reporting and control dashboard that provides advanced data visualization, scheduling, and configuration capabilities. It serves schools and higher education, hospitality, and office building markets. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii with additional offices in California and Washington.