Oxylus Energy
Seed Round in 2024
Oxylus Energy develops innovative technology for converting CO2 into e-fuels. It aims to make carbon capture competitive, scalable, and circular, contributing to a decarbonized future.
Polystyvert
Series B in 2024
Founded in 2011, Polystyvert specializes in polystyrene recycling. Its proprietary technology enables efficient collection and recycling of polystyrene waste, producing high-quality recycled material indistinguishable from virgin product.
Earthshot Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Earthshot Labs is a developer of a climate mitigation platform focused on ecological restoration on a global scale. The company utilizes an AI-powered platform to connect investors, carbon buyers, and land stewards, facilitating the financing of projects that promote ecological restoration while ensuring equity for local communities. Its comprehensive tool allows users to algorithmically identify specific regenerative strategies tailored to individual land parcels, ultimately enabling clients to maximize both the natural and economic potential of their land. Through its innovative approach, Earthshot Labs aims to enhance ecosystem regeneration and contribute to climate solutions worldwide.
Harvest Thermal
Seed Round in 2023
Harvest Thermal develops a control system for home use that integrates heating, hot water, and cooling with thermal storage. Its Harvest Thermal Pod is a cloud-connected IoT device that is machine learning enabled. It aims to provide affordable and low-carbon heating, hot water, and cooling systems that reduce the impact on the planet while providing comfort and safer homes.
3E Nano
Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2006, 3E Nano develops and commercializes Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coatings for transparent media. These coatings are designed to control heat and light emission, targeting applications such as windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar modules.
Founded in 2005, Recurve is an open-source SaaS platform that empowers utilities to harness smart meter data for energy usage measurement. It provides software tools for contractors to enhance residential energy efficiency through audits and remodeling services.
Azumo
Venture Round in 2022
Azumo front light is here to light the way to the new era of high efficiency, durable displays that don’t fight the environment but work in tandem with it. The time has come for all of us to reflect on what displays can do for devices.
Network Perception
Series A in 2022
Network Perception, Inc. is a technology company specializing in network device configuration analysis software to enhance network management and security. Founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers tools for firewall auditing and continuous monitoring, enabling corporate compliance and cybersecurity managers to visualize their network effectively. Its platform automates the analysis of network device configuration files, providing comprehensive audits and assessments that help organizations ensure their configurations align with best practices and regulatory standards. By delivering these innovative solutions, Network Perception assists businesses in managing cybersecurity vulnerabilities and maintaining compliance within their network environments.
e-Zinc develops innovative electrochemical technology for energy storage using zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible solution enables long-duration energy storage, facilitating a transition to renewable energy and a zero-carbon future.
Omnidian offers comprehensive protection plans for residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, providing real-time monitoring, proactive service alerts, and a nationwide network of field service professionals to ensure optimal system performance. The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry.
Volexion
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2018, Volexion specializes in manufacturing lithium ion batteries. Its proprietary graphene coating technology enhances conventional lithium-ion batteries, offering clients improved battery life, power performance, and a wider temperature and voltage range.
Network Perception
Seed Round in 2020
Network Perception, Inc. is a technology company specializing in network device configuration analysis software to enhance network management and security. Founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers tools for firewall auditing and continuous monitoring, enabling corporate compliance and cybersecurity managers to visualize their network effectively. Its platform automates the analysis of network device configuration files, providing comprehensive audits and assessments that help organizations ensure their configurations align with best practices and regulatory standards. By delivering these innovative solutions, Network Perception assists businesses in managing cybersecurity vulnerabilities and maintaining compliance within their network environments.
Span develops intelligent hardware and software solutions that transform traditional electrical panels into modern smart hubs. Their AI-powered system enables homeowners to optimize energy usage, reduce bills, and future-proof their homes for growing energy demands.
e-Zinc develops innovative electrochemical technology for energy storage using zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible solution enables long-duration energy storage, facilitating a transition to renewable energy and a zero-carbon future.
Sistine Solar
Venture Round in 2019
Sistine Solar, Inc. is a renewable energy company based in Somerville, Massachusetts, established in 2012. The company specializes in manufacturing SolarSkin, a product that camouflages solar panels to blend seamlessly with various roofing styles. Sistine Solar offers a range of customizable solar panel options, including architectural shingles, 3-tab shingles, concrete tiles, seamed metal roofs, and bespoke designs. By utilizing techniques from solar photovoltaics, color science, and cognitive sciences, Sistine Solar enables homeowners to personalize their solar installations, allowing for a harmonious integration of renewable energy solutions with the aesthetic preferences of their residences.
Omnidian offers comprehensive protection plans for residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, providing real-time monitoring, proactive service alerts, and a nationwide network of field service professionals to ensure optimal system performance. The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry.
Tank Utility
Venture Round in 2019
Tank Utility, Inc. is a Boston-based company, founded in 2014, that specializes in software solutions for the fuel and energy sector. The company designs smart metering devices that utilize wireless sensors to provide real-time tank-level data. Its primary product is a propane monitoring system that combines these sensors with cloud-based applications for efficient business operations. By leveraging innovative business intelligence software, Tank Utility enables fuel distribution companies to minimize unnecessary delivery miles and optimize logistics, thus enhancing customer satisfaction through increased transparency. Additionally, the company offers installation and support services, helping clients improve service efficiency and boost retention rates.
Span develops intelligent hardware and software solutions that transform traditional electrical panels into modern smart hubs. Their AI-powered system enables homeowners to optimize energy usage, reduce bills, and future-proof their homes for growing energy demands.
Azumo front light is here to light the way to the new era of high efficiency, durable displays that don’t fight the environment but work in tandem with it. The time has come for all of us to reflect on what displays can do for devices.
Polystyvert
Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2011, Polystyvert specializes in polystyrene recycling. Its proprietary technology enables efficient collection and recycling of polystyrene waste, producing high-quality recycled material indistinguishable from virgin product.
Omnidian
Seed Round in 2017
Omnidian offers comprehensive protection plans for residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, providing real-time monitoring, proactive service alerts, and a nationwide network of field service professionals to ensure optimal system performance. The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry.
Open Energy Efficiency
Seed Round in 2016
OpenEE offers a SaaS open-source platform that uses smart meter data to calculate and analyze energy efficiency savings in real-time.
Bractlet
Venture Round in 2016
Bractlet, Inc. is an information technology company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in energy intelligence solutions aimed at maximizing energy efficiency and optimizing building performance. Founded in 2011, Bractlet offers an integrated platform that combines hardware and software to analyze business performance and reduce energy waste. Its hardware includes a commercial electrical panel capable of managing up to 42 branch circuits, while its measurement and verification software provides stakeholders with detailed performance reports. By leveraging advanced building energy modeling and big data analytics, Bractlet delivers innovative solutions tailored for the real estate industry, enhancing operational efficiency and maximizing the value of energy investments.
Tank Utility
Seed Round in 2016
Tank Utility, Inc. is a Boston-based company, founded in 2014, that specializes in software solutions for the fuel and energy sector. The company designs smart metering devices that utilize wireless sensors to provide real-time tank-level data. Its primary product is a propane monitoring system that combines these sensors with cloud-based applications for efficient business operations. By leveraging innovative business intelligence software, Tank Utility enables fuel distribution companies to minimize unnecessary delivery miles and optimize logistics, thus enhancing customer satisfaction through increased transparency. Additionally, the company offers installation and support services, helping clients improve service efficiency and boost retention rates.
RedWave Energy
Series B in 2016
RedWave Energy, Inc. is a cleantech company based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2011. The firm specializes in developing innovative technology to capture and convert low-temperature waste heat from power plants into electricity. By utilizing advanced nano-antenna technology licensed from Idaho National Labs and high-speed diode technology from the University of Colorado, RedWave aims to harvest energy from the infrared and near-infrared spectrum. The company’s initial focus is on converting low-quality industrial waste heat into renewable energy, with plans for future phases that include generating electricity from visible light and developing capabilities for terahertz wave detection. RedWave Energy collaborates with MicroContinuum, a technology development firm, to facilitate the fabrication of nano-scale antennas and terahertz electronics essential for its energy capture initiatives.
InVekTek
Seed Round in 2016
InVekTek specializes in industrial software that enhances machine efficiency by minimizing unwanted motion. Its core product, T 1000 Sway Master, uses algorithm-based technology to prevent sway on industrial cranes, enabling safer and more cost-effective operations.
Advanced Diamond Technologies
Venture Round in 2015
Advanced Diamond Technologies develops and applies ultrananocrystalline diamond films for industrial, electronic, and medical uses. The company supplies AFM probes, diamond seals, and wafers for MEMS fabrication, and offers prototyping services for UNCD products. It provides MEMS development, application engineering, and coating solutions, and markets UNCD electrodes for advanced electrochemical water treatment. Advanced Diamond Technologies licenses patents from the Argonne portfolio for the synthesis and micromachining of ultrananocrystalline diamond films. Products are sold through its website and distributors across the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Romeoville, Illinois.
Bractlet
Seed Round in 2015
Bractlet, Inc. is an information technology company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in energy intelligence solutions aimed at maximizing energy efficiency and optimizing building performance. Founded in 2011, Bractlet offers an integrated platform that combines hardware and software to analyze business performance and reduce energy waste. Its hardware includes a commercial electrical panel capable of managing up to 42 branch circuits, while its measurement and verification software provides stakeholders with detailed performance reports. By leveraging advanced building energy modeling and big data analytics, Bractlet delivers innovative solutions tailored for the real estate industry, enhancing operational efficiency and maximizing the value of energy investments.
Digital H2O
Convertible Note in 2015
Digital H2O is a technology company specializing in software solutions for oilfield water management. It offers an online analytics platform that helps energy companies optimize their water logistics and identify market opportunities. The platform provides visibility into water volumes, transport logistics, asset awareness, planning tools, and data visualization.
Edison DC Systems
Series A in 2014
EDCS Power designs and builds equipment that improves end to end power efficiency in data centers. EDCS captures the energy savings of direct current (DC) over alternating current (AC) while addressing space and scalability costs traditionally associated with DC systems. EDCS’s patent-pending, modular AC to DC converter racks deliver more power more efficiently to IT server equipment. EDCS improves system reliability and increases operator safety. EDCS’s proprietary technology is the only direct current solution that can be implemented at the rack, row, or entire building level.
NanoGraf
Seed Round in 2014
NanoGraf Corporation is a materials science company based in Chicago, Illinois, focused on the development and commercialization of advanced materials for the energy storage market. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in silicon-graphene electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. NanoGraf has created a high energy density silicon-based anode material that presents a promising alternative to traditional graphitic-based anodes. This innovative technology has applications across various sectors, from consumer electronics to electric vehicles. The company's materials are designed to enhance battery capacity and reduce charging times, enabling the production of lithium-ion batteries through a cost-effective, chemistry-based manufacturing process.
Digital H2O
Convertible Note in 2014
Digital H2O is a technology company specializing in software solutions for oilfield water management. It offers an online analytics platform that helps energy companies optimize their water logistics and identify market opportunities. The platform provides visibility into water volumes, transport logistics, asset awareness, planning tools, and data visualization.
GlidePath Power
Seed Round in 2014
GlidePath Power is a developer specializing in battery power systems that encompass a range of technologies, including wind, solar, distributed gas, and energy storage. The company possesses extensive experience as both an owner-operator and a turnkey developer of renewable energy and storage facilities. GlidePath Power leverages its deep understanding of the energy markets to identify and capitalize on opportunities in the sector, making it well-equipped to develop financeable power projects. This unique expertise allows GlidePath Power to navigate the complexities of various technologies, providing valuable insights and support to businesses engaged in power projects across the United States.
Intellihot
Seed Round in 2013
Intellihot is a manufacturer of tankless water heater systems for both residential and commercial applications. Established in 2005, the company emerged from the founder's experience with a traditional water heater malfunction. Intellihot's innovative designs, which have several patents pending, focus on conserving space and eliminating the need for bulky storage tanks. The systems are equipped with advanced connectivity features, including Wi-Fi and 3G/4G capabilities, allowing users to connect to a router or internet hub. This connectivity enables the analysis of water usage patterns, providing clients with on-demand water heating solutions that are both efficient and space-saving.
Root3 Technologies
Seed Round in 2013
Root3 Technologies Inc. specializes in providing energy analytics solutions through its innovative cloud-based technology and big-data analytics. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, with an additional location in Ann Arbor, the company offers a suite of tools designed to optimize energy management. Its key products include DIAGNOSE, an energy assessment service; BALANCE, which facilitates real-time operational improvements; and ELEVATE, a planning tool for production managers and engineers. The company's solutions focus on areas such as optimization, measurement and verification, market participation, rate analysis, demand management, and capital planning support. Root3 Technologies serves a diverse range of sectors, including manufacturing, hospitality, corporate campuses, and cold-storage operations, helping clients achieve significant reductions in energy costs.
Atlas Data Storage specializes in innovative data storage solutions. It develops systems that encode digital information into synthetic DNA, offering end-to-end services from semiconductor-based synthesis to enzyme engineering. This approach enables long-term, high-density data storage, catering to diverse sectors with scalable and energy-efficient solutions.