Natural Fiber Welding develops a circularity platform producing sustainable materials from plants. Its multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery. Its technology embeds seamlessly into existing supply chains, enabling iconic brands to design and scale products with high-performance, plastic-free materials.
Swell Energy is a home energy company that provides smart grid and energy management solutions for homeowners and businesses. The distributed energy and grid solutions provider is accelerating the mass adoption of residential and commercial clean energy technologies by making it easy for consumers to take control of their home energy use, achieve energy security and generate GridRevenue. The company provides homeowners and businesses with financing and educational resources, partnering with trusted local solar + storage companies and top technology providers for seamless, high-quality installations of the best available products. By creating a critical mass of dynamic and responsive clean energy resources within utility service areas across the United States, Swell Energy is also delivering virtual power plant networks and grid-balancing services to utilities, which are fundamental to our future distributed energy system.
Aquacycl ( formerly Aquam) offers the only packaged treatment plant that can deliver a 4 hour treatment time, reduce total sludge volumes and recover energy as direct electricity (no methane).The Aquacycl product line can be scaled for residential single-family homes or small communities (up to 2,500 individuals).Aquacycl is headquartered in Kearny Mesa, San Diego, CA with laboratories in Sorrento Valley, CA and pilot installations in Escondido, CA, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.Aquam is seeking strategic partners and investors.
The Renewal Workshop partners with the world’s best- loved brands and retailers to renew their “unsellable” returns and excess inventory.
Newday Impact provides portfolios for socially responsible investors. They also provide portfolios addressing environmental and social issues, including climate action, ocean health, clean water, diversity, equity, and inclusion, wildlife conservation and animal welfare, and stakeholder capitalism.
Repurpose, Inc. is a consumer packaged goods company that specializes in the development and manufacture of plant-based disposable and compostable tableware. Founded in 2011 and based in Los Angeles, California, the company offers a range of products including plates, cups, bowls, utensils, and cutlery, all designed as sustainable alternatives to traditional plasticware. Repurpose's products are made from renewable materials, allowing consumers and businesses to reduce their reliance on petroleum-based plastics and contribute to environmental sustainability. The company sells its products online and through various grocery and retail outlets across the United States, with plans to expand its product line to include additional items such as trash and sandwich bags.
Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life. The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness. Allbirds is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2015.
StemoniX is a biotechnology company that focuses on stem cell technologies to meet the demands of drug discovery and personalized medicine. StemoniX is revolutionizing the production, growth, and development of stem cell and stem cell technologies. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
Carbon Lighthouse is a technology company delivering easy building decarbonization for commercial real estate (CRE) owners. With more than a decade of deep expertise in eliminating carbon emissions from the built environment, its unique Efficiency Production platform and CLUES® AI software capture new climate, financial and operational value for owners that need to reach decarbonization goals. Since 2010, Carbon Lighthouse has enabled clients including Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, L&B, AEW and Ohana to increase NOI of $0.20 - $0.50 per square foot at a cost of $0.07 per square foot while achieving science-based ESG objectives. To date, the company has delivered +$250M in client value and eliminated more than 584,000 tons of carbon emissions. For more information visit: www.carbonlighthouse.com.
Conception is a company developing the technology to turn skin cells into viable human eggs. This technology will give women the opportunity to have children well into their forties and fifties, eliminate barriers for couples suffering from infertility, and potentially allow male-male couples to have biological children. Long term, this technology could be a critical platform allowing for widespread genetic screening of embryos. If proven safe, it could even enable for genetic editing to eliminate and reduce the risk of devastating diseases for future generations – such as Alzheimer’s, heart disease and many different types of cancers. This could become one of the most important technologies ever created. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
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.
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.
GoodLeap, formerly known as Loanpal, LLC, is a finance company that focuses on providing funding for clean energy home improvement projects, including solar panel installations and related home enhancements. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Roseville, California, GoodLeap has established itself as a prominent lender with over 16 years of experience and more than $27 billion in funded loans, benefiting over 125,000 customers nationwide. The company aims to create a seamless lending experience through its proprietary technology, facilitating rapid approvals and improved user engagement. In addition to financing home improvements, GoodLeap offers home purchasing loans and refinancing services. The company is also committed to sustainability, partnering with GivePower to support initiatives that provide solar-powered water and energy systems to underserved communities globally.
Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.
Enexor BioEnergy is an energy company that specializes in providing bioenergy, renewable energy, and distributed energy. It provides on-site, renewable energy solutions to help solve the world's organic and plastic waste problem. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
Nana Services, Inc. is a technology-driven company specializing in appliance repair services, offering solutions for various household appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, ovens, and washers through its Nana Home platform. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the company addresses the growing demand for skilled tradespeople by providing a free online vocational school, known as Nano Academy, that equips individuals with hands-on repair skills. Graduates of this program are not only offered initial employment opportunities but are also supported in advancing their careers through Nana's AI-powered marketplace, which connects customers with qualified professionals. Through these initiatives, Nana aims to create a sustainable pipeline of skilled workers while addressing the challenges of unemployment and underemployment in the United States.
ecoSPEARS is a cleantech solutions company ushering in the carbonless future of environmental cleanup. ecoSPEARS has designed and developed green and sustainable remediation technologies to extract and destroy PCBs, dioxins, and other Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) from the environment - forever.
Private Equity Round in 2019
Sunlight Financial is a premier, technology-enabled point-of-sale finance company. Sunlight partners with contractors nationwide to provide homeowners with financing for the installation of residential solar systems and other home improvements. Sunlight’s best-in-class technology and deep credit expertise simplify and streamline consumer finance, ensuring a fast and frictionless process for both contractors and homeowners.
LOLIWARE’s mission is to advance the planet towards a plastic-free, decarbonized future with products that are Designed to Disappear. We’re an award-winning materials tech company and we are replacing single-use plastics with bio-renewable seaweed-derived alternatives. The team bringing this vision to life is a diverse and global group of planetary visionaries, scientists, engineers, business leaders, strategists, and technologists with a shared vision for a plastic-free future. And additionally, we’ve formed a very high caliber scientific advisory board with Dr. Carlos Duarte, a world-renowned marine scientist guiding our seaweed supply chain, Dr. Louis Metzger formerly chief scientific officer at Tierra Biosciences, and Dr. Garret Miyake, an award-winning chemist, Sloan research fellow, and co-founder of Cypris materials. There’s an increasing number of biobased alternatives on the market, but not all products are created equal. There are concerns about their true environmental impact as compared to plastic. Biodegradability is one critical factor to consider, but we must also look at the carbon footprint. Some current options such as paper straws carry a carbon footprint of 2-3X more than plastic itself while others have made false claims around their biodegradability. A better future necessitates an alternative that is proven to be compostable, carbon negative, and scalable. LOLIWARE was just awarded top product of the year from Environmental + Energy leader because they believe we have the ability to set a new industry standard for single-use plastics Our first product is a home compostable, ocean safe, tree-free, drinking straw. But it’s important to note that LOLIWARE is not a straw company, we are a biopolymer company with applications in every category of single-use plastics. LOLIWARE is focused on 6 new products by the close of 2023.
RxSugar is a producer of natural sugar used to serve it as a healthy alternative. Its product is Allulose based and has fewer calories, produces only negligible increases in blood glucose or insulin levels, does not promote dental decay, and is zero glycemic that help diabetics and other customers since it helps inhibit fat absorption, prevent fatty liver disorders, and increase satiety. RxSugar was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Blue Planet’s technology uses CO2 as a raw material for making carbonate rocks. The carbonate rocks produced are used in place of natural limestone rock mined from quarries, which is the principal component of concrete. CO2 from flue gas is converted to carbonate (or CO3=) by contacting CO2 containing gas with water-based capture solutions. This differentiates Blue Planet from most CO2 capture methods because the captured CO2 does not require a purification step, which is an energy and capital intensive process. As a result, Blue Planet’s capture method is extremely efficient and results in a lower cost than traditional methods of CO2 capture.
Conception is a company developing the technology to turn skin cells into viable human eggs. This technology will give women the opportunity to have children well into their forties and fifties, eliminate barriers for couples suffering from infertility, and potentially allow male-male couples to have biological children. Long term, this technology could be a critical platform allowing for widespread genetic screening of embryos. If proven safe, it could even enable for genetic editing to eliminate and reduce the risk of devastating diseases for future generations – such as Alzheimer’s, heart disease and many different types of cancers. This could become one of the most important technologies ever created. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
SellHound is a price comparison engine for secondhand marketplaces that makes it easy to sell second-hand items. Its product includes a multi-marketplace virtual assistant listing app for used goods, as well as, the first-ever aggregator of secondhand marketplaces. Their smart recommerce platform is designed to make selling as easy as buying. Our goal is to make reuse more mainstream by making recommerce easier and more successful for everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.
Calyx Health is a developer of a healthcare system used to provide primary care clinic that specializes in caring for the elderly. Its system offers an acoustic ceiling to reduce muffled echoes for patients with impaired hearing, non-slip floors to prevent fall risk, indirect lighting to cater to the needs of patients with cataract, and an in-house laboratory for most blood work to minimize the number of referrals that enable patients to benefit from the family-like treatment from the clinic. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Alameda, California.
Every day in America, they waste 3X more food than there are mouths to feed. It is not a lack of food that is the issue, but rather an ineffective distribution of that food. Hunger is not a scarcity problem, it's a logistics problem. For the first time ever, they can effectively donate prepared and highly perishable food to those who need it when they need it most. Copia is a for-profit company that has built technology allowing food donors (e.g., food management companies like corporate cafeterias, universities, hospitals, grocers, caterers etc.) to easily request pickups of their surplus food, have it matched, and safely delivered to non-profits in need. With Copia, partnering businesses can now seamlessly access significant tax savings, dramatically reduce food waste through data and analytics on surplus, and remove CO2 from the atmosphere, all while feeding the neediest in their community.
Ecolectro is bringing scalable, low-cost, clean green hydrogen energy to the very near future. Our electrolyzers integrate patented polymers into durable, high performance stacks. Our scientists and engineers design and build units with our exceptional membranes and electrodes, delivering high production rates and efficiency of pure hydrogen without the need for platinum, iridium and titanium. We continue to push the limits of electrolysis technology with an emphasis on research and willingness to challenge assumptions.
54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations. 54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is caucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
Provenance is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics for cancer and other serious, life-threatening diseases. The Company’s engineered antibody technologies promote the body’s own immune system to recognize and fight disease. Provenance is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Newday Impact provides portfolios for socially responsible investors. They also provide portfolios addressing environmental and social issues, including climate action, ocean health, clean water, diversity, equity, and inclusion, wildlife conservation and animal welfare, and stakeholder capitalism.
Next Health is a next generation health & wellness center that is a fusion between traditional & alternative medicine. Bringing the most advanced medical treatments and technologies available in the world at the most affordable costs with specialization in Cryotherapy, IV Therapy, Genetic Testing, Hormone Optimization & Medical Aesthetics.
OOVA is a fertility diagnostic company that spun out from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Using patent pending biochemistry and artificial intelligence, OOVA learns a woman’s fertility profile by accurately measuring key hormones over time through daily urine samples. By monitoring this critical balance of hormones, OOVA can help a woman get pregnant, identify reasons she is having trouble getting pregnant, and even expose reproductive health issues like PCOS.
Synvivia makes ON-OFF switches for genetically engineered organisms. These protein switches are controlled by small molecules. By installing these switches into an organism, Synvivia creates engineered organisms that can be controlled with small molecules.
TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Their core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. Their groundbreaking work has led to industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on their results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow.
Provenance is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics for cancer and other serious, life-threatening diseases. The Company’s engineered antibody technologies promote the body’s own immune system to recognize and fight disease. Provenance is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising. Lady Technologies is implementing sensing technology into consumer devices to advance women's health. Its first product, kegg, is an intuitive fertility tracker that quadruples the chances of natural conception by detecting the fertile window and ovulation up to 7 days in advance. Kegg collects the previously unattainable data from cervical fluid, which is essential for the better diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of women. The company was founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California.
Primary Ocean is a vertically integrated seaweed biotechnology company innovating regenerative seaweed biomass production, value-added processing, and profits through offshore, open ocean seaweed farming technologies, biorefining technologies, and marketing of seaweed-based products beginning with its best in class agricultural biostimulants and expanding to food, cosmetics, bioplastics, and biofuels.
SIXUP is a for-profit technology company innovating the way to provide scalable financing and digital wrap-around support to high-achieving, low-income students who are underfunded and underserved. Through a systems-based approach, we aggregate, underwrite, fund, and produce a new asset (talent) class called Future-Prime that represents 7M students and $30-100 billion in volume annually. Sixup is venture-backed with $14M in equity to-date from investors such as Collaboration Capital (Lykes Family Office), Rethink Education, Learn Capital, Kellogg Foundation, and Western Technology Investment. Sixup has raised $41M in lending and grant capital from investors such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Prudential, Kellogg Foundation, Woodcock Foundation, and several family offices and impact investors. It has partnered with community-based, advocacy, and ecosystem partners such as KIPP, Christo Rey, Genesys Works, Scholarships.com, Edvisors, and National College Access Network (NCAN). Sixup is a for-profit, public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, and operational as a consumer lender in 18 states.
Mighty Buildings is a cutting-edge construction technology company that uses 3D printing, robotics, and automation to build homes. It is a modular construction company working on disrupting the residential housing market with 3D printing tech, robotics, and composite materials backed by notable top-tier venture capital firms. The company creates a proprietary building material called Light Stone Material (LSM) which is similar to a synthetic stone that can be 3D printed, making the building process faster and with zero waste. LSM can also maintain a structure’s temperature better than concrete, wood, or steel.
Fairwaves manufactures and sells equipment for open-source telecommunication to serve mobile operators. The company offers indoor, tower-mounted, and rack-mounted base stations as well as two-channel SDR transceivers. It also provides cloud core-based networks for mobile operators as well as support and cloud services; and consulting services for electronic design involving its hardware products. In addition, Fairwaves is engaged in the online sale of ready-to-use products, accessories, and DIY products. Its equipment is deployed in Mexico, the Netherlands, and Island of Mayotte. Fairwaves was founded in 2011 and is based in Brookline, Massachusetts with additional offices in Moscow, Russian Federation; Riga, Latvia; and Paris, France.
Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly. The core of our technology is a novel biopolymer which is used as a platform for passive transdermal drug delivery of small molecules and drugs.
Wildtype is an agtech platform based in San Francisco, California. Wildtype aims to create clean and sustainable fish and meat. They use cellular agriculture technologies to address the most pressing challenges of the generation: climate change, food security, and health. They are looking for committed scientists to fundamentally redefine how the world sources healthy and delicious meat.