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Piclo is an independent marketplace making electricity grids smart, flexible, and sustainable. The Piclo marketplace enables renewables, batteries, and electric vehicles to provide local flexibility to distribution networks, easing the complex transition to a low-carbon future and delivering low-cost and resilient grids. It encourages greater participation, standardization, and scale in order to level the playing field and accelerate the transition to Net Zero.

WiTricity Corporation, founded in 2007, specializes in wireless power solutions utilizing magnetic resonance technology, which allows for efficient energy transfer over distance. The technology, initially developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, enables a range of applications, including mobile device charging, wireless batteries, and electric vehicle charging. WiTricity's products cater to various sectors such as consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and industrial, providing solutions for challenges like in-vehicle charging and powering implantable devices safely and efficiently. In addition to its proprietary products, the company licenses its technology to original equipment manufacturers, enabling them to integrate wireless power capabilities into their own devices. Based in Watertown, Massachusetts, WiTricity is recognized as a leader in the wireless power transfer industry, holding significant intellectual property and expertise in this innovative field.

OhmConnect is a software based powerplant that assists users in organizing the way they use their electricity usage to lessen digital pollution. OhmConnect rewards its users by saving energy to allow them to make money and win prizes. The company was established in 2013 by Matt Deusterberg in Oakland, California.

Akselos is the creator of the world’s most advanced digital twin technology. Founded in 2012 and with operations in Europe, the USA, and South East Asia, the company’s products are designed specifically to help protect the world’s critical infrastructure with next-generation simulation technology. Akselos Integra® has the power to revolutionize how we design and manage our critical structures and pushes past the boundaries of what modern engineering and data analytics can achieve. With patented algorithms that are up to 1000 times faster than anything else on the market, it’s the only simulation software that can build an accurate and detailed model of large-scale operational assets and run those simulations using only a portable computer. We have some of the world’s best mathematicians and computer scientists on our team and we’re working towards a vision of preventative maintenance and zero unplanned downtime through smart and connected assets. Our vision combines our super-fast, physics-based, digital twins with sensors and big data analytics as essential elements of what we call a Digital Guardian - giving you access to your asset’s condition in real time and a window into the future. We apply the best in digital technology to bring value and efficiency to customers in all asset-centric industries. Find out more www.akselos.com

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.

Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ambri (formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC)) is an early-stage company working to develop and commercialize a new battery technology that revolutionizes grid-scale power storage. Ambri is known for its liquid metal battery technology, which aims to revolutionize the energy storage industry. Their batteries are designed to be low-cost, long-lasting, and capable of storing large amounts of energy, making them ideal for use in renewable energy systems, grid stabilization, and other large-scale energy applications.