US Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy is a government agency established in 1977, located in Washington, D.C. Its primary mission is to ensure the security and prosperity of the nation by tackling energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges. The Department focuses on promoting transformative scientific and technological solutions to address these issues, thereby supporting the country's energy needs and environmental sustainability.

Maria Robinson

Director of DOE's Grid Deployment Office

David Tucker

Research Scientist

Past deals in Software

OLI Systems

Grant in 2025
OLI Systems is a prominent software company that focuses on modeling and simulation of electrolyte systems. The company develops commercial software designed to simulate the chemical and phase behavior of aqueous-based systems. Its offerings include a comprehensive chemistry data bank, thermodynamic frameworks, and a diverse software portfolio, along with extensive services and applications expertise. This enables clients to effectively address complex challenges related to water chemistry.

Parallel18

Grant in 2024
Parallel18 is an accelerator firm and international innovation hub based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Founded in 2015, it supports software startups across Latin America, the United States, and Puerto Rico by offering funding, mentorship, business connections, and investment to help underrepresented founders scale globally.

Aquila Group

Grant in 2024
Aquila is dedicated to design, manufacturing, and implementing advanced technological solutions to help mitigate threat and manage vulnerability.

Kitware

Grant in 2024
Kitware is a company that develops and supports open-source software solutions in various fields including computer vision, medical imaging, and data visualization. Founded in 1998 and based in Clifton Park, New York, it offers a suite of tools such as the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit for medical data processing, CMake for managing software builds, and the Visualization Toolkit for 3D graphics and image processing. Kitware also provides applications like KiwiViewer for exploring geometric datasets and MIDAS, a multimedia server for scientific data management. Additionally, its products include ActiViz, a 3D data visualization interface, VolView for analyzing 3D medical data, CDashPro for software testing management, and ParaViewPro, a subscription service that offers professional support for scientific visualization. The company's software is utilized by government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial organizations to address complex technical challenges and promote reproducible research.

Performance Systems Development

Grant in 2024
Performance Systems Development, LLC specializes in providing building performance software, engineering solutions, and training services primarily for homeowners, businesses, and commercial building owners in the United States. Founded in 1998 and based in Ithaca, New York, the company offers a suite of tools including the Targeted Retrofit Energy Analysis Tool for energy auditing, the Green Energy Compass for managing energy efficiency programs, and the Building Performance Compass for benchmarking and tracking energy use in commercial and multifamily properties. In addition to software, the company delivers program services that encompass residential, multifamily, and commercial applications, as well as customized engineering solutions. Performance Systems Development also offers comprehensive training courses for energy auditors, builders, contractors, and engineers, covering various certifications and software training in the energy efficiency sector. The company effectively connects stakeholders, including utilities and trade allies, to streamline program implementation and support energy efficiency goals across diverse sectors.

Theia Scientific

Grant in 2024
Theia Scientific is a platform for automating scientific and engineering workflows with AI and Machine Learning technologies.

Tech-X

Grant in 2024
Tech-X Corporation is a software development company that specializes in creating high-performance computational physics simulation software. Their platforms are designed for engineers and scientists, offering customizable solutions with user-friendly interfaces, integration capabilities, and robust support services. Tech-X's software aims to enhance operational efficiency and adaptability to evolving market demands by enabling users to understand and simulate physical systems through modern computational methods and advanced visualization.

Sequent Logic

Grant in 2024
Sequent Logic creates software-defined radio and digital signal processing solutions for clients. Their solutions include custom acquisition, DSP, waveform synthesis solutions, custom rf, mixed-signal electronics design, and form factors. They offers customer support through email and phone contact.

Sequent Logic

Grant in 2024
Sequent Logic creates software-defined radio and digital signal processing solutions for clients. Their solutions include custom acquisition, DSP, waveform synthesis solutions, custom rf, mixed-signal electronics design, and form factors. They offers customer support through email and phone contact.

Carbon Solutions

Grant in 2024
Carbon Solutions provides low-carbon energy research and development and software. They offer carbon management services. They support integrated CO₂ capture, transport, and storage solutions. They offer market assessments, project feasibility, and project design services.

RadiaSoft

Grant in 2024
RadiaSoft is a research and development company specializing in scientific computing, software development, COMSOL, science consulting, and machine learning services. It provides high-performance computing solutions enabling browser-based access to simulations, parallel computing resources, and ML expertise. It offers algorithm and software development, public cloud and physically isolated network options, and supports electron and ion beam modeling, accelerator applications, and plasma simulations. Its services allow clients to run open-source high-performance codes for applications ranging from synchrotron light sources to industrial electron sources.

Lifeboat

Grant in 2024
Lifeboat is an open-source HDF5 data management software.

Tech-X

Grant in 2024
Tech-X Corporation is a software development company that specializes in creating high-performance computational physics simulation software. Their platforms are designed for engineers and scientists, offering customizable solutions with user-friendly interfaces, integration capabilities, and robust support services. Tech-X's software aims to enhance operational efficiency and adaptability to evolving market demands by enabling users to understand and simulate physical systems through modern computational methods and advanced visualization.

Princeton Satellite Systems

Grant in 2024
Princeton Satellite Systems is a company specializing in the development of hardware and software products for the aerospace and energy sectors. It focuses on satellite communication technology aimed at facilitating efficient and reliable global data transmission. The company offers advanced satellite data processing capabilities, real-time analytics, and secure connectivity solutions. These offerings enable enterprises and governmental organizations to seamlessly integrate and manage satellite communication across a variety of applications, ensuring robust performance and operational flexibility in diverse environments.

Phase III Physics

Grant in 2024
Phase III Physics is a scientific research and development program based on fundamental nuclear and high-energy physics that promotes advances in fundamental physics and sustainable energy applications through innovative product and software design.

Stottler Henke

Grant in 2024
Stottler Henke specializes in developing artificial intelligence technologies and software solutions. They combine expertise in AI with skills in expert knowledge elicitation, requirements analysis, data analysis, visualization, and user interface design to deliver innovative solutions for education, planning, decision support, and computer security.

Airmettle

Grant in 2024
AirMettle operates a software-defined storage platform designed to streamline data analytics processes. Its core offering is a system that converts diverse data formats into those compatible with analysis tools, thereby minimizing network traffic and reducing the need for costly memory resources in higher-level analytics applications. This enables users to efficiently extract valuable insights from their data.

Kitware

Grant in 2024
Kitware is a company that develops and supports open-source software solutions in various fields including computer vision, medical imaging, and data visualization. Founded in 1998 and based in Clifton Park, New York, it offers a suite of tools such as the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit for medical data processing, CMake for managing software builds, and the Visualization Toolkit for 3D graphics and image processing. Kitware also provides applications like KiwiViewer for exploring geometric datasets and MIDAS, a multimedia server for scientific data management. Additionally, its products include ActiViz, a 3D data visualization interface, VolView for analyzing 3D medical data, CDashPro for software testing management, and ParaViewPro, a subscription service that offers professional support for scientific visualization. The company's software is utilized by government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial organizations to address complex technical challenges and promote reproducible research.

Zeus AI

Grant in 2024
We integrate multi-modal, multi-resolution data to create a unified model of our planet. Our model predicts timely, complete, high-resolution global information. Zeus AI has been recognized for its contributions to the field through selections for NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, receiving funding to further develop its AI-driven solutions for environmental monitoring and analysis. With a focus on software development within the environmental sector, Zeus AI is dedicated to improving how weather data is collected, analyzed, and utilized for various applications.

SeeQC

Grant in 2024
SeeQC develops application-specific quantum computing systems using superconducting qubits. It serves industries such as machine learning/AI, logistics optimization, quantum chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and fintech globally. Founded in 2018, SeeQC is headquartered in Elmsford, New York with facilities in London, UK, and Naples, Italy.

Aperi CMC

Grant in 2024
Aperi CMC is an agile open-source community that trains subject matter experts to use open-source code, so they are no longer bound by the software provided by their host firm.

BioSynthetic Machines

Grant in 2023
BioSynthetic Machines create organisms for the microbiological synthesis of chemicals by utilizing AI that is proprietary and computational, experimental, and synthetic biology methods.

Sequent Logic

Grant in 2023
Sequent Logic creates software-defined radio and digital signal processing solutions for clients. Their solutions include custom acquisition, DSP, waveform synthesis solutions, custom rf, mixed-signal electronics design, and form factors. They offers customer support through email and phone contact.

Phase III Physics

Grant in 2023
Phase III Physics is a scientific research and development program based on fundamental nuclear and high-energy physics that promotes advances in fundamental physics and sustainable energy applications through innovative product and software design.

Om Bharti

Grant in 2023
Om Bharti is a machine-learning software platform that will combine and analyze enormous amounts of biological data to produce actionable results that will speed up research, development, industrialization, and optimization.

Kitware

Grant in 2023
Kitware is a company that develops and supports open-source software solutions in various fields including computer vision, medical imaging, and data visualization. Founded in 1998 and based in Clifton Park, New York, it offers a suite of tools such as the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit for medical data processing, CMake for managing software builds, and the Visualization Toolkit for 3D graphics and image processing. Kitware also provides applications like KiwiViewer for exploring geometric datasets and MIDAS, a multimedia server for scientific data management. Additionally, its products include ActiViz, a 3D data visualization interface, VolView for analyzing 3D medical data, CDashPro for software testing management, and ParaViewPro, a subscription service that offers professional support for scientific visualization. The company's software is utilized by government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial organizations to address complex technical challenges and promote reproducible research.

Carbon Solutions

Grant in 2023
Carbon Solutions provides low-carbon energy research and development and software. They offer carbon management services. They support integrated CO₂ capture, transport, and storage solutions. They offer market assessments, project feasibility, and project design services.

Areté Associates

Grant in 2023
Areté is an advanced science and engineering company that provides innovative solutions from scientific discovery to production.

Shifted Energy

Grant in 2023
Shifted Energy develops software and controllers that convert electric water heaters and other household assets into flexible distributed energy resources for demand response. Its platform enables utilities and grid operators to stabilize the grid and accelerate renewable integration by preheating water to absorb excess renewables and delivering fast demand response. The product suite includes Grid Maestro, a virtual power plant for electric water heaters, and Tempo, a retrofit controller for water heaters. The platform can also integrate assets such as pool pumps, home batteries, solar inverters, and electric vehicle charging stations to provide multiple grid services. It serves utilities, distributed energy aggregators, building managers, homeowners, and renters. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Innowatts

Grant in 2023
Founded in 2013, Innowatts specializes in data analytics for the energy sector. Its eUtility™ platform leverages machine learning and meter-level data to help energy retailers and utilities worldwide manage grids, enhance profitability, improve customer relationships, and promote sustainability.

Upstream Tech

Grant in 2023
Upstream Tech specializes in software development for environmental monitoring. They combine expertise in software, machine learning, hydrology, and earth sciences to create accessible remote sensing tools. Their products accelerate global environmental work by providing precise, large-scale data on freshwater conservation.

Kitware

Grant in 2023
Kitware is a company that develops and supports open-source software solutions in various fields including computer vision, medical imaging, and data visualization. Founded in 1998 and based in Clifton Park, New York, it offers a suite of tools such as the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit for medical data processing, CMake for managing software builds, and the Visualization Toolkit for 3D graphics and image processing. Kitware also provides applications like KiwiViewer for exploring geometric datasets and MIDAS, a multimedia server for scientific data management. Additionally, its products include ActiViz, a 3D data visualization interface, VolView for analyzing 3D medical data, CDashPro for software testing management, and ParaViewPro, a subscription service that offers professional support for scientific visualization. The company's software is utilized by government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial organizations to address complex technical challenges and promote reproducible research.

Error Corp

Grant in 2023
Error Corp develops error control solutions for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Their platform uses proprietary algorithms with non-destructive measurements to enhance the accuracy and longevity of quantum systems.

ParaTools

Grant in 2023
ParaTools offers training and workshops in software development, porting, and performance evaluation tools for high-performance computing. They also help to integrate the tools in the projects and help with all aspects of instrumentation, measurement and analysis of programs.

Kitware

Grant in 2023
Kitware is a company that develops and supports open-source software solutions in various fields including computer vision, medical imaging, and data visualization. Founded in 1998 and based in Clifton Park, New York, it offers a suite of tools such as the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit for medical data processing, CMake for managing software builds, and the Visualization Toolkit for 3D graphics and image processing. Kitware also provides applications like KiwiViewer for exploring geometric datasets and MIDAS, a multimedia server for scientific data management. Additionally, its products include ActiViz, a 3D data visualization interface, VolView for analyzing 3D medical data, CDashPro for software testing management, and ParaViewPro, a subscription service that offers professional support for scientific visualization. The company's software is utilized by government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial organizations to address complex technical challenges and promote reproducible research.

Carbon Solutions

Grant in 2023
Carbon Solutions provides low-carbon energy research and development and software. They offer carbon management services. They support integrated CO₂ capture, transport, and storage solutions. They offer market assessments, project feasibility, and project design services.

OLI Systems

Grant in 2023
OLI Systems is a prominent software company that focuses on modeling and simulation of electrolyte systems. The company develops commercial software designed to simulate the chemical and phase behavior of aqueous-based systems. Its offerings include a comprehensive chemistry data bank, thermodynamic frameworks, and a diverse software portfolio, along with extensive services and applications expertise. This enables clients to effectively address complex challenges related to water chemistry.

RadiaSoft

Grant in 2023
RadiaSoft is a research and development company specializing in scientific computing, software development, COMSOL, science consulting, and machine learning services. It provides high-performance computing solutions enabling browser-based access to simulations, parallel computing resources, and ML expertise. It offers algorithm and software development, public cloud and physically isolated network options, and supports electron and ion beam modeling, accelerator applications, and plasma simulations. Its services allow clients to run open-source high-performance codes for applications ranging from synchrotron light sources to industrial electron sources.

Applied Materials

Grant in 2022
Applied Materials, Inc. is a leading provider of manufacturing equipment, services, and software for the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three primary segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment focuses on the development and sale of equipment essential for fabricating semiconductor chips, utilizing advanced technologies such as epitaxy, ion implantation, and chemical vapor deposition. The Applied Global Services segment enhances equipment and fabrication performance through integrated solutions, including spare parts, upgrades, and automation software. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers manufacturing products for various display technologies, including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes. Established in 1967 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Applied Materials serves a global customer base that includes some of the largest chip manufacturers, operating across regions such as the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

Super.tech

Grant in 2022
Super.tech is a company that specializes in developing software designed to accelerate quantum computing. Founded in 2020 by Pranav Gokhale and Fred Chong, Super.tech focuses on bridging the gap between quantum applications and hardware. The company's technology stack is engineered to make quantum software explicitly aware of the underlying quantum hardware, allowing developers to achieve significant speedups for practical applications. This full-stack, cross-layer architecture aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of quantum computing processes.

Galois

Grant in 2022
Galois specializes in developing advanced technologies that guarantee the trustworthiness of critical systems. They apply cutting-edge computer science and mathematics to enhance software and hardware security, serving government and industry clients.

ParaTools

Grant in 2022
ParaTools offers training and workshops in software development, porting, and performance evaluation tools for high-performance computing. They also help to integrate the tools in the projects and help with all aspects of instrumentation, measurement and analysis of programs.

Cypienta

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cypienta is a technology company that specializes in AI-powered cybersecurity monitoring and response systems for businesses. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to instantly and scalably correlate and contextualize alerts, events, and logs within existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) systems. This enables organizations to enhance their cybersecurity posture by swiftly detecting and mitigating potential threats, thereby protecting their data from cyberattacks.

Onboard

Grant in 2021
Businesses of all sizes, from startups to the Fortune 500, use Onboard's AI software and APIs to extract, transform and stream real-time data from buildings. We give everyone the opportunity to shape the future of our world's buildings with data.

Maalka

Grant in 2019
Maalka is a developer of an energy efficiency platform aimed at assisting cities and building owners in measuring, managing, and reducing their environmental impact. The company offers a suite of tools that enable organizations to track their energy, water, and waste consumption, providing critical insights for improving efficiency. By leveraging data-driven program management, Maalka empowers private organizations and agencies to automate building energy efficiency initiatives, streamline outreach and reporting efforts, and scale analytics across their building portfolios. With a focus on open, secure, and scalable solutions, Maalka facilitates the deployment of data-driven programs aligned with proven frameworks in sustainability and commercial real estate.

AquaNRG

Seed Round in 2019
AquaNRG has developed a state-of-the-art cloud-based application for energy, water and environmental markets which merges physics-chemistry simulation with machine learning for faster, more accurate and less expensive product and process design and engineering

Onboard

Grant in 2019
Businesses of all sizes, from startups to the Fortune 500, use Onboard's AI software and APIs to extract, transform and stream real-time data from buildings. We give everyone the opportunity to shape the future of our world's buildings with data.

Fracsun

Grant in 2018
Fracsun is a company that specializes in providing comprehensive photovoltaic (PV) soiling monitoring solutions for solar array owners, operators, and developers. It is known for its patented ARES soiling management system, which directly measures soiling loss through local instrumentation, thereby reducing uncertainty in performance assessment. Fracsun’s technology enables clients to accurately monitor and manage soiling loss, optimizing cleaning schedules and minimizing financial risks associated with project development. The company's cloud-based software not only calculates soiling loss but also projects optimal cleaning dates, allowing clients to receive timely alerts for necessary maintenance. With a mission to enhance the performance of solar assets, Fracsun plays a vital role in improving the efficiency and reliability of solar energy production.

AquaNRG

Pre Seed Round in 2018
AquaNRG has developed a state-of-the-art cloud-based application for energy, water and environmental markets which merges physics-chemistry simulation with machine learning for faster, more accurate and less expensive product and process design and engineering

PowerMarket

Grant in 2017
ProjectEconomics specializes in providing software and solutions designed to enhance the efficiency of distributed generation programs within the energy sector, particularly focusing on community solar initiatives. The company caters to utilities, energy retailers, and solar developers, facilitating the implementation and administration of community solar projects. By streamlining these processes, ProjectEconomics aims to support the growth of renewable energy and promote more accessible solar power options for communities.

Fracsun

Grant in 2017
Fracsun is a company that specializes in providing comprehensive photovoltaic (PV) soiling monitoring solutions for solar array owners, operators, and developers. It is known for its patented ARES soiling management system, which directly measures soiling loss through local instrumentation, thereby reducing uncertainty in performance assessment. Fracsun’s technology enables clients to accurately monitor and manage soiling loss, optimizing cleaning schedules and minimizing financial risks associated with project development. The company's cloud-based software not only calculates soiling loss but also projects optimal cleaning dates, allowing clients to receive timely alerts for necessary maintenance. With a mission to enhance the performance of solar assets, Fracsun plays a vital role in improving the efficiency and reliability of solar energy production.

Solstice Energy Solutions

Venture Round in 2017
Solstice Energy Solutions uses IoT and software to enable, connect, and intelligently manage the shared-economy of distributed energy resources in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PowerMarket

Grant in 2016
ProjectEconomics specializes in providing software and solutions designed to enhance the efficiency of distributed generation programs within the energy sector, particularly focusing on community solar initiatives. The company caters to utilities, energy retailers, and solar developers, facilitating the implementation and administration of community solar projects. By streamlining these processes, ProjectEconomics aims to support the growth of renewable energy and promote more accessible solar power options for communities.

RPM Solar

Grant in 2015
RPM Solar is a solar installation company that serves both residential and commercial customers. It develops solar asset management software created to manage financial operations.
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