VoLo Earth Ventures

AICrete is the only recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient concrete.

Vecktais the Energy Transition Market Platform. Veckta integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. Veckta empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energy situation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability, and/or emissions), and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably.

Banyan Infrastructure is a project finance software platform designed to simplify, accelerate, and optimize sustainable infrastructure financing across the deal life cycle. Our solution oversees and automates the complex and time-consuming processes in the origination, portfolio, and compliance management of sustainable assets, which boosts profits per investment, increases deal velocity, and saves thousands of hours at every stage. Visit banyaninfrastructure.com or follow us on LinkedIn for more information.

BattGenie is developing software technology that enables safer, longer-lasting, and faster-charging batteries.

Nth Cycle is a metal processing technology company working with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals from separated e-waste and low-grade mine tailings. Our electro-extraction technology—an alternative to hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy—enables customizable, clean, and consistent recovery of the critical minerals for the energy transition.

Polycarbin is leading the way in creating a robust circular plastics economy for the biopharmaceutical and life science industry. At Polycarbin, we work with laboratories to transform what is a valuable and often overlooked plastic waste stream into a recycled feedstock fit for re-use in the laboratory manufacturing supply chain.

Ion Storage Systems is focused on developing the most energy dense, safest batteries that can be deployed in any environment. Breakthroughs in solid state battery technology have led to a battery that meets the mission critical needs for the defense and aerospace industries; and safer more efficient for consumer electronics and electric vehicles.

Pronoia, Inc. is developing a novel battery that functions without electrolyte and separator, and is not only be rechargeable, but also will have minimal capacity loss with continued cycling.

Shimmer redesigns lighting as software with an end-to-end platform that automates the design, development and deployment of large-scale lighting projects, reducing the typical project lifecycle by thousands of hours. The flagship product, Stellar 3D Studio, is recognized by lighting designers, architects and engineers for pioneering a “radical shift” in how complex lighting systems are planned, prototyped, and deployed. To ensure compliance with energy and green building regulations, Shimmer automates energy code compliance. The software can generates minute-by-minute consumption models that span up to billions of LEDs, reducing energy usage by up to 85% while significantly lowering carbon emissions.

Gaiascope helps energy companies and investors transition to the future in the most economic way possible, with user-friendly software that makes the electric grid easier to understand, invest in and profit from. Gaiascope's affordable tools are designed with a practical approach to machine learning that values transparency over 'black boxes'​. Guided by a blueprint of physical reality, these tools use available data and scenario analysis to optimize real-time trading, operations and development, addressing the stochastic nature of the grid, the increasing penetration of renewables, and the evolution of power market dynamics.

BlueDot Photonics develops solar energy devices to improve solar panel performance and durability. It makes clean energy available for more people in more places.

At Traverse, we use AI and automation to speed up traditional prospecting, feasibility assessment and front end engineering work by a factor of 10. We help project developers find exceptionally high IRR projects across continents and also help them reduce development risks dramatically at the single project level.

Traxen Inc. is a pioneering company at the forefront of innovative solutions in the transportation industry. Committed to revolutionizing the way we move goods, Traxen specializes in the development of cutting-edge technologies that optimize fleet management and enhance overall efficiency. Through a blend of advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and a deep understanding of logistics, Traxen strives to create intelligent solutions that not only improve operational performance but also contribute to a more sustainable and connected future in transportation. With a focus on safety, energy conservation, and smart mobility, Traxen Inc. is dedicated to shaping the next generation of transportation solutions for a rapidly evolving world.

SVX is future-proofing manufacturing of the largest cost and carbon footprint driver in lithium-ion batteries, the cathode. We have developed and scaled a next-generation cathode manufacturing process that adds optionality to composition of material and broadens the range of critical material inputs with lower cost, lower capital needs, and a lower carbon footprint. SVX can make a gigaton-scale impact over the next decade and is going to change the game for EV and ESS materials.

HEVO provides a seamless, safe, and, universal wireless charging solution for electric vehicles with its proprietary operating system and wireless power transfer technology. Equivalent to plug-in charging efficiencies, and offering a better user experience, the HEVO system is interoperable between vehicles and well-suited for commercial fleets, shared autonomous vehicles, city infrastructure, destination charging, and ultimately in-road dynamic charging. HEVO's customers include leading global brands in the energy, automotive, and charging industries. HEVO's patented system consists of advanced power electronics, operating software, network management, system communications, and market-leading safety mechanisms. HEVO is a key part of the broader multi-trillion dollar shared, electric, and autonomous mobility revolution.

Iris Light Technologies is an electronic company that empowers the cloud through breakthrough on-chip laser technology. The company specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, 5G communications, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Its solution increases the bandwidth and energy-efficiency of light chips through a proprietary, scalable method of depositing multiple lasers on a chip, all inside the chipmaker.

3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.

Banyan Infrastructure is a project finance software platform designed to simplify, accelerate, and optimize sustainable infrastructure financing across the deal life cycle. Our solution oversees and automates the complex and time-consuming processes in the origination, portfolio, and compliance management of sustainable assets, which boosts profits per investment, increases deal velocity, and saves thousands of hours at every stage. Visit banyaninfrastructure.com or follow us on LinkedIn for more information.

BlueDot Photonics develops solar energy devices to improve solar panel performance and durability. It makes clean energy available for more people in more places.

TexPower commercializes cobalt-free, high-capacity, drop-in cathode materials for lithium-based batteries. It focuses on producing cathode materials and leverage expertise from the battery industry for manufacturing customized lithium-ion batteries for a variety of end-users. They commercialize cathodes that can replace commercial battery cathodes and can be deployed in portable electronics, electric vehicles, drones, robots, and more. It is comprised of metals such as nickel, manganese, aluminum, iron, zinc, and more and are synthesized through standard industrial manufacturing processes. This synthesis route is used for producing mainstream cathode materials for electric vehicles across the world, namely, lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide (NMC) and lithium nickel-cobalt-aluminum oxide (NCA). Their products also offer a value proposition that enables at least 10% higher energy density, 25% lower raw material costs, increased sustainability, and a secure and benign battery supply chain. TexPower’s cobalt-free cathodes offer security benefits for the military battery applications. Wangda Li, Arumugam Manthiram, and Evan Erickson founded the company in 2019 in Austin, Texas.

Ion Storage Systems is focused on developing the most energy dense, safest batteries that can be deployed in any environment. Breakthroughs in solid state battery technology have led to a battery that meets the mission critical needs for the defense and aerospace industries; and safer more efficient for consumer electronics and electric vehicles.