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Source is a developer and manufacturer of solar-powered devices designed to extract drinkable water from the atmosphere. The company's solar-powered hydro panels utilize advanced materials science to pull water from even the driest conditions, producing pure water that is mineralized and delivered to a tap, enabling users to get clean water essentially anywhere. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Yummy develops a food delivery app that operates across Latin America. The app allows users to order and pay for their orders through their mobile application or website platform and offers different payment methods such as foreign credit cards and cash, that conveniently enable users to enjoy their food at a location of their choice. Vicente Zavarce founded Yummy in 2020 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.

Busbud is a mobile app and platform that connects passengers to bus operators. It enables its users to search, compare, and book city-to-city bus tickets for any location and from any location. It is a comprehensive source of city-to-city bus schedules and tickets around the world, gathering schedules for over 10463 cities in 89 countries, in 10 languages, and 15 currencies. The app offers a search tool allowing travelers to discover and plan their next bus trip. Busbud was founded by Michael Gradek, LP Maurice, and Frederic Thouin in October 2011. It is headquartered in Montreal City in Québec, Canada.

Zoomo is a provider of electric bikes accessed via subscription models to help gig workers in the food delivery industry. Zoomo's high-quality LEV (light electric vehicle) range includes e-Bike, e-Moped, and e-Cargo options. Zoomo plans to use the funding to add new corporate categories such as parcel, mail, and grocery deliveries that its bikes can be used for as well as other models better suited for individual consumers.

Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storage system compared to traditional centralized systems.

Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, such as funds and third-party owners, that manage large portfolios of residential solar assets. The company's lifetime performance guarantee includes real time monitoring, proactive service alerts and 100% covered hardware and software through a nationwide network of field service professionals, as well as a 100% guarantee on energy or plan owners will be reimbursed for energy loss. The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry. Omnidian is backed by the DOE SunShot Program which accelerates the development of highly impactful solar technologies.

Grabango is a checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale grocery, and convenience stores. Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. They just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of their team and their store deployments to deliver on their mission to eliminate lines and save people time. With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard. Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

Chiper is the leading B2B e-commerce ecosystem for corner stores in Latin America. With operations across Colombia, Mexico, and soon Brazil, Chiper is uniting thousands of the 3.7 million corner stores in the region into one of the world's largest networks of bulk buyers. By aggregating demand and optimizing the entire supply chain, Chiper empowers corner stores to grow and thrive - offering them the fastest delivery, widest selection, and most competitive prices available.

Turntide specializes in developing sustainable technologies that drive down energy consumption and operating costs in buildings, agriculture, and electric transport, boosting bottom lines and accelerating a global path to 100% renewable energy. It has developed an efficient electric motor system, based on revolutionary switched reluctance technology, managed by advanced cloud software. Its goal is to eliminate the 25% of global electricity consumption that is wasted by legacy electric motors, thus accelerating the world’s transition from fossil fuels and leaving them in the ground where they belong. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Ampere Energy is an electric company that develops and produces smart energy management systems. they include ion-lithium batteries, bidirectional inverter, and EMS (Energy Manager System), which allows for very easy installation and also provides a backup system. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Valencia, Spain.

Cargo Systems is the creators of Cargo, the in-car service that allows rideshare passengers to order products on their phone, without downloading an app. Founded in 2016 by former Birchbox employees, Cargo launched in New York and Boston with thousands of driver signups in 49 states. Cargo works directly with rideshare companies, drivers and brand partners to distribute a variety of products to passengers in-car. A Techstars alumnus, Cargo is venture-backed by Techstars Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Rosecliff Capital.

Stem brings and optimizes energy consumption to business through its distributed storage technology. Since 2009, Stem has been analyzing how various types of businesses use electricity and how they are charged for it. The company uses this information to design a solution that protects companies from unnecessarily high electricity costs without requiring any changes to the way they run their businesses. Stem combines big data, predictive analytics, and energy storage to reduce electric costs for businesses and in aggregate, deliver services to the grid.