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ACE Green Recycling

Enabling zero carbon emissions and toxic discharge technology across the battery (lead and lithium-ion) recycling ecosystem.

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Aepnus Technology

Developing efficient and sustainable processes to electrify the manufacture of lithium chemicals needed to make batteries.

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Ammobia

Enabling cost-effective clean ammonia to fuel and feed the world.

 

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Andros

Developing an innovative reactor to produce ammonia more cost-effectively and with significantly lower energy consumption, thereby accelerating the decarbonization of ammonia production.

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AtmosZero

Decarbonizing industry with cost-effective decarbonized steam from high efficiency electrified boilers.

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Aurora Hydrogen

Developing a low-cost, distributed, clean hydrogen production technology.

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Ayrton Energy

Developing a novel hydrogen storage technology for large, scalable, and efficient storage and transport of H2.

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Brimstone Energy

Developing a CO2-free process to produce Portland cement, the exact same material that the industry uses today.

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Celadyne Technologies

Developing a new proton exchange membrane (PEM) for use in fuel cells and electrolyzers.

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ClimateWells

Preventing abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells.

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Compact Membrane Systems

Developing membrane solutions for hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors and applications.

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Determinant Materials

Providing low-carbon, zero-waste critical metals needed for the climate transition.

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Dunia Innovations

Integrating physics-informed AI with robotic automation, enabling the discovery of breakthrough electroactive materials 10x faster and at a third of the traditional R&D costs.

 

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Enchi Corporation

Driving the next generation of biofuels, starting with non-food cellulosic ethanol.

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Energy Integration Inc.

Designing and installing mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) systems for efficient, electrified, decarbonized biofuels production.

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EnviCore

Repurposing waste minerals into cementitious materials to replace cement by up to 30% and reduce associated CO2 emissions by 85%.

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Excess Materials Exchange

Acting as a dating-site for secondary materials and waste by identifying high value next uses that save materials from landfill and incineration.

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Ferrum Technologies

Decarbonizing global steel production cost competitively with the vision to eliminate the 3 Gt CO2 emitted by the industry every year.

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FSC Technologies

Delivering a cost effective and environmentally sustainable technology to the concrete construction industry by replacing steel reinforcement with new FRP technology and utilizing low carbon cements.

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Geminus.AI

Fusing physics and AI to accurately predict future system behavior, enabling peak energy optimization of today's processes and faster scale-up of tomorrow's transformative climate technologies.

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Gricd

Tackling the challenge of cold chain logistics for agricultural and pharmaceutical suppliers across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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Heat Inverse

Providing easily-deployable cooling films to increase efficiency and asset lifetimes across industries at the crux of the energy, food, and water nexus: power, F&B, EVs, buildings, and more.

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Helix Carbon

Transforming CO2 into valuable feedstocks using energy-efficient technology, making sustainable production economically viable and scalable.

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iBeam Materials

Developing a transformative new manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-efficiency, LED light.

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Iris Light Technologies

Developing a tunable laser that can be printed directly onto semiconductor chips for improved data center efficiency.

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Kanin Energy

Helping industrial clients capture waste heat to produce clean, baseload power using an organic rankine cycle generator.

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Kelp Island

Developing floating, interlocking bricks made of a high-strength kelp composite to decarbonize the marine construction sector using sequestered biomass.

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Krosslinker

Leveraging the power of aerogels to build sustainable and energy efficient solutions.

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Mangrove Lithium

Developing an electrochemical technology that enables the lowest-cost production of lithium hydroxide, commonly used for electric vehicles, electronics, and renewable energy storage.

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Mantel Capture

Tackling high CO2 emissions and energy inefficiency in industrial processes with innovative, cost-effective carbon capture solutions.

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Membrion

Producing low-cost, high-performance ion-exchange membranes for water purification, redox flow batteries, and hydrogen electrolyzers and fuel cells.

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Metal Light

Creating a sustainable, affordable alternative to diesel generators using abundant metals as fuel.

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Mission Zero Technologies

Enabling the removal of CO2 from air for much lower costs and energy footprints than possible with other technologies today.

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Mycotech Labs

Producing vegan leather from crop waste and mushrooms.

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Noohra

Developing a patented hyperspectral technology that enables the first cost-effective, accurate and simultaneous measurement of CH4, CO2, N2O and other greenhouse gas emissions from satellite, drone and ground platforms.

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Offgrid Energy Labs

Developing and commercializing the most efficient and affordable zinc battery technology, ZincGel, primarily for stationary energy storage applications.

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okom wrks labs

Creating the world's strongest carbon-storing mycelium based composite capable of serving in load-bearing and non load-bearing applications in the built environment.

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OneWatt

Using non-invasive sensors combined with AI to monitor motor performance and predict maintenance issues at industrial plants.

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Oxylus Energy

Converting CO2 into carbon neutral fuels and chemical feedstocks for a decarbonized future.

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Planet A Energy

Collecting and storing solar energy for when its needed, for up to months at a time, enabling our planet to truly retire fossil fuel power plants.

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Power to Hydrogen (P2H2)

Delivering technology to make clean hydrogen competitive with fossil fuels to decarbonize mobility, industry, and power production.

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PuriFire Energy

Producing green methanol resulting in a a 95% reduction from fossil-based grey methanol, emitting 7x less CO2 than diesel and 84x times less CO2 than natural gas.

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PwrCor

Capturing and reducing heat being dumped into the environment, and using that heat energy to reduce legacy power pollution and generate green, emission-free electric power.

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Renewable Metals

Developing a new way to cost-effectively recycle all types of lithium batteries with high metal recovery and no chemical by-products.

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SeeO2 Energy

Efficiently converting carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or water into marketable and clean value-added products using reversible fuel cell technology.

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Sironix Renewables

Offering a bio-based technology to cleaning brands, producers, and consumers to reduce the environmental footprint of a huge industry—allowing all to shop a product that fulfills all needs: sustainability, safety and performance.

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Skyven

Delivering low-carbon industrial process heat as a service.

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Still Bright

Developing an electrochemical technology to produce metals needed for the energy transition.

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Summit Nanotech

Developing a novel low-cost, direct lithium extraction (DLE) process that avoids the need for evaporation ponds and large chemical-based refineries.

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tozero

Building the ultimate lithium-ion battery recycling machine, recovering essential materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite.

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Utvyakta Solutions

Enabling intelligence for air compressors.

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Versogen

Producing green hydrogen at scale—reliably and affordably.

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Vesta

Harnessing the power of the oceans to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere.

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XFuel

Disrupting sustainable fuel markets with a breakthrough, scalabe, low-cost conversion technology to produce high-grade transportation fuel from waste material with certified GHG savings

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XL Batteries

Developing a novel chemistry for a 20+ year, non-flammable flow battery.

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