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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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Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems

Turning industrial waste heat into reliable electricity at megawatt scale.

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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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Aerleum

Transforming CO2 from point-source or ambient air into green methanol at price parity with fossil fuels.

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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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Binding Solutions Limited

Producing iron ore pellets without high temperatures, enabling the production of green steel at scale.

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Bloom Biorenewables

Displacing fossil-based chemical feedstocks with renewable biomass derived feedstocks.

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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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Cambridge Electric Cement

Creating a circular model to recycle cement using existing industrial infrastructure in the steel sector.

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Carbon Negative Solutions

Mineralizing CO2 into industrial wastes to create carbon-negative supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), reducing the need for cement while remediating ground/air pollution at industrial sites.

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Cascade Bio

Empowering enzymes—nature's catalysts—to change how molecules are made, displacing energy-intensive petrochemicals with renewable feedstocks to decarbonize the chemicals sector.

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Celadyne Technologies

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

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CERT Systems

Converting captured carbon dioxide into ethylene, an essential chemical, without the use of fossil fuels.

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ClimateWells

Preventing abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells.

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Cocoon Carbon

Repurposing steel waste into low-carbon supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to reduce the carbon intensity of concrete.

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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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DexMat

Producing a high-performance carbon nanomaterial with properties that can displace emissions-intensive materials including steel, copper, and aluminum.

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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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Elementium Materials

Enabling high performance, affordable batteries that can power every aspect of the energy transition from mobility to grid storage, to the future of AI, robotics, electronics, and defense.

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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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GreenJams

Transforming agricultural and industrial wastes into carbon-negative bio-concrete.

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GreenLIB Materials

Reclaiming critical battery metals from waste, cutting CO₂ by 73%, and accelerating circular economy solutions for electrification.

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Greenore

Converting iron and steel waste into valuable products — precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) and supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) — while capturing and safely storing waste CO2.

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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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Helios

Producing green iron with a novel carbon-free iron reduction method that costs less, is easy to deploy, and has zero direct emissions—enabling green steel production without a green premium.

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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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Hertha Metals, Inc.

Rapidly scaling technology to produce coal-free steel, dramatically reducing the carbon emissions of steel manufacturing.

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HyperHeat

Providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion for 99% of all industrial heat applications in the cement, steel, and chemicals sectors.

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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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Kraftblock

Providing thermal storage for high-heat industrial processes that typically rely on fossil fuels, which reduces emissions and improves the economics of direct electrification.

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Krosslinker

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

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Mana Battery

Enabling best-in-class cost, safety, and performance for the grid energy storage system and low-cost electric vehicle markets.

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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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Membravo

Reducing waste and energy use across multiple industries with robust polymer membranes—optimizing separation processes in sectors like semiconductors, hydrogen, water purification, biofuels, and pharmaceuticals to improve efficiency, lower costs, and enable more sustainable operations.

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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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Nium

Using a novel nano-catalyst to deliver flexible, scalable and cost effective clean ammonia on demand.

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NOC Energy

Enabling industries to replace fossil fuels with renewable electricity for high-temperature industrial heat.

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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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Rubi Laboratories

Decarbonizing essential chemicals and materials through a carbon-to-materials enzymatic platform with ultra-low carbon, water, land, and energy footprints.

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SaltX Technology

Utilizing plasma, the fourth state of matter, to achieve the ultra-high temperatures needed to produce cement without fossil fuels.

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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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Sensytec

Using sensors to optimize concrete mixes, reduce embodied carbon, and minimize testing waste.

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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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Solid Carbon

Using carbon-negative biochar-based ingredients to transform the built environment into a massive carbon sink, turning concrete from a climate problem into a climate solution.

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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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SUN METALON

Enabling cost-effective, sustainable metal recycling without the quality degradation of traditional recycling methods.

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Tereform, Inc.

Chemically recycling synthetic textiles—which are made from petrochemicals—with an energy efficient process, diverting materials from landfills and reducing demand for new carbon-intensive materials.

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Theseus Development

Producing sustainable, interlocking concrete blocks without traditional cement, concrete's most emissions-intensive ingredient, to accelerate the transition to a green built environment.

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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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Urban Mining Industries

Repurposing waste glass into a low-carbon cement replacement that improves concrete durability, impermeability, and mitigation of the urban heat island effect.

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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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Via Separations

Lowering the embodied carbon of everyday products and materials by replacing thermal separations, a key process to separate substances based on boiling points, with an electrified filtration process.

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Volexion

Making lithium-ion batteries better, safer, and 35% cheaper through driving cathode material improvements and enabling next generation materials and battery manufacturing.

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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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