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

Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems
Turning industrial waste heat into reliable electricity at megawatt scale.

Aepnus Technology

Aurora Hydrogen

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

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

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

Brimstone Energy

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

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.

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.

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

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

ClimateWells

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

FSC Technologies

Geminus.AI

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Kanin Energy

Kelp Island

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.

Krosslinker

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

Mangrove Lithium

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

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.

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

Mission Zero Technologies

Mycotech Labs

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

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

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.

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

Planet A Energy

Power to Hydrogen (P2H2)

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.

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

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

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

SeeO2 Energy

Sironix Renewables

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.

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

Summit Nanotech

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

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.

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.

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.

Utvyakta Solutions

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.

XL Batteries
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