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Aikido Technologies is developing innovative technologies for the floating wind industry. We want to bring low-cost, clean electricity to coastal cities around the world. Our technology uniquely unlocks local maritime infrastructure to create high-paying jobs and long-term benefits to the local communities.

Rock Zero is reinventing hardrock lithium refining. Our proprietary chemical technology lowers the cost and environmental impact of converting lithium-bearing minerals into battery-grade chemicals. Rock Zero spun out of renowned MIT professor and cleantech entrepreneur Yet-Ming Chiang’s Lab in 2024. It is backed by leading VCs and federal funding agencies, including ARPA-E and a Fortune 100 automotive company.

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Scalvy is disrupting the electric powertrain industry using modular technologies

At Funga, we use the forest fungal microbiome to improve forestry outcomes and address the climate crisis while enhancing beneficial microbial biodiversity. We combine modern DNA sequencing and machine learning technology with breakthrough research on the forest microbiome to put the right native, biodiverse communities of mycorrhizal fungi in the right place. This leads to more quality wood created more quickly, more carbon sequestered, and more resilient forest ecologies.

SiTration’s electrified silicon technology enables ultra-efficient extraction of numerous high-value critical minerals in mining, refining, and recycling. Our technology is being deployed with commercial partners to unlock profitable and sustainable recovery of critical minerals including copper and other base metals, precious and platinum group metals, lithium, and rare earths.

Avalanche is a VC-backed, compact fusion energy start-up based in Seattle, WA. We are designing, building, testing and iterating our fusion machines to supply services for the emerging neutron markets and for rapidly scalable, remote power needs.

Noon Energy provides 24/7/365 clean, reliable electricity with ultra-long duration energy storage, enabling speed-to-power for data-center load growth and other electrification.

Charm Industrial is working to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We design, build and operate a fleet of mobile fast pyrolyzers that convert ag and forest biomass residues into bio-oil for use in carbon removal and direct-reduced-iron steelmaking. In 2020 our Chief Scientist and co-founder Shaun Meehan had two breakthroughs (bio-oil intermediate and bio-oil sequestration) that kickstarted the company. Within 10 months we completed our first carbon removal injection and in 2021 we completed more than 5,000 tons of CO₂e removal for customers like Stripe, Shopify and Microsoft.

Clean Crop Technologies ("Clean Crop") is a Holyoke, Massachusetts-based company that uses electricity to fight food waste and food safety risk. Clean Crops proprietary Clean Current technology combines electricity and food-grade gasses to remove contaminants from seeds and foods to increase crop yields, reduce food waste, and increase food safety.

Sublime is developing a breakthrough process to make low-carbon cement. The technology replaces the industrys legacy fossil-fuel-intensive thermal calciner process with an electrochemical process that produces low-carbon cement at ambient temperatures with renewable electricity. Sublime was started in 2020, as a spin-out of Yet-Ming Chiangs lab at MIT (Form Energy, A123, American Superconductor, 24M, Desktop Metals).

Gradient’s mission is to cool the world by transforming every home to be more comfortable and healthy for the people who inhabit it — without compromising the environment. Today, heating and cooling equipment emits more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, and expansion in the use of cooling is projected to double these emissions in the next 30 years. However, comfortable buildings are critical for health and productivity, especially among communities that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Gradient’s vision is a future where everyone has access to comfortable buildings that are fully decarbonized. Our flagship product is a high-efficiency and low-carbon window heat pump suited for moderate climates; our second-generation window heat pump, the All-Weather 120V, is suited for cold climates.

The MicroByre team makes pets out of bacteria. The vast majority of prokaryotes on the planet are not currently considered cultivable, let alone genetically modifiable. MicroByre domesticates and then genetically engineers otherwise reluctant, recalcitrant, and rebellious bacteria. We get them to eat out of our hands. With friends like these, who needs petroleum? Newly cooperative bacteria will help us replace ancient biomass (petrochemicals) with renewable biomass (lawn clippings) efficiently and economically. This isn’t the synthetic biology you’ve read about. We don’t do Escherichia coli and we don’t do Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We don’t do gene circuits and we don’t do heterologous expression. We engineer naturally cool but standoffish bacteria to be cooperative, and thus even cooler. Diversity is strength. We take a lesson from the study of ecology: it takes a lot of different kinds of skills working together with mutual respect to make a dent in the world. We are committed to a maintaining a work environment free of harassment and discrimination. All recruitment, salary, & promotion decisions are based on business need, qualification, and job requirements with no regard to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, family or parental status, veteran or disability status, religion or belief, or age.

C-Motives mission is to create electric machines that directly lead to reduced carbon emissions through higher efficiency renewable generators applicable to the next generation of e-mobility vehicles and more efficient industrial torque motors. C-Motives unmatched torque, efficiency, and simplicity will lead to a new generation of applications that create more renewable power and waste less electricity. C-Motives motors run on the principle of electrostatic forces, also known as "static cling,"​ and stands to change the machines that shape and run our lives. Our motors produce torque by the same principle of rubbing a balloon on a head of hair. And just like hair doesnt heat up with the balloon, our motors produce torque with nearly zero loss, versus using copper coils wound around steel with rare earth permanent magnets.

At Via Separations, we take a materials approach to the worlds wasted energy. We are optimistic about scientific progress, passionate about global impact, and creative in everything we do. We are not afraid of hard problems, and we encourage each other to live at the intersections of disciplines, act on great ideas, and design everything. Via eliminates energy use in industrial processes, enabling pathways for a more sustainable, resource efficient future. With its core filtration technology, Via can slash the energy used in separation processes by 90%. We are a fast-paced, interdisciplinary team backed by The Engine, Safar Partners, Prime Impact Fund, and MassCEC.

Aikido Technologies is developing innovative technologies for the floating wind industry. We want to bring low-cost, clean electricity to coastal cities around the world. Our technology uniquely unlocks local maritime infrastructure to create high-paying jobs and long-term benefits to the local communities.

Rock Zero is reinventing hardrock lithium refining. Our proprietary chemical technology lowers the cost and environmental impact of converting lithium-bearing minerals into battery-grade chemicals. Rock Zero spun out of renowned MIT professor and cleantech entrepreneur Yet-Ming Chiang’s Lab in 2024. It is backed by leading VCs and federal funding agencies, including ARPA-E and a Fortune 100 automotive company.

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Scalvy is disrupting the electric powertrain industry using modular technologies

At Funga, we use the forest fungal microbiome to improve forestry outcomes and address the climate crisis while enhancing beneficial microbial biodiversity. We combine modern DNA sequencing and machine learning technology with breakthrough research on the forest microbiome to put the right native, biodiverse communities of mycorrhizal fungi in the right place. This leads to more quality wood created more quickly, more carbon sequestered, and more resilient forest ecologies.