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6K is behind the world’s only production-scale microwave plasma system for advanced materials, which operates at 6000 degrees. Their proprietary advanced plasma processing and industrial systems are used to economically and sustainably create materials that are enabling the next generation of commercial and consumer products in industries that range from Additive Manufacturing to Batteries to Lighting & Displays.
Leaders
Aaron BentCEO
Focus Area
Sustainable Manufacturing
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actnano creates water and environmental resistant nanocoating technology primarily used to protect electronics in automotive and consumer electronics from water damage and harsh environmental conditions. The company’s advanced, sustainable nanoGuard coatings can be applied directly on connectors, antennas, LEDs, and high heat-generating components to comprehensively safeguard electronics with no changes to existing manufacturing lines.
Leaders
Taymur Ahmad, CEO
Focus Area
Transportation & Mobility
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AgZen is eliminating pesticide pollution, a cause of up to 200,000 deaths per year while helping farmers save $30B dollars in pesticide costs. AgZen’s patented sprayer retrofits and formulations, developed at MIT, allow farmers to spray 50% less pesticides while maintaining crop health and yield.
Leaders
Vishnu Jayaprakash, Founder & CEO
Kripa Varanasi,Founder & Chairman of the Board
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Products
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Amperesand's power infrastructure solution enables the integration of all types of renewable power generation into both existing and future electrical grids. Thanks to its proprietary solid-state transformer (SST) technology, the system natively provides grid-level management solutions, such as energy and data management, bidirectional flow, mixed AC/DC loads, all in a more efficient and flexible solution. Amperesand's modular SST approach to grid electrification uses a fraction of the raw material used in traditional transformers and provides a significant reduction in GHG over their operational lifecycle.
Leaders
Anshuman TripathiCo-Founder
Gil Jr OpinaCo-Founder
Focus Area
Sustainable Manufacturing
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Bloomer Tech is focused on accelerating cardiovascular research and improving patient care through personalized diagnostics for women. Their novel technology includes a wearable electrocardiogram device that looks and feels like a bra and a patient-facing app that shows key metrics and has interactive tools to help women improve their heart health.
Leaders
Alicia ChongCo-Founder & CEO
Aceil HalabyCo-Founder & COO
Focus Area
Underrepresented Healthcare
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Datacule
Datacule has developed a data storage solution that encodes data in mixtures of small molecules, deposits it on a surface, and stores it for on-demand optical retrieval. Their solution is long-lasting, sustainable, and inexpensive, leveraging chemistry and additive printing to securely encode and store information.
Leaders
George WhitesidesTechnical Founder
Focus Area
Data Storage & Security
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DetraPel specializes in sustainable, non-toxic protective coatings that provide much-needed alternatives to PFAS-based “forever chemicals”. Their technology has applications in a diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets from packaging to textiles.
Leaders
David ZamarinFounder & CEO
Focus Area
Sustainable Manufacturing
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Debut produces high-value ingredients for the cosmetic, food, and health & wellness markets rapidly and more sustainably. Low-value and sustainable feedstocks can be used as inputs in place of petrochemicals, while reactions can be generated in a fraction of the time. These breakthroughs result in a more sustainable and cost-effective approach to manufacturing ingredients, including those inaccessible in nature.
Leaders
Joshua Britton, PhD,Co-Founder & CEO
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Goods
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Folio Photonics is reinventing archival storage with modern optical storage technology. The company’s patented solution, the data film disc, is a multi-terabyte, multilayer fluorescent optical disc with a decades-long shelf-life, small environmental footprint, and low total cost of ownership.
Leaders
Steven Santamaria, CEO
Kenneth Singer, PhD, Founder
Irina Shiyanovskaya, PhD, COO/CTO
Focus Area
Data Storage & Security
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Fusion Coolant Systems develops and commercializes an advanced coolant and lubricant for the machining industry that leverages supercritical CO2. Their breakthrough coolant technology offers sustainability, safety, and cost-efficiency benefits for manufacturers.
Leaders
Steven Skerlos, PhDFounder & CTO
Brian AhlbornCEO
Focus Area
Sustainable Manufacturing
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GALY leverages plant stem cells to grow high-quality cotton in a lab instead of on big farms, at a rate that is ten times faster than traditional cotton farming. With a process that uses 77% less water, 80% less land and emits an 84% smaller CO2 footprint than traditional cotton manufacturing, Galy’s goal is to safeguard the environment and transition the world to cellular agriculture.
Leaders
Luciano Bueno,Founder & CEO
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Goods
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Huue is using UC Berkeley bioengineering research to develop sustainable biosynthetic dyes that offer a highly effective alternative to conventional dye manufacturing. Their environmentally friendly process requires no fossil fuels and creates significantly less pollution than traditional technologies.
Leaders
Michelle ZhuCo-Founder & CEO
Tammy Hsu, PhDCo-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Products
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Infinite Cooling is changing the way industries around the world consume freshwater. Their product reduces the water consumption and water treatment costs of a variety of industrial processes by using a novel electric field technology to recover and recycle the water from cooling tower exhausts.
Leaders
Maher Damak, PhDCo-Founder & CEO
Karim Khalil, PhD Co-Founder & CTO
Focus Area
Food & Water
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Jump Aero is developing technology for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts to safely cut emergency response times in half for first responders. Designed specifically for first responder needs, the company’s vehicle leverages an electric motor that is wheels-up in less than 30 seconds and can carry all necessary equipment required for a first responder’s mission.
Leaders
Carl DietrichCo-Founder, President & Chief Designer
Jeff MyjakCo-Founder & Head of Fabrication
Katerina BarilovCo-Founder & Head of Business Development
Focus Area
Transportation & Mobility
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Lynq is building instant-on, scalable, and secure communication networks used by first responders, government agencies, and enterprises to connect people and equipment in complex environments with no or unreliable connectivity.
Leaders
Adam Gould,CEO
Dave Shor,Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer
Focus Area
Transportation & Mobility
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Maglev Aero is developing the quietest, highest-performing and safest all-electric zero-emission vertical-takeoff and landing (VTOL) passenger/cargo aircraft to meet the mass market requirements of the emerging $1.5 Trillion/year Urban Air Mobility Market.
Leaders
Ian Randall, Founder & CEO
Rod Randall,Founder & Chairman of the Board
Focus Area
Transportation & Mobility
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Matterra creates proprietary megalibraries of nanomaterials on a single chip that is then used to accelerate the discovery and development of sustainable products in a wide range of industrial sectors.
Leaders
Chad A. Mirkin, PhDCo-Founder
Andrey Ivankin, PhDCo-Founder & CTO
Jeff ErhardtCEO
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Products
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Nanograf
NanoGraf is an advanced battery material company whose patented silicon-anode technology enables longer-lasting, higher-energy, and higher-power lithium-ion batteries for a range of applications, from consumer electronics to electric vehicles.
Leaders
Dr. Francis WangCEO & Cofounder
Focus Area
Sustainable Manufacturing
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Nauticus Robotics is developing an ultra-sustainable fleet of marine robotics powered by intelligent software, providing offshore industry customers with a tetherless autonomous robot that can perform subsea work with a significant reduction in cost and GHG emissions. The technology is streamlining operations and reducing the carbon cost of developing the ocean’s resources.
Leaders
Nicolaus Radford, Founder, CEO/CTO
Focus Area
Robotics & Augmented Reality
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NextGen Jane uses a patented smart tampon technology to collect menstrual and cervicovaginal samples used to conduct diagnostic tests for reproductive healthcare conditions. By offering women a comfortable and easy-to-use testing option, Jane is moving the locus of power and health management from clinics to consumers.
Leaders
Ridhi Tariyal,Co-Founder & CEO
Stephen Gire,Co-Founder & CSO
Focus Area
Underrepresented Healthcare
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Nohbo specializes in cutting-edge plastic-free consumer goods products that dissolve without a trace. Their podded personal care brand, Sunrise Session, uses advanced water-soluble films and compatible bases to eliminate single-use, bottled waste for products like shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and shaving cream.
Leaders
Ben Stern,Founder & CEO
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Goods
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Orbion Space Technology develops high-performing, fuel-efficient plasma electric thrusters for the growing small satellite market. By leveraging existing robotic tactical missile manufacturing techniques, Orbion is mass-manufacturing its Aurora Plasma Propulsion System to meet the rising demands of New Space customers.
Leaders
Brad King, PhD, Founder & CEO
Focus Area
Transportation & Mobility
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Oxipital AI is a leader in AI-enabled machine vision technologies for robotic process automation and product inspection in critical industries such as food processing, agriculture, and consumer goods production. The company's mission is to deliver actionable insights through deep object understanding, to customers, as they embrace Industry 5.0 and to unlock previously unachievable levels of resiliency, efficiency, and sustainability in their manufacturing operations.
Leaders
Mark ChiappettaCEO
Focus Area
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality
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Sonera Magnetics is developing novel sensing technology for high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces to democratize access to the brain. Their core technology detects signals from the brain at performance levels comparable to the best diagnostic tools without relying on superconducting sensors.
Leaders
Nishita Deka, PhD,Co-Founder & CEO
Dominic Labanowski, PhD, Co-Founder & CTO
Focus Area
Robotics & Augmented Reality
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SOURCE is the maker of Hydropanels™, which creates clean drinking water using only sunlight and air in an effort to make drinking water an unlimited resource. Their material science innovation gives people in nearly every climate and corner of the world the ability to produce safe, high-quality water.
Leaders
Cody Friesen PhD, Founder & CEO
Focus Area
Food & Water
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Talus Renewables pioneered the first commercial, modular, zero-carbon green ammonia system that makes the production and distribution of a critical raw material cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable. Talus locally produces lower-cost, carbon-free ammonia at or near the point of use, creating value for multiple industries. The talusOne and talusTen operate on intermittent renewable power and are fully containerized and modular, enabling rapid deployments and scaling. TalusAg, a subsidiary of Talus Renewables, focuses on green ammonia production for the agriculture sector.
Leaders
Hiro IwanagaCEO and Co-Founder
Focus Area
Food & Water
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Tierra Biosciences is a synthetic biology company that accelerates the pace of discovery to enable the next generation of bio-based materials. Tierra’s Protein Platform couples high-throughput protein manufacturing with the simplicity of e-commerce to make ordering custom proteins easier than ever before. By lowering traditional protein synthesis barriers, Tierra serves researchers looking to change the world with novel proteins.
Leaders
Mike Nemzek,CEO
Zachary Sun,Co-Founder & CSO
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Goods
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Werewool is a women-led biotech company using the principles of biomimicry to engineer high performance, protein-based textile fibers for the fashion industry. Werewool’s fibers offer a sustainable alternative to conventional synthetic fibers with properties including vibrant structural color, strength, stretch, and moisture management.
Leaders
Chui-Lian LeeCo-founder and CEO
Valentina GomezCo-founder and CIO
Focus Area
Biomanufacturing & Sustainable Products
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