Innovators

GreenPortfolio is the personal finance platform that helps consumers manage their money the climate-friendly way. Currently, the effort required to understand the climate impact of a portfolio involves tons of research and it is still easily misled by greenwashing. GreenPortfolio will replace this manual process with its AI-enabled SaaS platform that scores investments, bank accounts, and purchases for climate impact while suggesting green financial products that consumers will love having in their wallets. GreenPortfolio leverages real-time updates and anonymized portfolio sharing to create an interactive experience, building an ecosystem that will offer unique insights.

greenportfolio.com

92 million tons of fabric is wasted each year. Fabric contributes to the vast majority of our clothes’ carbon emissions and water waste, while also being the number one or two biggest cost that goes into making clothing. Everything from energy-intensive recycling processes to patching together fabric scrap adds cost and complexity. And time is running out.

SXD’s software solution is the first win-win for the industry: better design, lower cost, zero fabric waste. SXD enables legal compliance while benefiting the planet and brands’ bottom line, opening the door to capture this $5T market opportunity.

SXD’s software application seamlessly turns any design sketch and leftover or wasted fabrics into zero waste clothing that look beautiful and cost ~55% less to produce. The software far surpasses any current software solution in maximizing material circularity by directly incorporating leftover or wasted fabric into garment construction. The output zero waste designs have over 80% lower carbon footprint than traditional clothing manufacturing.

www.shellyxu.design

RockFix stores carbon dioxide gas permanently into mining waste minerals through mineralization.

www.rockfix.co

Most of the world lacks risk mapping and risk modeling tools essential to insure resilience. And where such tools exist, emerging risks and a changing climate are rendering them obsolete. Prisere LLC aims to fill that gap by building capacity for climate and disaster resilience with improved risk tools, including risk communications, risk mapping and software apps, training and technical advisory services.

prisere.com

Mākhers Studio is a green manufacturing and design-build firm that specializes in unique modular shipping container spaces that transform how we build community, employ locally and make meaningful connections.

makhersstudio.com

Kazadi is developing refrigeration solutions based on novel technology that uses environmental heat as the primary power source for cooling. Kazadi’s  technology transforms atmospheric heat to refrigeration, water purification, electricity and more. Its patented recharging technology enables Kazadi to use environmental thermal energy to recharge the solution, thereby eliminating the associated energetic cost. 

www.kazadienterprises.com

Infraclear develops the infrastructure industry’s first standardized database of how thousands of projects were structured and how they performed to extract never-before-seen insights on the terms and risks of the projects through proprietary machine learning and natural language processing algorithms. Through tens of thousands of gathered project agreements, it is already one of the world’s largest such datasets.

Ideally the lessons learned from the data set can be implemented to shave years off the time it takes to develop a new construction project and precisely determine the project’s risks and impact on a portfolio. Infraclear’s mission is to make infrastructure a simple, standardized, liquid asset class.

www.infraclear.com

Holocene designs and builds direct air capture plants. It plans to permanently store the CO2 and sell negative emissions—the benefit of removing CO2 from the atmosphere—to corporations and governments.

theHolocene.co

Getting to net-zero emissions will be an enormous challenge. Gencores catalyzes this transformation in the transportation and manufacturing sectors by solving a major technical challenge: making vehicles drastically lighter and more efficient.

Gencores’ technology combines advanced robotics and proprietary material science; it enables cutting up to 80% of costs and lead times for structural carbon fiber composite materials. Such improvement allows mass-adoption of light-weight, aerospace-grade composites in cars and a drastic reduction of transportation emissions.

Gencores.com

Emerald Energy is the Coursera for climate tech infrastructure workers. Emerald is solving the critical shortage of clean energy technicians by sourcing, assessing, and training/upskilling them to use better technology. It is starting with heat pumps, then will expand into EVs, wind, and solar as Emerald scales. Emerald will work with companies, unions, and technical colleges using a B2B and B2B2C platform. Currently they are testing their prototype with customers, pursuing partnerships, and raising pre-seed funding. Emerald has received investments from NYSERDA and MassCEC and were selected to participate in the Launch NY ECO incubator.

emeraldenergy.co