Innovators of Venture For ClimateTech

Cohort 6

AquaLith Advanced Materials Inc.

AquaLith Advanced Materials Inc. is developing low-cost, high-performance battery materials using silicon-based anodes and proprietary electrolytes.

Blue Ore Metals

Blue Ore Metals recycles magnet waste into the critical minerals powering EVs, wind turbines, and defense tech using a refining process that’s cleaner, cheaper, and scalable.

Highland Park Technologies Inc

Highland Park Technologies is manufacturing prefabricated, high-performance building facades with reduced labor and cost through automation. proprietary electrolytes.

Orien Energy

Orien Energy is recovering low-grade, industrial waste heat using advanced adsorption heat pump technology.

Resollant

Resollant is producing ultra-low-cost hydrogen and high-value carbon with a process that reduces energy use, footprint, and capital costs.

Rise Reforming

Rise Reforming is converting stranded biogas into low-carbon chemicals through a modular and scalable production process.

Serenity Power

Serenity Power is building compact, fuel-flexible solid oxide fuel cell systems to deliver reliable, low-emission power for energy-intensive industries.

Takazuri Ltd

Takazuri is designing innovative construction products that enhance climate resilience in the built environment.

Terrament

Terrament is building underground gravity energy storage systems in idled mines to provide scalable, off-grid power solutions.

Cohort 5

17 builds modular green ammonia units to store excess renewable energy and relieve overloaded transmission systems (Mountain View, CA, USA).

Äerd Lab

Äerd Lab 3D-prints low-carbon building materials from reclaimed construction waste using a proprietary clay-geopolymer mix (Luxembourg, LUX). www.aerdlab.com

Carbix Corporation

Carbix turns Carbon Dioxide into raw materials for low-carbon cement and concrete using mineral carbonation reactors (Quincy, MA, USA). www.carbixcorp.com

Carbon Negative Solutions

Carbon Negative Solutions converts industrial waste into cement additives that generate revenue and reduces emissions (Rock Hill, NY, USA). www.carbonegativesolutions.com

Citrimer

Citrimer makes carbon-negative specialty resins from biobased feedstocks for composites in sporting, marine, and auto applications (Detroit, MI, USA). www.citrimer.com

EARTHICS

EARTHICS captures CO₂ from industry and converts it into high-performance synthetic graphite for batteries and steelmaking using a Metal-Organic Framework

EsterCycle

EsterCycle recycles mixed plastic waste into virgin-quality materials via one-pot chemical depolymerization (Arvada, CO, USA). estercycle.co

Fermi Energy, Inc

Fermi Energy develops low-cost, sustainable cathode materials to enable domestic EV battery manufacturing in the U.S. (Blacksburg, VA, USA). www.fermienergy.com

Ganaio, Inc

Ganaio develops regenerative damper systems that harvest energy from EV suspensions to improve vehicle range and efficiency (El Cajon, CA,

H2 Everywhere, Inc.

H2 Everywhere produces low-cost hydrogen onsite from water and CO₂ using an energy-efficient thermocatalytic process making clean energy both affordable

Helix Carbon

Helix Carbon serves the global steel industry with a proprietary electrochemical system that upcycles blast furnace waste streams back into

HydroHaul

HydroHaul is unlocking a cleaner future powered by hydrogen through innovation in midstream infrastructure solutions (Boston, MA, USA). www.hydrohaul.co

Innovia GEO

Innovia GEO is unlocking clean and efficient geothermal heating and cooling for low-to-midrise buildings with its revolutionary shallow-depth geothermal systems.

IronGrid

IronGrid offers insurance-backed warranty solutions for commercial and utility-scale battery systems using machine learning to predict degradation (Palo Alto, CA,

Lukera Energy

Lukera Energy converts methane emissions into carbon-negative methanol using a nanobubble-based, energy-efficient process for clean maritime fuel (Carrboro, NC, USA).

Magnefy

Magnefy provides real-time predictive maintenance for grid infrastructure using compact, AI-powered magnetic sensors (Palo Alto, USA). magnefy.com

Metal Light

Metal Light replaces diesel with a metal-air fuel system that produces electricity on demand without emissions at the point of

Remedium Energy

Remedium Energy makes carbon capture commercially viable through its novel sorbent, Limeloop, and innovative process to capture carbon dioxide from

Soarce, Inc

Soarce transforms regenerative biomass into low-cost nanocellulose for stronger, lighter fiber-reinforced composites (Orlando, FL, USA). www.soarceusa.com

Sunspan

Sunspan Solar creates a new class of solar panel architecture for large-scale deployment over parking lots, farms, and water bodies

Cohort 4

Adena Power

Adena Power provides energy storage using U.S. raw materials and manufacturing to deliver sodium batteries at grid scale (Lewis Center,

Arbour Group LLC

Arbour Group produces the Liquid Wall, a prefabricated building enclosure system made with fiber-reinforced, ultra-high-performance concrete (New York, NY). liquid-wall.com

Arculus Solutions, Inc.

Arculus Solutions is a climate technology company enabling the transition to low-carbon energy by upgrading existing pipeline infrastructure. Its autonomous

BladeBUG Limited

BladeBUG develops robots to perform detailed contact inspections and proactive repairs to wind turbine blades without having to use any

BladeX Technologies

BladeX Technologies offers a new mass-manufacturing method for composite parts to revolutionize lightweight component production for applications in hydrogen systems

Calectra, Inc.

Calectra offers thermal storage technology to store off-peak, low-cost electricity as heat in patent-pending bricks, and use that heat to

CO2L Tech

CO2L Tech offers technologies to transform carbon dioxide emissions into valuable chemicals and products, like formic acid, formate salts and

Cycleau

Cycleau offers a compact water reuse system that can be retrofitted into buildings to recycle up to 80% of greywater

Freshean Corp.

Freshean Offers a unique and ultra-efficient nano-engineered Direct Air Capture (DAC) sorbent that utilizes a proprietary “Nano-in-Nano” platform for a

GarboCarbo

GarboCarbo developed a carbon utilization process that cheaply and cleanly converts CO2 and gypsum into calcium carbonate and sulfuric acid

HeatPath Solutions, LLC

HeatPath Solutions provides plant-derived, sustainable platform chemicals to the specialty chemicals and consumer packaged goods markets, without the green premium

Helix Power

Helix Power has developed a high-power kinetic battery system capable of attenuating large power imbalance conditions (Somerville, MA). helixpower.com

Perseus Materials

Perseus Materials developed a new manufacturing processes for oversized structural fiber-reinforced composites for use in infrastructure (Knoxville, TN). perseusmaterials.com

Plantaer

Plantaer creates nature-based carbon negative materials that support biodiversity and improve the environmental health of the built environment (Brooklyn, NY).

REEgen

REEgen offers clean, biological processes to recover and purify rare earth elements from industrial byproducts (Ithaca, NY). reegen.tech

RETRN Bioworks Inc.

RETRN Bioworks develops platform biotechnologies to upcycle abundant agro-industrial plant wastes into an array of tunable, functionalizable, and fully compostable

SilisiumTech, Inc.

SilisiumTech offers ability to rebuild the US solar supply chain to lower costs and decarbonizes the silicon wafer portion of

Solid State Power LLC

Solid State Power develops patented technology that replaces legacy electromechanical grid devices, such as distribution transformers, volt regulators and capacitor

SpadXTech

SpadXTech employs the power of microbes and synthetic biology to produce high performance, circular materials to significantly reduce pollution and

Tereform

Tereform recycles textiles using air, providing brands with high-quality, recycled products that have a better environmental footprint than virgin materials

Cohort 3

Active Surfaces

Active Surfaces is developing ultra-light, flexible thin-film modules that will enable solar to be installed on previously inaccessible surfaces, such

Acuicy

Acuicy is helping companies get to net-zero faster at lower cost. Acuicy is a business intelligence tool for enterprises, using

AMATEC

AMATEC’s advanced building material, called High-Density Gypsum, offers a stronger and less carbon-intensive alternative to concrete to support the low-cost,

Ammobia

Ammobia is developing an adaptation to the Haber-Bosch process that enables distributed green ammonia production. Haber-Bosch fixes nitrogen with hydrogen

Avol Aerospace

Avol Aerospace is developing hyper-efficient, autonomous electric cargo aircraft that features a novel blended-wing design. By delivering 60% larger internal

Banyon Power

Banyon Power is creating affordable, smart electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure technologies that catalyze grid integration and energy management. This

Cascade Biocatalysts

Biochemical machinery “body armor” and natural enzymes that create a more sustainable manufacturing process for commercial chemicals by replacing fossil-fuel-based

Cobalt Water Global

Colbalt Water Global is developing an AI and machine learning platform that enhances wastewater and water utility management by accounting

EVA Greentech

EVA Greentech provides a patent-pending technology that activates waste material so that it can be used as a supplemental cementitious

FarField Infrastructure WPS

FarField Infrastructure WPS is developing an efficient, long-distance wireless power transfer system for charging and electrification that uses

Fluix Inc.

Fluix Inc. is automating HVAC and cooling systems through AI to better manage data centers, raw material storage facilities, greenhouses,

HelioTrope

HelioTrope’s lead-free glass coating technology optimizes the sunlight reaching the solar panels instead of the underlying solar cell technology to

Hydronic Shell Technologies

Hydronic Shell Technologies’ patented HVAC technology for multi-family buildings pairs a cost-effective solution with a non-invasive installation process

Janta Power

Janta Power’s 3D solar design replicates plant life and trees to more effectively harness solar energy and improve energy retention

Metasorbex Corporation

Metasorbex Corporation’s advanced materials enterprise uses sorbents for carbon capture to enable the transition of cost centers for hard-to-abate industry

Nanode Battery Technologies

Nanode Battery Technologies is developing a battery anode and manufacturing process that allows the capability to fully charge batteries in

PolyKrōm Energy Inc.

PolyKrōm Energy is commercializing fusion technologies that are being developed by the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to

Torev Motors

Torev Motors’ patented next-generation electric motor design will significantly reduce the amount of rare earth metals traditionally required by electric

UCharge

Ucharge is developing a localized network of high-speed EV chargers designed to address the challenges of owning and conveniently charging

Uuvipak

Uuvipak’s patent-pending home-compostable and edible packaging solution is designed to replace single-use plastics with clean organic food waste. uuvipak.com

Cohort 2

Community Energy Labs

Community Energy Labs (CEL) is an IoT & Software as a Service control platform that offers quick energy savings with...

Emerald Energy

Emerald Energy is building a recruiting and training platform to solve the critical shortage of clean energy installers.

Gencores

Getting to net-zero emissions will be an enormous challenge. Gencores catalyzes this transformation in the transportation and manufacturing sectors by

GreenPortfolio

GreenPortfolio is the personal finance platform that helps consumers manage their money the climate-friendly way. Currently, the effort required to...

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Infraclear

InfraClear develops the infrastructure industry’s first standardized database of how thousands of projects were structured and how they performed to

Kazadi Enterprises

Kazadi is developing refrigeration solutions based on novel technology that uses environmental heat as the primary power source for...

Mākhers Studio

Mākhers Studio is a green manufacturing and design-build firm that specializes in unique modular shipping...

Prisere LLC

Most of the world lacks risk mapping and risk modeling tools essential to insure resilience. And where such tools exist,

RockFix

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

Shelly Xu Design

92 million tons of fabric is wasted each year. Fabric contributes to the vast majority of our clothes’ carbon emissions

The Holocene Climate Corporation

Holocene designs and builds direct air capture plants. It plans to permanently store the CO2 and sell negative emissions—the benefit

Cohort 1

Alchemr

Alchemr offers validated, stable and scalable water electrolyzers that generate hydrogen at cost parity with fossil fuel-derived hydrogen. The promise

Atrevida Science

Atrevida Science is developing an Active Morphing Blade™ (AMB™) to improve efficiency and overall system performance. AMB™ technology is being

Climatize

Seeds is the investment platform built by the climate movement, for the climate movement. Seeds' mission is to create an

Dynamic Air Cooling

Dynamic Air Cooling (DAC) technology is a new ecological way to generate cold for industrial or residential air cooling and

Mars Materials

Mars Materials - Mars Materials (“Mars”) is commercializing technology that converts CO2 and biomass into low-cost and low-carbon feedstock used

New Frontier Aerospace

New Frontier Aerospace designs and builds a unique, liquid natural gas (LNG) fueled hypersonic aircraft with the landing precision of

Olokun Minerals

Olokun Minerals provides mineral based products for public infrastructure maintenance and renewable energy generation and storage through captured brine waste

Polaris Renewables

Polaris Renewables is developing proprietary technology for the production of fully renewable non-isocyanate polyurethanes (NIPUs) for use in foams, coatings,

Voltpost

Voltpost retrofits lampposts into a modular and upgradable EV charging platform powered by a mobile app. This first-of-a-kind platform in

NEXUS-NY Cohort

NEXUS-NY, an early stage climate tech proof of concept center, laid the stage for Venture For ClimateTech, proving out some aspects of the model while helping 48 companies from 2014-2018.

Active Energy Systems

Active Energy Systems is developing an icephobic heat exchanger (IHEX) for an ice thermal storage system that is affordable, efficient,

Capro-X

Capro-X is developing a natural fermentation process to upcycle wastes and byproducts in the dairy industry into treated water and

Cellec Technologies

Cellec Technologies is a battery startup developing a lithium balancing approach that increases the safety of cells, and eliminates the

ChromaNanoTech

ChromaNanoTech is developing light absorbing additives with applications in passive solar and labeling. They have raised more than $500,000 in

Conamix

Conamix is developing new low-cost and high-energy materials that can drop into existing manufacturing systems for the global lithium ion

Dimensional Energy

Dimensional Energy was formed through the NEXUS-NY program by introducing two Cornell Professors with complementary technologies to each other, and

Ecolectro

Ecolectro is developing a membrane for an alkaline fuel cell that has the potential to substantially reduce fuel cell costs

LioNano

LioNano is developing a high-performance, low cost, and scalable drop-in cathode material for batteries. They have won awards from the

Lux SemiConductors

Lux SemiConductors is developing a platform to integrate printed electronics with high-speed silicon circuitry directly onto a flexible silicon substrate.

Micatu

Micatu uses optical sensor technologies to provide next generation measurement capabilities in the areas of smart grid, wind, power distribution,

Molecular Glasses

Molecular Glasses is developing a new class of organic semiconductor materials for OLEDs. After graduating from NEXUS-NY they were selected

Phase Innovations

Phase Innovations is developing a novel mass exchanger for a high efficiency dedicated outdoor air system which can significantly decrease

Potsdam Sensors

Potsdam Sensors is developing a novel air quality sensor, which can detect particles down to 10nm in size. They are

RemWell

RemWell is developing an In Situ remediation technology to address PFAS water contamination. They have raised $50,000 in non-dilutive funding.

SelfArray

SelfArray is developing directed self-assembly processes using diamagnetic levitation to enable faster, cheaper assembly of direct view LED displays. Since

Sunny Clean Water

Sunny Clean Water is developing a novel solar still for electricity free desalination. Since graduating from NEXUS-NY, Sunny Clean Water

Verdimine

Verdimine is developing a novel method of synthesizing imine compounds using more efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly processes. Since graduating

Vistex Composites

Vistex Composites is developing a disruptive process for the production of advanced thermoset and thermoplastic composite products. After graduating from

Xallent

Xallent is developing proprietary nanoscale measurement hardware and software tools for imaging, testing, and analyzing semiconductors and thin film materials.