Pioneering Companies

What they do

AICrete’s mission is to significantly increase the profitability, sustainability, efficiency, and productivity of the concrete industry worldwide through a transforming All-In-One AI-Powered Operating System called AICreteOS. Improving disjointed operations in concrete manufacturing, AICrete sits at the intersection of the materials and concrete stack as the “central nervous system” for the construction industry.

Who they are

AICrete began with a simple idea: to use artificial intelligence to transform concrete operations. Founder & CEO Parham Aghdasi saw an opportunity to increase the profitability and sustainability of concrete operations while improving efficiency and productivity. He assembled a team of experts in concrete engineering, AI, and software development to create AICreteOS.

Competitive edge

The only end-to-end, recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for higher quality, cleaner, and more cost-efficient concrete, offering users unlimited AI concrete mix design optimizations

What they do

Smarter, greener & healthier upgrades for all. BlocPower uses proprietary technology to analyze, finance and upgrade homes and buildings with the latest in energy-efficient, electric technology and appliances. In this way, they reduce soft costs, shorten project timelines and make the benefits of these upgrades accessible to all.

Who they are

BlocPower started with a bold vision: What if they could help the communities most impacted by climate change lead the clean energy revolution? Today, they're doing exactly that. Since its founding in 2014, BlocPower has helped property owners transform thousands of buildings across America into cleaner, healthier, and more valuable community investments with their work recognized by the White House, the EPA, and TIME Magazine.

Competitive edge

BlocPower combines deep building expertise with smart financing solutions that help turn today's building challenges into tomorrow's opportunities for businesses and communities.

What they do

Endera is dedicated to ending the era of fossil fuels by accelerating the transition to clean mobility with their innovative turnkey electric vehicle solutions for shuttles, buses, and paratransit vehicles. Endera’s EV bus innovations enable increased range, ease of maintenance, and scalable assembly utilizing the existing Ford E-350 structural frame and off-the-shelf hardware to deliver optimal performance.

Who they are

Founder & CEO John Walsh began his career at Havenrock, a private equity firm concentrating on transportation and strategic turnarounds. He is a former Thiel Fellow and founded Endera in 2019 to establish a leading provider of comprehensive end-to-end clean energy solutions.

Competitive edge

Endera has established a competitive edge with its vertical integration, proprietary EV powertrain, and lightweight fiberglass vehicle body. With one of the lowest total costs of ownership over other commercial electric vehicle offerings, Endera is first to market with a sustainable solution that rivals its fossil fuel counterparts in price, technology, longevity, profitability and service.

What they do

Floodbase is a remote sensing platform that tracks floods in real time, using satellites and AI to observe floods without ground equipment. Floodbase enables parametric insurance policies that pay out within days of a flooding event and allow the insured to use the proceeds at their discretion.

Who they are

Floodbase was founded by Bessie Schwarz and Dr. Beth Tellman while studying as Masters students at Yale University. Both had experience working with climate vulnerable communities and saw firsthand how a lack of data directly contributed to inequity and financial ruin in the face of climate change.

Competitive edge

Floodbase provides high-frequency temporal observation solutions that produce gap-free flood maps regardless of local conditions. With 45+ peer reviewed papers, Floodbase has pioneered the science and assembled the carrier panel required to enable large-area flood insurance products.

What they do

GlacierGrid is a comprehensive energy management solution blending smart sensor technology and precise monitoring for refrigeration and HVAC systems to optimize equipment and energy consumption in commercial buildings.

Who they are

Co-founder & CEO Manik Suri previously co-founded NYU GovLab, an innovation center that developed technology solutions to improve government, and has held positions at global investment firm DE Shaw & Co. and the White House National Economic Council. Co-founder & President Aaron Cohen is a serial internet entrepreneur, having successfully steered 7 startups which generated nearly $100M for shareholders.

Competitive edge

GlacierGrid is a hardware-enabled software company using wireless LoRaWAN technology to transform cooling into a controllable load with remote control and monitoring and AI-powered load optimization with 7 patents to-date.

What they do

it's electric is curbside EV charging specifically built for cities. The first public, curbside electric vehicle charging system powered by buildings, it's electric is solving the largest barrier that cities face in the deployment of EV charging infrastructure.

Who they are

Co-founder & CEO Nathan King is a LEED certified licensed architect with 20 years of experience building sustainable cities. Co-founder & COO Tiya Gordon holds 20 years experience in leadership and design operations across a range of disciplines for some of the country’s top firms and institutions.

Competitive edge

it's electric’s Level-2 charging posts connect behind-the-meter and are installed at zero cost to property owners or cities, avoiding costly and time-consuming new utility connections. it's electric then shares revenue earned at each charger with the property owners.

What they do

Mast Reforestation restores forests after catastrophic wildfire, producing high quality carbon removal credits – the world’s first and only end-to-end tech-led reforestation company. Mast's technology provides faster and more resilient forest restoration.

Who they are

Founder and CEO Grant Canary founded Mast Reforestation with the ambitious goal of fixing the whole supply chain for reforestation.

Competitive edge

Mast is a climate technology company with a mission to make reforestation scalable with the only vertically integrated and end-to-end reforestation solution to get forest restoration projects up and running in weeks, not years.

What they do

Plantible Foods develops, manufactures, processes, and markets Rubi protein (RuBisCo), a plant-based protein made from the Lemna plant that serves as a drop-in replacement for methylcellulose and egg ingredients, among others.

Who they are

Plantible Foods is a group of passionate and humble changemakers with the not-so-humble-goal of reimagining the global food system. The team is on a mission to make the world's highest-quality ingredients that make animal-free eating the Gold Standard and animal-based foods “the alternative.”

Competitive edge

Rubi protein is a neutral-tasting, white protein ingredient that is functionally similar to egg whites, whey protein, or casein and outcompetes animal and plant proteins both functionally and nutritionally.

What they do

Twelve is a carbon transformation technology and project development company that has revolutionized the recycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into liquid fuels and high-value chemicals.

Who they are

Twelve was founded in 2015 by Nicholas Flanders, Dr. Etosha Cave, and Dr. Kendra Kuhl. The co-founders met at Stanford University, where Etosha and Kendra were PhD students studying electrocatalysts for CO₂ conversion, and Nicholas was getting his MBA.

Competitive edge

Twelve's proprietary CO2 electrolysis technology converts CO2 into carbon monoxide (CO), which creates syngas when blended with hydrogen (H2). Syngas is the building block of fuels and many high-value chemicals.

What they do

Unravel Carbon is a sustainability enterprise software that helps ‘decarbonize the AI value chain’, focusing on mining, electronics manufacturing, data centers and AI consumption. Unravel is working with some of the world’s largest companies and is backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator. It believes in “ Sustainability by AI, for AI”

Who they are

Co-founder & CEO Grace Sai is former Kauffman Fellow and serial entrepreneur with a 15-year career building startup and impact ecosystems. Co-founder & CSO Marc Allen is a chemical engineer by training and has worked with the world's largest companies and governments on decarbonization and climate change strategy. Co-founder & CTO Kevin Teng has experience scaling hyper-growth businesses, having built and scaled multiple data science teams at DoorDash.

Competitive edge

Unravel Carbon has built a proprietary carbon engine and advanced machine learning models, built on a database of over 810,000 emission factors, to provide precise carbon footprint assessments and decarbonization recommendations.