Climax Foods

The team has developed algorithms to quickly match the taste/texture of animal-based foods with plant-based formulations - deliciously accelerating the transition to low impact eating and reducing our reliance on animal agriculture.

Algorithmic recipe development - 100x faster

Massively expanding the flavor expression of plant-based foods

Inevitable Tech

Fully robotic agriculture from seed to harvest at unit economics radically competitive to outdoor agriculture. Their approach enables delicious, low-input, local, and resilient food production and can reduce the negative impacts of farming by 90%.

30x increase in production density

90% reduction in water consumption

90% less fertilizer

Monarch Tractor

Autonomous electric tractors that collect rich field data and can interface with smart implements to enable lower cost and higher efficacy farming. Such innovations can help accelerate the large-scale adoption of organic agriculture and better handling of soil.

Price parity with regular compact tractor

All electric and full autonomy

Wild Earth

Addressing the 25% of US meat demand that comes from pet food, Wild Earth has created protein-rich highly nutritious pet food via fungi/yeast production. With support from veterinarians, their food is both better for the Earth, and comes with functional benefits to coat, digestion, energy and joints.

Reduce pressure on 25% US meat production for pet food

Apis Cor

On-site robotic masonry paving the way to lower carbon buildings via the use of local materials and geopolymer cement (90% less carbon to produce).

9x faster construction

2x lower cost

90% less carbon produced

Cuby Technologies

Cuby is building an end-to-end platform to connect and streamline the entire construction/development process through turnkey, transportable factories that employ lean manufacturing techniques near the construction site.

UP TO 90% LESS CONSTRUCTION WASTE

UP TO 10X REDUCTION IN REQUIRED LABOR

UP TO 2X FASTER

Gradient

Re-inventing air-conditioning and cooling for comfort, operating efficiency and radical reduction of refrigerant impact.

6000x reduction in GHG impact from refrigerants

2× more energy efficient HVAC

Helios

Helios is pioneering new chemical pathways for oxygen production on the moon and decarbonization of steel making, which accounts for 8% of global emissions, through direct reduction of iron ore using a recyclable reducing agent.

100% reduction in process emissions

Up to 20% cheaper than conventional steel

Material Evolution

Concrete is the second most used material in the world and accounts for 8% of global emissions. Material Evolution leverages machine learning to formulate a cement replacement made from 95% hyper-local waste streams---all at a radically competitive cost.

85% less emissions

10x stronger

Modern Hydrogen

Distributed, on-site hydrogen generation by using pyrolysis to remove the carbon atom from natural gas, resulting in clean hydrogen that can burn with zero CO2 emissions. This enables industrial companies to decarbonize without paying more.

Uses existing natural gas pipelines

No water or electricity required

3-5X lower landed cost than transported hydrogen

Mojave

Next-gen liquid desiccant system to dramatically reduce dehumidification and cooling energy consumption, with a path to complete elimination of refrigerants, alongside improved air quality and demand response capabilities for grid resilience.

50%+ reduction in energy

20% less refrigerant

<2 year payback in most markets

Simplifyber

Reinventing how clothing is made with sustainable, additive manufacturing using a single-step process fully eliminating textile waste and water pollution from dyeing. The result is 100% bio-based molded garments and accessories at cost parity with polyester.

COST PARITY WITH POLYESTER

100% BIO-BASED TEXTILE

ELIMINATES THE ​35% TEXTILE WASTE FROM FASHION SUPPLY CHAIN

Ascend Elements

A novel approach to recycling of lithium batteries with significant improvements in unit economics from lower material separation costs and vertical integration. Battery recycling is essential to keeping the shift to electrification and renewables viable.

35% cheaper than virgin cathode

32% less emissions

13% less energy consumption

Halo

Private passenger vehicles (US) achieve 5% average utilization – most are parked 23 hours of the day. Halo retrofits EVs so they can be remotely piloted to passengers, increasing utilization and helping accelerate the shift towards a shared, electric, and autonomous mobility paradigm.

40% lower cost vs No. 1 rideshare provider

Up to 9x better vehicle utilization vs US average

Inlyte Energy

With more wind and solar coming on the grid, longer duration storage than that provided by Li-ion batteries (2-4 hours) will be needed to shift excess production to times of demand. Inlyte has developed a low-cost, salt-iron battery for grid storage, well-suited for 4+ hour durations. This alternative chemistry is also fire-safe and does not rely on scarce lithium.

4X lower cost than lithium-ion, with similar round-trip efficiency

No fire risk

Uses non-toxic and abundant materials

MightyFly

Serving unmet needs in the logistics sector, offering faster delivery at lower costs using low-carbon, autonomous aircraft with a flight range of 600 miles.

2x cheaper than traditional expedited logistics

90% less emissions

Noon Energy

Grid storage is essential to enabling society to replace fossil fuel generation with renewable generation at scale. Noon Energy is creating ultra-low-cost battery technology with superlinear economics and not limited by any rare earth materials.

10x cheaper than li-ion batteries

2x smaller

No toxic chemicals, no mined metals

Okra Solar

“Mesh grid” technology which allows utility companies to set up profitable, renewable electricity in remote areas. These displace mini-grids which are overly high in voltage and prohibitively expensive.

1⁄2 of the cost of traditional off-grid solutions

Combined IoT hardware and AI software

30% more utilized energy than mini-grid

Revterra

Some 75% of renewable energy projects fail to obtain interconnection to the grid, a problem that cannot be addressed with Li-ion. Revterra provides synchronous mechanical energy storage to unlock renewable energy at any interconnection site, while also enabling high-power high-cycle applications such as fast EV charging without the need to build new transmission infrastructure.

20x cycle life compared to Li-ion

4x maximum Li-ion C-Rate with full discharge in 15 minutes

Roam

Electric motorcycles and buses built-for-purpose for the rugged road conditions of Africa, enabling a leap-frog over unsustainable development.

2x lower cost than secondhand fossil fuel vehicles

80% fewer emissions than fossil fuel vehicles

Lokl Wind

Distributed hybrid vertical-axis wind turbines with low cut-in speeds, efficient power generation, simple assembly and high durability, all of which lower lifetime costs. Removing reliability and safety barriers to wind energy access drives adoption at scale in use cases previously thought to be unfeasible.

Elegant, safe, and high-efficiency small-scale wind generation

Transmutex

Accelerator-driven nuclear reactor combined with thorium to breed U-233 as an alternative fuel to enriched uranium. The result is a safer, more economic way to produce nuclear (fission) energy while recycling high level nuclear waste in the process.

Burns 15x more efficiently than enriched uranium

30x less long-lived radioactive waste

Cost competitive with coal on an LCOE basis

Gigablue

Engineering particles that attract and grow clusters of phytoplankton, which then sink into the deep ocean, taking the carbon with them. The particles will be distributed along global shipping routes and fall below the thermocline, thus sequestering the carbon for hundreds of years.

Permanent, verified carbon sequestration

10-15x lower cost per tCO2e