Allume have created the SolShare: The world’s only hardware for connecting apartments to a shared rooftop solar system. The behind-the-meter solution is simple to install and affordable, making it the go-to solar solution for apartment buildings. Social Housing Providers, Property Developers, Asset Owners, and traditional apartment owners are now able to achieve their sustainability goals and save their residents money via the SolShare. With the SolShare, we’re creating a world where everyone can access clean energy.
Amber Kinetics is a low cost flywheel energy storage system, developing a flywheel system from sub-scale research prototype to full-scale mechanical flywheel battery and will conduct both a commercial-scale and a utility-scale demonstration. Amber Kinetics’ aim is to deliver a cost-effective prototype flywheel system that can be grid connected and electrically charged and discharged. The system has built-in sensing components that determines frequency and voltage characteristics of the grid and overrides the grid signal to manage the amount of electricity discharged. Amber Kinetics’ flywheel stores energy in a spinning rotor that is connected to an electric motor that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. To recover the energy the motor is electrically reversed and used as a generator to slow down the flywheel converting the mechanical energy back into electrical energy. Amber Kinetics improves the traditional flywheel system by engineering breakthroughs in three areas, magnetic bearings, low-cost rotor, and high-efficiency motor generator. Its technology can also be used to optimize existing infrastructure. Amber Kinetics was founded by [Seth Sanders](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-sanders-2). It is based in California City, California.
The Third Revolution in Aviation has begun and Ampaire is leading the charge by developing aircraft that make flying clean, quiet, safe, reliable, affordable, and more accessible to more people than ever before. With key innovations in energy storage, propulsion, and aircraft architecture, the Ampaire team is maximizing the potential of theaircraft industry. Ampaire is a portfolio company of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. It was founded in year 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Banyan is a platform that automates contractual compliance and creates transparency throughout the loan lifecycle of infrastructure. The company's platform consists of dynamic loan agreements that are easily integrated with the project's IoT monitoring systems, bank accounts, and other asset management software to speed up the development of next-generation infrastructure projects at a high velocity and low cost. This allows lenders and borrowers to synthesize important insights, automate contractual compliance, and actively mitigate risk with greater transparency across all counterparties.
Our mission is to transform the heating & cooling of buildings, using geothermal energy to radically reduce costs for people and the environment. Bedrock is building autonomous drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable widespread, affordable, and accessible installations of geothermal heating & cooling. Our vision is to decarbonize buildings everywhere.
Bidgely (which means "electricity" in Hindi) is a highly energetic and innovative startup working on something that has never been done before. They have developed ground-breaking analytics that can itemize home energy usage data to the appliance level without using any plug-level monitors. Now, they are setting out to deliver this technology to millions of households across the world and help save energy on a massive scale.
BlocPower is an energy technology startup that develops healthier, greener, and smarter buildings. It leverages advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment, and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to urban buildings. The company also connects government agencies, utilities, building owners, and smart equipment providers to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. Its propriety machine learning platform then determines which retrofits will produce the most energy savings at scale and uses the cloud and IoT to gather data and remotely monitor energy consumption. Since its founding, BlocPower has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivers results ahead of schedule and under budget. It utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects and its customers are saving 20-40% on their energy bills each year. The company is backed by top investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8, The Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, Elemental Excelerator, CityRock Venture Partners, The Schmidt Family Foundation, and Salesforce Ventures. Donnel Baird and Morris Cox co-founded the company in Brooklyn, New York in 2014.