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The VC That Bet the Cost Curve of a Building Can Bend
Two lifelong construction-tech investors raised $148 million, then handed their startups something rarer than money - a rolodex of the general contractors, builders, and design firms who become their first customers.
HomeWorks Energy, Inc.
HomeWorks Energy built a sizable climate business around an unglamorous truth: before a house can go electric, somebody has to find the drafts, explain the rebates and do the work.
NxLite
NxLite (formerly 3E Nano) makes next-generation, transparent energy-control coatings for glass and lightweight polymers. Spun out of the University of Toronto in 2015, the company's patented nano-thin, low-emissivity and solar-control coatings are air-stable and can be applied to glass, acrylic (PMMA) and polycarbonate, cutting the heat that windows gain or lose. NxLite sells to window and door makers, refrigeration and transportation manufacturers, and building-retrofit customers, and runs a 45,000-square-foot Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Center in Canton, Michigan.