building-electrification
(3)
The Quebec Heater Company That Survived Two Crises - Then Built an 18-Brand HVAC Machine
Innovair Solutions grew from a backyard workshop into a 1,300-person HVAC group by making an unfashionable choice: buy specialists, keep their names, and let the plumbing behind them do the merging. A C$230 million capital package now puts that Quebec playbook under its biggest test.
Bedrock Energy
Bedrock Energy is an Austin-based geothermal startup making heating and cooling for commercial buildings cheaper and cleaner. By reengineering oil-and-gas drilling technology with real-time subsurface sensing and simulation software, Bedrock drills geothermal boreholes up to 5x faster, then designs and delivers ground-source heat pump systems that can cut a building's HVAC energy costs in half while slashing related air pollution.
Joselyn Lai
Joselyn Lai is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy, an Austin-based climate-tech company drilling deep, autonomous geothermal wells to heat and cool large commercial buildings for a fraction of conventional cost and land. After a decade across sustainable agriculture, transportation, and consulting, she paired up with oil-and-gas drilling scientist Silviu Livescu to repurpose upstream drilling techniques for the half-kilometer of free thermal energy sitting beneath every building. In January 2025 the company raised a $12M Series A led by Titanium Ventures to scale projects across Texas and the Mountain West.