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SeekOps Inc.
SeekOps is an Austin-based climate-technology company that mounts a NASA-derived laser methane sensor, the SeekIR, onto enterprise-grade drones to detect, locate, quantify, and report methane emissions for energy, renewable natural gas, and waste operators. Spun out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2017, its drone-agnostic Leak Detection and Quantification (LDAQ) systems help operators meet regulatory frameworks such as OGMP 2.0, EPA rules, and the EU Methane Regulation, and have been deployed onshore and offshore for majors including bp, Shell, TotalEnergies, and Equinor.
NevadaNano
NevadaNano (Nevada Nanotech Systems, Inc.) is a Sparks, Nevada company that builds MEMS gas sensors and hardware-enabled SaaS for detecting flammable gases and quantifying methane and other emissions. Its patented Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPS) measures the thermodynamic properties of a gas mixture instead of relying on chemical reactions, delivering multi-gas detection with a 15-year life and no field calibration. The MPS platform powers flammable, refrigerant, methane, and hydrogen sensors, and underpins MethaneTrack, a continuous methane-monitoring system used to cut LDAR costs and meet OGMP 2.0 reporting requirements.
Ian Rogoff
Ian Rogoff is the CEO and a board member of NevadaNano (Nevada Nanotech Systems), a Sparks, Nevada company building semiconductor-based gas sensors and IoT emissions-monitoring systems used by some of the world's largest industrial operators. A former Microsoft Consulting Services VP turned climate-tech operator and investor, he co-founded Sierra Nevada Partners and chairs New Energy Nexus (the California Clean Energy Fund). Under his leadership NevadaNano raised a $30M Series C in 2023 led by Honeywell Ventures and Emerson Ventures, and its MethaneTrack platform won Best Industrial and IIoT Solution at Sensors Converge 2026.
William Foiles
William Foiles is the co-founder and CEO of Project Canary, a Denver climate-tech company that builds high-fidelity sensors and an enterprise data platform to measure, verify, and report methane emissions across the oil and gas value chain. A CFA charterholder with finance roots at Goldman Sachs and a stack of Stanford degrees, Foiles bet that the fastest way to fight climate change was not protest but precision - measuring the invisible 25% of warming that comes from methane so operators can actually fix it.
Alex Balkanski
Alex Balkanski is the President and CEO of Picarro, a Santa Clara-based company pioneering precision methane and greenhouse gas measurement technology for natural gas utilities worldwide. A Harvard-trained physicist turned serial entrepreneur, he co-founded C-Cube Microsystems in 1988, helped establish the MPEG video compression standard that underpins modern digital television, took C-Cube public in 1994, and orchestrated its acquisition of DiviCom in 1998. After a stint as General Partner at Benchmark Capital, he pivoted to climate tech, joining Picarro in 2013 to apply the same precision-instrument mindset to the urgent challenge of detecting and quantifying fugitive methane emissions across global gas distribution networks.