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Unleash live
Unleash live is a Sydney-based enterprise computer vision company that turns live video and imagery from drones, CCTV, IP cameras and mobile devices into real-time, actionable insights. Its cloud and edge platform runs a library of AI models to inspect critical infrastructure - power lines, wind turbines, solar farms, rail, roads and industrial sites - detecting faults, corrosion and equipment wear so utilities, transport authorities and resource companies can inspect assets faster and safer. Alongside the core platform it offers Autofly for automated drone and robot inspections and an AI App marketplace for building and deploying custom vision models.
NobleAI
NobleAI is a San Francisco software company that builds 'Science-Based AI' for chemical, materials and energy R&D. Its cloud VIP platform (Visualizations, Insights and Predictions) bakes physical laws and chemical properties into machine-learning models so they can make useful predictions from the sparse, messy datasets that industrial labs actually have - compressing R&D cycles from months to minutes. Founded in 2017 by physicist Matthew C. Levy, the company has raised roughly $40M from backers including Microsoft's M12, Chevron Technology Ventures, Sway Ventures and Dorilton, and counts chemical giants such as Solvay among its early partners.
InnovationForce
InnovationForce is a Durham, North Carolina software company behind InnovationWorks, an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps organizations run structured innovation at scale. Founded by CEO Kim Getgen and Harvard Business School professor Dr. Linda Hill, the platform turns organizational documents into sharp problem statements, then matches those challenges against a library of thousands of peer-validated solutions - claiming teams reach decisions roughly 85% faster and complete pilots far sooner. It has become especially well known in the energy and utilities sector, and was named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Workplace Solutions of 2024 and Inc.'s Best in Business 2024.
Monterra
Monterra is a San Francisco software startup building design and planning tools for the people who physically install EV chargers. Its platform lets charging contractors design site layouts on satellite imagery, model costs in real time, and auto-generate customer-ready proposals, bills of materials, and electrical schematics - collapsing a process that used to take weeks of engineering and tool-hopping into minutes. Founded in 2022 by David Kim and Kelson Reiss, the company raised a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Base10 Partners in November 2023 to help cut the 'soft costs' that slow down America's charging buildout.
Kim Getgen
Kim Getgen is the founder and CEO of InnovationForce, an AI-powered innovation management platform born in Durham, North Carolina. She bootstrapped the company by moving in with her parents and selling her car, then watched it land on Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Workplace Solutions list and bring 165+ utilities onto a single collaboration platform. Named one of Inc.'s Top 500 Female Founders of 2025, she has spent two-plus decades shoving legacy industries (energy, cybersecurity) toward the future before the future arrives without them.
Atomiton
Atomiton builds an immersive intelligence platform that ties operational activity to energy, water and carbon performance, helping data centers, manufacturers and building operators cut costs and hit sustainability targets in real time.
GridCARE
GridCARE is a Redwood City, California company that uses generative AI to find hidden capacity inside the existing electric grid - turning data-center 'time-to-power' from a 5-to-7-year wait into 6-to-12 months. Founded in 2024 by Amit Narayan with co-founders from Stanford, the company is building what it calls 'power acceleration for AI,' partnering with utilities like National Grid and Portland General Electric and counting Sutter Hill Ventures, Xora, Emerson Collective and John Doerr among its backers.
Matter Intelligence
Matter Intelligence is a remote sensing and AI company building the world's first sub-meter hyperspectral and thermal satellite sensors paired with a foundational 'Large World Model' that lets machines understand the physical world at a molecular level. Founded by former NASA JPL engineers, the El Segundo startup emerged from stealth in October 2024 with $12M in seed funding to deploy sensors across satellites, drones, and aircraft for agriculture, defense, energy, and environmental monitoring.
David Kim
David Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Monterra, a San Francisco software company that helps EV charging contractors and developers design, quote, and propose charging projects in minutes instead of days. Before Monterra, he spent years working with utilities and energy companies designing EV charging programs, deploying smart grid infrastructure, and planning energy efficiency initiatives, with earlier stops at The Cadmus Group, Boston Consulting Group, and Accenture, plus a graduate degree from MIT Sloan. He co-founded Monterra in 2022 with Kelson Reiss and raised a $2.5M pre-seed led by Base10 Partners in November 2023 to speed the buildout of EV charging infrastructure with software and AI.
Molly Yang
Molly Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Hgen, a Los Angeles climate-tech company building modular, mass-manufacturable alkaline electrolyzers to make clean hydrogen cheap enough for heavy industry. A former energy product lead at Tesla, she teamed up with childhood friend and ex-SpaceX engineer Colin Ho to shrink the electrolyzer roughly twentyfold and package it into shipping containers that need only water and electricity. Hgen has raised $7M total from Founders Fund, Seven Seven Six, and Fontinalis Partners, and Yang was named a 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellow.
Tomas Ocampo
Tomas Ocampo is the founder and CEO of Unblock, a company that drops modular data centers next to remote oil wells and renewable sites in Latin America, turning gas that would otherwise be flared off (and power that would otherwise be curtailed) into Bitcoin and AI computing. An Argentine lawyer turned investment banker turned Stanford-trained energy operator, he ran YPF Ventures before launching Unblock in 2021. The company now operates one of the largest computing fleets at oil field facilities in the world, says it eliminates roughly 142,000 tons of CO2 a year, and raised a $13.5M seed round in 2025 led by Goldcrest Capital and Collaborative Fund.
Splight
Splight is a grid-technology company that uses machine learning to squeeze more capacity out of the power lines that already exist. Its flagship product, Dynamic Congestion Management (DCM), reads real-time conditions on transmission lines and turns fast-responding assets like batteries and data centers into grid-stabilizing tools, unlocking up to twice the usable capacity without building a single new tower. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company targets utilities, grid operators, and the AI data centers straining the grid - it now manages more than 3 gigawatts of grid assets and has raised about $24.4M to expand across North America and Europe.
ControlRooms.ai
ControlRooms.ai is an Austin-based industrial AI company that builds an AI-assisted troubleshooting platform for heavy industry - chemical, energy, and materials producers. Instead of relying on static, pre-programmed rules, its software learns a plant's normal behavior on its own and flags anomalies in real time across thousands of sensor parameters, helping operators catch small problems before they become unplanned trips, flaring events, or costly downtime. Founded in 2021 by serial AI entrepreneur Monte Zweben and Omar Talib, the company raised an oversubscribed $10M Series A in 2023 led by Origin Ventures and is live at industrial leaders including OCI Global and Ardagh Group.
Aetherflux
Aetherflux is a San Carlos, California space and energy startup founded in 2024 by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt. It is building a constellation of small low-earth-orbit satellites that collect sunlight in space and beam the energy back to compact ground stations on Earth using infrared lasers rather than the giant geostationary microwave platforms imagined by earlier space-solar concepts. Backed by a $50 million Series A and early defense funding, the company aims to deliver electricity to places the grid cannot reach, beginning with forward operating bases, remote research stations, and disaster zones, and planned a first in-orbit power-beaming demonstration for 2026.
Dispel
Dispel is an Austin, Texas-based operational technology (OT) cybersecurity company that builds a Zero Trust Engine for industrial control systems. Its platform combines secure remote access, real-time industrial data streaming, unified OT connectivity (OTFusion), and 24/7 threat monitoring, all built around Moving Target Defense - a technique that constantly shifts network paths so attackers never get a stable target. Dispel lets manufacturers, utilities, energy operators, and government agencies give vendors and engineers fast, audited access to plant equipment without the friction of legacy VPNs and jump boxes.
HyperSciences, Inc.
HyperSciences is a Spokane, Washington deep-tech company that commercializes the ram accelerator - an in-tube hypersonic engine licensed from the University of Washington - to fire projectiles through rock at up to nine times the speed of sound. Its platform technology, the HyperCore, powers products for tunneling and mining (HyperDrill, Hyperbreaker), geothermal and energy drilling, and aerospace launch (HyperLaunch). The pitch: break rock and reach orbit faster and cheaper by replacing slow mechanical drill bits and first-stage rockets with repeatable hypervelocity impact.
Magic Mind
Magic Mind makes a 2-ounce 'mental performance shot' built from a blend of around a dozen nootropics, adaptogens, vitamins and antioxidants - think lion's mane, ashwagandha, L-theanine and ceremonial matcha - designed to deliver calm focus without the jitter-and-crash cycle of a big cup of coffee. Founded in 2020 by James Beshara and William Hicks, the brand started in a San Jose commercial kitchen, grew through direct-to-consumer subscriptions, and has since pushed into national retail including Whole Foods, Erewhon, Sprouts and Albertsons. It raised a $12.4M Series A in September 2025.
Project Canary
Project Canary is a Denver-based climate-tech public-benefit corporation that turns methane and emissions data into operational intelligence for energy companies. It pairs high-fidelity continuous monitoring hardware (the EPA-approved Canary X sensor) with a cloud platform (SENSE) and independent well-level ESG ratings (TrustWell), helping oil & gas producers and natural gas utilities detect leaks, cut emissions, meet regulations, and prove the climate attributes of their gas.
Seurat Technologies
Seurat Technologies is a Massachusetts-based contract metal manufacturer built around Area Printing, a laser powder bed fusion process invented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Instead of melting metal powder one point at a time, Seurat uses millions of tiny laser points to print entire areas at once, decoupling resolution from speed. The company doesn't sell printers; it runs its own clean-energy print factories and sells finished parts at costs meant to rival casting, forging, and machining, with the goal of reshoring high-volume metal manufacturing and cutting its carbon footprint.
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP)
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) is an infrastructure developer and holding company that builds and operates businesses reshaping how energy and digital systems work together. Founded inside Alphabet in 2017 and spun out as independent in 2019 by Sidewalk Labs veterans Jonathan Winer and Brian Barlow, SIP raised $400 million in 2020 backed by Alphabet and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. It identifies bottlenecks in physical infrastructure, then pairs technology with capital to create new operating companies - most recently Renew Home, a roughly one-gigawatt residential virtual power plant, and Verrus, which designs large-scale data centers that flex their grid draw on demand.
Starcloud
Starcloud is a US deep-tech company building data centers in orbit. By placing GPU clusters in space, it taps near-continuous solar power and passive radiative cooling to run AI training and inference without the land, water, grid-permitting, and energy constraints that bottleneck data centers on Earth. In November 2025 its Starcloud-1 satellite became the first spacecraft to train a large language model in orbit using an Nvidia H100 GPU; its $170M Series A in March 2026 made it the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history.
Mark Russell
Mark Russell is the founder and CEO of HyperSciences, a Spokane, Washington company turning a piece of aerospace exotica - the ram accelerator - into a tool that drills through rock up to ten times faster than a conventional rig. A former Blue Origin lead engineer on the crew capsule and a self-described third-generation miner, Russell fires projectiles at hypersonic speed every few seconds to crack rock for geothermal energy, mining and tunneling, and to lob payloads toward space through his sister venture Pipeline2Space. He raised roughly $9.6 million from thousands of small investors and won early backing from NASA and Shell.
Parker Meeks
Parker Meeks is the President and CEO of Utility Global, a Houston-based clean-energy company commercializing H2Gen, a system that makes low-cost clean hydrogen on-site from industrial waste gases without electrolysis. A Houston native and electrical engineer turned McKinsey partner, he previously led hydrogen fuel-cell maker Hyzon as CEO. At Utility he is steering the company from demonstration into global commercialization, including a first commercial-scale steel project with ArcelorMittal in Brazil.
VIA
VIA (VIA Science, Inc.) is a Somerville, Massachusetts Web3 company building a decentralized, quantum-resistant, passwordless platform that lets governments and enterprises share and analyze sensitive data without exposing it. Backed by 18 issued patents, VIA is the first blockchain application to earn U.S. Department of Defense-wide cybersecurity accreditation, and its tools protect data and identities for the DoD, Fortune 100 firms, and energy utilities worldwide.
Acceleron Fusion, Inc.
Acceleron Fusion is a Cambridge, Massachusetts deep-tech company reviving muon-catalyzed fusion, a phenomenon first observed in the 1950s, as a path to abundant clean energy. Instead of confining a 100-million-degree plasma, Acceleron fires a beam of muons - subatomic particles roughly 200 times heavier than electrons - at highly compressed deuterium-tritium fuel, triggering fusion at temperatures closer to 500-1,000 C. Founded in 2023 by NK Labs veterans Ara Knaian and Seth Newburg and backed by a $24M Series A from Lowercarbon Capital and Collaborative Fund, the company is building two core technologies: a high-efficiency muon source and a high-density fusion cell, with the goal of a fusion power plant that beats natural gas on cost.
Antares
Antares is a nuclear fission energy company building factory-produced, transportable microreactors that deliver strategic power for mission-critical systems across land, sea, and space. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Torrance, California, its R1 reactor uses TRISO fuel, sodium heat pipes, and a nitrogen Brayton cycle to produce 100kWe-1MWe for six-plus years. In June 2026 its Mark-0 reactor became the first privately developed advanced reactor to achieve criticality under the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program.
Beacon Power Services
Beacon Power Services (BPS) is an energy-technology company building data and grid-management software for Africa's power sector. Its AI-enabled platforms - Adora for real-time grid monitoring, CAIMS for utility asset and customer data, and the Xepp consumer app - help electricity distributors cut losses, prevent outages and digitize networks. Founded by aerospace engineer turned investment banker Bimbola Adisa, BPS now serves utilities reaching more than 50 million people across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and beyond, processing over a billion grid data points a day.
Rise Science
Rise Science is a Chicago-based health technology company behind RISE, a sleep and energy tracking app built on two ideas sleep researchers agree on: sleep debt and circadian rhythm. Rather than scoring your sleep with a vague number, RISE predicts your daily energy peaks and dips and tells you the best time to do everything - from your last coffee to winding down for bed. Founded in 2015 by Northwestern engineers Jeff Kahn and Leon Sasson, the company has raised $15.5M and grown the app past 5 million users.
Terra AI
Terra AI is a Palo Alto geoscience company building generative AI that turns the messy, expensive guesswork of subsurface exploration into fast, probabilistic 3D models of what lies underground. By fusing geophysics, geochemistry, and drilling data, its platform generates millions of geological scenarios in minutes, helping mining and energy teams decide where to drill, how many wells they need, and whether a project is worth the capital - shrinking exploration timelines and pointing capital at the critical minerals the clean-energy transition depends on.
Texture
Texture is a New York-based climate-tech company building the operating system for the energy grid. Its AI-native software platform connects to any meter, device, or data source - solar arrays, batteries, EVs, AMI and SCADA feeds - and gives electric utilities, cooperatives, virtual power plant operators, and grid-services companies a single place to enroll devices, monitor the distribution system in real time, run demand-response and flexibility programs, and measure performance. Founded in 2023 by Sanjiv Sanghavi (co-founder of ClassPass), Texture aims to break the manufacturer 'walled gardens' that keep distributed energy resources from working together.