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ignis H2 Energy Inc.
ignis H2 Energy is a Houston-based geothermal exploration and development company that applies oil-and-gas subsurface expertise, AI/ML prospecting and a technology-agnostic approach to find, prove and produce always-on geothermal power. Founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Calleri, the company is building a globally diversified, risk-balanced portfolio of geothermal projects across Turkey, the Western U.S. and Alaska, aiming for one gigawatt of documented producible reserves by 2030. It closed a $13.6M Series A round in June 2025.
Koda Health
Koda Health is a Houston-based digital health company that turns advance care planning into a guided, EMR-integrated digital experience. Its AI-enhanced platform helps health systems, payers, and providers scale goals-of-care conversations while letting patients create legally valid advance directives, DNR orders, and medical power-of-attorney documents at no cost. Founded in 2020 through the Texas Medical Center Biodesign program, Koda now reaches more than one million patients nationwide and pairs software with in-house clinical support to make sure care plans are understood and followed.
Molecule Software
Molecule is a Houston-based software company that builds cloud-native energy trading and risk management (ETRM) and commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software. Founded in 2012 by Sameer Soleja, Molecule replaces slow, on-premise legacy systems with a modern SaaS platform that captures trades, calculates real-time position and P&L, and handles risk analytics across 50+ commodities. Its add-on modules - Elektra for power markets, Hive for renewable certificates, Djinn for crypto, and Bigbang for data-lake analytics - let energy traders, utilities, hedge funds and commodity firms manage multi-asset portfolios in one place. The company has captured more than five million trades and raised a Series B round led by Sundance Growth in July 2025.
Mstack
Mstack is an AI-native chemical R&D and manufacturing company that helps enterprises source and produce custom specialty chemicals. It pairs a cross-border network of vetted suppliers across India, the Middle East and Asia with Chemstack AI, a closed-loop platform that designs and ranks synthetic routes to compress molecule development from roughly 18 months to days. Founded in 2022 by former Lightspeed investor Shreyans Chopra, the company serves 100+ enterprise customers and is backed by Lightspeed and Alpha Wave Global.
Michael Prokopis
Michael Prokopis is the CEO of DARVIS, a Houston-based AI and computer vision company that gives hospitals real-time visibility into their inventory. A former Navy Surface Warfare Officer and Gulf War veteran turned healthcare supply chain executive, he spent 25+ years managing more than $3.2 billion in spend and driving $360M+ in savings at institutions including MD Anderson Cancer Center and Steward Health Care before crossing to the other side of the table to run the technology company he once wanted to buy from.
Aditya Singh
Aditya Singh is the founder and CEO of Promethean Energy, a Houston-based oil and gas operator that develops, produces, and decommissions mid- to late-life assets in the Gulf of Mexico. An MIT-trained strategist who came up through process engineering and completions, Singh built Promethean around an unfashionable idea: that the most responsible thing you can do with an old well is plug it well. The company operates 10 Gulf leases, retires orphaned wells ahead of budget, and partners with the University of Houston on ROICE, a program to repurpose dead offshore platforms for wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture.
Fervo Energy
Fervo Energy is a Houston-based next-generation geothermal company that borrows horizontal drilling and fiber-optic sensing from the oil and gas playbook to make enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) commercially viable. By drilling into hot dry rock almost anywhere - not just rare natural hotspots - Fervo produces around-the-clock, carbon-free firm power. Its flagship Cape Station project in Utah is on track to be the world's largest next-generation geothermal development, and the company has become a go-to supplier of clean baseload electricity for AI data centers and utilities.
Merge Electric Fleet Solutions
Merge Electric Fleet Solutions is a Houston-based company that gives commercial fleets a clear, affordable, data-driven path to going electric. Launched in 2021 by EV industry veteran Glen Stancil and backed by Pickering Energy Partners, Merge handles the full journey - analyzing which vehicles to electrify, designing and deploying charging infrastructure, and operating it - through products like EV360 fleet analysis, PowerRail modular charging, and the all-inclusive FleetScription EV subscription. The pitch is simple: electrification simplified.
Joshua Reischer
Joshua Reischer is a board-certified internal medicine physician who walked out of the exam room to rebuild the most tedious part of a doctor's day. As CEO and founder of Health Note, he turned the pre-visit patient questionnaire into AI-generated clinical notes that drop straight into the chart, cutting documentation and intake time before the appointment even starts. Health Note now runs across clinics nationwide, processes millions of patient visits a year, and raised a $17M Series A led by SignalFire with backing from Cedars-Sinai, Northwell and UnityPoint Health.
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.
Utility Global
Utility Global is a Houston-based clean-energy technology company whose proprietary eXERO platform and H2Gen system produce high-purity hydrogen and a capture-ready CO2 stream from industrial off-gases and biogases - without using external electricity. By bolting onto the existing infrastructure of steel mills, refineries, petrochemical plants and other hard-to-abate sites, the company aims to make industrial decarbonization economically competitive with fossil-based hydrogen rather than dependent on subsidies or pilots.
Vaulted Deep
Vaulted Deep is a Houston-based climate tech company that turns sludgy organic waste - biosolids, manure, food and agricultural waste, paper sludge - into permanent carbon removal by injecting it thousands of feet underground using patented slurry sequestration technology. Spun out of injection-well specialist Advantek in 2023, the company offers durable, low-cost, gigaton-scalable carbon dioxide removal while diverting hard-to-handle waste from landfills, oceans and fields. Its credits have been bought by Microsoft, Frontier Climate and others, and it won $8M in the Musk-backed XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition.
DARVIS
DARVIS is a health-tech company that uses AI-powered computer vision to give hospitals real-time visibility into their supply rooms. Its flagship product, Digital Shelves, uses smart PTZ cameras to continuously monitor inventory fill-levels and scan barcodes automatically, replacing manual counting with live consumption data, predictive demand planning, and automated reordering. Born in the gaming industry in 2015, the company pivoted to healthcare supply chain and now serves systems such as MD Anderson Cancer Center while operating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a hub in Hamburg, Germany, and a presence in Houston, Texas.
francesca's®
francesca's® was an American women's fashion and lifestyle retailer known for its eclectic mix of clothing, jewelry, accessories and giftable items sold across hundreds of small boutiques and online at francescas.com. Founded in Houston in 1999, it grew from a single store into a national chain of more than 700 boutiques, went public on the Nasdaq in 2011, and built a loyal following of women shopping for affordable, trend-driven, occasion-ready style. After two Chapter 11 bankruptcies, the company wound down and closed its remaining locations in early 2026.
Rushi Patel
Rushi Patel is the Co-Founder and COO/CRO of Homebase, the all-in-one workforce management platform serving 100,000+ small businesses and 2+ million hourly workers. With a background spanning McKinsey, KKR, and Microsoft, Patel co-founded Homebase in 2014 alongside John Waldmann to give local business owners - restaurants, retailers, and service businesses - the same quality workforce tools that enterprise companies take for granted. Under his leadership, Homebase has raised $198M in funding including a $60M Series D in April 2024, and grown to 1,900 employees while generating approximately $180M in annual revenue.
Snow Wife
Snow Wife (Emily Leann Snow) is a queer hyperpop and maximalist dance-pop artist based in Los Angeles who broke out in 2023 with the viral single 'American Horror Show' (55M+ Spotify streams) and her debut EP QUEEN DEGENERATE (146M+ total streams). A trained dancer of 10+ years turned bedroom songwriter, she launched her celebrated 'Bodyology era' in 2025 with the EP BODYOLOGY — her most ambitious project, blending club music, dance choreography, and queer pop maximalism. With nearly 900K monthly Spotify listeners, a Governors Ball 2025 performance, a Gold House Future Music Accelerator selection, and major press coverage from Rolling Stone, SPIN, The FADER, and Nylon, Snow Wife has become one of indie pop's most exciting rising voices.
Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Thee Stallion is a Grammy Award-winning rapper, entertainer, and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas, who turned a childhood in recording studios into one of hip-hop's most commanding careers. Known for anthems of self-confidence and female empowerment, she graduated college while topping charts, built her own label (Hot Girl Productions), made her Broadway debut in Moulin Rouge!, and runs a foundation in honor of her late parents. Off stage she is an anime devotee, horror movie enthusiast, and tireless mental health advocate whose 'Hot Girl' philosophy has become a genuine cultural movement.