Axiom Cloud builds AI software that makes commercial refrigeration systems cheaper to run, easier to maintain, and dramatically less polluting. Its cloud platform plugs into existing refrigeration controllers at grocery stores and cold-storage facilities to spot refrigerant leaks early, shift energy use off-peak, and automate work orders - cutting both costs and the climate impact of supermarket cooling.
GlacierGrid (formerly Therma) is a San Francisco climate-tech company whose AI-powered Cooling Intelligence Platform combines IoT sensors, machine learning, and equipment controls to cut energy use, prevent food waste, and reduce carbon emissions across HVAC and refrigeration systems. Its customers include McDonald's, 7-Eleven, Marriott, Domino's, Dutch Bros, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Dunkin', Vail Resorts, and Cornell University.
Adam Slavney is the co-founder and CEO of Pascal, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup commercializing solid-state refrigerants to replace the planet-warming gases inside air conditioners, heat pumps, refrigerators and data centers. A Stanford-trained chemist who studied perovskite solar cells before a Harvard postdoc in clean-energy economics, Slavney spun Pascal out of Harvard in 2023 around a class of barocaloric materials that respond to pressure two orders of magnitude more strongly than other solids. The company raised an $8M seed round in 2024 led by Engine Ventures, with Khosla Ventures participating, and later added a Series A to scale prototypes. Slavney's pitch is blunt: heating and cooling burn nearly 40% of the world's energy and the refrigerants doing it cause about 2% of global warming, and he wants to keep the cooling while deleting the climate cost.
Phil Krinner is the co-founder and CEO of Arch, a San Francisco company building AI revenue software for home services contractors, starting with HVAC and heat pumps. A Stanford GSB graduate and former McKinsey strategy consultant who once built large-scale solar plants and installed panels himself, Krinner started Arch after asking 15 contractors to quote a heat pump for his apartment and finding that not one could tell him whether it would save money. Arch uses public home data and AI to help contractors find the right homes, size systems in minutes, and run hyper-personalized campaigns. The company raised a $6.2M seed round in 2024 led by Coatue with Floodgate, Gigascale, ReGen and MCJ.
Stratus is a cloud-based BIM-to-fabrication platform built for MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) contractors. It connects the digital model - Revit, AutoCAD and Autodesk Fabrication - to the prefab shop and the field, handling spooling, smart labeling, bend sheets, weld maps, material tracking and real-time productivity metrics so trade contractors can move from design to installed pipe, duct and conduit with less waste and fewer manual handoffs. Developed by GTP Software, Inc. (formerly GTP Services), Stratus serves large mechanical and sheet-metal contractors across North America and raised a $32M Series B in 2025.
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.
Dandelion Energy is an Alphabet (Google X) spinout that designs, installs, and finances residential and multifamily geothermal heating and cooling systems. By drilling ground loops that tap the earth's stable temperature and pairing them with a proprietary heat pump, Dandelion replaces fossil-fuel furnaces and air conditioners with a single all-electric system that cuts home heating and cooling bills while eliminating on-site emissions. The company has grown into the largest home geothermal provider in the U.S., installing thousands of systems and partnering with the nation's largest production homebuilders and multifamily developers to make geothermal a default option for new construction.
Housecall Pro is an all-in-one, cloud-based business management platform built for home service professionals - plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, cleaners, and other tradespeople. It folds scheduling, dispatching, invoicing, payments, marketing, and customer management into a single mobile-first app, increasingly layered with AI tools that answer calls, book jobs, and answer accounting questions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, the company serves tens of thousands of service businesses and has powered well over 100 million completed jobs.
Runwise is a New York-based smart-building company that retrofits aging heating, cooling, water, and electrical systems with proprietary wireless hardware, sensors, and cloud software. Its platform learns each building's behavior and automatically runs core systems at the minimum needed, cutting fuel use 20-25%, lowering carbon emissions, and helping owners comply with climate laws like NYC's Local Law 97. Used in over 10,000 buildings across the U.S., Runwise has saved customers more than $100 million in energy costs and positions itself as the operating system for buildings still running on 1960s technology.
Avoca is a New York-based AI platform for America's services economy. It builds AI agents that answer calls, texts, chats and emails, book jobs, follow up on estimates and coach human reps for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control and other trades. Founded in 2022 by Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava after a chance encounter with a Dallas HVAC company, Avoca pivoted from restaurants to the trades when it realized a missed call could mean losing a $30,000 install. In April 2026 it raised $125M+ across Seed, Series A and Series B at a $1 billion valuation, and is on track to book $1 billion in jobs in a single year.
Apurva Shrivastava is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Avoca, a New York AI company that builds voice and workflow agents for home services businesses like HVAC, plumbing, and roofing contractors. An MIT computer science graduate and second-time founder who built AI products at Apple and engineered at Retool, he and co-founder Tyson Chen pivoted from restaurants to the trades after a chance encounter at a Texas conference. By 2026 Avoca had crossed a $1 billion valuation, 800-plus customers, and $125M-plus raised from Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and General Catalyst.
Tyson Chen is the co-founder and co-CEO of Avoca, a New York based startup building AI agents that answer the phones, book jobs, and chase estimates for the trades - HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical. He met his co-founder Apurva Shrivastava at an MIT poker night, started out trying to save restaurants from missed calls, then pivoted after a Dallas heating-and-air company showed them that one missed call could mean a lost $40,000 install. In April 2026 Avoca raised a $125M+ Series B led by Meritech and General Catalyst at a $1 billion valuation.
Legence is North America's largest pure-play building performance platform, providing integrated advisory, engineering, design, fabrication, installation, and maintenance services for high-performance and mission-critical facilities. Formerly Therma Holdings and backed by Blackstone, the company brands itself the world's first Energy Transition Accelerator, helping data centers, healthcare, education, biopharma, semiconductor, and commercial real estate clients cut carbon, lower utility costs, and run buildings more efficiently. Legence went public on Nasdaq under the ticker LGN in September 2025.
Andrew Hosler is the President and CEO of Performance Mechanical, Inc. (PMI), a leading industrial mechanical contractor headquartered in Pittsburg, California and a subsidiary of publicly-traded EMCOR Group. With over 23 years in construction and industrial contracting, Hosler rose from hands-on marine terminal maintenance crews to managing $1 billion in annual bid revenue as Chief Estimator, before taking the helm of PMI. Under his leadership, the company serves major clients in power generation, chemical, refinery, and water treatment sectors across California and Hawaii, employing approximately 750 skilled union tradespeople.
BrightAI is a Palo Alto-based physical AI company building Stateful OS, a platform that pairs edge sensors, robots, and multimodal AI models to monitor, inspect, and maintain critical infrastructure - pipes, power grids, HVAC systems, and more. Co-founded in 2019 by SmartThings creator Alex Hawkinson, the company crossed $80M in revenue while bootstrapped before raising a $51M Series A in July 2025.
R-Zero is a San Francisco-based smart building technology company that started in the pandemic selling hospital-grade UV-C disinfection and pivoted to an IoT and AI platform that cuts HVAC energy use 20-40% by reading real-time occupancy across commercial and healthcare portfolios.
Jake Olsen, P.E. is the CEO of Stratus, the leading cloud software platform for MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) contractors, helping hundreds of firms digitize workflows from BIM design through fabrication to field installation. A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years in construction technology, Olsen previously co-founded DADO - a construction document management startup that was acquired by Stanley Black & Decker - and also built Hangerworks, DEWALT Design Assist, and Powercalc Anchor Design. He steered Stratus to a $32 million Series B funding round in January 2025 led by Radian Capital, positioning the company as the connective tissue between the design table, fabrication shop, and job site in the evolving era of data-driven MEP contracting.