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Shibusa Systems
Shibusa Systems is a Monterey, California construction-technology company reengineering how single-family homes and ADUs get built. Instead of shipping boxes from a factory, Shibusa pre-engineers every home in a digital Configurator and turns the messy jobsite into a predictable, kit-of-parts assembly it calls Precision Component On-site Assembly. The company claims it cuts build time by roughly 50%, costs by about 30%, and construction waste to under 5%, while delivering homes to Fortified Home resilience standards with low-carbon materials and no natural gas. Founded in New Orleans in 2019 and now based in Monterey, it is backed by seed funding and led by Wall Street veteran Katy Reynolds.
Novoloop
Novoloop is a California-based circular materials company that chemically upcycles hard-to-recycle plastic waste - the grocery bags, food films and mailers that mechanical recycling can't handle - into virgin-quality, high-performance polyols and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). Using its proprietary Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition (ATOD) process and Lifecycling platform, the company turns post-consumer polyethylene into materials used in footwear, electronics and automotive goods, with a substantially lower carbon footprint than fossil-based equivalents. Founded in 2015 by childhood friends Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, Novoloop has raised over $50 million and counts On's Cloudprime sneaker among its first commercial showcases.