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The Denver crew that buys land nobody wants, drills it, and sells the whole thing for a billion
Founded in 2019, Avant runs one play over and over: aggregate the acreage bigger operators skip, turn it into producing wells, and monetize at the top of the cycle. Two exits and a billion-dollar fund later, the formula is holding.
CruxOCM
CruxOCM is a Calgary-based industrial automation company building software that gives energy control rooms an 'adaptive cruise control' for their pipelines. Its robotic industrial process automation (RIPA) platform runs on top of existing SCADA and DCS systems to automate complex, procedure-heavy operations - starting and stopping pumps, holding steady flow, reducing drag - so operators can run the same assets with more throughput, lower operating costs, and improved safety, all while keeping a human in the loop.
Proteum Energy
Proteum Energy is a Phoenix-based cleantech company that turns wasted flare gas and residual hydrocarbons into clean hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and designer fuels. Using its patented modular Flare-to-Fuel platform and steam non-methane reforming (SnMR) technology, Proteum helps oil, gas, and ethanol producers cut emissions and profit from assets that would otherwise be burned off into the sky.