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The Fighter Pilot Who Traded Jets for a Camera That Watches Your Back 40
A retired fighter pilot from a Nebraska ranching family set out to build a water-tank sensor. His customers told him what they actually wanted: eyes on the land, no Wi-Fi required.
The Generator You Can Run in the Bedroom
A father-and-son engineering team wants to replace the gas generator with a box that makes hydrogen from powder and water - quiet enough to sit next to a CPAP machine.
The DJI Battery Guys Who Turned a $12M Kickstarter Into a Home Energy Company
A team of ex-DJI battery engineers used Kickstarter as a factory floor, turned camping gear into home power, and built a billion-dollar clean-energy company one power outage at a time.
AEONrv
AEONrv builds all-season, electric-cabin RVs designed for off-road and off-grid adventure. Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, the company converts AWD Ford Transit chassis into propane-free overland campers powered by solar and lithium - engineered for skiers, climbers, and remote workers who want to disappear into the mountains without giving up the comforts of home.
L-Charge
L-Charge designs, manufactures, and operates scalable off-grid ultrafast EV charging solutions. Using modular power units that run on natural gas, renewable natural gas, and other low-carbon fuels, the company delivers Charging-as-a-Service to commercial fleets, ports, airports, school districts, and construction sites - bypassing utility queues and grid bottlenecks.
Somewear Labs
Somewear Labs builds satellite-powered hardware and a software-defined network that keep defense, government, and emergency-response teams connected when conventional networks fail. Its pocket-sized devices automatically route mission data across mesh radios and satellite links, integrate with tactical systems like ATAK, and serve users from helicopter paramedics and wildland firefighters to U.S. special operators.
Angaza
Angaza is a San Francisco- and Nairobi-based software company whose pay-as-you-go platform lets last-mile distributors sell solar home systems, water pumps, smartphones and other life-changing products to off-grid consumers on small, mobile-money installments. Its cloud platform powers more than 200 distributors across roughly 50 countries.
ECL
ECL (EdgeCloudLink) builds the world's first modular, off-grid data centers powered by green hydrogen fuel cells. Founded by data-center veteran Yuval Bachar, ECL delivers Tier 4 uptime with zero emissions, zero grid power, and a PUE under 1.1 - selling capacity in 1-2 MW modular blocks designed for high-density AI compute.
Pebble
Pebble Mobility is a Fremont, California startup building the Pebble Flow, an all-electric, self-propelling travel trailer designed to make RVing as easy as using an iPhone. Founded by ex-Apple, Tesla, Zoox, Rivian and SpaceX engineers, the company is rethinking the 50-year-old RV playbook around electrification, automation, and off-grid living.