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Pegasus Solar
Pegasus Solar is a Richmond, California manufacturer of rooftop solar mounting and racking systems designed to make installation faster, cheaper, and more watertight for residential and commercial solar installers. Founded in 2012 by Kai Stephan, the company sells a full catalog of mounts, rails, flashings, and rail-free systems - including its SkipRail and InstaFlash lines - through a distributor and installer network across the U.S. Pegasus emphasizes American manufacturing, durable design, and reducing labor time on the roof, with millions of units shipped and a track record it markets around zero reported roof leaks.
AICrete Corp.
AICrete Corp. is a Richmond, California company building AICreteOS, the first AI-powered operating system for the concrete and aggregates industry. Founded by UC Berkeley PhD Parham Aghdasi, it unifies quality control and operations - connecting batch, dispatch and truck data into one platform - to cut concrete costs by over $3 per cubic yard and reduce CO2 by an average of 42 lbs per cubic yard. The company raised over $9 million in seed funding led by Clear Ventures.
Parham Aghdasi
Parham Aghdasi is the founder and CEO of AICrete, a Richmond, California climate-tech company that uses artificial intelligence to optimize concrete recipes in real time, cutting both cost and carbon. A structural materials engineer with a PhD from UC Berkeley, he spent a decade developing concrete composites for earthquake-resistant structures and ultra-high-speed train tunnels before turning his attention to one of the planet's dirtiest materials. Born in Iran and barred from higher education for his Baha'i faith, he studied at an underground university, came to the US with $6,000, and built a company that has raised over $9 million to give concrete producers, in his words, 'sustainable concrete superpowers.'