Tagged: sustainability
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Divert, Inc.
Divert, Inc. is a Concord, Massachusetts impact technology company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted. Founded in 2007, it pairs data-driven prevention software with reverse logistics and a network of anaerobic digestion facilities that turn unsold and non-donatable food into renewable natural gas and soil amendment. Divert serves more than 7,800 retail and industrial customer locations - including Kroger, Albertsons, Target, CVS and Ahold Delhaize - and reached a valuation of over $1 billion following a 2026 Series C led by Mitsubishi Corporation.
NotCo
NotCo is a Chilean food-tech company that uses a proprietary artificial intelligence platform called Giuseppe to reverse-engineer animal-based foods and recreate them from plants. Founded in 2015 in Santiago, it makes consumer brands such as NotMilk, NotBurger, NotMayo and NotIceCream, sold across the Americas, and licenses its AI to other food companies. NotCo became Chile's first unicorn in 2021 and runs a plant-based joint venture with Kraft Heinz in North America.
Odeko
Odeko is a New York-based operations platform for independent cafes and small food-and-beverage businesses. It combines supply-chain logistics - overnight delivery of cups, lids, syrups, dairy and other back-of-house essentials from its own warehouses - with software for inventory management and mobile ordering. By aggregating buying power across more than 10,000 shops, Odeko helps owners cut costs, save time on vendor management, and reduce waste, letting small operators compete with national chains.
RanMarine Technology
RanMarine Technology is a Rotterdam-based marine robotics company that builds autonomous, electric aquadrones - led by its flagship WasteShark - to remove floating plastic, debris and biomass from ports, marinas, harbours and inland waterways while collecting water-quality data. Founded in South Africa in 2015 and re-incorporated in the Netherlands, the company sells hardware plus a connected data platform to ports, municipalities, water authorities, facilities firms and NGOs across several continents.
Scaler
Scaler is an ESG data platform built for the real estate industry that turns fragmented sustainability data into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York and Amsterdam, its software helps asset managers, fund managers and compliance teams collect building-level energy, water and carbon data, run CRREM and net-zero analysis, and report against frameworks like GRESB, CSRD, SFDR and the EU Taxonomy - all from a single, traceable source of truth.
Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.
Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc) is a Boston-based, certified B Corporation that provides membership-based strategic advisory and support services in enterprise decarbonization. For more than fifteen years it has helped executives at nearly 100 Fortune 500 and high-growth companies set sustainability goals, drive progress, and report results through shared-cost research, one-on-one consulting, and a peer community. Its two flagship offerings are the Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) advisory service and the Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB), a confidential corporate renewable-energy buyers' community and transaction platform.
TULU
TULU is a proptech company that turns underused lobby and common space in apartment and student-housing buildings into 24/7 on-demand rental hubs. Through IoT-based units and a mobile app, residents can rent or buy brand-name products - from vacuums and e-scooters to VR headsets and household consumables - without owning them. Founded out of MIT's DesignX by Yishai Lehavi and Yael Shemer, the company pairs physical smart units with an AI layer that personalizes inventory per building, and it has served more than 500,000 residents across dozens of cities in North America and Europe.
Ian Lowe
Ian Lowe is the founder and CEO of Arduro Sustainable Rubber, a clean-technology company turning end-of-life tires and waste rubber back into high-value raw materials. A former JPMorgan financial controller and Piper Jaffray project-finance banker, Lowe spotted a University of Louisville research project posted online and built it into a company commercializing a patented chloramine devulcanization process that recovers rubber, carbon black and processing oils at a roughly 95% reuse rate. Arduro's first product, ELDARIX r1000 recovered carbon black, is aimed at tire and rubber manufacturers looking to cut carbon footprints while keeping performance.
James Metropoulos
James (Jim) Metropoulos is the founder and CEO of Blue Box Air, a Dallas-based clean tech company that has built a patented, bio-automated way to clean and restore the heat-transfer coils inside commercial HVAC systems. He founded the company in 2016 in Southern California and moved its headquarters to Deep Ellum, Dallas in 2020. His enzyme-based process tackles a century-old problem in the HVAC industry - coils that were never truly cleanable - and in doing so cuts building energy use, improves indoor air quality, and lowers carbon emissions. Blue Box counts clients such as MGM Resorts, UC Berkeley, General Motors, LA Children's Hospital and the Golden State Warriors, and reports having restored tens of thousands of coils while saving hundreds of millions of kilowatt-hours.
Jamie Strachan
Jamie Strachan is the CEO of Nabaco, a San Marcos, Texas agricultural-science company building natural, clay-based barrier coatings that extend the shelf life of fresh produce and cut food waste. A produce-industry executive with more than 20 years in the business, he previously ran Green Giant Fresh (Growers Express) and founded and chaired the leafy greens marketing effort in California. At Nabaco he is commercializing a patented, tasteless and odorless protection technology across pre-harvest, packaging, and post-harvest applications, including a distribution partnership with AgroFresh.
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering is a Cambridge, Massachusetts life-sciences enterprise that invents, builds, and funds companies rather than merely investing in them. Founded in 1999 by Noubar Afeyan, the firm runs a systematic 'venture creation' engine - generating scientific hypotheses in-house, prototyping them in its own labs, and spinning validated concepts into independent operating companies in human health and sustainability. Its portfolio has produced more than 100 ventures, including Moderna, and it directs roughly $14 billion in capital.
Berkeley Yeast
Berkeley Yeast is an Oakland-based biotechnology company that bioengineers specialized yeast strains for brewers, winemakers, and beverage makers, giving fermented drinks new flavors, greater consistency, and lower resource use without changing a brewery's existing equipment or process.
Maria Intscher-Owrang
Maria Intscher-Owrang is the co-founder and CEO of Simplifyber, a Raleigh-area materials startup that molds cellulose-based liquid directly into finished textile and composite parts, eliminating spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing. After more than two decades designing for Vera Wang, Calvin Klein, Dirk Bikkembergs and Alexander McQueen, she left luxury fashion to rebuild manufacturing from the fiber up, landing partnerships with GANNI and Kia and a $12M Series A led by Suzano Ventures.
ClimateAi
ClimateAi is a San Francisco-based climate-tech company that builds an AI-powered climate resilience platform. Founded at Stanford in 2017 by Himanshu Gupta and Max Evans, its ClimateLens platform combines patented machine-learning models with physics-based climate and weather data to forecast risk from weeks to decades ahead. Food, agriculture, and water-dependent companies - including Dole, Suntory, Oatly and McCain - use it to protect sourcing, planting, and procurement decisions against a more volatile climate.
Epic Cleantec
Epic Cleantec is a San Francisco cleantech company that builds onsite water reuse systems for buildings, letting towers and campuses recycle up to 95% of their own wastewater into clean non-potable water, recovered heat energy, and organic soil products. Its OneWater platform installs treatment in the basement so showers, sinks, and laundry water get reused on site instead of flushed to a distant plant. The company got famous for turning recycled building water into commercial beer, and it counts high-rise developers as its core customers.
Full Harvest
Full Harvest built the first business-to-business online marketplace connecting farmers with commercial produce buyers to sell fruits and vegetables of every grade, including surplus and imperfect produce that would otherwise rot on the farm. Founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Christine Moseley, the company raised roughly $45 million to digitize a produce supply chain that had run largely offline, tackling the fact that more than a quarter of edible produce never leaves the farm. In its latest chapter, Full Harvest is repositioning around FullHarvest.ai, an agentic orchestration layer that applies a decade of produce data and network relationships to coordinate the volatile, fragmented food supply chain.
KiWi New Energy
KiWi New Energy is a Taiwan- and Silicon Valley-based clean energy company building what it calls the operating system for global renewable energy. Rather than manufacturing more solar panels, KiWi focuses on the AI dispatch layer between generation and consumption: its AI-Driven Energy Datacenter (AI-EDC) matches clean supply to multi-site retail and SME demand in real time, aggregating fragmented buyers into virtual demand pools and using blockchain-certified renewable energy certificates to make green power traceable. Its deployments include a rare control-layer integration with Tesla Energy storage for FamilyMart convenience stores in Taiwan, plus customers like Decathlon and Wang Steak. Founded by serial energy entrepreneur Dr. Steve Huang, the company reached breakeven in 2025 and is expanding into Japan and the United States.
NobleAI
NobleAI is a San Francisco software company that builds 'Science-Based AI' for chemical, materials and energy R&D. Its cloud VIP platform (Visualizations, Insights and Predictions) bakes physical laws and chemical properties into machine-learning models so they can make useful predictions from the sparse, messy datasets that industrial labs actually have - compressing R&D cycles from months to minutes. Founded in 2017 by physicist Matthew C. Levy, the company has raised roughly $40M from backers including Microsoft's M12, Chevron Technology Ventures, Sway Ventures and Dorilton, and counts chemical giants such as Solvay among its early partners.
SiteWorx
SiteWorx is a cloud-based energy and facility management platform for industrial and commercial buildings. Built on a foundation of intelligent lighting controls, it unifies sensors, metering, and third-party systems to give operators real-time visibility into water, air/HVAC, gas/steam, and energy/lighting (WAGE) so they can cut waste and reduce operating costs. The platform is the continuation of Digital Lumens' connected-lighting technology, now owned and developed by SiteWorx Software after acquiring the assets in 2023.
Matias Muchnick
Matias Muchnick is the Chilean co-founder and CEO of NotCo, a food-tech company that uses a proprietary AI system called Giuseppe to design plant-based versions of dairy and meat products. Founded in 2015, NotCo became Chile's first unicorn in 2021, formed a joint venture with Kraft Heinz, and counts Bezos Expeditions among its investors.
Patricia Lai
Patricia Lai is Chief of Staff to the CEO of unspun, a San Francisco fashion-tech company using 3D weaving to make garments straight from yarn. A UC Irvine graduate, she moved from Deloitte consulting to operating roles at KeepTrucking/Motive and Cruise before landing at unspun, where she works at the intersection of executive strategy, hiring, and scaling a hardware startup trying to decarbonize apparel.
Ryan Begin
Ryan Begin is the co-founder and CEO of Divert, a Concord, Massachusetts impact-technology company that grew from a two-person idea in 2007 into a nationwide network of anaerobic digestion facilities. Divert prevents wasted food across roughly 7,800 retail locations, donates edible surplus, and turns the rest into renewable natural gas. A Maine native and Clarkson-trained electrical engineer, Begin left Raytheon to build the company alongside co-founder Nick Whitman.
Stephanie Feraday
Stephanie Feraday is President and CEO of aPriori Technologies, a Concord, Massachusetts digital manufacturing simulation software company, where she has spent nearly 17 years steering the business from the 2009 financial crisis through a Series D funding round, turning cost and sustainability estimation for manufacturers into a cloud SaaS platform used across aerospace, automotive, and industrial sectors.
Steve Sibulkin
Steve Sibulkin is the CEO and board member of BioLumic, a New Zealand-and-US agtech company that uses precise UV light signals to switch on genetic traits in seeds without genetic modification. A repeat CEO with a background bridging advertising strategy and agriculture, he earlier co-founded and led Agronomic Technology Corp, maker of the Adapt-N nitrogen tool, which was acquired by fertilizer giant Yara International. He now leads BioLumic's push to commercialize xTraits, light-programmed seed traits it says can cut years and up to 90% of the cost out of traditional trait development across corn, soybean, rice and forage.
Zlatan Menkovic
Zlatan Menkovic is the CEO and co-founder of Scaler, an ESG data platform helping real estate managers measure, report, and cut the carbon footprint of their buildings. A Dutch product designer turned repeat founder, he built Scaler after years shaping products at Uber and Uber Freight and an earlier startup, PeerReach. Scaler now serves roughly 30 clients overseeing more than $350 billion in assets and raised a $10M Series A in 2024 led by Plural. Menkovic's pitch is blunt: if you want global impact, start with the buildings we already live and work in.
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.
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is a privately held, family-owned conglomerate based in Atlanta, Georgia, that traces its roots to a single Ohio newspaper bought by James M. Cox in 1898. Over more than a century it grew into a roughly $23 billion-a-year business spanning broadband and cable (Cox Communications), automotive services and marketplaces (Cox Automotive, which owns Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and Manheim), and media (Cox Media Group and Axios). Still controlled by the Cox family and led by fourth-generation CEO Alex Taylor, the company reinvests its cash into new bets such as greenhouse agriculture, advanced plastics recycling and healthcare, while pursuing an aggressive Cox Conserves goal to be carbon and water neutral by 2034.
DeepVu
DeepVu (legal entity Vufind Inc.) is a San Ramon, California startup building AI planning agents for supply chain teams. Its platform pairs a supply-chain knowledge graph (VuGraph) enriched with macroeconomic and trade signals, a digital-twin simulator (VuSim), and reinforcement-learning decision agents (VuDecide) to make demand planning, inventory, procurement, production and logistics decisions more resilient to shocks - while trimming cost and carbon. Founded in 2016 by Moataz Rashad and Prof. Walid Aref, the company pivoted from computer-vision roots to focus on autonomous, shock-resilient supply chain planning for manufacturers and retailers.
FarmRaise
FarmRaise is a San Diego-based agtech company building vertical software for U.S. farms and the organizations that serve them. Its flagship app, FarmRaise Tracks, turns messy shoebox-of-receipts farm bookkeeping into organized income, expense, mileage and inventory records, while a program-management platform helps USDA, ag nonprofits and corporate partners run farmer enrollment, grants and conservation payments. Founded in 2020 by Stanford classmates Jayce Hafner and Sami Tellatin with product lead Albert Abedi, the company raised a $7.2M seed round led by Susa Ventures and serves more than 20,000 farmers and innovators.
HarvestAi
HarvestAi is a Potsdam-based agritech company that builds AI software for high-tech greenhouses. Its web platform combines computer vision, machine learning and plant-physiology modeling to predict crop growth, harvest dates and yields, giving greenhouse operators forecasts that its team says exceed 90% accuracy. Growers use it to negotiate sales earlier, plan labor and logistics, and cut waste and energy costs. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Dr. Georg Caspary, the company has raised roughly EUR 2.97M in seed funding and won first prize in Food/Agritech at Slush.