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A Featured Event of Global Entrepreneurship Week
2013 Global ForumNovember 20-21 | San Jose Convention Center
The Academy Awards of Cleantech
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Accretive SolutionsAmerican Ventures, LLCBloomberg New Energy FinanceBlue Coast WebClean EdgeFraunhofer CSEFuture360i-GateIntegrousPlano & SimpleRosenzweig & CompanySegue Consulting ServicesT3 AdvisorsThe Brand MasonTRA360ZingPR
NATIONAL: AlwaysOn Going GreenB CorpBloomberg New Energy Finance Clean Tech GroupGreenBiz Group (VERGE, Forum)Lux ResearchMIT Alumni AssociationMIT VLABNavigant USGBC GreenbuildWBT Innovation Marketplace REGIONAL:ACOREArlington County Economic DevelopmentAsssoc of Cleantech Incubators of New England (ACTION)Ballston BIDBand of AngelsBERCBethesda GreenBoston UniversityChannel 9 NewsChesapeake Crescent InitiativeCoFoundersLabColorado Cleantech Industry AssociationCORE
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
In eight short years, the Cleantech Open has grown from a Bay Area organization to one that serves cleantech entrepreneurs nationally and globally.
It’s all possible, of course, because of you. You are the Cleantech Open – every one of you who mentors a company or volunteers at registration, or buys a ticket to the Global Forum.
Ultimately, of course, the Cleantech Open and this event are all about the entrepreneurs with the big ideas. By tomorrow evening’s closing ceremony, 865 companies with big ideas will have graduated from the United States Accelerator. With your help, their chances of success and their shot at making an impact, are dramatically enhanced. Over 50% of graduate companies who are still in business (and the majority still are) have now raised third-party capital. They’ve created thousands of jobs. Their technologies address some of the world’s most pressing challenges – and that’s no idle claim: some of those technologies, as you’ll see over the next two days, are truly remarkable.
The Global Forum is your unique chance to meet all these innovators in person. Vote for the most promising in the Demo Theater and on the main stage. Cheer them on at the final judging on Thursday afternoon, and the Academy Awards of Cleantech that evening. And please thank them for spending their time and talents on big ideas that really can make a real difference.
Rex
MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE
Rex Northen | Executive Director, Cleantech Open
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TIME LOCATIONEVENT
INVESTOR CONNECT * * This is an invitation only event
AGENDA | TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19
12:30p Registration for Investor Connect Upper Level
1:30p Welcome and Event Briefing | Rex Northen Main Stage
1:45p Panel Discussion: What the Labs Can Do For You Main Stage
2:45p Investor Member Panel Main Stage
3:00p Presentation: Scott Elrod | PARC Main Stage
3:05p Seating and Opening Remarks | Vinesh Mehta Main Stage
3:35p Pitch Meetings 1 – 8 Lower Level
4:40p Coffee Break Lower Level
5:00p Pitch Meetings 9 – 16 Lower Level
6:05p Closing Remarks Lower Level
6:10p Wine and Hors d’Oeuvres Reception Upper Level
Committed to eco-innovationWells Fargo is dedicated to reducing our environmental impact through continued company-wide initiatives that minimize our energy consumption, reduce waste, and support renewable sources of energy. As part of this commitment, we’re spurring economic development in the global “green” economy to encourage innovation by entrepreneurs and research entities working on critical environmental issues.
Because there’s still so much more we can do, Wells Fargo established a set of environmental commitments to be achieved by 2020 — including $100 million in environmental grants to create a “greener” future for the communities we serve. With our Clean Technology and Innovation grant program, we hope to encourage technological advancements, which are essential to a clean energy future for our communities.
Since 2005, Wells Fargo has provided $21 billion in environmental finance to support the global economy and environment, and we continue to invest in the protection our environment.
We congratulate all who are working to develop America’s clean technology infrastructure and are proud to be a sponsor of the 2013 Clean Tech Open.
Join the conversation: blog.wellsfargo.com/environment© 2013 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC. ECG-1150604
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AGENDA | WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20
2013 GLOBAL FORUM | DAY 1
TIME EXPOLOCATIONEVENT
8:00a Registration | Expo Open | Networking. Upper Level Open
9:00a Welcome Remarks | Rex Northen Main Stage
9:20a Keynote Speaker | Anup Jacob Main Stage
9:45a Presentation | Alexandra Adler Main Stage
9:50a 3-minute Tech Demos:
National Finalists | Categories Main Stage
10:30a Coffee Break Upper Level
10:50a People’s Choice:
National Finalists | Category Tech Demos Main Stage
11:05a Keynote Speaker | Craig Neyman Main Stage
11:20a Presentation | Josh Greene Main Stage
11:25a 3-minute Tech Demos:
Global Finalists | Categories Main Stage
12:00p Lunch Break Lower Level Open
1:00p People’s Choice:
Global Finalists | Category Tech Demos Main Stage
1:15p Keynote Speaker | Rick Needham Main Stage
1:30p International Partnerships Intro | Kevin Braithwaite Main Stage
1:35p Break Lower Level Open
1:50p U.S. Accelerator and Global Ideas Judging Lower Level Open
4:00p Coffee Break Upper Level Open
4:20p U.S. and Global People’s Choice Award Main Stage
4:35p Keynote Speaker | Bill Ritter Jr. Main Stage
4:50p Presentation | Justin Kaster Main Stage
4:55p 3-minute Tech Demos: GIC Finalist | Categories Main Stage
5:25p Volunteer Recognition Main Stage
5:35p Alumnus Fireside Chat | Jeff Byron and Dr. Lisa Dyson Main Stage
6:10p Category Awards for the Day Main Stage
6:20p Closing Remarks | Rex Northen Main Stage
6:30p Wine and Hors d’Oeuvres Reception Expo Hall Open
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AGENDA | THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21
2013 GLOBAL FORUM | DAY 2
TIME EXPOLOCATIONEVENT
8:00a Registration. Doors Open. Networking. Upper Level Open
9:00a Welcome Remarks | Rex Northen Main Stage
9:10a People’s Choice: Global | Category Tech Demos Main Stage
9:15a Jim Sweeney Half Hour with John Bryson Main Stage
9:45a Presentation: Richard Franklin Main Stage
9:50a 3-minute Tech Demos:
National Finalists | Categories Main Stage
10:30a Coffee Break Lower Level Open
10:45a U.S. Accelerator and Global Ideas Judging Lower Level Open
12:25p Lunch Break Lower Level Open
1:25p People’s Choice:
National Finalists | Tech Demos Main Stage
1:35p Keynote Speaker | Guy Kawasaki Main Stage
1:50p U.S. and Global People’s Choice Award Main Stage
2:00p Keynote Speaker | Alicia Barton Main Stage
2:15p Category Awards for the Day Main Stage
2:30p Break Lower Level Open
2:45p U.S. Accelerator and Global Ideas Final Judging Lower Level Open
5:00p Coffee Break Upper Level Open
5:15p Welcome Back Main Stage
5:20p Presentation | Erik Steeb Main Stage
5:25p Awards Ceremony | MC | Scott McGrew Main Stage
5:30p Speaker | Mayor Chuck Reed Main Stage
5:45p Keynote Speaker | Ira Ehrenpreis Main Stage
6:00p 2013 Cleantech Open Awards Ceremony Main Stage
7:20p Closing Remarks | Rex Northen Main Stage
7:30p Expo and Awards After-Party Expo Hall Open
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ALEX BEAVERS Director | SRI
Alex Beavers is responsible for commercializing SRI technologies via new venture creation or licensing in the areas of cleantech, advanced materials, and systems. Beavers is a veteran high-technology executive
and entrepreneur. Previously, Alex was the founding CEO of Artificial Muscle, Inc., where he led the company for two years after it was spun out of SRI.
LINDA HALL Managing Partner | The Innovation Institute
Linda Hall founded LJH Silicon Valley on Sand Hill Road in 1987. The business evolved from providing venture capital firms with retained executive search to advising on Board development, early stage governance and operating practices furthering environmental and materials sustainability. Linda is
particularly interested in barriers to adoption encountered by clean technology and frequently conducts panel discussions on the subject within Stanford’s Graduate Civil and Engineering Department.
JON J. LAUCKNER President | GM Ventures
Jon Lauckner was named GM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective April 1, 2012. In addition to his role as CTO, Jon remains President, GM Ventures and also responsible for leading
GM’s Global Research and Development organization. Prior to becoming CTO, Jon was responsible for forming General Motors Ventures, LLC, a separate subsidiary started July 1, 2010.
CHUCK REED Mayor | City of San Jose
Chuck Reed was elected as the 64th Mayor of San José in 2006, after serving six years on the City Council as an independent voice for fiscal responsibility and reform. Since taking office, Mayor Reed has been committed to improving the quality of life in the city, boosting the public’s trust in local government,
and eliminating the City’s structural budget deficit.
DAVID ROSENHEIM Executive Director | The Climate Registry
In his role as Executive Director of The Climate Registry, David is responsible for providing the strategic direction for The Registry and oversees its program, services and staff. He acts as chief liaison with the state and provincial
Board members, as well as between states and provinces and their respective federal governments. David also serves as co-director of the Northern California chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs.
ADMIRAL GARY ROUGHEAD United States Navy (Ret.)
Gary Roughead, while Chief of Naval Operations, focused on military modernization including the adop-tion of measures to become more efficient in the use of energy and adapt to renewable energy use. His naval career includes several firsts including the first officer to command both classes of Aegis ships and
Commander of the fleets in the Pacific and the Atlantic. He is currently in residence as the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examining the critical role of
the military as part of the American way of life.
DANIEL YOST Partner | Emerging Companies | Orrick Law Firm
Daniel Yost is co-chair of the technology transactions and licensing practice at Orrick and a prior co-chair of Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group. Daniel’s practice focuses on negotiating complex commer-cial and technology transactions and intellectual property counseling. His energy clients include clients
in the solar, ethanol, biomass, geothermal and water purification sectors.
EVENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ANUP JACOB Director | Masdar Capital
Anup is Director Of Masdar Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Government-
owned Mubadala Development Company and is guided by the Abu Dhabi Economic
Vision 2030, a program driving new sources of income for the emirate and strengthening
Abu Dhabi’s knowledge-based economic sectors. Masdar Capital is the investment arm of
Masdar. Masdar comprises four thematic based businesses: Infrastructure, Real Estate, Asset
Management and Education. This holistic approach keeps Masdar at the forefront of the global
clean energy industry, while ensuring it remains grounded in the pursuit of pioneering and
commercially-viable technologies and systems.
Day 1
9:20a -
9:45a
Day 1
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11:20p
RICK NEEDHAMDirector | Energy and Sustainability | Google
Rick joined Google in 2008. His team leads efforts to invest in large scale renewable energy
projects, make Google’s corporate offices more energy efficient and sustainable, install
renewable energy, and engage with employees on green benefit programs. In the past, this
team led the effort to install one of the largest corporate solar arrays in the US, and more recently
led over $900m of investments in several wind farms, centralized and distributed PV systems, a
large solar thermal plant, and an offshore transmission line.
Day 1
1:15p -
1:30p
Day 1
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4:50p
CRAIG NEYMANCFO | The Packard Foundation
For the past year Craig has overseen the Packard Foundation’s drive to achieve net zero energy
at its new LEED platinum-certified headquarters in Los Altos, CA. Craig also oversees grant
-making operations, accounting, information technology, program-related investments, facilities
and workplace services. Formerly, he served as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
for The Nature Conservancy, where he worked for nearly 15 years. At the Conservancy, Craig
exercised oversight for nearly $2 billion of investment assets, which primarily consisted of the
Conservancy’s endowment for conservation lands, capital for the Conservancy’s conservation
projects and planned giving investments.
BILL RITTER JR.Director | Center for the New Energy Economy
Bill is the Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
The Center works directly with governors, legislators, regulators, and policymakers to
provide technical assistance in creating policies and practices that will facilitate America’s
transition to a clean-energy economy. Bill was elected as Colorado’s 41st governor in 2006.
During his 4 year term, Ritter established Colorado as a national and international leader
in clean energy by building a New Energy Economy in the state. As a result of that work,
Colorado created thousands of new jobs and established hundreds of new companies.
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Day 2
1:35p
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
GUY KAWASAKISpecial Advisor Google | Founding Evangelist Apple
Guy is currently a special advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google. He is also a co-founder
of Alltop as well the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. He is a
founding partner of an angel investor matchmaking service, Garage.com. Version 2.0 of Garage.
com was an investment bank for helping entrepreneurs raise money from venture capitalists.
Today, version 3.0 of Garage.com is called Garage Technology Ventures; it is a venture capital firm
and makes direct investments in early-stage technology companies.
Day 2
5:30p
- 5:45p
CHUCK REEDMayor | City of San Jose – California
Chuck was elected as the 64th Mayor of San José in 2006, after serving six years on the City Council
as an independent voice for fiscal responsibility and reform. Since taking office, Mayor Reed has been
committed to improving the quality of life in the city, boosting the public’s trust in local government,
and eliminating the City’s structural budget deficit. His Reed Reforms have required greater disclosure
from elected officials, toughened restrictions on lobbyists and increased the role of citizens in San
José government. In 2007, he launched his Green Vision, an ambitious 10-point plan to invigorate the
economy and improve the environment over the next 15 years.
Day 2
5:45p
- 6:00p
IRA EHRENPREISGeneral Partner | Technology Partners
Ira is a General Partner with Technology Partners. He has been with the firm since 1996. Ira leads
Technology Partners’ Cleantech investment practice, investing in Energy Technology, Water
Technology, and Advanced Materials opportunities. Ira is a recognized leader in both the venture
capital industry and the Cleantech sector, and in 2007, was named one of the “Top 50 Most
Influential Men Under 45” by Details Magazine. In the venture community, Ira has served on the
Board and Executive Committee of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and on the
Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). He served as Chairman of the
2010 NVCA Annual Meeting. Ira also serves as the Co-Chairman of the VCNetwork, the largest
and most active California venture capital organization.
Day 2
2:00p
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ALICIA BARTONCEO | Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Alicia leads MassCEC’s efforts to accelerate the success of the clean energy technology sector in
Massachusetts. Since her appointment as CEO in August, 2012, MassCEC’s programs have helped
deliver record job growth in the clean energy technology sector, while seeing rapid expansion of
clean energy projects throughout Massachusetts. The programs support all aspects of the sector
from early stage technology innovation, to clean energy project deployment and workforce
development. MassCEC has expanded its focus to new areas such as water innovation, and
made history by breaking ground on the construction of the New Bedford Marine Commerce
Terminal, to support offshore wind facilities.
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JAMES SWEENEY Precourt Energy Efficiency Center | Stanford University
Jim’s professional activities focus on economic policy and analysis, particularly in energy, natural
resources, and the environment. He currently is Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for
Economic Policy Research; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies; Woods Institute for the Environment; Precourt Institute for
Energy. Sweeney is a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, a lifetime National
Associate of the National Academies, a council member and Senior Fellow of the California Council
on Science and Technology, and a member of the External Advisory Council of the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Day 2
9:15a -
9:45a
JEFF BYRON Co-Chair of the Cleantech Open National Board
Jeff has more than 35 years of experience in emerging energy technologies, customer
requirements, and energy policy. His focus has been on the technical, regulatory, and financial
implications of clean-energy and smart-grid technologies. He consults with a number of startup
companies developing unique generation and control technologies, energy storage, and
consumer-oriented smart grid devices. He is a member of The Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s
oldest seed funding organization. He recently served for five years on the California Energy
Commission active in numerous power plant siting cases, including permitting 3,500 megawatts
of renewable energy projects.
Day 1
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5:50p
DR. LISA DYSON Chief Executive Officer | Kiverdi
Lisa has 17 years of experience in management, business consulting, technology development and
research. As a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, Lisa worked with multi-
national corporations to develop market expansion strategies, facilitate post-merger integrations,
define governance models and identify operational cost inefficiencies. Lisa was on the founding
team of a technology startup founded at MIT, which received funding from Microsoft. She also built
and led a team that developed a technology platform from the ground up for a recent Presidential
campaign, which was adopted as a part of the campaign’s national strategy.
Day 1
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5:50p
JOHN BRYSONHead of the Bryson Climate InitiativeWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
John leads an initiative at the Washington-based think tank focusing on finding ways to mitigate the
potentially devastating effects of climate change over the next decade. The initiative will work with
the premier scientists and researchers from around the world, for example at laboratories at Caltech,
MIT, and Tsinghua University, and while sitting at the intersection of the energy, technology, and
scientific communities, will help policymakers and private sector stakeholders learn more about the
potentially game-changing renewable energy work being undertaken around the world. In 2009,
he became a member of the United Nations high-level Energy and Climate Change Advisory Group,
founded by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Bryson also served as the 37th U.S. Secretary of
Commerce until June 2012.
Day 2
9:15a -
9:45a
ALUMNUS FIRESIDE CHAT | JIM SWEENEY HALF-HOUR
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PANEL DISCUSSION: WHAT THE LABS CAN DO FOR YOU
INVESTOR CONNECT | TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19
Day 1
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REX NORTHEN (MC EVENT)Executive Director | Cleantech Open
Rex is Executive Director of the Cleantech Open, the world’s largest clean technology
accelerator. As founder and CEO of technology companies in both Europe and the United
States, Rex is an entrepreneur who has worked with hundreds of diverse companies, ranging
from startups to global corporations. Rex has led the Cleantech Open since January 2009,
overseeing the growth of the California-based nonprofit from its Bay Area roots to a national
organization with regional volunteer operations in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis,
Boston, Austin and Washington, D.C., and the Global Cleantech Open.
Rex holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford.
SCOTT ELRODPARC
DR. WILLIAM GOLDSTEINLawrence Livermore National Laboratories
ALEX BEAVERSSRI
ANUP SINGHSandia National Laboratories
BILL SHELANDERLawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
NOLAN BROWNE Fraunhofer
KEVIN SURACE Serious Energy (Moderator)
SCOTT McGREW (MC AWARDS)Interviewer, Reporter – Technology | NBC Bay Area
McGrew reports on technology for NBC Bay Area and is host of “Press:Here,” a Sunday
morning roundtable television show seen in San Francisco, New York, LA and
Washington, DC. The San Francisco Chronicle recently named McGrew one of its four
most favorite TV anchors. Scott is an active speaker on technology and television,
serves as a judge at UCLA Anderson School’s Loeb Awards and is the host of Northern
California’s Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. As for his own awards, he’s
been nominated for 10 Emmys and has never won a single one.
Day 1
1:45p
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KEVIN BRAITHWAITE (GLOBAL MC)Global Programs Director | Cleantech Open
Kevin is the Global Programs Director for the Cleantech Open, where he is responsible for
international expansion and for all operations outside the United States. He works closely with
international agencies, governments, investors, corporations and universities to launch new
Cleantech Open accelerators and programs around the world. As Chair of the Cleantech Open
Global Ideas Competition, he is focused on finding the most innovative early stage cleantech
ventures on the planet in collaboration with Global Entrepreneurship Week. Previously, Kevin
founded and built a number of technology companies, encompassing both service and product
based ventures. Kevin holds an MBA from London Business School.
ALUMNUS FIRESIDE CHAT | JIM SWEENEY HALF-HOUR
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Over the last eight years, the Cleantech Open has grown into one of the world’s premier business accelerators, shepherding to fruition some
of the world’s most innovative solutions, creative business ideas and new concepts that focus on the sustainability of our planet. Many of these
startup businesses, the product of some of today’s most inventive minds, have incorporated themselves into the business community through
the dedication, vision and ambition of these Cleantech Open entrepreneurs looking to change the world.
For more than 40 years, University of Phoenix has exhibited the same spirit of innovation, providing the opportunity for hundreds of thousands
of people to earn degrees by making higher education more accessible through pioneering developments in the online delivery of education.
And not only is University of Phoenix a leader in higher education, but they’ve been recognized as one of the nation’s foremost corporate
citizens, committed to contributing to the quality of life and preservation of our planet and its resources.
With this shared commitment to the sustainability of the planet, University of Phoenix is proud to serve as the National Education Partner for
Cleantech Open, providing support to the programming, implementation and growth of the accelerator program.
University of Phoenix has been instrumental in providing curriculum support, access to industry leaders and experts as well as financial
resources that allow Cleantech entrepreneurs to succeed in launching real businesses that will make a lasting impact our future. And this has
been a two-way partnership. Cleantech Open Executive Director Rex Northen has spent time helping to develop business and sustainability
program curriculums as well as providing his insight directly to University of Phoenix business students, a tremendous resource in sharing how
business startups can successfully launch and operate in today’s economic climate.
True partnerships like the one between Cleantech Open and University of Phoenix can do more than just benefit both parties; they can
change the world as we know it. University of Phoenix is proud to congratulate the finalists and the Cleantech Open on their mission to
positively impact our economy, our connectivity and our environment.
FROM OUR NATIONAL EDUCATION PARTNER
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‘‘ ’’ It starts with a conversation with Constellation.
Constellation shares the visions of innovative companies that are helping to shape our energy future. Through Constellation Technology Ventures, we invest in business and technology that complement our focus on sustainable solutions and our leadership position in competitive energy markets. Together, we can provide creative energy solutions that will benefi t our world for generations to come.www.constellation.com
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INNOVATION EXPO | DEMO THEATER
AGRICULTURE, WATER & WASTE2 Nano Gas Technologies, Inc.3 Infra-tect, LLC4 WiseSoil5 Akwamag6 Blue Planet7 Ice911 Research Corporation8 Garden Fresh Farms9 Praire Aquatech,10 NBD Nanotechnologies12 Refresh13 Phytelligence Inc.14 OpitEnz Sensors, LLC15 Elequa16 Polymer Green17 Micronic Technologies18 Kiverdi68 Efficient City Farming71 Mobile Canal Control72 Pectcof87 SBT Aqua
CHEMICALS & ADVANCED MATERIALS19 Sustaincor Energy and Water Solutions, Inc.20 Angstrom Innovation21 Superior Ecotech22 3D Fabrication Technologies23 Shape Change Technologies24 Grannus LLC25 HJ3 Composite Technologies,26 Nova Synthetix27 Tethis, INC.70 ReThink
73 Elemetal93 Greenspense
ENERGY DISTRIBUTION & STORAGE28 InvenTek Corp.29 Adaptive Algo30 EnergIndependence31 Azane Power32 Lucid33 HEVO Inc34 Peppermint Energy77 E-STONE
ENERGY EFFICIENCY35 Bearing Analytics36 Effortless Energy37 Intelligent Composites40 Aeolus Building Efficiency41 Infinia Technology Corporation42 REbound Technology46 Helios Exchange47 New World Machines48 AKHAN Technologies, Inc.49 Sealed50 Picasolar51 TylerCo, Inc.52 Coolite74 Eternal Sun75 CarbonOro76 SolarSwing81 Cogent Heat Energy Storage Systems (CHESS)82 Ventive88 Blackbrite
89 Siltene90 boostHEAT91 Enermap92 Organic Response
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ICT)53 BrightCurrent,54 Pegasus DMA55 EmPowerYu56 RePowerCapital Inc.57 Ornicept, Inc.58 Fiveworx59 PowWow Energy84 Objii
TRANSPORTATION60 Inventev61 KersTech Vehicle Systems62 ELTRA63 NuMotor Technologies64 Precision Fuel Management65 Mercurius Biofuels66 OpticLanes67 Glonatech69 E-Bike Finder79 Electric Feel83 Trakeo86 Cibus
ENERGY GENERATION95 Ag Energy Solutions96 Biomethane97 Sunmodo Corporation
98 KEAP Charged99 Pfhotonika,100 Skyven Technologies101 HelioBioSys, Inc102 Non-turbine Blimp Energy Generation103 Helion Energy104 Trash 2 Cash Energy105 Dragonfly Systems106 Lucent Optics, Inc.107 Bandgap Engineering108 Silicon Solar Solutions109 Smash Solar78 Skigh Energy80 Naked Energy
GREEN BUILDING110 ArmaTerra, Inc.111 Modula S112 NanoArchitech113 Neuvokas114 Bio-Adhesive Alliance85 Bioaislant94 Mebiol Inc
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AGRICULTURE, WATER, WASTE
Akwamag WesternSustainable Softener For The Future Akwamag has developed the latest water softening technology to prevent scaling (calcification) at half the cost of the salt-resin softeners without the maintenance hassles associated with them.
Blue Planet™ AquaPedal™ Western Save water. Save money. One faucet at a time. Blue Planet Solutions is a triple bottom line company. We’ve invented, and are commercializing, the AquaPedal™, an innovative, patent-pending hands-free device that saves faucet water and the energy to heat that water by up to 80%.
Elequa | FINALIST | | SUSTAINABILITY FINALIST | South Central
www.elequatech.com/We Clean Water Elequa is in the water purification business, leveraging a patented innovation to increase efficiency and reduce cost utilizing self-service potable water kiosks in under-served markets.
Garden Fresh Farms | FINALIST | Midwest - North
www.gardenfreshfarms.com/ Grow Local and Thrive We are building a nationwide network of investor owned, indoor hydroponic farms. Using our patent-pending growing equipment, we can produce 100 acres of produce in a one acre warehouse.
Ice911 Research Corporation Western
www.ice911.org Cool solutions for a melting world Ice911 Research has developed a practical engineering solution to slow polar and glacial ice melt. We can harmlessly and reversibly increase the reflectivity of ice and snow and offer great potential for high-impact profitable products.
Infra-tect, LLCRocky Mountain
www.infra-tect.com Protecting America’s Workers and InfrastructureInfra-Tect develops and sells products for sound, cost-efficient, underground water infrastructure. Our initial product, the patented Bevel-Sert, proven to address corrosion and safety issues while improving water infrastructure using ductile iron pipe (DIP) is followed by 4-6 additional utility pipe-related inventions.
Kiverdi | ALUMNI |Western
www.kiverdi.com We make oil from waste carbon using biochemistry Kiverdi upgrades waste biomass, biogas and CO2 into oil using proprietary microbes and a syngas conversion bioprocess. We produce specialty and commodity oil-derived chemicals with increased sustainability and supply certainty at a fraction of the cost of chemical catalysts.
Micronic Technologies | ALUMNI | Southeast
www.micronictechnologies.com A More Sustainable Future for Creating Clean Water Micronic Technologies cleans water from any source more cheaply and effectively than the competition. Its patented MicroDesal water-treatment technology treats water/wastewater from any source providing increased throughput and significant savings.
Nano Gas Technologies, Inc.Midwest - North
www.nanogastechnologies.comSaving energy with nano oxygen bubbles Nano Gas Technologies aims to be the leader providing a service infusing oxygen and other gases into aqueous solutions with long-term gas retention.
OptiEnz Sensors, LLC | FINALIST |Rocky Mountain
www.optienzsensors.com Continuous in-place measurement of organic chemicals in water OptiEnz Sensors designs, builds, and sells monitoring systems that perform continuous, in-place, and quantitative measurements of the concentration of organic chemicals in water, enabling produced water treatment facilities in the oil and gas business to more efficiently and sustainably treat and recycle water.
NBD Nanotechnologies | FINALIST | Northeast
www.nbdnano.com Improving the Quality of Life Through Advanced Surface Coatings NBD Nanotechnologies develops unique surface coatings that have a wide variety of applications from repellency of water and oils to enhancing the heat transfer rate of condensation.
Phytelligence Inc. | FINALIST | Pacific Northwest
www.phytelligence.com Biotech products and services for the tree fruit industry Phytelligence offers a disruptive paradigm changing soil-free platform for rapid production of true to type fruit, nut and timber
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trees along with sophisticated DNA analysis services for intellectual property protection, variety identification and custom genetics work.
Polymer Green | FINALIST |Western
www.polymergreen.com Reinventing Plastic Recycling PolymerGreen developed the first available clean solution to process landfill waste plastic, which accounts for more than 60% of the total waste plastic, a market of more than 30 billion USD annually worldwide. The catalytic process generates validated products of naphtha, diesel and synthetic crude oil.
Prairie Aquatech | FINALIST | Midwest - North
www.prairieaquatech.com Improving the overall health and profit of aquaculture operations Prairie AquaTech is an animal health and nutrition company focused on upgrading agriculture processing by-products, such as soybean meal and distiller’s dried grain, to a higher quality protein ingredient used in aquaculture and other animal feed.
Refresh | FINALIST | Northeast
www.re-freshwater.com Collapsing bottled water Refresh Water is cutting out inefficiencies in the bottled water supply chain. We design vending kiosks that store bottles empty and collapsed, then expand and fill them with filtered, flavored, or carbonated water at the time of sale. Our kiosks cut costs for companies in the $3.4B bottled water vending market by over 20%, and reduce the carbon footprint of bottled water by 80%.
WiseSoil Southeast
hwww.wisesoil.org We make organic waste disposal profitable! WiseSoil is a startup based in Russia and Charleston, SC. Our focus is efficient organic waste management. We’ve invented, patented and successfully tested an “”accelerator”” for anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities that doubles biogas yield and waste throughput simultaneously.
CHEMICALS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS
3D Fabrication Technologies Western Enabling energy efficient productization of 3D printing 3D Fabrication Technologies Inc. (3DFT) designs, markets and sells 3D copiers. 3DFT is a seed stage company with a mature
technology plat-form developed with over $15M in military SBIR funding to another R&D company. 3DFT has access to all rights to the technology and is now focused on commercializing the technology.
Angstrom Innovation Pacific Northwest Small changes that make a big difference Angstrom Innovations a nanotechnology firm with proprietary methods for making aerogel - an inert micro-foam of silica with high insulation and fire-resistant properties – at significantly lower cost than competitors.
Grannus LLC | FINALIST | | SUSTAINABILITY FINALIST | Rocky Mountain www.grannusllc.com Nitrogen Fertilizer Production with 30% Cost Reduction, Zero EmissionsGrannus has developed the Eureaka Process™, a disruptive innovation in the production of nitrogen fertilizer (urea). The process has an (a) 30% production cost advantage; (b) 40% construction cost advantage, and (c) 3-fold sustainability advantage.
Nova Synthetix | FINALIST | Southeast
www.novasynthetix.com Making nature materialNova Synthetix has developed a proprietary non-GM strategy to eliminate ricin-related proteins. Our approach capitalizes upon a number of new developments in biotechnology. We have developed a non-GM strategy to eliminate castor’s seed toxin (ricin) enabling the expansion of castor cultivation and improving the availability/price stability of castor-derived feedstocks.
HJ3 Composite Technologies | FINALIST | Rocky Mountain
www.hj3.com Advanced Composites for Infrastructure Repair HJ3 manufactures, engineers, and installs advanced composite systems that have been used on over 10,000 successful applications worldwide. HJ3’s patented carbon fiber composite systems are stronger than steel, lightweight, corrosion resistant, and offer superior chemical, abrasion, temperature and fire resistance.
Shape Change Technologies Western
www.shapechange.com Capturing heat, releasing powerShape Change Technologies LLC has developed a metal foam that effectively captures waste heat by flowing hot water/steam through the foams’ cellular architecture, rapidly heating the foam. This initiates the Shape Memory Effect, generating large amounts of mechanical power.
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Superior Ecotech Rocky Mountain
www.superiorecotech.com Converting Waste CO2 into Valuable Algae Our proprietary biofilm-based, low-footprint technology allows us to produce algae at half the operating costs of our competitors. Our patent-pending technology reduces costs associated with both algae drying and greenhouse heating and cooling.
Sustaincor Energy and Water Solutions, Inc.Northeast
www.sustaincor.com Renewable and sustainable diesels with low freezing points and gelling for cold climates with high energy density Sustaincor™ intends to license an efficient (patent pending) process that enables biofuel producers to use a broad range of feedstocks including high free fatty acid feedstocks that produces a superior product with a substantially higher lower freezing point.
Tethis, Inc. | FINALIST |Southeast
www.tethis.com Revolutionary Biomaterials that close the loop on water resource management Tethis makes superabsorbent polymers made from biomaterials that uptake salts, heavy metals, nuclear materials, and potentially
other applications. Compared to competing products on the market (called ion exchange resins) our material, called Tethex, is more than an order of magnitude more cost effective and is made from renewables using green manufacturing methods.
ENERGY DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE
Adaptive Algo Northeast
www.adaptivealgo.net Smart pricing tools enabling energy companies to customize incentivesAdaptiveAlgo’s proprietary algorithmic suite lets power companies identify profitable customers, customize contracts, optimize energy derivatives use and construct incentives to customers to move their loads to non-peak periods reducing peak-lo ads.
Azane Power Western
www.azanepower.com New Generation Ammonia Fuel Cells There is a need in the agriculture and refrigerated storage industries for a clean, easily recharged source of power. What we have in development is a fuel processing unit and a fuel cell from ammonia, the clean fuel. It’s 20% more energy dense than methanol and 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of all other hydrogen sources per joule.
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EnergIndependence Pacific Northwest Cheaper and mightier batteries. We work with redox flow batteries -- large-scale stationary batteries for grid-level energy storage -- and provide the technology to extend their life and improve their efficiency at a fraction of a cost of present methods.
InvenTek Corp. Midwest - North
www.inventekcorp.com Unleashing Li-ion’s Potential
InvenTek designs and manufactures low-cost, high-capacity, high-performance Li-ion cells and batteries. Its patented technology can reduce battery system costs by 25-75% while dramatically improving performance.
Lucid Western
www.lucid.com Real-time web-based feedback on the environmental performance of buildings to engage, educate, and motivate occupants to better conserve environmental resources.Lucid’s Building Dashboard provides real time information on energy consumption in ways designed to engage the consumer in the conservation process. At a conservative 10% savings, the payback time for the Building Dashboard is measured in months not years, and the return on that investment is typically greater than 50% annually.
Peppermint Energy | ALUMNI | Midwest - North
www.peppermintenergy.com Open Up. Plug In. Power On. Peppermint Energy is the Tesla Motors of portable generators. Peppermint Energy’s goal is to be the market leader in the emerging personal renewable energy industry. For people around the globe who’s daily life doesn’t allow them to be tied to a grid or a gas can, the Forty2 by Peppermint Energy is a solar generator that can provides portable, significant power at about half the cost and half the weight of traditional generators.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Aeolus Building EfficiencyNortheast
www.aeolusbe.com The breakthrough solution for airflow optimization and energy sav-ings in commercial buildingsAeolus Building Efficiency will offer a full-service, software solution for room-by-room measurement and optimization of airflow in commercial buildings, enabled by our breakthrough technology (patent pending) that combines modern, experimentally based-
system identification techniques with physics based modeling.
AKHAN Technologies, Inc. | FINALIST |Midwest - North
www.akhantech.com Energy Efficient Diamond Semiconductor Materials and Devices AKHAN Technologies was formed in April 2007 to commercialize the company’s Miraj Diamond™ Technology, developed in part at Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Nanoscale Materials.
Bearing Analytics Midwest - Central Better monitoring for today’s systems Bearing Analytics offers industrial system owners the most accurate rotating equipment monitoring and failure prediction solution available, significantly improving their ability to predict and avoid machine failures, downtime and business interruption than can cost millions $ per hour in some industries.
Coolite | ALUMNI | Western Smart and Simple LED retrofit kit Offering Business Owners A Simple Solution To Upgrade Parking Lot Lights To LED Without Changing The Architecture Of Existing Fixtures. We are a start up company with an LED streetlight and Drop in upgrade kit to replace HPS with LED recycling & re using existing streetlight and parking lot fixtures.
Intelligent Composites Midwest - North
www.intelligentcomposites.comAluminum composites revolutionizing the automotive component market. We start with Aluminum, we add graphite, fly ash, or silicon carbide making self-lubricating, stronger, stiffer, lighter and lower cost components. Our first component, an air-brake compressor has been prototyped and tested. It is 35% lighter, consumes 25% less horsepower and uses 65% less oil than currently used air-brake compressors.
Effortless Energy Midwest - North
www.goeffortless.com Making home energy efficiency the no-brainer it ought to be Effortless Energy makes home energy efficiency the no-brainer it ought to be, tapping the $230 B US market for cost-effective home energy efficiency with a model that solves the current financial,
operational, and marketing market barriers.
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Helios Exchange Western
www.heliosexchange.com/Helios Exchange is an online market place for financing energy retro-fits of commercial buildings. Helios provides an online market place for financing energy efficiency retrofits in the commercial building sector. Our proprietary building energy retrofit analytics and underwriting software cuts transaction costs and time line from origination to execution by a factor of 3.
Infinia Technology Corporation Pacific Northwest Low-Cost, High-Efficiency - CFC, HCFC & HFO Free - Natural Refrigerant CoolingInfinia Technology Corporation (ITC) was spun out of Infinia Corporation (Infinia) in 2011 to pursue cooling and cryocooling applications of Infinia’s free-piston Stirling engine technology.
New World MachinesWestern
www.newworldmachines.com Affordable solar cooling We have developed the IceBook, a new cooling machine for AC and refrigeration with an entirely new thermodynamic cooling cycle, based upon ammonia water absorption chillers. It has a unique micro-channel design which provides significant advantages.
Picasolar | FINALIST | South Central
www.picasolar.com Greatest leap in solar efficiency since 1974 Picasolar owns a technology that solves a $5B problem in the solar industry and represents the single largest efficiency gain in the industry since 1974. Our post manufacturing treatment improves the efficiency of solar cells by up to 15% and allows a manufacturer to use 1/3rd less silver gridlines.
REbound TechnologyRocky Mountain
www.rebound-tech.com Rethinking Refrigeration REbound Technology is rethinking refrigeration through tailored, thermally-driven heat pump architectures that provide efficient, practical, cost-effective solutions. The team is currently developing three potentially transformative technologies.
Sealed | FINALIST | Northeast
www.sealedhomes.com Guaranteed savings from home efficiency improvements Sealed is a new kind of energy company that guarantees savings
from home energy efficiency improvements. We are tackling the single large barrier (confidence in energy savings) to the single largest US energy opportunity (residential energy efficiency, $28B per year).
TylerCo, Inc. | FINALIST |Western
www.tylercoinc.com The BANFAlite, a solution for Bi-level stairwell lightingTylerCo’s proprietary, patent-pending technology significantly cuts power consumption by over 90+% compared to existing fluorescent lights currently used in stairwells.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ITC)
BrightCurrent Northeast
www.brightcurrent.com Smart Saving, Beyond the Grid.BrightCurrent is a solar sales and marketing company that focus’s on grassroots and network marketing campaigns We combine a low overhead strategy with a flexible and highly scalable platform resulting in the most cost-competitive solar customer acquisition model available.
Fiveworx | FINALIST | Southeast
www.Fiveworx.com Making energy efficiency stick Fiveworx helps utilities increase participation in their energy efficiency programs while dramatically reducing their marketing costs, thereby delivering deeper and broader energy savings for every marketing dollar they spend.
EmPowerYuWestern Empowering elder and family care using ambient intelligence EmPowerYu reassures caregivers daily when a loved elder is active. Strategic sensors allow EPYu to notify the caregiver at the first activity and predictive analytics to determine normal behavior patterns and send notifications to the caregiver’s phone when there is a change so the caregiver can take appropriate action.
Ornicept, Inc. | FINALIST |Midwest - Central
www.ornicept.com Our product GeoTraverse eliminates costly data collection bottlenecks and elegantly brings data from the field to the cloud. Ornicept® provides a fieldwork data management system for
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designing and managing field studies; collecting data in the field and storing it in the cloud; and generating data-driven analytic reports via a web-interface.
Pegasus DMA Rocky Mountain
www.pegasusdma.com Smart Analytics For The Electric Utility Industry Pegasus DMA provides advanced analytic software and data integration platforms for electric utilities. A medium sized utility using this full capability will save $75-100M in annual savings, in addition to transforming the enterprise into a more efficient and sustainable business model.
PowWow Energy | FINALIST |Western
www.powwowenergy.com The smart leak detector PowWow Energy allows farmers and ranchers to quickly detect water leaks that can destroy an entire crop, or damage a property by thousands of dollars. Unlike competing solutions that use hardware sensors, PowWow mines data from smart power meters attached to water pumps using the Green Button standard interface and proprietary algorithms.
RePowerCapital Inc. Western
www.repowercapital.com Connecting Clean Energy Project Developers With Institutional Capital RePowerCapital is a business-to-business Internet marketplace that connects clean energy project developers with institutional investors.
TRANSPORTATION
ELTRA Western A supersmart motor controller that can turn any ebike into a 2 wheel drive, high efficiency experienceELTRA™ developed an efficient proprietary digital transmission system for electric motors. ELTRA’s smart controllers balance the power between 2 or more motors increasing the efficiency 22% increasing the distance traveled per charge.
HEVO Inc | FINALIST | Northeast
www.hevopower.com Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles HEVO Power offers commercial fleets a wireless charging solution, the HEVO Power Network (HPN), to reduce transportation costs, streamline fleet operations and resolve the performance issues
and safety hazards of plug-in charging.
Inventev Midwest - Central
www.inventev.com Vehicle as Power SVehicle as Power Supply; Utility-grade Power Gen-eration, Idle-free Job Sites and PHEV Mobility in Class 3-5 Truck Up-fitsInventev offers an integrated capability to fleet trucks taking advantage of three value proposition themes with one patent pending technology: Generate Electric, Work Electric, Drive Electric. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has collaborated on needs to this Detroit-based veteran team.
KersTech Vehicle SystemsPacific Northwest
www.kerstech.com Hybrid technology that quickly pays for itself. KersTech’ s high efficiency hybrid drivetrains cut fuel consumption in heavy vehicles that have frequent start/stop drive cycles, and are designed to retrofit existing fleets.
Mercurius Biofuels | ALUMNI | Pacific Northwest
www.mercuriusbiofuels.com Renewable Fuels and ChemicalsGame-changing technology that converts biomass into high quality biofuels and green chemicals. We have obtained global, exclusive licensing rights to this technology from the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC).
NuMotor Technologies Western Advanced Piston Engine technology that reduces emissions, fuel consumption by up to 50% at lower manufacturing costs. NuMotor Inc has designed and developed the Shuttle Piston Engine, a breakthrough internal combustion engine technology that cuts fuel consumption and emissions by up to 50% while simultaneously lowering manufacturing costs.
Precision Fuel Management Western Changing Consumption Habits We have designed a new device, a new measurement system called Fuel Management for Trucks or FMT. We are launching FMT to help commercial carriers uncover fuel inefficiency and extra fuel burn, in real-time and under real-world conditions.
OpticLanes | ALUMNI | Western Reduce traffic congestion Opticlanes has developed a novel, laser based sensor and
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associated SaaS analytics solution. Our solution increases revenue for parking facility managers and save more than $ 1 Million per year for highway transportation departments.
ENERGY GENERATION
Ag Energy Solutions Pacific Northwest
www.agenergy-solutions.com Ag Energy is converting field residue into high value biochar and electricity. Ag Energy Solutions effectively solves the excess field residue biomass problems that plague farmers. Our Renewable Electrical System innovatively combines proven gasifier and generator technologies with modern automation and control systems to produce a safe and practical mobile stand-alone power generation plant.
Bandgap Engineering | ALUMNI |Northeast
www.bandgap.com/ Nanowire-enhanced solar cell designs Bandgap’s nanowire-enhanced solar cell designs combine low-cost processing with crystalline silicon to yield high-efficiency products. Our highly tunable silicon nanowires make these designs
possible, leading to solar power that is cost-competitive with the grid.
Biomethane Pacific Northwest Cow Power to HorsepowerBiomethane from dairy sources is the most highly carbon-negative fuel on the market. Not only can it claim to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, but it also offers waste management to farms.
Dragonfly Systems | FINALIST | Western
www.dflysystems.com Module-Level Power Electronics for Utility-Scale Solar Installations Dragonfly Systems reduces PV installation costs and improves system reliability. The technology we’ve developed is an alternative to bypass diodes and fits into solar panel junction boxes. We have received recognition from the DOE and Stanford University and have discovered a strong desire for the product among customers. We are currently in rigorous technology evaluations with a handful of the largest solar project developers in the US who want to deploy our solution.
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HelioBioSys, IncWestern We make sugar with microbes, sun and air.HeliobioSys, Inc., uses a mixed population of carefully selected non-genetically modified cyanobacteria that obtain their energy from the sun, and carbon and nitrogen from the atmosphere. These highly efficient and robust bacteria are grown in seawater in a managed pond system. Our inherently sustainable system produces the fermentable sugars and other nutrients required by the microbes used in our customers production processes.
Helion Energy | FINALIST | Pacific Northwest
www.helionenergy.com/ Making clean fusion energy a reality today. Helion energy is dedicated to making practical and affordable fusion energy a reality. Through commercialization of its proven technology Helion will address world-wide baseload clean energy and power generation demands. Helion’s technology, the Fusion Engine, was designed from the top down be a competitive commercial reactor, yet is based on demonstrated physics and Helion’s patented technology. This technology was demonstrated in a series of $4+ M DOE programs with a fourth prototype currently operating.
Lucent Optics, Inc. | FINALIST |Western
www.lucentoptics.com Building a better light trapLucent Optics is dedicated to advancing renewable-energy and energy-saving technologies that are transformational and disruptive in terms of cost, performance and scale. Our primary focus is solar energy harvesting and energy-efficient illumination. Lucent Optics is now introducing a material-efficient configuration for solar modules which employs a patented light harvesting structure called light-trapping laminate.
Non-turbine Blimp WesternTaking green energy to new heights through blimp technology. Blimp Energy Company, Reno, NV recently submitted a patent for use of kite shaped blimps to harness high altitude wind power that is 100% sustainable, clean and produces electricity at less cost than coal fired power plants or conventional wind turbines and is capable of producing pure hydrogen and oxygen for fuel cells or as a stand alone fuel. This breakthrough, state of the art technology can replace aging coal fired power plants, offer means for increasing the efficiency of existing wind turbines while eliminating bird kills and replace existing transportation fossil based fuels including gasoline, diesel, and JP4.
KEAP Charged Rocky Mountain
www.keapcharged.com Bringing energy harvesting and self-charging batteries to market.KEAP Charged intends to develop a new way to generate power. It uses indirect energy in the form of Ambient HEAT rather than direct energy from sunlight. Ambient heat is always available so the KEAP Engine will work day or night, inside or out. Using our engine, we are going to bring power generation and self-charging batteries to market. Our energy harvesting engine will initially be used to address markets where we can solve a critical pain – Remote Sensing and other off-grid applications. Revenue will be a combination of license fees and royalties.
Pfhotonika Rocky Mountain
www.iteknowledgiesinternational.wordpress.com Saving the world one power plat at a time Pfhotonika produces a unique mobile solar to hydrogen power system using IP that increases a standard fuel cells output 2 times. The hydrogen produces pollution free electricity, heat and clean water in the fuel cell.
Silicon Solar Solutions | ALUMNI | South Central
www.siliconsolarsolutions.com Solar process for reduced cost & increased efficiency Silicon Solar Solutions is commercializing a patented process to reduce the cost and increase the conversion efficiency of silicon-based solar cells.
Skyven Technologies South Central
www.skyventechnologies.com Revolutionary reduction in the cost of solar water heating Skyven is pioneering a new systems technology that combines solar power with solar water heating to achieve revolutionary cost reduction on water heating. The goal is to achieve a levelized cost that is the lowest of any method of heating water including the burning of natural gas -- all while producing electricity at a cost that remains on the forefront of rapidly declining PV prices. This is achieved with a rooftop system that concentrates sunlight by a factor of more than 500, allowing for the harvest of energy with up to 70% combined efficiency even in cold climates.
Smash Solar | ALUMNI | Western
www.smashsolar.com We deliver to consumers easy, expandable energy™Going solar today requires a long term commitment or large cash purchase which, for many homeowners, are big obstacles to saying
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yes. SMASHsolar breaks down these barriers with an innovative solar product that consumers can easily buy and workers can quickly install, with little training - reducing the time people spend purchasing, designing and installing solar.
Sunmodo Corporation Pacific Northwest
www.sunmodo.com The Way of The Sun SunModo develops, manufactures and sells innovative solar PV racking and mounting solutions (structural BOS) to residential installers, commercial integrators, and other solar providers in North America. From its inception, customers quickly recognized SunModo as a trusted provider of high quality products and services that make installations faster and more cost-effective. SunModo’s mission is to drive down the total cost of solar installation through product innovation and system integration.
Trash 2 Cash Energy | FINALIST | Southeast
www.trash2cashenergy.com Landfil Gas to Liquid Fuels Our proprietary gas to liquid process converts naturally produced landfill gas (LFG) to “drop in” renewable hydrocarbon fuels specific to the customer needs. We couple a patent pending Fischer Tropsch (FT) eggshell catalyst to an innovative process design, incorporating a novel tri-reforming reaction to reduce the troublesome impurities found in crude bio-derived gases and produce desired syngas for the FT reaction. Our unique synergistic design transforms an environmentally harmful waste gas (landfill gas) into a profitable product thus alleviating many problems associated with accumulating municipal solid waste (MSW) in landfills and providing a domestic, sustainable, green fuel.
GREEN BUILDING
ArmaTerra, Inc.Western
www.armaterra.com/ Simply the Best In Earth ArmaTerra Georinforcing uses scrap tire treads to produce & replace existing earth reinforcing products in the market. Our products replace corrosive metal products & weaker polymer based grids -resulting in the only green product in this space that is substantially more durable &, with substantial cost savings in most applications.
Bio-Adhesive Alliance | FINALIST | Southeast
www.biobindergroup.webs.com We produce bio-adhesive from animal waste Bio-Adhesive Alliance produces an adhesive that is low cost and durable and can be utilized as a substitute to petroleum-based
asphalt. It is a green product obtained from a thermochemical process that converts swine manure to liquid asphalt. It has applications is pavement, construction, roofing, sealing, and carpeting. It improves pavement quality due to its enhanced water resistibility and temperature tolerance resulting in significant savings in pavement construction and maintenance cost.
Modula S Western
www.shelteringtheworld.com Sheltering the World Modula S is a high quality, factory produced, hyper-efficient NetZero modular building construction system. Modula S buildings are made of large interlocking, super-insulated modules that glue together with concrete. The Modula S assembly integrates renewable energy sources and efficient subsystems, making a Modula S building its own independent, self-sufficient micro-grid. A Modula S building costs 10% less to build and 40% less to operate than a traditional building. Our buildings are faster to build, cost less to construct and maintain, and are higher quality, resulting in better buildings for less money. Modula S was recently named a winner of the 2013 Defense Energy Technology Challenge. We are currently marketing to the Defense sector and are seeking funding through their Research and Development programs.”
NanoArchitech Western Innovative technologies for a Challenging Era NanoArchitech’s patented technology evolved from a portfolio of technologies developed by internationally renowned and highly respected inventor and scientist, John Orava. He was a top scientific consultant to key agencies in the US government. He was true to his conviction to develop technologies to reduce health risks and energy waste caused by current practices while reducing loss from disasters and greatly reducing the CO2 impact.
Neuvokas Midwest - Central High Speed Processing Technology www.neuvokascorp.com Believe It! Founded in 2013, Neuvokas Corporation is Michigan based with headquarters in Calumet, Michigan. The Company started in 2009 under the name EcoStud LLC as a developer, seller and installer of eco-friendly building materials. In December 2012 Management pivoted the business to the development of high speed processing technology focused on the manufacturing of Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polymer Rebar (FRP) as a replacement for steel rebar.
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AGRICULTURE, WATER & WASTE
GermanyEfficient City Farming | FINALIST | www.ecf-center.de/en/ Urban farm systems for local fish and vegetable production ECF builds aquaponic farm systems that enable resource efficient fish and vegetable production in urban environments. Aquaponics combines a traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment.
NetherlandsMobile Canal Control www.mobilecanalcontrol.com Mobile water solutionsProvides a platform for agricultural water suppliers (e.g. irrigation districts) to make measuring and control of water levels and water flows really simple, so they can be 10% more efficient, be more transparent to their customers and save 20% of water.
NetherlandsPectcof www.pectcof.com/ Unlocking the potential of coffee pulp Pectcof B.V. can transform the huge amount of industrial coffee waste with an innovative technology into useful bio compounds. These compounds can be used in the production of food, pharmaceutical applications and second generation bio-ethanol.
DenmarkSBT Aqua | FINALIST | www.sbtaqua.com Ensuring Safe Drinking Water SBT Aqua will develop and produce sensors that are able to continuously detect bacteria in drinking water to supply the water industry with an unprecedented quality control system
CHEMICALS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS
NetherlandsElemetal www.elemetal.eu Turning waste into gold Developing and implementing chemical processes to recover valuable metals from waste streams. Elemetal combined several techniques from different disciplines into an innovative washing process to recover copper and zinc from waste-to-energy bottom ash.
IsraelGreenspense | FINALIST | www.greenspense.com/ Propellant-free dispensing technology for aerosols and continuous dispensers Propellant-free continuous dispensing technology. Eliminates gas from aerosol containers, allowing creative, eco-friendly packaging. Reduces costs and makes green chemistry a reality for dispenser packages.
HungaryReThink Design Communication and biobased technology The intent of the BioBOTTLE Project is to help to design and produce a bottle from renewable resources. We create a different tailor made bottle & produce biopolimer compound. Biopolimer compound can be made with wood chips, cafe beans, special colours.
ENERGY DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE
NetherlandsE-STONE Rock solid low-cost and non toxic batteries Our novel battery chemistry reduces both material and manufacturing costs. The new alkaline chemistry promises to become a low cost technology for renewable energy storage.
USALUA Inc. | FINALIST | www.golightafrica.com Powering People Beyond Light and Energy Poverty LUA combines both mobile and immobile technologies to provide access to electricity, charge mobile phones, and monetize Kenyan lives. Our product, the Taapoa, is modular and scalable for communal energy commerce, connecting producers and consumers in the informal economy for secondary and tertiary impacts via mobile transactions and physical currency. The end result is not only a product specific solution, but a platform based solution that energizes local entrepreneurs to bring energy into the bottom of the pyramid.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
DenmarkBlackbrite lededison.com There is a way to do it better - we found it The LEDedison is the exact replacement for the Edison 60W and 120W incandescent light bulb
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FranceboostHEAT www.boostheat.com boostheat reduces boilers consumption by half A patented thermal compression technology that makes it possible to merge two existing technologies - the boiler and the heat pump. The new heat generators incorporating this technology capture energy from the environment in order to increase the calorific value of the fuel.
NetherlandsCarbonOro www.carbonoro.com/ Carbon to Cash Carbon (CO2) is a greenhouse gas produced from burning fossil fuels. CarbonOrO offers a patented and highly energy efficient technology to capture carbon from flue gasses, for application in industrial installations or for upgrading biogas.
United KingdomCogent Heat Energy Storage Systems (CHESS) Using coal to cure climate change Cogent Heat Energy Storage Systems (CHESS) have developed
a process that involves integrating three existing technologies that are already routinely practiced in different industries and combining them in a novel way to generate electricity from fossil fuels whilst reducing CO2.
CyprusEnermap | FINALIST | wwww.enermap.eu Building energy ratings globally ENERMAP is an online platform that displays energy certificates of buildings, along with other energy data (i.e. whether a house has bad/good insulation, efficient/non-efficient lighting, etc.) in an easy way and with the user in mind.
NetherlandsEternal Sun | FINALIST | www.eternalsun.com High accuracy solar simulation for product performance and reliabil-ity testing Eternal Sun is a high-tech company specializing in solar simulation technology. Our solar simulation systems are unique; we deliver AAA-class, steady-state illumination up to any size. Our equipment is innovative and practical in use.
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AustraliaOrganic Response | FINALIST | www.organicresponse.com.au Truly Revolutionary Lighting Control Technology Delivering maximum energy savings with optimal occupancy comfort. Uniquely, the technology requires no additional design, hardware, wiring or commissioning to install. The system allows building management systems to access real time, location specific occupancy information to improve their own energy efficiency.
FranceSiltene | FINALIST | http://www.siltene.fr Advanced processes for ultra high density and low power data storage devices SILTENE aims at establishing a new manufacturing standard for ultra high-density data storage. SILTENE has developed a disruptive technology to treat magnetic materials for enhancing their density, reducing manufacturing costs and improving yield for both HDD and MRAM applications.
NetherlandsSolarSwing www.solarswing.nl/ SolarSwing Reflect: transparant blinds to keep your building cool and bright SolarSwing develops innovative shading systems - transparent vertical blinds that are placed behind existing windows, known as the Reflect. These increase the daylight transmission with a factor 10, while the heat rejection improves with a factor 2.
United Kingdom Ventivewww.ventive.co.uk/ Ventive heralds a new approach to ventilation. Recovering heat from outgoing stale air and transferring it to incoming fresh air. It works by using wind and natural buoyancy for a passive airflow. It has no moving parts to break-down and requires no energy to run.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ITC)
ArgentinaObjii | FINALIST | www.objii.com The mind behind the everyday objects of your life Objii brings the internet of things to the next level. Using machine-learning algorithms, objii lets you, among other things, save energy.
Objii also integrates any object into the world of mobile and social networking.
TRANSPORTATION
Costa RicaCibus | FINALIST | www.cibus30.com Building a bacterium which can transform whey into biodiesel Cibus 3.0 is the first synthetic biology company from Central America focused on bioenergy. Our goal is to transform residuals from agroindustry into fuel. Our first project consists of producing microorganisms that may use whey as feedstock to produce biodiesel.
GermanyE-Bike Finder www.sinco2.de Bringing the eBike to people! Online platform (website, app) www.e-bike-finder.com with all available ebike models on the market (more than 1.500). Customers are supported to find the right ebike, the next dealer for a test ride or purchase.
SwitzerlandElectric Feel | FINALIST | www.electricfeel.com We convert Electric Bikes into intelligent transportation systems ElectricFeel provides a software-based solution for the setup and management of E-Bike-Sharing. Our GPS-based platform converts E-Bike-Fleets into an intelligent system that is scalable, easy to run and simple to use.
GreeceGlonatech | FINALIST | www.glonatech.com Empowering your materials Promoting a wider commercialization of fouling release and durable marine coatings based on nanotechnology, and more specifically on carbon nanotubes. The product is already in production, but we wish to expand its commercialization and support its development.
United KingdomTrakeo www.trakeo.com Assurance of provenance Ethanol derived from fossil fuel is chemically indistinguishable from that produced from corn or sugar cane. Demonstrating incontrovertibly a non-fossil origin of an increasing amount of our fuel is essential economically to comply with regulation in all industrial societies.
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United KingdomNaked Energy | FINALIST | www.nakedenergy.co.uk Hybrid Solar Redefined Naked Energy has developed Virtu® an innovative, highly efficient hybrid solar technology providing combined heat and power.
NetherlandsSkigh Energy www.skigh-energy.com Harvesting high-altitude winds with kites Skigh Energy develops advanced energy solutions, based on cleantech alternatives, to deliver electricity to any customer.
GREEN BUILDING
ChileBioaislant | FINALIST | www.bioaislant.cl Construction thermal insulator made out from natural fibers, com-pletely sustainable and ecologicalMade from a low textile quality sheep wool which does not have any commercial use. Bioaislant allows the use of farming disposals to create a renewable and environment friendly product.
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