Clean Energy Ventures

Transaera specializes in the development of energy-efficient cooling systems aimed at minimizing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The company employs an innovative desiccant material that effectively removes moisture from the air prior to the cooling process, enhancing indoor comfort. Its solutions are designed for both residential and commercial applications, providing affordable and environmentally friendly cooling options that improve indoor climate control. By reducing the energy demands typically associated with conventional air conditioning units, Transaera's technologies support greater productivity while also alleviating strain on local grid infrastructure and contributing to a more sustainable global climate.

PeakSyncer, a product of Zhong Xi Group, LLC, is an AI-powered cloud platform that offers a comprehensive solution for utilities aiming to optimize their energy management systems through advanced technology. The platform focuses on demand response programs, utilizing artificial intelligence to automate and streamline the management of peak energy loads. PeakSyncer has focused on creating cutting-edge solutions in cloud computing and AI integration. The company positions itself as a leader in the energy management sector, working on delivering reliable, user-friendly solutions that adapt to the evolving needs of energy grids. With dedicated support and 24/7 monitoring, PeakSyncer aims to empower utilities to modernize their operations and optimize resource usage effectively. With PeakSyncer, the company addresses a critical business need for seamless data synchronization across platforms such as ERP, CRM, and other essential business software. The platform’s key advantage is its ability to adapt to dynamic data patterns, learning from past syncs to continuously improve syncing accuracy and efficiency. PeakSyncer is designed to be scalable and easily integrates with existing utility infrastructure, ensuring a smooth implementation process. The platform not only helps utilities meet regulatory requirements but also supports them in creating a sustainable energy ecosystem by engaging customers in demand response initiatives, made possible by AI algorithms that analyze and anticipate potential data issues before they disrupt business processes.

Ndustrial specializes in providing analytical engines and an industrial optimization platform tailored for mid-tier manufacturers and energy companies. Their solutions focus on enhancing production control, improving energy efficiency, and minimizing waste, which enables organizations to optimize operations and reduce costs. The company employs a proprietary industrial operating system that integrates legacy data and facilitates the deployment of new Industrial IoT assets. Additionally, Ndustrial offers real-time cloud-based applications designed for factories and industrial facilities, utilizing predictive control algorithms to support efficient resource management across various sectors.

Evari is a clean-tech firm developing next-generation tiny, oil-free turbocompressors for heating and cooling applications to help with the global energy transition and expedite the decarbonization of various industries.

Cala Systems designs, manufactures, and sells the world's first intelligent heat pump water heater.

QEA Tech is a software company that combines AI, drone technology, and thermal imaging to provide insights into the building envelope. They process thousands of images using its proprietary software, transforming each pixel into a comprehensive 3D model of the building for quantifiable data and insights. Using 10,000+ high-resolution drone images, proprietary QEA Tech software converts each pixel into quantifiable data and a comprehensive 3D model before uploading each image to the cloud-based dashboard for 24/7 access. The QEA System identifies where and how much energy is being wasted in a building's envelope, allowing you to prioritize repairs and calculate payback and ROI. The QEA Solution calculates Negawatt (NKwh), which quantifies energy gushers (heat and cool air escaping) through the walls, windows, doors, and roof of the building.

Electrified Thermal Solutions replace fossil fuels with renewable heat in every furnace, turbine, boiler, and kiln to decarbonize industry. Electrified Thermal Solutions started at MIT in the noisy laboratory basement of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. The goal was simple: start an energy revolution. Founded in 2021, the company is based in Medford, Massachusetts.

REsurety is a provider of risk management products to the buyers and sellers of clean energy. It empowers the clean energy-fueled future through better risk management. It works at the intersection of physical science, big data, and financial engineering to help our clients understand and mitigate the risks in buying and selling energy from renewable, intermittent fuel sources. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Pearl Certification, founded in 2015 and based in Vienna, Virginia, specializes in home energy efficiency certification programs. The company provides third-party certification for homes that emphasize health, safety, comfort, and energy and water efficiency. By collaborating with real estate agents, contractors, and builders, Pearl Certification offers independent documentation that enhances buyer confidence during home transactions. This certification helps homeowners realize the value of their investments in energy-efficient upgrades, making it beneficial for refinancing or resale purposes. Additionally, by promoting high-performance homes, Pearl Certification contributes to the broader adoption of energy-efficient and sustainable building practices, positively impacting homeowners, the real estate market, and the environment.

Ndustrial specializes in providing analytical engines and an industrial optimization platform tailored for mid-tier manufacturers and energy companies. Their solutions focus on enhancing production control, improving energy efficiency, and minimizing waste, which enables organizations to optimize operations and reduce costs. The company employs a proprietary industrial operating system that integrates legacy data and facilitates the deployment of new Industrial IoT assets. Additionally, Ndustrial offers real-time cloud-based applications designed for factories and industrial facilities, utilizing predictive control algorithms to support efficient resource management across various sectors.

ClearTrace is a software company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in automated energy and carbon accounting for various stakeholders, including investors, enterprises, and real estate owners. Founded in 2017, the company has developed a digital infrastructure that provides accurate and verifiable data on energy emissions. This technology enables organizations to substantiate their claims regarding carbon reductions and sustainability efforts, thereby helping to prevent greenwashing and offering a reliable basis for corporate decarbonization. By facilitating transparency in energy generation and consumption, ClearTrace supports its clients in achieving their sustainability and financial objectives while promoting the growth of renewable energy production.

SunDensity has developed a groundbreaking Photonic Smart Coating (PSC™) technology that enables the up and down conversion of the wavelengths in white light (UV to IR) to match the desired band which can solve several in-efficiencies in photonics. By conversion of spectrum, they have developed, and field tested a patent-pending PSC™ that significantly reduces the cost of electricity generated by solar photovoltaics (PV) applications, customizes thermal and optical behavior of architectural glass, and increases the quantum efficiency of optoelectronic instruments.

Rebound Technologies, Inc. specializes in the manufacturing and supply of advanced thermal energy storage systems tailored for commercial refrigeration and off-grid cooling applications. Founded in 2012 and based in Commerce City, Colorado, the company offers innovative products such as IcePoint, which integrates an embedded thermal energy storage system to significantly reduce cooling costs for supermarkets, and SunChill, designed for agricultural needs in developing regions. SunChill effectively converts solar thermal energy into refrigeration, enhancing agricultural productivity by rapidly cooling harvested crops and maintaining their quality at local markets. Rebound Technologies emphasizes customized solutions that utilize renewable resources and waste heat capture, aiming to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs while supporting self-sustaining business models. The company's initiatives are currently backed by research grants from the U.S. Federal Government.

Pearl Certification, founded in 2015 and based in Vienna, Virginia, specializes in home energy efficiency certification programs. The company provides third-party certification for homes that emphasize health, safety, comfort, and energy and water efficiency. By collaborating with real estate agents, contractors, and builders, Pearl Certification offers independent documentation that enhances buyer confidence during home transactions. This certification helps homeowners realize the value of their investments in energy-efficient upgrades, making it beneficial for refinancing or resale purposes. Additionally, by promoting high-performance homes, Pearl Certification contributes to the broader adoption of energy-efficient and sustainable building practices, positively impacting homeowners, the real estate market, and the environment.

Rebound Technologies, Inc. specializes in the manufacturing and supply of advanced thermal energy storage systems tailored for commercial refrigeration and off-grid cooling applications. Founded in 2012 and based in Commerce City, Colorado, the company offers innovative products such as IcePoint, which integrates an embedded thermal energy storage system to significantly reduce cooling costs for supermarkets, and SunChill, designed for agricultural needs in developing regions. SunChill effectively converts solar thermal energy into refrigeration, enhancing agricultural productivity by rapidly cooling harvested crops and maintaining their quality at local markets. Rebound Technologies emphasizes customized solutions that utilize renewable resources and waste heat capture, aiming to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs while supporting self-sustaining business models. The company's initiatives are currently backed by research grants from the U.S. Federal Government.

Pearl Certification, founded in 2015 and based in Vienna, Virginia, specializes in home energy efficiency certification programs. The company provides third-party certification for homes that emphasize health, safety, comfort, and energy and water efficiency. By collaborating with real estate agents, contractors, and builders, Pearl Certification offers independent documentation that enhances buyer confidence during home transactions. This certification helps homeowners realize the value of their investments in energy-efficient upgrades, making it beneficial for refinancing or resale purposes. Additionally, by promoting high-performance homes, Pearl Certification contributes to the broader adoption of energy-efficient and sustainable building practices, positively impacting homeowners, the real estate market, and the environment.

REsurety is a provider of risk management products to the buyers and sellers of clean energy. It empowers the clean energy-fueled future through better risk management. It works at the intersection of physical science, big data, and financial engineering to help our clients understand and mitigate the risks in buying and selling energy from renewable, intermittent fuel sources. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

VCharge, Inc. specializes in intelligent infrastructure for energy management, focusing on transactive electric loads that enhance efficiency and reduce costs. The company develops VNet, a power management platform that coordinates distributed transactive load assets, alongside SmartBricks and SmartHydro, which are controllers for electric thermal storage heating systems. These systems manage loads from electric vehicle charging stations and compressed air systems. VCharge also provides VConsole, a web-based interface that offers control and information for users, utilities, and maintenance personnel. By aggregating and monetizing electric loads with embedded storage, VCharge enables energy arbitrage and grid services, significantly lowering energy costs for homeowners. While the technology is more prevalent in Europe, VCharge operates in North America and has established a presence in the UK. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, VCharge operates as a subsidiary of OVO Energy Limited.

MyEnergy operates as a personalized platform that assists households in the United States in reducing energy consumption and lowering utility bills. By accessing the free site, users can benefit from energy-saving tips, incentives, and the ability to compare their energy usage with others. The platform also enables users to set personal goals and monitor their progress, while offering rewards for successful reductions in energy bills. MyEnergy's technology incorporates advanced algorithms that analyze utility energy data, enhancing its ability to provide tailored recommendations. The service is compatible with numerous utilities nationwide and is expanding to reach over 90% of the U.S. population, making it a valuable resource for energy savings.

Next Step Living provides home energy evaluations and solutions for individuals and organizations. It offers energy assessment and diagnostics, air sealing and insulation, and multi-family retrofit services. The company also provides customized solutions, such as HVAC repair and replacement, window replacement and installation, solar or geothermal systems installation, building automation, interior and exterior lighting design, and custom retrofit services. Its sustainability solutions include water efficiency and purification, landscape design and management, and indoor air quality services. The company provides assessment and diagnostic processes to heating and cooling, domestic hot water, and electricity and lighting needs. Next Step Living partners with more than 400 municipalities, civic organizations, contractors, and corporations to deliver energy-efficient and environmental-friendly solutions to its customers. Those solutions include home energy assessments, weatherization work, energy-efficient windows, efficient heating, and cooling solutions, and access to solar solutions. Next Step Living was founded in 2008 by Geoff Chapin and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

OutSmart has developed a solution that provides a detailed and metric driven approach to reduce energy consumption and improve your up-time on mission critical equipment. OutSmart is initially focused on grocery and convenience stores and has shown less than a year payback, identifying 5-15% in energy savings. OutSmart is not a control system– it complements that function by providing detailed information about a store’s consumption that control systems can’t get. At a high level, OutSmart is a system for comprehensive and granular electrical monitoring, but the type of data we can get can not only provides a detailed itemization of energy to baseline and track performance, it is used to understand the performance of equipment and the efficacy of control systems at a detailed level. OutSmart’s competitive advantage stems from its specialized sensor technology, data extraction techniques, and analytics platform (OSAP) which enable unparalleled depth of information, ease of installation, low cost, flexibility and extensibility. OutSmart is located in Natick Massachusetts (15 miles West of Boston) and was founded in February 2008.