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Presto is a software platform to power magical charging experiences for fleets, mobility providers, and businesses.We believe that access to reliable and affordable charging is the key to unlocking mass electrification and fighting climate change.

Tyba is a developer of an informatics platform that assists enterprises in the development and operation of renewable energy projects. The platform offers comprehensive modeling for both standalone and hybrid storage projects, facilitating early-stage development through to operational phases. It enables users to build production and revenue models, compare design variations, and analyze results using interactive dashboards and visualizations. By leveraging analytics related to renewable energy and power markets, Tyba empowers businesses to effectively model solar energy storage, allowing them to make informed decisions regarding expected production, revenue, dispatch, and asset operations.

CapeZero is a software-as-a-service company specializing in financial technology solutions for clean energy projects. Its platform enables counterparties, including developers, investors, and advisors, to efficiently evaluate and navigate structured tax credit investments, such as tax equity and transferability. By providing real-time, profit-optimizing analysis, CapeZero facilitates informed decision-making and accelerates the development of renewable energy projects.

Rock Rabbit is an AI-driven platform facilitating transparent access to energy rebates for homeowners. It integrates various stakeholders – contractors, homeowners, and incentive providers – streamlining processes to accelerate building decarbonization.

Tyba is a developer of an informatics platform that assists enterprises in the development and operation of renewable energy projects. The platform offers comprehensive modeling for both standalone and hybrid storage projects, facilitating early-stage development through to operational phases. It enables users to build production and revenue models, compare design variations, and analyze results using interactive dashboards and visualizations. By leveraging analytics related to renewable energy and power markets, Tyba empowers businesses to effectively model solar energy storage, allowing them to make informed decisions regarding expected production, revenue, dispatch, and asset operations.

Audette provides an analytics platform for commercial buildings that accelerates carbon reduction investments. The platform collects utility and equipment data, analyzes building operation, and generates recommendations and decarbonization roadmaps to improve performance. By helping property owners optimize energy management and access capital, Audette aims to unlock operating expense savings and reduce carbon emissions across large building portfolios.

RenewaFi operates a renewable energy marketplace platform designed to enhance transparency and liquidity in power purchase agreements (PPAs). The platform automates actions, facilitates proposal comparisons, and streamlines deal execution, enabling businesses to secure offtake efficiently.

Finite is a platform that sources and manages private credit assets for investors. It specializes in residential solar credit investments and commercial solar credit investments, providing direct access to these traditionally hard-to-reach assets.

Helio is a company focused on facilitating the transition from fossil fuels to complete electrification of homes. It operates an innovative online platform that provides customers with a straightforward and cost-effective approach to achieve whole-home electrification. The platform integrates various systems including solar energy, heating and cooling, electrical systems, insulation, and ventilation, ensuring a holistic design for energy efficiency. By promoting the use of electric solutions, Helio aims to help customers reduce their carbon footprints and minimize reliance on fossil fuels, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Overstory is a vegetation management software company that serves electric utilities. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with remote sensing from satellite and aerial imagery to monitor vegetation near power corridors, assess wildfire risks, and optimize resource use. By prioritizing vegetation risks before they materialize, Overstory helps utilities prevent outages, reduce wildfire risk, and improve reliability and safety across service areas, contributing to a safer, more resilient grid.

Audette provides an analytics platform for commercial buildings that accelerates carbon reduction investments. The platform collects utility and equipment data, analyzes building operation, and generates recommendations and decarbonization roadmaps to improve performance. By helping property owners optimize energy management and access capital, Audette aims to unlock operating expense savings and reduce carbon emissions across large building portfolios.

Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company established in 2018 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It specializes in providing data-driven financing solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the off-grid energy sector across sub-Saharan Africa. Nithio leverages a proprietary artificial intelligence risk analytics engine to support distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders involved in the solar energy market. The company focuses on enhancing access to solar home systems, productive use appliances, agribusiness, and microfinance, thereby facilitating sustainable energy solutions in underserved regions.

Solstice facilitates shared solar energy solutions, aggregating consumer demand and connecting households with community solar projects. Founded in 2016, it aims to increase access to affordable renewable energy regardless of income or credit score.

Pearl Street Technologies develops a simulation, optimization, and design platform for power grid planning. Its SUGAR platform uses advanced circuit simulation methodologies to analyze and optimize grids, enabling utilities and stakeholders to prepare for renewable energy integration.

WattBuy is a technology company focused on providing households with access to cleaner and more affordable electricity. Headquartered in New York City, Washington D.C., and Seattle, the company comprises a team of product leaders and engineers with backgrounds from major tech firms. WattBuy has developed an electricity management platform that allows users to take control of their electricity consumption. Through a personalized recommendation engine, the platform helps residents select electricity plans tailored to their preferences and usage patterns, enabling them to save money and switch to the most cost-effective suppliers in their regions. The company's mission centers on leveraging technology to address energy inequality and contribute positively to climate change.

Terabase Energy is a provider of automation and digital deployment solutions for utility-scale solar projects. The company develops software and services, including a cloud-based artificial intelligence project development platform that supports collaborative digital models, and offers technical advisory and engineering services. It markets an automation platform that integrates software, automation, and advanced construction techniques to help solar developers and EPC firms optimize project planning, streamline deployment, improve site efficiency, and manage costs, enabling scalable solar installations. The solutions are used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries. Terabase Energy is based in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia.

Overstory is a vegetation management software company that serves electric utilities. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with remote sensing from satellite and aerial imagery to monitor vegetation near power corridors, assess wildfire risks, and optimize resource use. By prioritizing vegetation risks before they materialize, Overstory helps utilities prevent outages, reduce wildfire risk, and improve reliability and safety across service areas, contributing to a safer, more resilient grid.

Station A is a technology company that provides AI-powered software for clean energy procurement, analysis, and deployment. Its platform helps commercial real estate owners and energy users evaluate building portfolios, analyze markets, and simulate clean energy options to identify financially and environmentally favorable opportunities. It aggregates geospatial, environmental, and financial data to model optimal energy needs for buildings and areas, supporting solar, storage, energy efficiency, and other solutions. The platform connects users to a network of clean energy developers, financiers, and installers and offers a marketplace with indicative pricing and firm proposals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco.

Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market. It allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it and access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future. Leap aims to make global energy markets accessible to anyone, starting with demand response and expanding into generation and ancillary services. Leap was founded by Thomas Folker and Remco Van Den Elzen.

WattBuy is a technology company focused on providing households with access to cleaner and more affordable electricity. Headquartered in New York City, Washington D.C., and Seattle, the company comprises a team of product leaders and engineers with backgrounds from major tech firms. WattBuy has developed an electricity management platform that allows users to take control of their electricity consumption. Through a personalized recommendation engine, the platform helps residents select electricity plans tailored to their preferences and usage patterns, enabling them to save money and switch to the most cost-effective suppliers in their regions. The company's mission centers on leveraging technology to address energy inequality and contribute positively to climate change.

Ensemble offers a SaaS-based prescriptive analytics platform for clean energy power plant operators. The platform provides energy plant operators with actionable insights into the condition of their assets. Features include failure detection and prediction, anomaly detection, and energy production forecasting.

Energetic Insurance, Inc. is an InsurTech company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing solar insurance solutions that address credit and counterparty risks associated with commercial and industrial solar photovoltaic projects. The company offers a product called EneRate, which protects third-party solar developers and asset owners from repayment risks and revenue losses due to defaults on power purchase agreements (PPAs). Energetic Insurance employs a data-driven approach as a Managing General Underwriter, developing innovative risk management products that facilitate solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations. This enables solar project developers to undertake more projects and access capital by mitigating payment default risks, thereby enhancing project economics through lower interest rates and improved financial structuring.

PVComplete Inc. is a developer of a solar design platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of commercial rooftop solar project designs. Founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California, the company provides software that automates the design process by utilizing a cloud-based database of photovoltaic modules. This tool analyzes roof zones and obstructions through shadow modeling, facilitating the optimization of module layouts. PVComplete's solutions cater to solar installers, project developers, engineering firms, and financiers, allowing design professionals to create, model, and quote projects seamlessly from concept to construction.

Station A is a technology company that provides AI-powered software for clean energy procurement, analysis, and deployment. Its platform helps commercial real estate owners and energy users evaluate building portfolios, analyze markets, and simulate clean energy options to identify financially and environmentally favorable opportunities. It aggregates geospatial, environmental, and financial data to model optimal energy needs for buildings and areas, supporting solar, storage, energy efficiency, and other solutions. The platform connects users to a network of clean energy developers, financiers, and installers and offers a marketplace with indicative pricing and firm proposals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco.

Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market. It allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it and access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future. Leap aims to make global energy markets accessible to anyone, starting with demand response and expanding into generation and ancillary services. Leap was founded by Thomas Folker and Remco Van Den Elzen.

SHYFT Power Solutions develops an integrated hardware and software platform to monitor, manage, and control distributed energy resources from mobile and cloud interfaces. Its core offering, the SHYFT system, combines a hybrid smart meter and transfer switch to enable IoT-driven energy management that automatically transitions between the grid and backup sources. The company provides software that allows users to monitor, meter, and control power sources across sites, supporting residential, commercial, and industrial deployments. SHYFT focuses on industrial IoT and the orchestration of distributed energy resources to improve energy efficiency, resilience, and cost savings, with initiatives to expand decentralized power systems in markets with unreliable infrastructure.

SparkMeter develops smart electricity metering systems and grid management software for underserved markets. Its products include residential and commercial meters, along with software solutions that enhance grid efficiency, enable prepaid billing, and facilitate remote monitoring. Founded in 2012, SparkMeter operates from Washington D.C. and Nairobi, Kenya.

Solstice Energy Solutions uses IoT and software to enable, connect, and intelligently manage the shared-economy of distributed energy resources in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Sun Exchange (Pty) Ltd. is a solar leasing platform based in Cape Town, South Africa, that facilitates peer-to-peer ownership of solar equipment. Founded in 2015, the company allows individuals from anywhere in the world to purchase solar cells and lease them to various end-users such as hospitals, factories, and schools in sunny emerging markets. By leveraging blockchain technology, the platform ensures transparency and efficiency in the leasing process. Solar cell owners can earn income from the electricity generated, while lessees benefit from access to affordable clean energy, thus reducing their electricity costs and carbon emissions. The Sun Exchange aims to drive sustainable energy development and expand the environmental, social, and economic advantages of solar power.

Solstice Energy Solutions uses IoT and software to enable, connect, and intelligently manage the shared-economy of distributed energy resources in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

RPM Solar is a solar installation company that serves both residential and commercial customers. It develops solar asset management software created to manage financial operations.

BrightCurrent, Inc., founded in 2011 and based in Brooklyn, New York, is a company that specializes in facilitating the transition to solar energy through innovative educational approaches. It employs various channels such as in-store kiosks, canvassing, event management, and home solar parties to engage potential clients. BrightCurrent provides free, no-obligation solar quotes and connects clients with solar providers who install systems on their roofs at no upfront cost. Clients then pay a monthly bill for the power they use. The company operates as a subsidiary of Horizon Solar Power, Inc., and offers marketing services for products like home solar, connected devices, and energy-efficient electric vehicles. BrightCurrent is known for its field marketing and retail services, providing substantial training, competitive hourly wages, and clear career advancement paths.

Heron Power is a startup specializing in energy technology. It focuses on developing innovative power electronics to modernize and strengthen the electrical grid, enabling increased electricity generation.