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Energy Resilience

Advanced Spade Company designs, builds, and operates technology to reduce the cost of utility undergrounding. We build utility locators, trenchless guidance, mapping & GIS software, and a full stack of technology for underground intelligence.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

AirVitalize & Thermoshade are teaming up to provide outdoor cooling centers with healthy air across Los Angeles!

Permitting & Construction Innovation

Apis Cor builds robotic 3D printing technology for faster, automated construction of walls using durable and sustainable materials. Our solution reduces waste, lowers construction costs, and helps homebuilders increase output without relying on the shrinking pool of skilled labor.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

The Aris Thermal Plant Pod™ is a centralized, all-electric system that delivers heating, cooling, and hot water through water-based thermal energy storage and delivery that improves comfort, resilience, and grid flexibility. Designed for fast deployment and long-term performance, it supports building electrification without requiring panel upgrades or scattered subsystems.

Permitting & Construction Innovation

Azure is fundamentally changing the construction industry by leveraging 3D printing technology to prefab homes and ADUs 70% faster and 30% less expensive than existing construction methods.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

Climformatics offers an AI-driven platform that provides hyper-local, year-ahead forecasts of extreme weather events to help energy companies, utilities, and others manage climate risks, optimize operations, and modernize the grid. By bridging the gap between short-term weather forecasts and long-term climate projections, the solution enhances energy demand forecasting, risk mitigation and sustainability efforts.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

Wildfire detection and early warning for communities and utilities.

Energy Resilience

Dragon Wings designs and manufactures portable, the first industrial-scale solar generators that deliver clean, silent, and fuel-free power for construction, events, EV charging, and disaster response. Dragon Wings deploy in just under 5 minutes, fit in a single parking space, and provide scalable 3-phase power with 30kW or 60kW AC per Dragon Wings and daisy chained for up to 360kW or 720kW AC power in 12 parking spaces.

Energy Resilience

Plasma Boring Tunneling Technology.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

EHAB is a weather intelligence platform that helps organizations manage climate and weather risk across infrastructure, energy, insurance, and finance. Using AI-powered forecasting, risk modeling, and signals, EHAB enables better decision-making, reduces losses, and supports climate-resilient planning at scale.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

Epic Cleantec enables buildings to recycle up to 95% of their water, transforming wastewater into clean water, renewable energy, and soil products. Our solutions save water, cut utility costs, and support ambitious sustainability goals. Trusted by top developers, property owners, and leading design teams’ real estate leaders, Epic combines proprietary technology with expert project support spanning design, permitting, installation and ongoing system operations.

Permitting & Construction Innovation

Unclear, outdated city codes stall clean tech and construction projects every day—driving up costs and slowing progress. Fordje’s AI platform cuts through the chaos, delivering precise code and zoning data nationwide so teams can move faster from concept to deployment.

Permitting & Construction Innovation

Kit Switch delivers prefabricated interior systems that make it faster, easier, and more sustainable to turn buildings into move-in ready housing. Designed for 1-day, 2-worker installation, our ready-to-install kitchen, bathroom, and storage kits reduce construction time, cost, and carbon, helping communities build and rebuild faster, more affordably, and more sustainably.

Energy Resilience

Leaptran is an energy technology company with strong intellectual property, specializing in advanced machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for energy forecasting and distributed energy resource (DER) analytics. We are commercially prototype-ready and prepared for pilot deployment in collaboration with LADWP.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

Metalmark Innovations, a Harvard spinoff, develops advanced air purification solutions that tackle global air quality challenges while supporting climate adaptation and mitigation. Its flagship product, the Tatama Air Cleaner—the world’s first self-renewing air purifier—offers HEPA-grade performance, capturing over 99.97% of airborne particles including wildfire smoke, infectious aerosols, and select VOCs.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

We use sensors, data and AI, to keep people, communities, and infrastructure safe. From early detection of wildfires, smoke and poor air quality, to chemical threats and accidents, we provide environmental intelligence with 24/7 alerting capability to improve outcomes​.

Energy Resilience

Novele transforms buildings into intelligent energy assets with our modular, AI-powered Energy Boards—optimizing usage, cutting costs, and boosting resilience without major infrastructure changes. Our distributed EnergyMesh enables real-time load balancing, peak demand control, and grid services – redefining how the built environment manages, saves, and monetizes power.

Energy Resilience

Phoenix Boring Inc is a vertically-integrated tech-enabled trenchless undergrounding service provider. We design, engineer, manufacture, and field deploy utility tunneling equipment.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

Raya Power is developing an affordable solar home appliance (~$3k) as easy to set up as an Ikea table in 1-2 hours, eliminating traditional barriers like structural home changes, utility permits, electricians, and high costs, while delivering >$2k in annual savings. This innovation unlocks access to solar for low-to-moderate-income households and renters, addressing a $370B+ market opportunity.

Permitting & Construction Innovation

Reframe Systems is on a mission to build climate-resilient homes for all. Reframe is developing advanced microfactories powered by robotics and AI to build these homes with unprecedented speed and quality.

Permitting & Construction Innovation

ReMo is a mission-driven organization dedicated to delivering affordable, climate-resilient housing and becoming a global leader in sustainable development.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

Most Comprehensive Wildfire detection and Management solution.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

Sun FireDefense provides advanced fire-retardant products, including the clear coat SPF3000, designed to prevent ignition and fire spread with a single application. Proven effective in both real wildfires and CalFire tests, their solution has helped homes survive extreme fire conditions.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

AirVitalize & Thermoshade are teaming up to provide outdoor cooling centers with healthy air across Los Angeles!

Resilient Buildings & Homes

Voltpost transforms streetlights into electric vehicle chargers to accelerate vehicle electrification. Our technology enables communities to enjoy the benefits of cleaner air while providing scalable public charging that blends into the fabric of communities, for a fraction of the cost of competitors.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

ESGSAT is a climate resilience platform that combines satellite data, IoT sensors, and AI to provide real-time, hyper-local environmental intelligence. It helps reduce disaster losses, cut costs, and speed up projects, delivering measurable ROI within 18–24 months.

Resilient Buildings & Homes

Wildfire Defense Mesh provides wildfire mitigation products that offer a low-cost, high-impact solution to help protect homes and communities from the growing threat of wildfires

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

We make it simple for insurers, fire agencies, and non-profits to engage property owners and mitigate catastrophic wildfires.

AI Detection & Risk Assessment

As wildfire risk and catastrophic losses escalate, XyloPlan is a wildfire resilience platform that delivers data-driven, firefighter-informed strategies to help landowners and land managers reduce risk, improve insurance access, and implement high-impact mitigation through smarter land planning and treatment decisions.