ChargerHelp!

South Los Angeles, CA
CA-37

The ChargerHelp App eliminates the high cost of station downtime by enabling on demand repair of EV charging stations. The EV driver submits support requests using the App, and then the ChargerHelp Network Tech receives the request and navigates to the site. While onsite ChargerHelp Network technicians validate, troubleshoot, and/or escalate service requests using the app. ChargerHelp Network tech closes the ticket and receives payment from their app.

Awards & Affiliations

StartupGrind South LA Pitch Winner, Grid 110: Idea to Prototype Program, LACI Founders Business Accelerator Cohort 2

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SparkCharge

Somerville, MA
MA-7

SparkCharge has built the world’s first mobile electric vehicle charging network, single-handedly creating Charging as a Service (CaaS). The Mobile Charge Up app allows EV owners the freedom to charge whenever and wherever they want, giving them countless hours back. Subscribers can have their EVs charged wherever they want, at the parking lot at work, in their driveways, or even at the park. They have completed close to 1000 charge up’s and delivered over 50,000 miles of range shortly after launching. They also work directly with amazing companies like Tesla, Ford, GM, and Amazon to scale Charge Up growth.

Awards & Affiliations

NYSERDA, Cleantech Open, TechStars, 43North, LACI California Climate Cup Winner 2019

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Ampaire

Hawthorne, CA
CA-43

Ampaire takes flight with the highest capacity electric aircraft ever flown. Ampaire makes flying more accessible to more people from more airports by developing electric aircraft that are less costly, safe, clean, and quiet. Ampaire has pioneered trusted, practical and compelling electrified flight through the upgrade of existing aircraft types.In 2019 they flew the world’s largest hybrid electric aircraft. In 2020 and 2021 they’ve deployed and demonstrated electrified flight with multiple airlines across the globe.

Awards & Affiliations

Hello Tomorrow, Global Cleantech 100, Techstars, Grist 50! 2019, Future Unicorn Award in Bluetech International Clean Air Conference, Startup World Cup 2nd place

Petra Power

Solon, Ohio
OH – 18

Petra Power is revolutionizing energy technology by developing novel solid oxide fuels capable of converting both fossil fuels and clean fuels such as hydrogen to electricity with unmatched efficiency. Through these efforts, Petra Power is working to reduce emissions from fossil fuels today while lowering barriers of entry to the hydrogen economy in the future. Through BRITE’s resources and facility, Petra Power has been able to refine its technology to a scalable level while expanding its operations as a startup. As an innovator in energy technology, Petra Power has unique needs to support the development, testing, refinement, and scaling of the Company’s novel solid oxide fuel cell technology. Beyond the need for an advanced development environment, these efforts benefit from expert guidance in business development and manufacturing to help prepare the company for the transition of its technology from the laboratory to commercial markets.  

BRITE was able to support both of these needs by leveraging their state-of-the-art laboratory and their expert mentorship.

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Adena Power

Columbus, Ohio
OH -19

Following over a decade of involvement in large-scale tech projects, co-founders Neil Kidner and Nathan Cooley created Adena Power, leveraging their own IP and licensed technology from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to produce cost-effective and scalable sodium batteries. Aiming to have their product on the U.S. power grid, they’re focusing on fast and efficient scaling, fundraising, tech validation through pilots, and customer acquisition. Adena Power set their sights high – intending to deploy their batteries on the grid within a five-year timeline. They understood that achieving this goal meant rapidly and efficiently lowering their cost curve. BRITE fostered a crucial connection for Adena with manufacturing expert Current Chemicals. This connection illustrated a strong alignment between Adena’s vision and mission with the expert company’s underutilized assets.

Form Energy

Somerville, MA | Berkeley, CA | Eighty Four, PA | Weirton, WV
MA-7, CA-12, PA-14, WV-2

Form Energy is an American energy storage technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing a pioneering iron-air battery capable of storing electricity for 100 hours at system costs competitive with legacy power plants. Form’s multi-day battery will reform the global electricity system to run reliably and securely on low-cost clean energy. Stemming from NASA research on iron air chemistry and professor Yet-Ming Chiang’s laboratory at MIT—funded by the DOE’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research—Form was founded in 2017 and joined Greentown Labs shortly after, utilizing prototyping lab, wet lab, and office space within Greentown’s Boston campus to house their team and further develop their tech. Form has since grown to hundreds of employees across four locations but remains an active Greentown member and continues to utilize office space through the incubator. In 2023, Form Energy broke ground on its first manufacturing facility, located in Weirton, WV. That same year, Form announced a partnership to deploy its grid-scale iron air batteries in MI and CO through Excel Energy, funded partially by a $70 million grant from the DOE for novel grid battery projects, as well as in CA through a $30 million grant from the California Energy Commission. Form’s batteries were also named one of the best inventions of 2023 by Time. 

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Fervo Energy

Houston, TX
TX-18

Fervo Energy provides 24/7 carbon-free energy through the development of next-generation geothermal power. Fervo’s mission is to leverage innovation in geoscience to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Geothermal has a major role to play in the future electric grid, and Fervo’s key advancements in drilling and subsurface analytics bring a full suite of modern technology to make geothermal cost competitive and globally scalable.

Founded in 2017 but a member of Greentown Labs since 2021, Fervo exemplifies geothermal’s ability to translate the skills of traditional fossil energy workers into careers in clean, renewable energy. In July of 2023, Fervo achieved a technological breakthrough, successfully completing a well test at its Project Red commercial plant in northern Nevada, generating 24/7 carbon-free energy from its enhanced geothermal system. Later that year, Fervo broke ground on the world’s largest next-gen geothermal project in Beaver County, Utah, bringing the promise of jobs back to the region.

Fervo was a recipient of $4.5 million in funding through ARPA-E Open 2021, as well as a 2021 funding recipient from the DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) Initiative. Fervo has also been the recipient of DOE DAC Hub funding, has benefited from additional funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and is actively working to improve the DOD’s energy resilience. Fervo was recently named one of America’s top 20 best greentech companies of 2024 by Time. 

NanoGraf Corporation

Chicago, IL
IL-7

NanoGraf is a high-tech battery company that specializes in making a silicon anode, a critical subcomponent necessary to make batteries. This material innovation has resulted in NanoGraf’s battery cells achieving a new benchmark in energy density for a lithium ion cell.

Evergreen Climate Innovations first invested in NanoGraf in 2014, when it was still a nascent lab development effort at Northwestern University’s Material Science department, and has continued to provide financial and practical support throughout the company’s journey.

NanoGraf recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony at their new headquarters in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. This state-of-the-art facility is the first large-volume silicon-oxide manufacturing facility in North America, and adds momentum to the innovation occurring in the city in the area of cleantech and sustainability. Three months after moving into this facility, the company announced a further expansion into an additional facility of nearly 70,000 square feet that will house manufacturing space, laboratories, inventory and office space. 

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Numat Technologies

Chicago, IL
IL-3

Numat Technologies is a worldwide leader in the design and production of metal organic frameworks, more commonly known as MOFs. MOFs are a potential gamechanger in the chemistry industry, as they allow compositional and structural diversity beyond conventional solid-state materials, and can be applied to a large variety of end applications. MOFs can be used in precise manufacturing, healthcare settings, and environmental remediation efforts. Evergreen Climate Innovations first invested into Numat in 2014. At the end of 2023, Numat opened the first advanced manufacturing MOF facility in the world at a new production site in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago. This area of Chicago has not traditionally seen this type of high-tech manufacturing investment, and can serve as a potential anchor to spur further developments and investments into a historically underserved community in Chicago. In early 2024, Numat announced that it is opening a new and larger facility in Wisconsin to further expand MOF production in the Midwestern United States. 

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Renewance Inc.

Schaumburg, IL
IL-8

Renewance revolutionizes lithium-ion battery) lifecycle management through a digital marketplace platform. RenewanceConnect offers comprehensive cradle-to-grave asset tracking and on-demand services, facilitated by a skilled team and marketplace providers.Evergreen was the first and only investor into the company prior to the closure of the company’s $18m Series A fundraising effort in April 2024. Prior to the conclusion of this capital raise effort, employment at Renewance grew from 1 to a staggering 76. Evergreen provided valuable guidance throughout the capital raise in order to best position the company as it took on new investors for the first time. The company’s recent fundraise will allow it to amplify its pace of growth and development to further increase the GWh of batteries it manages on its platform and ultimately aid in the energy transition to a more sustainable future. 

SkyNano

Louisville, TN
TN-2

SkyNano is an East Tennessee deep tech start-up success story. In the spring of 2024 – alongside dozens of community members and partners – SkyNano celebrated the ribbon cutting for its new 20,000-square-foot facility in Louisville,Tennessee. SkyNano brings to market new, cutting-edge technology that helps with global decarbonization efforts. For the last several years, co-founder Anna Douglas has been developing and expanding novel electrochemical manufacturing technology for the capture and conversion of CO2 into carbon-based materials, primarily carbon nanotubes. SkyNano has 12 employees and hopes to double that by the end of 2024.

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Safire

Knoxville, TN
TN-2, VA-11

Safire is based out of Knoxville Tennessee and holds lab space at the Spark Innovation Center. The company’s core technology, SAFe Impact Resistant Electrolyte (SAFIRE), is the world’s first patented and proprietary drop-in additive for Lithium-ion batteries that prevents fire and explosion through an instantaneous shear-thickening upon kinetic impacts, such as electric vehicle or e-bike crashes. Safire has been awarded two U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Contracts. Additionally, the team is has developed a strategic partnership with Glatfelter Corporation to develop a new battery separator optimized for Safire Group’s SAFe Impact Resistant Electrolyte (SAFIRE™) for customers seeking increased performance and safety from their Lithium-ion (Li-ion) powered applications.