Energy

California Wave Power Tech

Brief Description

CalWave Power Technologies Inc. provides a solution to harness the renewable power of ocean waves to produce electricity and freshwater. CalWave’s patented Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is moored offshore, simple and scalable. WEC operates submerged, allowing it to survive stormy seas while causing no visual pollution or posing any collision danger.

CalWave co-founder and CEO Marcus Lehmann co-invented the company's foundational technology during his time as a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Marcus was inspired...

Bio-H2

Brief Description

Bio-H2 was founded to commercialize a proprietary photosynthetic hydrogen production process that utilizes microalgal cultures.

Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Michael Seibert, John Benemann, Marc Forestier, Maria Ghirardi, Hsu Ching Wintz, Liping Zhang

Timeline 2002. Company founded

Aurora Algae Inc.

Brief Description

Aurora Algae produced premium, algae-based products for the pharmaceutical, nutrition, aquaculture and fuels markets.

Formerly known as Aurora Biofuels.

Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Mautusi Mitra

Company Founders

Matthew Caspari (UC Berkeley, MBA, Business Administration), Bertrand Vick (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Philosophy)

Timeline 2006. Company founded 2015. Acquired by Reliance Industries

Adura Technologies

Brief Description

Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting and energy management systems to improve energy efficiency and facilitate cost savings.

Adura Technologies was acquired by Acuity Brands in 2013.

Inventors

Charlie Huizenga

Company Founders

Nathaniel Goldhaber (UC Berkeley, M.A. ’85, Education)

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2013. Adura Technologies acquired by Acuity Brands

Mosaic Materials

Brief Description

Mosaic Materials is dedicated to reducing the cost and environmental impact of fossil fuels through the application of proprietary, highly efficient gas separation technologies. The company utilizes porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks to selectively remove impurities such as CO2 from gas mixtures in an array of applications from submarines to power plants.

The company was acquired by Baker Hughes (NAS: BKR) in 2022.

Inventors

Gokhan Barin, Deanna D'Alessandro, Stephen Geier, Zoey Herm, Matthew Kapelewski, Rajamani Krishna, Jeffrey Long, Thomas...

Amyris, Inc.

Brief Description

Amyris, Inc. is an industrial biotechnology company, which engages in the provision of bioscience solutions. It focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sale of fuels and farnesene-derived products. Its products include cosmetics, flavors and fragrances, performance materials, diesel, jet fuel, and lubricants. The company was founded by Jack D. Newman, Kinkead Keith Reiling, and Neil Renninger on July 17, 2003 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Inventors

Jay Keasling, Artem Khlebnikov, Seon Won Kim, James Kirby, Vincent Martin, Jack Newman, Eric...

Imprint Energy, Inc.

Brief Description

Imprint Energy aims to reshape the battery landscape. Currently available battery technologies limit the pace of improvement in design and functionality of portable electronic devices. Imprint Energy will address these shortcomings with its breakthrough zinc-based rechargeable battery technology, ZincPolyª. ZincPolyª battery technology removes longstanding limitations on the rechargeability of zinc-based batteries and enables the production of ultrathin, flexible, high energy density rechargeable batteries for significantly lower cost and without the design limitations or...

ScaleLight

Brief Description

ScaleLight is developing surface-emitting lasers that boost efficiency and scalability for powering everything from manufacturing and fusion plants to data centers and quantum computers. The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Boubacar Kanté, whose groundbreaking research solved a longstanding optics challenge to create compact, lightweight, high-efficiency lasers, called Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers, or BerkSEL, for greener manufacturing and energy.
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Travertine Technologies

Brief Description

Travertine partners with mining and fertilizer operations around the world to recharge critical element production with a circular, electrified process. Standard mining methods use megatons of sulfuric acid annually, and dispose of vast amounts of byproducts, such as phosphorus, lithium, and nickel. The Travertine process upcycles sulfate byproducts into carbon-negative sulfuric acid and green hydrogen, while simultaneously and permanently sequestering CO2 from the air into carbonate minerals.

Travertine Founder and CEO Laura Lammers obtained a...

HFTA

Brief Description

Biomass remediation and energy generation through anaerobic digestion. HFTA's proprietary technology utilizes nitric acid rather than sulfuric or hydrochloric acid to hydrolyze cellulosic material for the production of ethanol and other fuels from biomass.

Timeline 1994. Company founded. Inventors

David Brink