Energy

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...

Silicor Materials, Inc.

Brief Description

Silicor Materials was a global leader in the production of solar silicon. The company was headquartered San Jose, California, with a research and development team located in Berlin, Germany.

The organization was founded as a development company in 2006 under the name Calisolar, with the goal of manufacturing low-cost photovoltaic (PV) solar cells from silicon designed specifically for the solar industry (“solar silicon”) rather than electronic-grade polysilicon. Among the company's founding members was solar energy pioneer UC Berkeley Professor of Materials Science...

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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Persistent Efficiency

Brief Description

Persistent Efficiency was founded with the goal of providing cost-effective, sustainable energy-monitoring solutions.

Inventors

Jeremy Coyle, Igor Paprotny, Jason Trager, Richard White, Qiliang Xu

Company Founders

Jason Trager (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering), Xander Snyder

Timeline 2014. Company founded

Noble Thermodynamic Systems

Brief Description

Noble Thermodynamics is a clean-tech startup spun out from the Combustion Analysis Laboratories at University of California, Berkeley. Our core technology, the Argon Power Cycle, is a closed-loop IC engine cycle using a noble gas working fluid to increase efficiency and facilitate exhaust product separation. We are focused on applications in carbon-free power production, deep grid-energy storage, enhanced oil recovery, and carbon capture and sequestration.

Inventors

Jyh-Yuan Chen, Robert Dibble, Timothy Burke Sennott, Miguel Sierra Aznar

Company Founders

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Neuprene Inc.

Brief Description

Neuprene, Inc. is developing a “green” technology for the production of a short-chain volatile hydrocarbon called ISO-NEUPRENE, the next generation solution in fuels and chemicals. ISO-NEUPRENE is a direct replacement for isoprene, a short-chain hydrocarbon produced from petroleum as a byproduct of the refining process.

Inventors

Fiona Davies, Pia Lindberg, Anastasios Melis, Hsu Ching Wintz, Andreas Zurbriggen

Microgrid Labs

Brief Description

Microgrid Labs Inc (MGL) is a consulting and software company specializing in microgrids and electrification of transportation.

The company's consulting arm follows a simple and practical approach to planning microgrids and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The company helps clients assess needs, analyze the state of operations, model future operating scenarios, and design the most economical solutions.

Complementing the consulting practice, the company also offers software platforms for modeling, simulation, and optimization of EV charging...

MediFuel Inc.

Brief Description

MediFuel is the first tiny, Biological Fuel Cell (BFC) Company solving the power problem of the next generation of implantable medical devices – a market which is projected to reach over a billion dollars. The company's technology is a GlucoCell ™ , a MEMS based power chip that harnesses your own body’s natural energy resource – glucose and converts it into usable electrical energy. The GlucoCell ™ has the potential to provide self-sustaining device operation at a fraction of the cost and at 1/100th the size of competing battery technologies. The company’s mission is to...

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...

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.

Inventors

David Brink

Timeline 1994. Company founded.