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...

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...

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

Bio-H2

Brief Description

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

Timeline 2002. Company founded Inventors

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

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.

Timeline 2006. Company founded 2015. Acquired by Reliance Industries Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Mautusi Mitra

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.

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

Charlie Huizenga

3C Energy Corporation

Brief Description

The company builds modular systems to capture and convert ambient carbon dioxide to value-added products such as fuels, biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, commodity chemicals, and biomass.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventor

Douglas Clark

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...