Environment

Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

The mission of Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc. is to apply wireless technology to improve the productivity, energy efficiency, and environmental footprint of heavy industry. The company offers mesh networking, sensors, and model-based control software. Inventor and President of Wireless Industrial Technologies Dr. James Evans, was a UC Berkeley Faculty member for 35 years, serving as professor of metallurgy
and mineral engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Inventors

James Evans, Michael Schneider, Daniel Steingart, Paul Wright,...

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...

TerraForma Technologies

Brief Description

TerraForma Technologies develops advanced water and environmental technologies focused on tackling drought and desertification. The company uses dynamic models and technologies to combine a range of innovative agricultural, forestry and water resourcing techniques to convert desert landscapes into highly productive arable land. It also builds electrically conductive membrane technologies for the treatment of wastewater, brackish water and highly saline brines and developed a suite of desalination modules resistant to organic fouling and scaling.

Inventors

Joseph...

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates

Brief Description

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping, and drillhole logging using digital methods implemented in two integrated and compatible mapping software systems, one for mapping and the other for logging.

Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas

Timeline 2001. Company founded

RareTerra, Inc.

Brief Description

RareTerra is developing a one-step environmentally friendly bio-process for selective rare-earth element (REE) extraction, separation, and purification that doesn't rely on harsh acids or high temperatures and pressures. RareTerra’s technology eliminates the costliest and most hazardous steps of the manufacturing process, and is compatible with complex, dilute, and waste REE sources. The company's proprietary process leverages the power of genetic and metabolic engineering to unlock the remarkable capacity of microbes to separate REEs from other metals and bioaccumulate...

Quick Flash Technologies

Brief Description Electrochromic Solutions.

Manufacturer of manually controlled transition lenses intended to protect eyesight. The company's product offers color-changing sunglasses that have lenses which will allow users to adjust the shade of sunglasses with e-tint technology and with a light sensor to control the electricity applied to the lenses, enabling long-term drivers and outdoor workers to quickly adjust the depth of the mirror in any condition for any light.

The company also has a product line of dynamic, energy-saving smart windows designed to change transparency based...

Prolific Machines

Brief Description

Prolific Machines specializes in cell production with a unique manufacturing approach that combats climate change, enables space-food, and makes cell therapy accessible to everyone. The company's photomolecular biology platform leverages safe and effective tools — light, bioengineering, hardware, and AI — for dynamic control over virtually any cell function in any cell type. With the technology, partners can more efficiently biomanufacture nutritional proteins, antibodies to treat diseases, cultivated meat, and more.

Inventors

Ruoxing Lei, Thomas Patrick McClave,...

Picoyune

Brief Description

Picoyune replaces complex equipment with reliable, portable, and easy to use devices.

Their first target? Mercury. The company has developed a miniaturized, low-cost mercury sensor and applying it to personal exposure monitoring. The portable device is a good fit for testing in the field as there is no need for heavy lab equipment or carrier gas. It is also a practical mercury monitor for vulnerable artisanal/small-scale gold mining communities.

Inventors

Catherine Koshland, Jeffrey Crosby, Jay James, Donald Lucas

Company Founders

Jay James (UC...

Personal Comfort Systems Inc.

Brief Description

Personal Comfort Systems, Inc. (PCS) was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in July 2014 by cofounders Peter Rumsey and Kurt Herzog. At the same time PCS signed an exclusive license for the patent of a heated and cooled office chair with smart controls and whole building interface capabilities. The chair now called the Hyperchair, is to be sold to companies who want to address employee comfort and energy savings.

Inventors

Micheal Anderson, Edward Arens, Wilmer Pasut, Hui Zhang

Company Founders

Peter Rumsey, Kurt Herzog

Timeline...

Oswald Green Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

Oswald Green Technologies, Inc., is an environmental solutions company with a proven carbon-negative technology for reclaiming water, energy, and nutrients from municipal, industrial and agricultural wastewater. The Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems (AIWPS) technology, in which wastewater passes through a series of ponds to be treated, involves the use of algae photosynthesis. The algae produce oxygen that allows aerobic bacteria to break down remaining contaminants in the water. The water is then reclaimed through a series of tertiary processes for reuse and...