Environment

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 siumultaneously and permanently sequestering CO2 from the air into carbonate minerals.

Travertine Founder and CEO Laura Lammers obtained a...

Oswald Green Technologies, Inc.

Brief Descripion

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...

Intropic Materials

BRIEF DESCRIPTION Intropic Materials is developing truly compostable plastic and other self-degrading products that can be composted or perfectly recycled. The company combines the performance of proteins with a patented stabilization technology to build better materials that address the world's plastic waste problem.

Enzymes are nature’s chemists. They handle the reactions that let life happen, can be engineered for our purposes, and can even break down plastics! However they tend to struggle outside of their comfort zone, the cell. This limits our ability to use them in applications. To...

Ceres, Inc.

Brief Description

Ceres, Inc. produced seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuel production. The biotech company, based in Thousand Oaks, California, with a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil, operated from 1996 to 2016, when it was acquired by Land O'Lakes.

Timeline 1996. Company founded 2016. Company acquired by Land O'Lakes Inventors

Robert Fischer, Yeonhee Choi, Van-Dinh Dang, Mary Gehring, Robert Goldberg, Michael Hannon, John Harada, Tetsu Kinoshita, Tomohiro Kiyosue, Linda Margossian, Yukiko Mizukami, Nir Ohad,...

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...

Reticular Labs

Brief Description

Developing practical water harvesting technologies to address global water scarcity.

Inventors

Nikita Hanikel, Steven James Lyle, Hao Lyu, Lac Ha Nguyen, Wentao Xu, Omar Yaghi, Bing Zhang

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

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

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.

Timeline

2013. Company founded

Inventors

Catherine Koshland, Jeffrey Crosby, Jay James, Donald Lucas

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.

Timeline 2001. Company founded Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas