Top 50 Clean Energy Angel Investors (July 2026)

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• Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
• ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
• THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING

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• SnapMD — SnapMD, Inc. owns and operates a cloud-based patient-to-provider telemedicine platform that connects parents and their children with pediatric physicians in the United States. Its platform also enables healthcare providers to connect with patients needing time-sensitive consultations and follow-up medical visits; and facilitatesphysician-to-physician consultations. The company serves customers through smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers, and other Internet enabled devices. SnapMD, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Glendale, California.
• Stimwave Technologies — Stimwave Technologies, Inc., a medical device company, engages in the development, manufacture, commercialization, and marketing of wireless microsize injectable medical devices for neurology markets. The company was formerly known as Neural Micro Incorporated. Stimwave Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Scottsdale,Arizona.
• Aqueduct Critical Care — Aqueduct Critical Care addresses the critical care problem of managing inter-cranial pressure. Its working prototypes demonstrate the ability to allow the patient to move, and minimize attention from nursing staff. Aqueduct Critical Care was founded in 2013 and is based in Bothell, Washington.

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• ZunRoof — Buy solar systems at lowest price. Install solar rooftop to get lowest price and best quality solar panel, inverter, structure. Get a Solar Rooftop. Quality and subsidy assured. Reduce Electricity Bill by 100% by Going Solar. Make Money from Sun.

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• Tornado — Digest information from thousands of public filings and your own documents with a versatile AI analyst, plus the reliability of full source attribution.
• Wizard — Join the world's leading businesses using Wizard to sell, market, and engage their customers via text.
• Focused Energy — Focused is the leading Laser Fusion company pursuing the most promising path to clean, limitless fusion power... unlocking civilization's next great chapter of growth.

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• NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
• Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
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• COOK — COOK is a manufacturer and retailer of frozen ready meals.
• Cashican People LLC — Cashica is a quantitative cryptocurrency investment firm that aims at web3 and metaverse innovations across the world. Cashican also named Cashican People LLC was founded in 2017 and is headquarted in New York.
• HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.

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• Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
• Keeper — Find the right person. Build something meaningful together.
• Transcelestial Technologies — Secure, last mile connectivity with fiber-like speeds using next gen Wireless Fiber Optics or Lasercomms, at a fraction of the deployment time and cost of fiber.

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• Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.

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• Zypp Electric — Rent electric 2W scooters & 3W Loader with Zypp. Affordable EV rental solutions for delivery partners & businesses. Eco-friendly last-mile delivery.
• Pixis — Pixis is the platform for marketers who want real results. AI-powered ad performance and creative, built to deliver.

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• Urban Ray — Urban Ray makes goods accessible anytime for everyone.
• Vaeridion — Vaeridion offers green air mobility technology and services which helps electric microliners to fly with the low energy consumption.

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• humans& — humans& designs and trains AI systems that emphasize human understanding, long-term reasoning, memory, and multi-agent collaboration to support how people and organizations work together. humans& integrates scientific research with applied product development, combining advances in reinforcement learning, behavioral modeling, and alignmentwith practical user interfaces. The organization develops AI technologies intended to strengthen coordination, decision-making, and communication across teams and communities.
• Flourish — Flourish Labs is a research and development company that combines certified humans, technology, and AI to provide every employee with a dedicated coach. The company builds AI-powered platforms for peer mental health support, focused on making mental health care accessible.
• Unconventional AI — Unconventional AI is rethinking the foundations of compute to bring biology-scale energy efficiency to AI.

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• Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
• World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
• Blip Energy — Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services.

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• Graswald AI — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
• Trade Machines FI GmbH — TradeMachines understands how difficult it is to trust in used machinery. They work with trustful industrial auctioneers and renowned machinery traders to ensure you receive the best connection between the two. Industrial auctions are a popular possibility to find great bargains when it comes to used machinery. In these industrial auctionspotential buyers find used equipment of companies who became insolvent or who decided to get rid of a selection of their machines. But industrial auctions are not the only way how to find the right used machines for cheap prices. Machinery traders list their offers on TradeMachines as well. As a result of the extensive offer of used machines, it is much easier and less time consuming to the find right offer.
• DEALCIRCLE — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.

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• GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
• PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market
• Prosper Pay — Prosper Pay is a financial platform that allows employees to view up-to-date earnings and transfer funds.

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• Simply Homes — Sell your home fast for cash - As-is. No repairs. No updates. No showings. Pay zero fees.
• Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
• Jumpstart — Jumpstart is a social e-commerce platform that engages in helping entrepreneurs to manage their ongoing compliance in real-time.

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• encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!

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• Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.

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• Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.

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• SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
• Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
• OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.

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• Hoevan — HOEVAN is a holding company focused on bringing together disparate companies with complementary capabilities. We strongly believe in the accretive value created through shared capabilities and unique management experience.Our mission is to support consumers and brands as technologies continuously evolve. Renewable energy and consumer electronictechnologies often evolve with minimal downstream consumer support, protection, or repair services in mind. We focus on streamlined and cost effective products to create better consumer experiences while enhancing brands consumer rallying cry.

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• BloomCredit — Use Bloom to engage and understand your customers through credit data. Help your customers qualify for your loans, credit cards, and credit products. Create relationships with your customers through personalized financial advice and support.
• BrandCommerce — BrandCommerce is a middle layer of APIs integrated with offline and online retailers, fulfillment providers and logistics partners.BrandCommerce seamlessly connects between your retail partners, logistics providers, last-mile vendors, content and data management platforms allowing you to offer a single, seamless eCommerce experience fulfilledwithout deploying complex logistics technology.BrandCommerce enables brands to use their retail stores for 1-hour fulfillment giving you Amazon-like capabilities. Connect all of your brands digital activities to instant purchase.
• Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.

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• Staris — Staris is an AI-powered application security platform that continuously finds, proves, and explains exploitable vulnerabilities. Reduce false positives and validate real application risk with business context.
• Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
• Mirai — On-device SDK (developer suite) for running highly optimized inference, fine-tuning, and operating LLMs and other deep learning models on the device. We aim to make it easy for developers to choose and route the query to the right model and deploy it to the device in a couple of clicks.Mirai is addressing a significant gap in on-device AIinference and training. Current cloud-based models face high latency, privacy concerns, and reliance on constant connectivity. Developers also struggle with high costs for personalization (e.g., $100M per year for 1M MAU) which is the most crucial pain point now and a core of our GTM. There’s no existing developer-friendly solution for on-device mobile AI, fine-tuning, and management. Our vision involves expanding from a robust SDK to include a developer console for model management, benchmarks, and fine-tuning.

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• Bluprynt — Bluprynt provides world-class infrastructure solutions for founders, infrastructure providers, and investors seeking to access new data and compliance ecosystems.
• Burwoodland — Building communities over a shared love of music.
• Payam Music — Payam Music is a provider of piano education services intended to serve students seeking intuitive and engaging music instruction.

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• Stripe — Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.
• X (formerly Twitter) — X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
• Game Trust — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

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• Allume Energy — Allume Energy manufacture the SolShare - world-first technology to unlock solar for apartments and businesses that share a roof. Find out more today.

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• Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.

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• Atica Global — Atica is a last-mile sales & revenue management company. It leverages proprietary lead generation & CRM tool to maximise revenue from proactive sales. Hands-on Revenue Management and Reactive sales (including RFPs) management lead to maximum revenue from brand & 3rd party websites.
• SocialBoat — #1 Menstrual wellness app for PCOS. We provide online treatment for PCOS, Thyroid with medicine, diet & exercise. All Programs are expert led and curated by AI
• Narrato — Narrato Workspace is an AI content creation, collaboration and workflow management tool built for content and marketing teams and creators.

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• Encycle Corporation — Intelligent Building Made Easy. Deploying patented, autonomous intelligence and analytics, Encycle improves commercial HVAC management, energy efficiency and building comfort to reduce operating costs and carbon footprint.
• Pure Energies Group — PNG Info Org is committed to providing practical information pertinent to the finance industry. Click the link to gain insights and ideas.

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• BitPay — BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
• Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
• Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

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• SMASHsolar — SMASHsolar breaks down barriers to solar for homeowners and contractors. The biggest barriers to solar adoption are cost and complexity. We have developed a simple, snap-together solar module that installs 2x faster than conventional solar, significantly reducing labor skill, labor cost and increasing crew throughput, which result in lowerinstallation costs. Since the SMASH system is easy to expand, homeowners can buy a what they need today and upgrade when they want more power.

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• Turing.com — Trusted by AI and enterprise leaders. Advance and deploy AGI with the most experienced genAI deployment and LLM training solutions from Turing.
• HyPoint — Next Generations Fuel Cell Systems
• Checkme — Checkme is a health management service company, that cooperates with clinics and laboratories that have passed Checkme quality control.

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• Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
• Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
• Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.

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• Quandl — The source for financial, economic, and alternative datasets, serving investment professionals.
• Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
• Gridtential Energy — Gridtential Energy or Gridtential. Silicon Joule technology transforms lead batteries into safe, long-lasting, high-power source of energy.

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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• Casper — Get the sleep you've always dreamed of. Casper's award-winning mattresses, sheets & more are quality-crafted and ethically built in the USA. Free shipping & returns!
• HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
• Genies — Genies empowers anyone to create AI Avatars, fashion, props, and experiences with UGC tools. The Avatar Framework uses machine learning and computer graphics to ensure interoperability - providing limitless utility for all creations.

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• GammaTime — Premium Verticals. Anytime. Anywhere.
• HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
• 5D Holdings LLC — Revolutionary investment banking with $15+ billion in capital raised, serving 500+ clients across 14 regions.

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• Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
• Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
• StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your

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• Scopely — Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first games company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “WWE Champions” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others. Scopely creates, publishes and live-operates immersive games that empower adirected-by-consumer™ experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has global operations across 17 markets (Asia-Pacific - Bangalore, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo; EMEA - Barcelona, Dublin, Helsinki, Kyiv, London, Seville, Tel Aviv; North America - Boston, Boulder, Culver City, Mountain View, San Francisco), with additional game studio partners across four continents. For more information, visit www.scopely.com.
• Dropshyp — Shop the latest and greatest products online at best possible prices with your one stop shop for everything. Save money and start shopping with Online Shop.
• Advanced Microgrid Solutions — Advanced Microgrid Solutions installs advanced energy storage systems in buildings to lower energy costs for consumers and provide clean. AMS's Hybrid-Electric BuildingsTM Project deploys large networks of battery systems in targeted buildings where electric utilities need grid support. The company can seamlessly shift an entire fleet ofbuildings from grid power to battery power providing real-time support to the electric grid. Building owners get paid for being part of the solution to today's energy challenge.Advanced Microgrid Solutions artificial intelligence-powered software maximizes the value of renewables, batteries, and entire asset portfolios so they can deploy and use more clean energy with higher ROI. It uses deep learning algorithms to enable optimized trading of complex energy assets in wholesale energy markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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• Zypp Electric — Rent electric 2W scooters & 3W Loader with Zypp. Affordable EV rental solutions for delivery partners & businesses. Eco-friendly last-mile delivery.

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• Sunrun — Sunrun is the leading home solar panel and battery storage company. Go solar for little to $0 down, lock in low energy rates. Get a quote today

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• OUYA — OUYA is a new kind of game console for the television that brings together an open development experience—where anycreator can publish a game to the living room—with an accessible and affordable console at $99, and where all games are free to try. OUYA supports both the downloading and streaming of entertainment content in beautiful 1080p HDquality. OUYA was envisioned by founder and CEO Julie Uhrman, and beautifully designed by award-winningdesigner Yves Behar.Built on an open OS with a custom interface and store, OUYAfocuses on the fun factor of games—games are organized byfeatured playlists and overall player engagement and notby revenue or downloads—enabling the most fun game experiences to shine. The controller was built as a love letter to console gaming, incorporating fast, responsive buttons, triggers that FEEL like triggers, laser-precise analog sticks, an accurate D-Pad, and integrated touchpad.
• Hipcamp — From seaside campsites to luxury treehouses, we're the most comprehensive guide to camping and glamping across the UK. Camp on farms, beaches and country estates.
• FreeWire Technologies — OptiGrid electric vehicle charging solutions are easy-to-deploy and ready for seamless integration at your business or commercial property.

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• Watsi — Watsi is a nonprofit that brings people together through technology to fund life-changing healthcare.
• Quaise Energy — Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.
• Quanttus — Stress free and easy shopping experience. Simple and speedy service.

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• UrbanChain — Consumers, prosumers, and generators are welcome to make their marketplace.

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• Neo Sans — Neo Sans operates as a clean technology company.

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• trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.

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• Factored — Factored empowers landlords to access capital, allowing them to effectively meet capital needs, significantly enhance tenant living standards and drastically reduce carbon emissions from their rental properties.

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• Oriana Power — Oriana Power is a provider of solar energy solutions that allow consumers and businesses to use clean, renewable energy sources for a better future.

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• Xeal — Xeal provides the world's most advanced electric vehicle (EV) charging stations designed for progressive multi-family apartments and businesses. Lead the change with self-managed sustainable amenities.
• WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
• Distributed Energy — Distributed Energy is a renewable energy platform that matches Investors and Energy Customers. We offer a good IRR and stable returns for our investors.

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• Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
• Redcar — Scale your B2B sales with the most flexible AI Agent. Customize your GTM and outreach on Redcar, which qualifies, researches, personalizes, and follows up like your best reps.
• Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.

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• Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
• madKast — Recently founded madKast makes it easy for people to share news and blog posts with others via a single click. Users just have to enter their e-mail address to get a madKast widget, which once installed, lets you share the story's URL with your contacts through e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging, or social bookmarking sites. madKastis free, and there is no registration or downloading required to get their widget. The company's founders were also involved in the creation of
• Simple Energy — We started this company because we want to change the world and we knew the best way to do it was to get everyday people to act like they care. We motivate people to save energy. We create data-driven software that appeals to people interests and desires, informs them about their energy use and makes saving energy social, fun, and simple. We createlasting change in the way people use energy and are building a more sustainable future.