ACRE
VC Fund
Brooklyn, United States
ACRE is a cleantech, smart grid and sustainable, smart cities incubator that supports early stage business ventures with innovative technologies and new business models for a greener, smarter and more connected world.Their members benefit from our extensive community of cleantech industry stakeholders as well as exclusive access to professionalservices. The incubator grows our member startups from prototypes and pilots phases to fully commercialized entities.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries ACRE invests in
Stages ACRE invests in
Countries ACRE invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 7 (35%)
- Software 5 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 5 (25%)
- Clean Energy 4 (20%)
- Energy Efficiency 4 (20%)
Stage
- Non-equity Assistance 13 (65%)
- Grant 6 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 15 (75%)
- Canada 2 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
- The Netherlands 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jiro Otsuka
Program Manager
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Program Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joseph Silver
Program Manager
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Program Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Pat Sapinsley
Managing Director of Cleantech Initiatives
|
Managing Director of Cleantech Initiatives | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Simon Sylvester Chaudhuri
Innovation Development
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Innovation Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zinc8 is an energy company that offers a low-cost, long-duration energy storage solution in order to enable global energy sustainability. Zinc8's innovative battery technology, which uses zinc and air as fuel, solves the intermittent and unpredictable nature of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Clean energy is made reliable andavailable as needed with Zinc8's cost-effective solution. | Non-equity Assistance / May 07, 2020 | ||
| WexEnergy is poised to disrupt the window replacement and building insulation markets by delivering an affordable solution that significantly improves comfort and energy efficiency of aging windows. By reducing energy bills, WexEnergy helps building owners increase cash flow, which leads to higher property values and more profitable businesses. | $441.7K / Grant / May 03, 2020 | ||
| Soteria is revolutionizing lithium-Ion battery safety to enable inherently safe batteries everywhere. Soteria’s technology acts as an internal fuse within the battery to prevent ignition events. It aims to ensure that these materials are available to every battery manufacturer with local production from a broad supply base so that every device -whether a hearing aid or an electric bus - can have a battery that is virtually impossible to self-ignite. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. | $50K / Grant / Apr 24, 2020 | ||
| Scanifly develops a drone-based 3D modeling software that automates and centralizes the manual day-to-day tasks in the solar workflow. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 19, 2019 | ||
| Avvir works seamlessly with its existing systems from photo capture, to construction workflow management to laser scans and 360 photos. Their platform helps them identify potential risks and slowdowns, plus save time and money by automating their progress and earned value tracking, quality control, and as-built creation. | $50K / Grant / Feb 28, 2018 | ||
| Buildee provides accessible building data and science for a broader market. | $50K / Grant / Feb 26, 2018 | ||
| Dollaride is a mobility company that develops clean transportation projects in urban cities. The company provides mobility software and financial services that increase clean energy/transportation adoption in underserved markets. Backed by world-class investors, venture capital firms, government agencies, and community partners, Dollaride isforging a new path to the green economy for small transportation fleet owners. Dollaride was inspired by NYC commuter vans (aka "dollar vans"). Originating in the 1980s, a robust network of commuter van drivers now provides local transportation services to over 120,000 New Yorkers daily. Dollaride service connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers through the first digital platform for NYC's informal transit network. | $50K / Grant / Feb 26, 2018 | ||
| Founded in 2005, Highview Power Storage is a developer of large-scale energy storage solutions for utility and distributed power systems. Using liquid air as the storage medium, Highview can design bespoke Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plants ranging from 5MW/20MWh to 100MW/1,000MWh+ to service a growing multi billion dollar market. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 12, 2017 | ||
| Tagup Inc. was founded in 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. The team consists of twenty individ- uals, including eight data scientists. The company’s core IP is related to four areas: 1) High-performance computing pipeline (data acquisition, data wrangling, model and data delivery), 2) Time-to-event modeling (large-scale time series-based modeling oftime to event, accurately predicting equipment failure and critical events over timescales ranging from days to decades), 3) Anomaly detection and operating mode classification (a semi-supervised approach for identifying unusual operation without explicit alarm thresholds), and 4) Inference and optimization (for specific applications, recommending specific control actions to optimize equipment use). Tagup’s customers are primarily in the energy industry, ranging from distribution through generation. The technology is deployed in various applications, including electric distribution networks, high-purity water systems, offshore wind turbines, and military ground vehicles, among others. | $25K / Grant / Nov 18, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
The New York Community Trust
6 deals together
NYSERDA
5 deals together
Urban Future Lab
5 deals together
BP Ventures
3 deals together
Canadian Technology Accelerator
1 deal together
Cleantech Open
1 deal together
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What does ACRE invest in?
ACRE invests primarily in Energy, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Grant stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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