Top 50 Renewable Energy VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in May 2026

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• Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
• Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
• Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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• Morse Micro — Morse Micro is a fast-growing wireless integrated circuit solutions company that is reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators, Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, joined by the original Wi-Fi inventor Prof. Neil Weste and wireless industry veterans, whose teams designed Wi-Fi chipsinto billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China and the U.S., Morse Micro’s strong and diverse system team, portfolio of IP and patents, enables Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the complete IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach farther. www.morsemicro.com
• Prospection — Helping pharmaceutical brand teams unlock patient-centric intelligence to drive better patient care outcomes and capture market share opportunities.
• QuintessenceLabs — Quantum cyberattacks can break current encryption in minutes! Get protected with QuintessenceLabs quantum key distribution, generation, and management.

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• Spriggy — Spriggy is a mobile app with a linked prepaid card that helps kids learn the concept of digital money.
• Asterix Foods — Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company designed to build protein production using plant-cell culture techniques. The company's platform is developing and growing bioactive proteins for food that are scalable, functional, and complex, enabling users with plant cell-cultured and animal-free proteins.It was founded in 2022 and is located inTel Aviv, Israel.
• August Robotics — August Robotics creates robots to automate "dirty, dangerous and dull" workflows across the B2B economy. The company's first robot, Lionel, automates the dull and labour intensive task of floor-marking for the global exhibition industry. Lionel has been used as a critical part of the trade show setup process by the world'slargest exhibition companies in Europe and USA. August Robotics' second robot, Diego, automates the dirty and dangerous task of disinfecting high-traffic public areas, such as hotels, offices and aged care centers, optimizing hygiene and reducing the risks of infection. The company is also working on a number of other robots, each leveraging August Robotics' industry leading proprietary mobile robotics platform, which enables August Robotics to generate new robots for new cases far more quickly and cheaply than other robotics companies. The physical world is ripe for disruption by robots, and August Robotics is leading the charge to do this in the B2B segment

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• CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
• CLIQ — We understand firsthand the impact of social isolation and the longing for genuine human connection. CLIQ was born from a vision to address this issue and to fundamentally transform the way that we meet new people and form connections.
• Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.

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• Enosi — Enosi traces ‘your’ energy – matching site-specific, half-hourly energy demand with site-specific, half-hourly generation data – across the grid. From this Enosi: - Allocates, sorts and prioritizes settlements of that energy supply amongst a defined “community” - Delivers price and usage data to that community’s common retailer for easysettlement on monthly retail bills
• Oxamii — Oxamii is a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows businesses to purchase renewable energy from local producers.
• BlockTexx — BlockTexx is an early stage clean technology company that recovers polyester and cellulose from textiles and clothing.Through an Australian developed patent pending process that combines chemical recovery technology and advanced manufacturing to produce high quality recycled materials of rPET pellets and cellulose powder from textile waste.BlockTexx is positioned at the end of the value chain, where raw materials and end-of-use solutions have the highest environmental impact and revenue potential.

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• Nitero — Nitero is a fabless semiconductor company with offices in Austin, Texas and Melbourne Australia. They are designing an ultra-low power 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi solution that performs at speeds up to 10X faster than even the very latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions – all that with close to zero latency.They spun out in 2011 from National ICT Australia(NICTA) and have benefited from years of their 60GHz commercial-focused research. In the past two years they put together a world class team and are aggressively developing a unique mobile-60GHz product.They are growing rapidly and seeking more world changers to join the effort. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, check out their careers page and drop us a line.
• Quantenna Communications — Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensionalapproach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
• Precise Light Surgical — Precise Light Surgical creates less invasive surgical resection solutions, preserving critical anatomy to improve patient outcomes.

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• Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
• MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
• Allegro Energy — Our mission is to radically accelerate the transition to a world powered by plentiful, cheap, clean energy. Talk to us today about your project to find out how our technology can help you reach your energy goals.

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• Azaneo — Azaneo develops lightning-fast electric weeding technology. Using only electrons - herbicide free.
• Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
• ElectraLith — The cleanest, most versatile and most cost-efficient method of extracting and refining lithium, the primary element of a sustainable future.

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• Ekion — Ekion turns stranded assets into tier-one reserves. We use Electrokinetic In Situ Recovery (EK-ISR) to extract copper, gold and REE cutting costs and slashing time-to-production.
• Terra AI — Accelerate and improve resource exploration
• Thunderstone — Discover how Thunderstone uses high-voltage pulses to extract metals without excavation. Faster, cleaner mining with zero surface disruption.

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• Foxglove — Foxglove is visualization and management for temporal and multimodal data. It's used by robotics companies to scale and accelerate development.
• Antioch — Antioch is the development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence.
• HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.

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• Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
• Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
• Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.

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• Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
• SecurePII — SecurePII provides a cloud-based platform that enables organisations to reduce exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) across voice, chat, and AI training channels. The service includes call-by-call redaction of credit-card and other sensitive data via its SecureCall component, enabling businesses to offload PCI-DSS complianceobligations while still retaining customer-facing interactions. SecurePII also empowers companies to process conversation data more safely, by filtering or anonymising PII in real time, to enable AI, analytics, and automation initiatives without compromising customer privacy. The platform integrates with existing payment gateway and communications infrastructure to support both contact centres and unified communications environments.
• Refold AI — Cobalt is an embedded iPaaS for SaaS apps. Ship 10x faster with native API connectors. No infrastructure worries, just seamless embedded integrations for devs.

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• LeadStory — Watch breaking news from around the world and stay up to date with current events. Follow topics that matter to you from providers you can trust. See whats happening nearby or in places you care about.
• Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
• Skylark Labs — Skylark Labs develops continuously evolving and customizable threat detection systems for enhanced physical security. Our clients (CCTV or Drone companies) can customize our proprietary AI solutions at the time of deployment or continuously evolve them if needed after deployment making them preferable to other comparable market solutions.

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• WINT — Wint Water Intelligence mitigates water-related risks via AI & IoT-based leak detection including auto valve shut-off to protect your property
• Ampd Energy — A state of the art battery system with high output power electronics powers the most demanding of loads. Enabling the use of zero or low carbon energy sources.
• Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.

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• Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
• iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
• Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

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• Kraken — Kraken is an operating system for energy and water. Our AI-powered products support asset optimization, customer management, field services and distribution.
• Allegro Energy — Our mission is to radically accelerate the transition to a world powered by plentiful, cheap, clean energy. Talk to us today about your project to find out how our technology can help you reach your energy goals.
• Climatech Zero — Climatech Zero is a provider of environmental services. The company accelerates the transition to net zero by offering customers cost-effective solutions that significantly reduce the carbon footprint of industry, transportation, and buildings.

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• Airwallex — Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system.
• Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
• Cardiac Dimensions — Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. is a medical device company developing novel interventional tools for the treatment of heart failure and the related condition of mitral valve regurgitation. Our product, the Carillon® Mitral Contour System®, is a groundbreaking, non-surgical device developed to treat functional mitral valve regurgitation. Our system uses acatheter based approach to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral regurgitation.

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• Xefco — Xefco is a company that develops novel textile and coating technologies. It uses a global network of research partners to develop advanced manufacturing solutions and apply cutting-edge materials science, with an emphasis on functional enhancements, sustainable manufacturing, and decreased resource consumption.
• Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
• IND Technology — IND Technology is a data security and quality improvement.

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• Morse Micro — Morse Micro is a fast-growing wireless integrated circuit solutions company that is reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators, Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, joined by the original Wi-Fi inventor Prof. Neil Weste and wireless industry veterans, whose teams designed Wi-Fi chipsinto billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China and the U.S., Morse Micro’s strong and diverse system team, portfolio of IP and patents, enables Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the complete IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach farther. www.morsemicro.com
• VeriQuantix — VeriQuantix was spun out of the University of Queensland. VeriQuantix is an Australian startup specializing in cybersecurity, focusing on quantum technology to enhance the security of optical fiber communication networks. Their core innovation, Quantum Link Verification (QLV), is designed to detect and alert network operators to physical tappingattempts and intercept cyber attacks on fiber optic networks. This technology leverages quantum principles, specifically entangled photons, to verify the trustworthiness of network links by ensuring that any unauthorized access disrupts photon entanglement and triggers immediate alerts.
• Celosia Therapeutics — The Celosia Therapeutics approach is the result of advances in gene therapies and a better understanding of the molecular pathways that contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

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• Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
• MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.

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• August Home — August develops smarter home access products and services that allow physical environments to seamlessly respond to user behavior. Its flagship product, the August Smart Lock, is a new home access system that allows you to use smartphones in place of traditional keys.August is founded by famed designer Yves Behar and consumer technology veteranJason Johnson and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• ecobee — ecobee designs intelligent thermostats, cameras, and sensors that work better together to improve everyday life.
• Kaluza — Shaping a connected energy future with smart Energy Intelligence & Optimisation Software that makes energy simpler, smarter and more sustainable.

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• Good Heat — Good Heat delivers zero-carbon heat as a service to industrial heat users.
• Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
• Kite Magnetics — Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric.

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• Equatic — Equatic uses a seawater electrolysis process that enhances the ocean's capacity to absorb and store significant quantities of carbon dioxide. The company designs, develops, commissions, co-owns, and co-operates carbon removal facilities globally, which use seawater electrolysis to extract atmospheric CO2.
• NetZeroNitrogen — Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is estimated to contribute 1 billion+ tonnes of CO2e annually to global warming!
• Epoch Biodesign — Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth.

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• Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.

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• Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!

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• ATEC — We provide sustainable, affordable and accessible clean cooking products for all Base of Pyramid households. Through sales of our two flagship on-grid and off-grid products, ATEC* Biodigester and eCook induction stoves, ATEC delivers data-driven scalable impact.
• STELLARIA — Stellaria is reimagining sustainable rapid neutron nuclear energy.
• Energetic Capital — Let us cover the payment default risk on your next Solar Project. Energetic Insurance makes efficient financing possible for financiers, investors and energy service providers with the EneRate Credit Cover solar insurance policy.

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• Evergen — Powering the transition to a resilient, renewable, decentralised energy system of the future.

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• ElectraLith — The cleanest, most versatile and most cost-efficient method of extracting and refining lithium, the primary element of a sustainable future.
• Arbor Energy — A carbon removal and storage company delivering carbon-negative power.
• Sapphire Technologies — Sapphire Technologies develops, manufactures, and sells energy recovery systems for both natural gas and hydrogen industrial and commercial applications.

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• Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.

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• BioScout — Welcome to BioScout, your partner in revolutionizing the agriculture industry with cutting-edge automated disease detection technology for crop growers and viticulture.
• Lenexa Medical — Lenexa Medical is driving towards better healthcare solutions for patients in hospital and aged-care by preventing pressure injuries and empowering clinicans.
• Kinoxis Therapeutics — Developing novel therapeutics for social dysfunction and substance use disorders.

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• TensorZero — TensorZero builds open-source tools for production-grade LLM applications: LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluations, and experimentation.
• Catalyst Power — Catalyst Power offers innovative gas, electricity, and solar solutions to help your business reduce energy costs and environmental impact.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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• Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
• Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
• Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.

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• Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
• Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.

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• Gelomics — Gelomics operates as a biotechnology company. Gelomics provides 3D cell culture technologies.
• Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
• Renewa — Renewa is a top renewable energy land & infrastructure investor that buys land, ground leases, & royalties to help landowners attain financial security.

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• CLT Toolbox — CLT Toolbox offers sustainable design of structural materials, using software to clear through the clutter and make design simple. CLT Toolbox is building structural design software to make mass timber as easy as concrete or steel.
• Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.
• Cool Planet Technologies — Cool Planet Technologies develops a cutting-edge membrane-based technology to absorb carbon dioxide on a large scale from industrial flue gas emissions. Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, a division of Germany's largest research organization, created the advanced PolyActive membrane used in Cool Planet Technologies' method.

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• Endua — Endua is building the next generation of clean energy deep storage to power communities, remote industries and off-grid infrastructure at the flick of a switch - all day and night

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• Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
• Modvion — Modvion is a Swedish/ American Engineering and Industrial Design company developing modular designs in renewable engineered wood product materials to simplify and improve construction logistics.Their current area of focus is in wind tower technology. Modvion´s patented module technology enables significantly decreased cost, efficienttransportation and streamlined installation of towers exceeding 120 m. Ultimately, this results in increased cost efficiency in the harvesting of wind resources.

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• Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
• FibeRio — FibeRio Technology Corporation is transforming the materials market through the unlimited availability of nanofibers. It is supplying the equipment and processes that are meeting these demands. Utilizing rapid response manufacturing methodologies, the company is quickly developing and delivering Forcespinning technology to the market whileproducing the highest quality and most cost-effective equipment.
• Novocycle Technologies — Novocycle Technologies is bringing true circularity to the growing battery market. With its innovative and patented NovoRec Process, Novocycle is recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries without shredding or crushing them, avoiding the production of black mass and directly obtaining reusable active materials in battery grade. With an amazing recoveryefficiency of 96% of the solid materials within the overall battery, Novocycle surpasses all upcoming targets of the EU Battery Regulations for recycling efficiency and recycled content in new batteries. All of this is realized in an economic feasible way, by decentralized micro facilities and a revenue sharing operation model for feedstock providers.

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• Immediation — Sophisticated video conferencing for dispute resolution and legal practice. Built by Lawyers, for Lawyers. Start your free 14-day trial today.
• Plico Energy — Create up to 90% of your own solar energy to power your home day & night. No more bill shock, no more rising electricity prices & no more hidden fees.

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• Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
• Verdagy — Verdagy advanced electrolyzers single-cell architecture pairs in real-time with renewables for the large-scale production of green hydrogen.
• Yotta Energy — Discover scalable, efficient energy storage solutions with Yotta Energy's products, including the Yotta Block and microinverters, for simplified renewable energy management.

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• Allegro Energy — Our mission is to radically accelerate the transition to a world powered by plentiful, cheap, clean energy. Talk to us today about your project to find out how our technology can help you reach your energy goals.

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• PrePad — Simulate any well decision in seconds. PrePad empowers high-performing teams with contract-aware modeling to cut costs, save time, and maximize returns.
• Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
• DG Matrix — DG Matrix innovative solutions unlock gigaton-scale emissions reductions by enabling electrification anywhere and everywhere with less material and a smaller footprint.

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• tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
• HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
• Hippos Exoskeleton — Hippos Exoskeleton created an auto-inflating knee brace to avoid tears in the ACL and other injuries.

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• Indi — indi is an assistant for your child's care journey; supporting advocacy, mental health & uniting the village of care.
• Great Wrap — The only Australian made and owned compostable cling wrap
• Conserving Beauty — Acne Care Reimagined. Skincare formulated for for acne-prone and sensitive skin. Clinically tested and shown to cause no dermal irritation or sensitization. Australian and STEM Female Founded.

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• Entrata — Entrata property management software connects all of your property data and processes, allowing you to create better experiences for everyone. Better property management software.
• Rive Technology — Upgrade resid by using coke selective, metals tolerant, catalyst technologies including vanadium, nickel and iron metal traps. Effective catalyst design from Grace with the right ratio of mesoporosity and macroporosity and an effective matrix for bottoms cracking and coke selectivity allows for processing cost effective challenging heavy crudes.
• LifeScience Logistics — LSL is the leading healthcare supply chain solution for government and commercial healthcare warehousing and distribution needs.

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• Nscale — Nscale is an AI GPU cloud platform that provides scale computing to the generative AI market. It develops AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure, and delivers AI cloud services. Its AI private cloud platform supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, enabling developers to run and train AI models. It also provides bare metal andvirtualized GPU nodes, Kubernetes-native services (NKS), AI workload scheduling empowered by SLURM, and advanced serverless and dedicated inferencing options.
• Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
• Ooga Booga — Multichain Liquidity Aggregator

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• Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
• Vema Hydrogen — Vema Hydrogen is a pioneering clean hydrogen production company. It helps to fight the enormous decarbonization issue.
• Rodatherm Energy — A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop

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• Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
• Mantle8 — Using bottom-up exploration and decades of geology experience, we are on a mission to deliver natural hydrogen to the world.
• Mixergy — Our hot water solutions help homes, buildings, and utilities transition to a cleaner, more resilient future.

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• FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
• Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.
• Gelion Technologies — Unique stationary energy storage systems based on breakthrough zinc bromide patented gel non-flow battery technology that is safe, robust, long-life, and cost-effective and performance additives that improve safety, durability, and energy density of Li-ion batteries