Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Energy space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Adam Ferrari
Founder & CEO of Ferrari Energy
Adam Ferrari is an accomplished petroleum engineer and is the founder of a private oil and gas company, Ferrari Energy. Throughout various roles in the oil and gas industry, Adam was inspired to learn more about property rights and the inner workings of petroleum exploration and extraction. After gaining expertise in the energy sector Adam obtained knowledge of the financial industry through his time at an investment banking firm. He then pivoted to bootstrapping his own business, Ferrari Energy, from the ground up as he blended his knowledge of energy and finance together. This endeavor saw him shift his perspective to work directly with people on a personal level to understand both their story and needs. He emphasized the importance of making the effort to engage in meaningful face-to-face interactions in a world that is so digitally focused and at times seemingly removed. Adam found success in this field. His company provided over 2,000 landowners divestment and lease opportunities on their respective lands.
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About Ferrari Energy: Ferrari Energy is a family-owned private oil and gas company focused on mineral and leasehold acquisitions.
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Emily Kirsch
Founder, Managing Partner & CEO of Powerhouse Ventures
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About Powerhouse, Powerhouse Ventures: Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize our global energy and mobility systems.
Paul Eremenko
Co-Founder & CEO of Universal Hydrogen
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About United Technologies, Universal Hydrogen: Universal Hydrogen is the company fueling carbon-free flight by making hydrogen-powered commercial flight a near-term reality.
Jason Chua
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy & Product Officer of Universal Hydrogen
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About Universal Hydrogen: Universal Hydrogen is the company fueling carbon-free flight by making hydrogen-powered commercial flight a near-term reality.
Bay McLaughlin
Co-Founder of Brinc
I’ve supported technology startups for the last 13 years. Half of this time was spent at Apple as a founding team member of their global SMB channel and as the founder of their first Entrepreneurship Evangelism channel. To support startups at Apple, I partnered with the world’s best founders, venture capitalists, incubators and accelerators to identify and solve their most pressing strategic issues. My team at Apple grossed more than $350M USD in sales and is still the #1 team globally in Apple SMB’s division. The other half of my career has been spent inside of or founding startups, two of which failed, one of which exited successfully. Currently, I have equity positions in 143 companies across 35 countries, ranging from B2B SaaS platforms to the number one website in surfing and medical and drone technologies that improve lives and our world every day (plus two Unicorns ;-). Most recently, I’ve co-founded Brinc.io, a global venture accelerator platform. We have 9 accelerator programs, offices in 6 countries, and 2 venture capital funds. We are also one of the top 10 largest early-stage venture capital firms globally. I also serve on the Boards of Brinc, Soundbrenner, SilentMode (combined worth more than $100M and growing fast) and the not for profit entrepreneurship society called EYES. I create content from the heart and only want to do one thing well… provide value to everyone that interacts with me and help everyone out just like others have done for me.
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About Brinc: Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in 7 countries.
Chris Hornor
Founder & CEO of Powerhive
Chris is founder and CEO at Powerhive, Inc., a technology venture founded in 2011 that offers access to productive, affordable, and reliable microgrid electricity. Powerhive focuses on financing, monetizing, and managing distributed electricity solutions through its proprietary technology platform and business model. Chris is an entrepreneur and recognized pioneer of consumer renewable energy product and services. During the last 15 years he has delivered renewable energy to more than two million people. As founder and CEO of Better Energy Systems he launched Solio, a portable solar charger that defined a new category of small-scale consumer energy solutions. In 2008 Chris led the expansion of Better Energy Systems into East Africa where he and his team introduced Club Solio, leveraging mobile money to create the first pay-as-you go renewable energy service for remote, off-grid regions. Chris has held senior posts at technology startups in the US, UK, and Japan where he identified and developed new revenue streams through emerging internet applications.
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About Powerhive: Powerhive unlocks productive, clean electricity for millions of households and businesses in emerging markets.
KR Sridhar
Principal, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bloom Energy
Prior to founding Bloom Energy, KR Sridhar was Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona where he was also a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.Under his leadership, STL won several nationally competitive contracts to conduct research and development for Mars exploration and flight experiments to Mars. KR has served as an advisor to NASA and has led major consortia of industry, academia, and national labs. His work for the NASA Mars program to convert Martian atmospheric gases to oxygen for propulsion and life support was recognized by Fortune Magazine, where he was cited as “one of the top five futurists inventing tomorrow, today.” As one of the early pioneers in green tech, KR also serves as a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and as a special advisor to New Enterprise Associates. He has also served on many technical committees, panels and advisory boards and has several publications and patents. KR received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the University of Madras (now called NIT, Trichy), India, as well as his master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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About Bloom Energy, Kleiner Perkins: Bloom Energy offers on-site power generation systems that can use a wide variety of inputs to generate electricity.
Jonathan Budd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Powur
Jonathan Budd joined Powur, PBC as Founder, CEO in 2014. Jonathan heads up day-to-day operations and strategy that allow Powur’s entrepreneurs to succeed at their finest. From forming key strategic partnerships, attracting the best talent, and innovating how solar is sold… Jonathan has his hands in everything Powur. Prior to Powur, he built one of the largest online training and education companies in direct marketing with more than 100,000 customers. In 2010, he shifted his entrepreneurial pursuits toward projects focused on game-changing global impact. He founded MyStand in 2011, which developed a first-of-its-kind gaming app to engage users in positive global change. He is also Founder and Executive Director of The Global Transformation Council, Inc., a 501c3 organization that’s donated close to $1,000,000 to local and global initiatives for change.
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About AVOS Systems, Powur: Powur, a technology company, enables direct sellers to participate in the residential shift from dirty to clean energy.
Drew FitzGerald
Co-Founder of 501cTHREE
Drew FitzGerald is Co-Founder at 501CTHREE.org
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About 501cTHREE, Facet Creative, JUST Water: 501cTHREE deploys solutions for energy, food, water, and shelter.
Harrold Rust
Founder, President & CEO of Enovix
Mr. Harrold Rust has served as CEO and President of ENOVIX since its founding in late 2006. He has 25 years of leadership experience in technology development and driving operational innovations that enable complex 3d structures to become highly cost effective. Prior to ENOVIX he was Vice President of Operations for FormFactor, a Global Top 10 MEMS based Manufacturer, where under his operations leadership the company experienced a highly successful IPO along with significant capacity, revenue, and gross margin expansion . Following his Stanford graduate degree, he spent 17 years at IBM’s industry leading magnetoresistive recording head group driving high volume manufacturing of the lithographically based heads that were increasing in areal density by over 60% each year. Hard drive storage systems saw a areal density increase of 1000x during this period.
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About Enovix: Enovix develops 3D wave array energy storage architecture for Lithium based cells to improve manageability of the stored energy.
Mateo Jaramillo
CEO & Co-Founder of Form Energy
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About Form Energy: Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration.
Tom Dwelle
Partner & Founder of Flyers Energy
Tom Dwelle: Tom received an Engineering Degree from Denver University. He spent 25 years in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot flying everything from A-1 Skyraiders in Vietnam to F-15 Eagles. He retired as a Lt. Colonel in 1982 and joined NELLA. Tom served as General Manager from 1985-1997, when he turned over the reins to Rick Teske. Tom still maintains a strong flying interest and, with his sons, has raced many times at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada. The family fleet of WWII “warbirds” includes a Hawker Sea Fury and two North American AT-6 trainers.
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About Flyers Energy: Flyers Energy, LLC (formerly NELLA Oil), owns and operates Flyers™ retail convenience stores in California.
Walt Dwelle
Managing General Partner & Founder of Flyers Energy
Graduating from U.C. Berkeley, Walt earned a degree in Business. After spending five years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Flight Officer in Spain, he worked for Beacon Oil Company for 17 years as a Senior Vice-president of Marketing. Under his direction NELLA was formed in 1979 as a sister company to Beacon and he left Beacon to join NELLA in 1988. Walt, who is the managing General Partner of NELLA, has served on the board of CIOMA, is past president of Tiger MAC, an oil industry financing group and is also Chairman of the Valley Business Bank in Visalia.
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About Flyers Energy: Flyers Energy, LLC (formerly NELLA Oil), owns and operates Flyers™ retail convenience stores in California.
David Dwelle
Partner & Founder of Flyers Energy
David attended Cal Poly (SLO) and immediately started a retail stereo and speaker manufacturing business with his college roommate. Sun Stereo grew to 13 stores and his “DWD” speakers were sold throughout the world. In 1980, David sold his interest to his partner and became General Manager of NELLA until Tom took over the reins in 1985. David still maintains an active interest in NELLA while pursuing several property development projects in the Auburn area. David is passionately interested in renewable energy and energy conservation for a sustainable society. He has positioned NELLA as a leader in the industry in applying Solar PV electricity to cover a substantial portion of the convenience store load electric loads.
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About Flyers Energy: Flyers Energy, LLC (formerly NELLA Oil), owns and operates Flyers™ retail convenience stores in California.
Steve Dwelle
Partner & Founder of Flyers Energy
Steve received his B.S. Degree from San Francisco State College in 1963, and spent the next 21 years in the U.S. Air Force prior to joining the NELLA team. Steve’s first career highlights include 198 combat missions in Vietnam in the F-100, two years as a solo pilot for the “Thunderbirds” jet aerobatic team, two years in the US Senate as a liaison officer and several years as commanding officer of a Russian type fighter squadron in the Air Forces TOP GUN program called “Red Flag”. Upon retiring in 1984 as a Colonel, Steve began an active role in NELLA. In his spare time, Steve is an excellent golfer.
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About Flyers Energy: Flyers Energy, LLC (formerly NELLA Oil), owns and operates Flyers™ retail convenience stores in California.
Christopher Hopper
Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora Solar
Christopher Hopper is the Co-Founder and CEO at Aurora Solar.
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About Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Samuel Adeyemo
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Aurora Solar
Samuel Adeyemo is the Co-Founder and COO at Aurora Solar.
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About Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Mark Herrema
Co-Founder & CEO of Newlight Technologies
As CEO and co-founder of Newlight, Mr. Herrema has over a decade of industrial experience in chemical, biological, and process engineering, intellectual property development, polymer functionalization, private equity finance, and strategic business development. Mr. Herrema has invented a range of proprietary carbon capture and conversion systems and materials, receiving numerous associated US and international patents, steering Newlight through multiple private placement offerings, executing a range of strategic partnerships, and leading the engineering, construction, optimization, and expansion of Newlight’s carbon capture platform. Mr. Herrema graduated magna cum laude High Honors from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and Political Theory, with additional work in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry.
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About Newlight Technologies: Newlight Technologies is a biotechnology company producing advanced sustainable materials.
Bill Gross
Founder and Chairman of Energy Vault
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About Carbon Capture, Elementary Robotics, Energy Vault, Evolution Robotics, Feedback.com, Heliogen, Idea Market, Idealab, Migo, Inc., Rollo Motion, tvScientific, X1 Discovery: Energy Vault offers a utility-scale, gravity-based storage solution for renewable energy.
Keith Kepler
Founder and CTO of Farasis Energy
Dr. Kepler brings over 15 years of Li-ion research and development experience, including Argonne National Laboratory and PolyStor Corporation. He was also a consultant to the U. S. Advanced Battery Consortium and the Department of Energy on electric vehicle battery issues.
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About Farasis Energy: Farasis Energy is a renewable energy company that develops and manufactures lithium ion battery energy storage systems.
Alexander Straub
Founder of WINDFINITY
Alexander Straub is the Founder of Windfinity and Straub Ventures, and the Managing Director of Material Machines.
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About Material Machines, Straub Ventures, WINDFINITY: Windfinity is an operator of wind turbines that generate and provide clean and economical energy.
Porter Harris
Founder + Vision, Direction, Values & Technology of Power Global
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About 174 Power Global, Power Global: Enabling efficient, reliable, cost competitive, and industry leading electrification for global markets
Vic Shao
Founder and CEO of Amply Power
Vic is Chief Executive Officer of Green Charge Networks. Vic is the visionary and driving force behind the company’s overall direction and product strategy. He leads the development of its core technology and system infrastructure. Since 2009, Vic has been collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy and Fortune 500 companies on a ROI-driven energy storage appliance for the private sector, complementary to solar PV. With more than 15 years experience in software development and complex system implementation, Vic is passionate in applying software to improve power efficiency. He started his high tech career with Oracle Corporation, eventually leading engineering and product teams in Oracle’s middleware division. Prior to co-founding Green Charge Networks, Vic held engineering and management positions at several cloud computing software companies. He holds more than 12 published / granted patents in cloud computing and power efficiency. Vic holds a Master of Business Administration degree from UC Berkeley and an engineering degree from the University of Virginia, magna cum laude.
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About Amply Power, Music Intelligence Solutions: Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles.
Rob Kelly
Founder and VP Business Development of Amply Power
Robert Kelly is the vice president of business development at AMPLY Power.
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About Amply Power: Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles.
Aram Shumavon
Co-Founder & CEO of Kevala
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About Kevala: Kevala provides data-driven insights for an evolving energy market by combining proprietary analytics with advanced grid mapping.
Jagdeep Singh
Founder & CEO of QuantumScape
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About QuantumScape: QuantumScape is a renewable energy company that develops solid-state battery technology to increase the range of electric cars.
Santanov Chaudhuri
Co Founder and Executive Chairman of HST
An avid solar enthusiast, Santanov Chaudhuri is a co-founder of HST Solar. Santanov brings specific experience as a former solar power developer himself. He founded one of the first solar power developers active in one of South Asia’s solar power tariff schemes and led the process of trying to procure the right tracking and racking systems to boost IRRs. He founded HST Solar in the hopes of creating a technology company that could solve the need in the market that he had faced personally. He has executed over $100m in renewable energy transactions and investments globally, including in the US, Europe and Brazil. Previously he served as a banker at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on several pioneering clean energy transactions among other deals. He brings experience as a Venture Capitalist at Trivella Investimentos S.A., and as an energy hedge fund investor at Davidson Kempner Capital, a $12B hedge fund. He also brings experience working for NASA from his time at the GOODS project. Chaudhuri holds a BS from Yale University and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About HST: We drive the world forward towards its clean energy future.
Sophia Wang
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff and Culture of MycoWorks
Sophia Wang leads MycoWorks with expertise in strategic fundraising, communications, and project management. As a former Program Director, she was responsible for materials procurement, resource allocation, and oversight of vendor relations and physical infrastructure. She has produced large-scale arts and science events at San Francisco cultural institutions that include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Exploratorium, and California College of the Arts. As a Development Director, she has led successful capital campaigns for New York and Bay Area-based educational initiatives. Sophia earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley and is active in the Bay Area performing arts community as a dancer and choreographer. Her deep interest in mycelium materials and biomimetic design stems from a lifelong immersion in her family’s ongoing professional research in molecular cell biology and mycology.
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About MycoWorks: MycoWorks is a biotech company that delivers commercially viable non-plastic and non-animal materials to the market.
Lyndon Rive
Co-Founder & CEO of SolarCity
Lyndon Rive is the co-founder and CEO of SolarCity. He co-founded SolarCity in July 2006 with the goal of significantly reducing the cost of solar power and building a trusted national brand adopted by millions of homes. In its first full year of operation, SolarCity became the largest residential solar power provider in California, and by early 2008, SolarCity was a full-service solar power company—providing design, financing, installation, monitoring and services. Lyndon has grown SolarCity has grown to over 300 employees , serving more than 300 communities in three states in its first two years of existence. Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale distributed computer management. Lyndon negotiated the company’s partnership with Dell Computer, which acquired Everdream in 2007. A lifelong entrepreneur, Lyndon founded his first company at the age of 17 in South Africa, and in his spare time has been a member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey Team.
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About SolarCity: SolarCity provides solar energy services to homeowners, businesses, government, and non-profit organizations.
Tyler Raugh
Co-Founder & President of Booster
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About Booster: Booster is energy delivered, integrated logistics, and society’s solution for decarbonizing last-mile delivery.
Vivian Qu
CEO & Founder of ViaeX
Vivian Qu is a dedicated professional operating within the material science and biotech venture space in Silicon Valley. She is the CPO at ORA Nano Mask, and she founded ViaeX Technologies, Inc. in 2016 to contribute to the advancement of our society through sustainable technological developments. For her work across her career, Vivian Qu has earned recognition as the recipient of the Dow Chemical SISCA Award, the Clinton Global Initiative Award, and the Fung Fellowship. Additionally, she received the NSF Innovation Corp Grant and the Big Ideas Berkeley – Energy and Alternative Resources Prize. Vivian was also recognized in the Pulse by Business Insider for her work as a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Tidal Vision, ViaeX: ViaeX creates biological nanofiltration systems for water and air which are 400% more efficient than current solutions.
Sujeet Kumar
CEO, Co-Founder of Zenlabs Energy
Dr. Sujeet Kumar is the founder and CEO of Zenlabs Energy, a company developing high-energy fast-charging lithium-ion batteries for Electric and Aerial Vehicles. Before Zenlabs, Dr. Kumar served as CTO of Envia Systems where he developed high-capacity manganese-based cathode and won several DoE awards. Dr. Kumar worked as a senior scientist for Greatbatch, leading the development of cathode materials for implantable medical batteries. Dr. Kumar started his career at Nanogram Corp as its first employee where he led several energy storage projects. Dr. Kumar has won the R & D 100 award for developing high energy lithium-ion batteries and is the inventor of over 60 patents. Dr. Kumar has a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Rochester and a B.Tech from IIT, Varanasi.
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About Envia Systems, Greatbatch, Zenlabs Energy: Zenlabs Energy has developed high energy density lithium ion batteries for ground and aerial electric vehicles.
Ricardo Angel
Founder ,CEO & Managing Partner of Piva Capital
Ricardo Angel is the CEO and managing partner at Piva. Prior to that, he served as a managing director at Energy Ventures where he leads origination for the business unit and for Energy Technology Ventures, a joint venture formed by GE, NRG Energy, and ConocoPhillips focused on investing in emerging energy technology companies. GE Energy Ventures and Energy Technology Ventures seek investment opportunities across the energy value chain, including renewables, power infrastructure and oil & gas technologies. Mr. Angel joined GE from ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures’ Venture Capital group. Previous experience includes investment banking at Goldman Sachs and consulting at CNA Corporation. Mr. Angel holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School and Bachelors as well as Masters and Doctorate degrees in Engineering from the University of Illinois. He is based in San Francisco.
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About Piva Capital: Piva is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in disruptive energy and industrial startups.
Jacob DeWitte
CEO & Founder of Oklo
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About Oklo: Making reactors people want.
David Moxam
Founder & Managing Partner of MalibuIQ
David Moxam (Mox) is a founder of Malibu IQ and acts in the role of Managing Partner. He chairs the Ideation Council with representative executives from HRL, GM, Boeing, and the owner investors of Malibu IQ, to set strategy and approve the formation of new companies (NewCos). Mox also works with the Malibu IQ Investment Team making contributions in NewCo value proposition and creation of the path to commercialization for NewCos. Primarily focused on commercializing invention assets originating at HRL, as a technically strong investment group, Malibu IQ also looks for opportunities that have the potential to leverage or align its core assets; and has the ability to invest in seed and series A level ventures. Additionally, the Team has resources and relevant subject matter expertise in a number of emerging disciplines to provide a fair bit of initial commercial guidance in addition to capital. Mox is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in bringing advanced technologies to market. His expertise includes working in a senior executive capacity with a Global 500 leader; and in founding a pioneering technology start-up through sale to a prestigious private equity group. Through invitation, he has served on the Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for 2 terms and is a vocal champion of new innovation models for accelerating advanced technology insertion into design and production. Operating globally, he has received the prestigious UK Queen’s Award for Enterprise and was recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology in the US. While with EDS in 1998 he received their Pinnacle Award for Leadership, for work in founding the global financial markets group and IT developments with the NASD, Electronic Broking Services and the NYMEX. Mox was the founder of Authentix, Inc. a molecular engineering firm operating in the authentication & security industry; a founder and Director for Compassites Software Solutions in India; and he enjoys putting sweat equity into standing up NewCos. Two recent NewCos (independent of Malibu IQ) are; Decisio Health (predictive algorithms for healthcare), and Tenaxis ArterX (a next generation surgical sealant). Mr. Moxam holds graduate diplomas in Physics and Business Administration from Laurentian University in Canada; and has participated in corporate executive programmes with INSEAD in France. Notably, Mox has recently slipped to #2 on the family fly-fishing grid, losing coveted #1 to his son Cody.
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About MalibuIQ, Manti Resources, The Clear Creek Group: HRL Labs Technology Commercialization
Remco van den Elzen
Co-Founder and COO of Leap
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About Leap: Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market.
Jim Marver
Co-Founder & Managing Director of VantagePoint Capital Partners
Jim co-founded VantagePoint in 1996 and is experienced in every element of venture fund management. Over the past three decades, Jim has worked closely with hundreds of public and private companies on all aspects of their operations, especially strategy and finance. He has run global technology practices at leading investment banks and has served as a senior consultant at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). He is Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. And he is a member of the Board of Directors of The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Jim attended Williams College (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MPP, PhD).
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About VantagePoint Capital Partners: VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management
Alan Salzman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of VantagePoint Capital Partners
Alan Salzman has served on our board of directors since 2007 and served as our Chairman from 2009 to April 2012. Salzman is the co-founder of VantagePoint Capital Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in multi-stage investing, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner for more than the past five years. Salzman previously held a faculty appointment for more than 10 years as an Adjunct Professor of Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Companies at Stanford Law School. Salzman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the London School of Economics and the University of Toronto, a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, and a Master of Laws degree in international business from Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
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About VantagePoint Capital Partners: VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management
Abhay Gupta
Founder & CEO of Bidgely
Abhay Gupta founded Bidgely with the mission to accomplish energy efficiency at a massive scale. He’s worked at a combination of energy and technology companies including Grid Net, Echelon and Sun Microsystems. He holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, M.S. from University of Southern California and MBA from Santa Clara University. Abhay is passionate about music and travel!
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Vivek Garud
Co-Founder & CTO of Bidgely
Vivek is leading the technology team which is building the biggest and best energy analytics system yet. Prior to Bidgely, Vivek contributed to building voice recognition technology at Microsoft. He has a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. Once done solving the worlds energy problems, he fantasizes of becoming a full time musician and doing big things in Bollywood.
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Christophe Schilling
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Genomatica
Christophe co-founded Genomatica and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since May 2009. Christophe holds a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego where he was a Powell Foundation and Whitaker Foundation Fellow.He received a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Duke University where he was a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellow. Christophe’s awards include the Top 100 Young Innovators from MIT’s Technology Review, R&D100 for the SimPheny part of the company’s technology platform, and the Distinguished Young Alumnus from Duke University’s Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering.
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About Genomatica: Genomatica manufactures sustainable chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
Saul Griffith
Founder & Chief Scientist of Rewiring America
Saul Griffith is the Founder & Chief Scientist at Rewiring America.
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About 3D Fab Light, Gradient, HowToons, Kestrel Materials, Low Cost Eyeglasses, Otherlab, Rewiring America, ROAM, WattzOn, WattzOn: Rewiring America provides a blueprint for reducing climate change pollution and creating good-paying jobs.
Shannon Miller
CEO and Founder of Mainspring Energy
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About Mainspring Energy: Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
Matt Svrcek
CTO and Founder of Mainspring Energy
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About Mainspring Energy: Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
Adam Simpson
CPO and Founder of Mainspring Energy
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About Mainspring Energy: Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
John Bissell
Co-Founder and CEO of Micromidas
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About Micromidas, Origin Materials: Micromidas provides microbial biorefinery technology for wastewater treatment.
Ryan Smith
Co-Founder and CTO of Micromidas
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About Micromidas, Origin Materials: Micromidas provides microbial biorefinery technology for wastewater treatment.
Amit Narayan
Founder / CEO of Autogrid
Amit Narayan is the Founder and CEO of AutoGrid, Inc. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation at Stanford University, where he continues to lead an interdisciplinary project related to modeling, optimization and control of the electricity grid and associated electricity markets. Prior to founding AutoGrid, Dr. Narayan was the Vice President of Products at the publicly traded company Magma Design Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), where he led the product development and product management teams responsible for Magma’s flagship product in the design implementation area. Over one third of all semiconductor chips used in consumer electronic devices — such as smart phones, blue-ray players and video games — were designed using products developed by Dr. Narayan’s team at Magma. Prior to joining Magma, Dr. Narayan founded Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA), a venture-backed company in analog and radio-frequency semiconductor design software and served as its founding CEO and later Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all research and product development activities, as well as customer engagements. Under Dr. Narayan’s leadership, BDA saw its products adopted by over 100 semiconductor companies in the world (including 20 out of the top 25). For his work at BDA, Dr. Narayan’s received the EDN’s “Innovation for the Year” award in 2006.Dr. Narayan received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 25 papers about design automation, holds seven U.S. patents and is an active advisor to several startup companies in the Bay Area.
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About Autogrid, Berkeley Design Automation: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Alexandra Rasch Castillo
Founder and CEO of Caban Systems
Alexandra Rasch Castillo is founder and CEO at Caban Systems.
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About Caban Systems: Caban Systems designs a software enabled energy storage solution for telecom infrastructure providers worldwide.
Julia Moore
Managing Partner & Founder of Breakout Ventures
Breakout ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early stage technology companies operating within and combining technologies from the sectors of technology, biology, materials, and energy. The company was founded on August 1, 2016 by Lindy Morris Fishburne, Julia Moore and Hemai Parthasarathy.
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About Breakout Labs, Breakout Ventures, The Thiel Foundation: Breakout Ventures is an early stage fund that backs bold scientist entrepreneurs.
Lindy Fishburne
Managing Partner & Founder of Breakout Ventures
Lindy Fishburne is the Managing Partner of Breakout Ventures and the Founder of Breakout Labs, the seed-stage program for hard science at the Thiel Foundation. For the last 8 years she has been investing at the intersection of technology and biology.
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About Breakout Labs, Breakout Ventures, The Thiel Foundation: Breakout Ventures is an early stage fund that backs bold scientist entrepreneurs.
Hemai Parthasarathy
CSO, Partner & Founder of Breakout Ventures
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About Breakout Labs, Breakout Ventures, The Thiel Foundation: Breakout Ventures is an early stage fund that backs bold scientist entrepreneurs.
Gautam Jayaraman
Co-Founder and CTO of Greenwork
Gautam Jayaraman is the co-founder and CTO of Greenwork.
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About Greenwork: Greenwork is a professional network for the people re-building America’s infrastructure. The company provides trade schools and their students with a community where they connect with one another and top companies, helping students get jobs for after graduation. Greenwork’s mission is to rebuild a large, well-paid, well-trained industrial workforce to tackle big physical challenges like decarbonization.
Sam Steyer
Co-Founder and CEO of Greenwork
Sam Steyer is the co-founder and CTO of Greenwork.
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About Greenwork: Greenwork helps government-funded training programs find jobs for their graduates.
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
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About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Jordan Ramer
Founder and CEO of EV Connect
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About EV Connect: EV Connect provides enterprise-class, electric vehicle charging software, and solutions.
Matthias Kurwig
Co-Founder & CEO of Enervee
Prior to putting #WattsInYourWallet with Enervee, Matthias was the global COO of Neo@Ogilvy, the digital media and marketing arm of WPP’s Ogilvy Group. He headed operations of Neo@Ogilvy’s 30 offices around the world, and lead the development of technologies, systems and processes for a staff of 700. Matthias is founder of Planetactive, one of the leading full-service digital agencies in the German-speaking markets with more than 80 specialists at offices in Düsseldorf, Zurich and Vienna. Planetactive was acquired by the Ogilvy Group in 2006, and is now part of Neo@Ogilvy.
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About Enervee: Enervee is a platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products.
Jeff Church
CEO and Co-Founder of Rowdy Energy
Jeff Church is the CEO and Co-Founder at Rowdy Energy.
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About Rowdy Energy: Rowdy Energy is a drink industry business that specializes in energy drinks.
Tom Buttgenbach
Founder and CEO of 8minute Solar Energy
Tom Buttgenbach is co-founder and president of 8minutenergy. He has over 15 years of experience in large-scale project development, entitlement, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, and capital structuring and origination. Tom has successfully managed over $1 billion in transactions in the solar energy and electric utility industry. Tom has also worked in the clean-tech, high-tech, large-scale real estate project, land development, asset management, private equity and financial services sectors. He is responsible for the land entitlement process for over 2,000 megawatts of 8minutenergy’s solar projects, and for becoming the first solar PV project in California’s Imperial County to complete the land entitlement process.
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About 8minute Solar Energy: 8minute Solar Energy is the nation’s largest independent developer of solar PV and energy storage projects.
Arcady Sosinov
CEO & Co-Founder of FreeWire Technologies
Founder at FreeWire Technologies
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About FreeWire Technologies: FreeWire Technologies is a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and power solutions.
Jawann Swislow
CIO and Co-Founder of FreeWire Technologies
Chief Commercial Officer at FreeWire Technologies, Inc.
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About FreeWire Technologies: FreeWire Technologies is a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and power solutions.
Rich Steele
Chief Engineer and Co-Founder of FreeWire Technologies
Director of Engineering at FreeWire Technologies, Inc.
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About FreeWire Technologies: FreeWire Technologies is a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and power solutions.
Robyn Beavers
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueprint Power
Robyn started her career off as an energy efficiency consultant and then joined Google in 2004 as a direct report to the co-founders to help support on strategic initiatives as they took the company public. With the founders’ support, Robyn went on to found Google’s Green Business and Operations Strategy Group, the first business unit focused on sustainability strategy at the company. During her 3 years in this role, she spearheaded the approval and installation of the 1.7 MW solar PV project on the rooftops of the Mountain View HQ, created progressive green building guidelines for global Google offices, kick-started the corporation’s renewable energy project finance strategy, and served as a sustainability advisor on Google products. In 2008, she returned to Stanford for graduate school, during which she served as a Recovery Act Fellow for the Department of Energy in 2009. Robyn has since lived in Denmark, where she helped create a global NGO called WindMade on behalf of Vestas Wind Systems, and also served as Director of Commercialization for Distributed Power & Water products for Dean Kamen’s DEKA research. In 2013, Robyn joined NRG Energy to create the Station A Group, an internal innovation team focused on advancing microgrid strategy for NRG. In 2012, Robyn was selected to be featured on Makers.Com: Women Who Make America, a PBS/AOL video archive showcasing the stories of women from a diverse set of experiences and professions. Robyn has served as a board member for GridAlternatives.org, the US chapter of the UN Women organization, and also for the Carbon Lighthouse Foundation. She holds both a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Blueprint Power, NRG Energy: Blueprint Power is a real estate and energy tech company that turns buildings into urban power plants.
Muhammad Huzaifa
Founder & CEO of ChargeWheel
Founder & CEO at ChargeWheel
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About ChargeWheel: ChargeWheel operates an on-demand charging solution for operators of electric vehicles and micromobility fleets in California.
John Taggart
Co-Founder and CTO of WeaveGrid
John Taggart is the co-founder and CTO of Weave Grid.
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About WeaveGrid: WeaveGrid develops electrification software for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles on the electric grid.
Brad Kavin
Founder of Lieef
Trained at BlackRock and by former Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Portfolio Managers, Brad has over eight years of principal investment experience. He has been involved in 19 transactions totaling $1.5 billion dollars of sustainable private equity investments ($10B EV) with a focus on control and operationally intense situations in the US, Canada, Japan, and Mexico. Brad began his career as a principal investor focused on Growth Equity while a college sophomore. His responsibilities were deal sourcing and screening technology and consumer growth stage companies looking for $5M-$25M. Brad has been involved in the successful launch of several first time fully discretionary private equity funds at BlackRock and Cowen. Brad joined Blackrock renewable power as the 8th hire when assets under management were $0. At the time of his departure assets under management were $20Bn with 350 employees. Brad has deep knowledge of the renewable energy, sustainability, and infrastructure sectors. While at BlackRock Brad supported the creation of the firm’s global sustainability program. Brad co-developed BlackRock’s proprietary merchant power forecast, which was adopted in 2018. As the first analyst BlackRock hired directly from college into an investment role within alternatives, he also created the firm’s global financial modeling training program. While at Cowen, Brad sourced over $17Bn of private equity opportunities across sustainable energy, transportation, food, and industrials. Brad focused on bi-lateral and off market situations. He also supported fundraising of the first fund through first close of $300M. Most notably at Cowen, Brad created the first electric vehicle charging station PPA construct in conjunction with a California utility company which was backed by large institutional capital partners. Brad was nominated for promotion to Managing Director but would have needed to remain in New York to support growing the business. Brad left Cowen to relocate back to his hometown of Los Angeles California and founded Lieef.
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About Lieef: Bridging the gap between Venture Capital and Mature Private Markets by enhancing investment professionals via proven technologies
Ken Ogata
CEO and Co-Founder of TeraWatt Technology
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About TeraWatt Technology: We engineer ultra-high energy density lithium-ion rechargeable batteries
Dennis Hunter
Founder & Chairman of Ygrene Energy Fund
Dennis Hunter brings over 40 years of financial and entrepreneurial expertise to Ygrene. As cofounder and former board chairman of Sonoma National Bank, Dennis has extensive experience at the highest levels of the banking industry. He has led the development of over 35 commercial and residential real estate projects and currently serves on the board of a $100 million waste management company. In 2008, Dennis established the Global Legacy Foundation with the aim of creating real-world solutions to the problem of climate change. This passion, combined with his banking and financial expertise, led Dennis to develop Ygrene’s innovative method of PACE financing, an award-winning, privately funded program that has revolutionized the home improvement industry.
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About Ygrene Energy Fund: Provides Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing through cities and counties for upgrades to commercial and residential properties.
Jim Lovewell
CTO, Co-Founder of Electriq Power
CTO of ElectrIQ Power.
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About Electriq Power: Electriq Power is a provider of smart home battery storage solution for homes and small businesses.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Richard Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Cuberg
CEO and Co-Founder at Cuberg
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About Cuberg: Cuberg is a company delivering lithium metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions.
Khaled Hassounah
CEO & Founder of Ample
A visionary technologist, Khaled has recruited and built technical teams across multiple early-stage startups and managed them through rapid growth to deliver successful and innovative products. Khaled has proven experience in building and deploying scalable software that has been used and continues to be used by tens of millions of enterprise and online users across multiple verticals. He has also set up and managed teams across India, China and the Middle East. Prior to MedHelp, he was a founding member of IMlogic, an instant messaging security software company acquired by Symantec, where he built the tech team and managed the delivery of three successful product offerings. Khaled was also the a founding member of One World Software Solutions, a technical consulting company that grew to span three continents, and was part of the NetDocs team at Microsoft. Khaled holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan.
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About Ample, MedHelp, NetDocs: Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation.
Bowei Gai
Founder & Chief Ambassador of World Startup Report
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About World Startup Report: World Startup Report is a social mission to document and connect the different startup ecosystems in the world.
Zeev Collin
Founder/VP Engineering of Semitech
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About Semitech: Semitech is an electronics company that provides a device for a semiconductor that converts the electricity grid into a smart grid.
Ty Jagerson
Founder & CEO of Village Power Finance
Ty has 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including over 10 years in solar. Ty was most recently President of HelioPower, a top 10 solar installer in CA. He was also the co-founder of SolFocus, a pioneering concentrated photovoltaics company. Ty was at Xerox PARC for five years, and is on the UC Merced Board of Trustees. He is also on the boards of Azzuro Inc. and Speck Design. Ty received his MBA from Wharton and M.A. from Wesleyan, holds four patents, and is a member of YPO
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About Village Power Finance: The Village Power funding platform provides community-driven institutions a better way to go solar.
Elaine Hsieh
Co-Founder & Head of Corporate Partnerships & Marketing of Third Derivative
Elaine Hsieh heads the programming for GreenBiz Group’s VERGE events. She has almost 20 years of industry experience consulting with Fortune 500 companies on a wide range of sustainability, green building, and technology issues. She brings solid technical background with a understanding of the energy, construction, biotechnology, education, retail, manufacturing, and finance industries. Hsieh is an effective communicator to people across diverse age groups, cultures, and business sectors and is passionate about helping people understand and respect the interconnectedness of our world. Hsieh has been featured in Mashable, Green Economy Post, Reuters, The Guardian, and other publications for her social media influence within the green building, green business, and sustainability communities.
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About Third Derivative: Third Derivative is an accelerator focused on clean energy and climate tech.
Roman Rusev
CEO, Co-Founder of Field Complete
Roman Rusev has been in the real estate industry since junior high. Starting at the age of 17, Roman scaled a flooring company with 25+ technicians and grown it into a large outfit Property Service company. During last year of college, he has built over 100 homes across several markets. With extensive experience in real estate, investment, and business development Roman co-founded Field Complete, the new and upcoming platform for property service providers who can’t use current solutions on the market.
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About Field Complete: Software for real estate contractors to manage their operations
Emily Kirsch
Founder and CEO of Powerhouse
Emily Kirsch is the Founder and CEO at Powerhouse.
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About Powerhouse, Powerhouse: Your partner in building the future of energy and mobility.
Hasty Granbery
Founder and CEO of Currant
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About Currant: Currant creates smart home products that enable people to control their homes and their energy bills.
Thar Casey
Chief Executive Officer, President and Founder of Amber Solutions
Mr. Casey is Founder, President and CEO of Amber Solutions, Inc. Prior to Amber, he was President of IDEX America Inc. Mr. Casey also served as Co-Fournder, President and Chief Executive Officer of PicoField Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by IDEX. He is a veteran entrepreneur with a strong background in operations, finance and extensive experience in developing leading technology based companies from product concept to high volume manufacturing. He co-founded Insound Medical and served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations. Insound was acquired by Sonova-Phonak in 2011 for a total of $169 million. In addition, he co-founded Prenateck, a fetal heart rate monitor, serving as Chief Executive Officer. Founded Phantom IT Solutions serving as Chief Executive Officer and also served as Vice President of Finance at the Monterey Bay Bank. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Intelesol, PicoField Technologies, and STR. Mr. Casey holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from California State University, Hayward.
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About Amber Solutions: Amber Solutions is a developer of patented solid-state technologies for the digital control of electricity.
Ashok K. Sinha
Founder, Chairman of the Board & CEO of Sunpreme
Dr. Sinha is the Chairman and CEO of Sunpreme.For fifteen years, Dr. Sinha served in various roles at Applied Materials, culminating in his roles as Sr.VP & GM for $6B Silicon Business of Applied.Prior to Applied, Dr. Sinha worked for 20 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he served as Head of the VLSI Process Technology and Fabrication departments at Murray Hill and Allentown.He also served as Vice President of Manufacturing Technology Development in SEMATECH, a non-profit research and development consortium.Dr. Sinha has served on the Board of Asyst Corp, the Tech Museum of San Jose, and as an independent board member of Dune Networks, an Israeli networking Company recently sold to Broadcom.He is also a member of the Advisory Board at Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, Co, in Shanghai. Dr. Sinha received the Thomas C. Callinan award from the Electrochemical Society for outstanding contribution to dielectric and insulation science, and the Clinton J. Davisson trophy for a “patented invention, which was of significant importance to AT&T’s commercial success.” He holds over 80 issued US patents.He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to interconnect technology for semiconductor devices. And he received the Distinguished Alumni Award medal from the Indian Institute of Science. Dr. Sinha earned his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and holds a Doctorate in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, England. Subsequently he worked as a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
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About Sunpreme: Sunpreme is a solar company that designs and manufactures photovoltaic cells and panels.
Garrett Kinsman
Co-Founder of Nodle.io
Garrett Kinsman is th founder of Nodle.io.
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About Nodle.io: Nodle offers low cost and low energy connectivity service for the Internet of things using smartphones as a base station.
Micha Benoliel
Co-Founder of Nodle.io
Micha Benoliel is the co-founder at Nodle.io.
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About Nodle.io: Nodle offers low cost and low energy connectivity service for the Internet of things using smartphones as a base station.
Steve McDougal
CEO and Co-Founder of 3Degrees
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About 3Degrees: 3Degrees is a provider of carbon offset and renewable energy services and solutions.
Dan Kalafatas
Chairman and Co-Founder of 3Degrees
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About : 3Degrees is a provider of carbon offset and renewable energy services and solutions.
Ray Caamano
Chief Science Officer/Founder of Blue Power Systems
Ray Caamano, the inventor of the Blue Power System, has been on the forefront of electric propulsion and generation systems development since the 1980′s and is a leading pioneer in the field of low loss, cost efficient electric motor systems, utilizing thin film soft magnetic materials. He brings over 30 years of extensive research and product development in transportation technology with a focus on efficient electric drive systems. Caamano currently holds 28 issued U.S. Patents and is founder and CEO of iCAP technologies.
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About Blue Power Systems: Adaptive Energy Generation and Storage System
Jonathan Bonanno
Co-Founder of Cool Earth Solar
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About Cool Earth Solar: Cool Earth Solar employs its proprietary concentrated photovoltaic technology to develop and operate power plants.
Michael Lee
CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve Energy
Michael Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Evolve Energy.
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About Evolve Energy, Octopus Energy: Evolve Energy is an energy company that helps consumers save their energy costs through AI and IOT.
Colin Wessells
Co-Founder and CEO of Natron Energy
Colin Wessells is the founding CEO at Natron Energy (formerly Alveo Energy). He cofounded Natron in 2012 with two advisors as a spin out of his PhD thesis at Stanford. At Natron, he has led the development of battery products based on Natron’s unique cell chemistry. He has raised over $22 million in venture capital investment in Natron. He also served as principal investigator for two ARPA-E awards totaling $4.6 million. He holds PhD, MS, and BS degrees from Stanford in materials science and engineering.
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About Natron Energy: Natron Energy is an energy storage company that develops a high power, long cycle life, and low-cost battery technology.
Jeremy Goodwin
Founder & CEO of SyncFab
Jeremy is an international fintech executive fluent in Chinese and French and social impact entrepreneur passionate about technologies improving on the human condition including Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, AI (artificial intelligence), Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cleantech, Crypto, Decentralization, DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), Ethereum and ML (Machine Learning). Currently, Jeremy is CEO of SyncFab an IIoT Industry 4.0 Blockchain Manufacturing Industry Partner to the $140MM US D.O.E. & D.O.C. Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (CESMII) appointed by the White House and US Departments of Energy and Commerce National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). SyncFab is also the San Francisco Mayors Office of Civic Innovation – 2016 Startup in Residence (STIR) in partnership with the Cities of San Leandro, Oakland and West Sacramento. From 2008 to 2012, Jeremy served as Executive President and CFO of China Advanced Construction Materials Company leading it to peak performance of 2,000 employees and NASDAQ IPO. As the only bilingual member of the company board of directors, he was responsible for negotiating large international contracts, implementing SOX 404 compliance, managing international accounting audits, SEC and shareholder communications. Jeremy successfully clinched a $100M Private Equity investment offer in support of company expansion plans and NASDAQ listing before board decision to privatize.
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About Forbes Business Council, SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
Andy Tong
Co-Founder of SyncFab
Andy Tong is serial entrepreneur well known for his success in the video game industry as CEO and Founder of top online game portal MMOABC which at its peak garnered millions of monthly MMO gaming visitors from North America with zero spent on advertising before the proliferation of social media. In addition, he achieved great success in the eCommerce referral industry by securing thousands of advertiser partnerships through his portfolio of web portals that leveraged state of the art search engine marketing and deployed browser based advertising technologies with online sales totaling over $50 million USD in the last decade. Besides being active as an entrepreneur Andy also serves as President of IMEX VP Investment Group an early stage investor in biotech, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, eCommerce, education, gaming, hardware, mobile apps, monetization platforms, real estate and virtual currency companies. Prior to IMEX VP Investment Group he served as Venture Partner for venture capital firm Webplus Ventures focused on gaming, internet and mobile technologies. On his free time, Andy regularly advises and mentors various startup companies. He regularly donates to and sits on the Advisory Board for Senhoa Foundation a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization represented by famous supermodel Coco Rocha that combats human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Andy earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in computer information systems from the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. He is a supporter of the 2nd amendment and currently resides in Dallas, Texas with his children, wife and pet dog.
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About MMOABC.com, New Gen Entertainment, SyncFab, Webplus Ventures: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
Scott Foster
President, Founder & CEO of Delta Energy & Communications
Scott Foster is the Founder, CEO, and President of Delta Energy & Communications.
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About Delta Energy & Communications: Delta Energy & Communications is an energy company that provides smart grid energy solutions.
Thomas Sun
Founder of AmpUp
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About AmpUp: AmpUp is an electric vehicle (EV) software company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free.
Daniel Myers
Founder and CEO of Flair
Daniel Myers is the Founder and CEO at Flair.
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About Flair: Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling.
Kenny Tay
Founder and CTO of Flair
Kenny Tay is the Founder and CTO at Flair.
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About Flair: Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling.
Arch Rao
Founder & CEO of Span.IO
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About Span.IO: Span.IO develops products to enable rapid adoption of renewable energy and deliver an intuitive interface for the home.
Andy Bogdan Bindea
Founder & CEO of Sigora
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About Sigora: Sigora provides microgrid management solutions making clean, reliable, and fairly-priced energy a reality in frontier markets.
Ugwem Eneyo
Co-Founder & CEO of SHYFT Power Solutions
Ugwem Eneyo is the Co-Founder and CEO of SHYFT Power Solutions.
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About SHYFT Power Solutions, Solstice Energy Solutions, Stanford University: SHYFT Power Solutions builds IoT and Integrated Software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources
Cole Stites-Clayton
Co-Founder & CTO of SHYFT Power Solutions
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About SHYFT Power Solutions, Solstice Energy Solutions: SHYFT Power Solutions builds IoT and Integrated Software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources
Jamie Yang
Co-Founder of EGG Energy
Jamie was part of the team that founded EGG-energy and served as its first CEO. He has developed a broad foundation of knowledge and experience in engineering, energy, and business. After completing his PhD with research in Quantum Computation, Jamie directed his energy towards less esoteric subjects with more immediate impact: he did prototyping work with a microbial fuel cell startup, developed a business plan for geothermal heating systems, and started to put together ideas for an energy company that serves customers in the developing world. With EGG-energy, he is excited to show that companies can profit by answering the needs of low-income customers with simple, scalable business models.
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About EGG Energy: EGG-energy is a for-profit company with a social mission to improve low income and off-grid customers quality of life by offering a conve
