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The first application season for the accelerator drew interest from a wide array of startups, both early-stage and later-stage—a testament to the growing focus on Houston’s role in the energy transition. The applicants are developing solutions across energy sectors, including solar, wind, geothermal, hydrogen, carbon capture utilization and storage, biomass and energy storage, along with other technologies.
Given the applicants' impressive range of clean energy solutions, the selection process was very competitive.
JOIN US IN CONGRATULATING THE CLASS 1 STARTUPS ACCELERATING THE ENERGY TRANSITION:
MEET CLASS 1 AT DEMO DAY
Class 1 will be delivered virtually, kicking off June 28th and concluding with an in-person demo day in conjunction with the 19th Annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum on Thursday, September 16th that brings together more than 700 members of the energy industry, including investors, corporations and the broader energy community.
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Developing solar, wind, energy efficiency, natural gas, geothermal and biomass solutions, the 12 Class 1 startups have already raised more than $12M in funding and are ready to accelerate their business. Read more about the Class 1 technologies:
3E Nano
3E Nano is a Toronto-based nanotechnology company that has developed an earth-friendly, high performance solar energy control coating for polymeric substrates.
Carbon BioEnergy
With a mission is to transform carbon dioxide, waste biomass, and renewable electricity into zero-carbon biofuels and chemicals, Carbon BioEnergy's biofuels will replace petroleum fuels in hard-to-decarbonize sectors, such as aviation and marine transport.
CoFlow Jet Wind Turbines
CoFlow Jet Wind Turbines is developing transformative ultra-high efficiency (capacity factor) low energy cost wind turbines to expand wind energy usage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Criterion Energy Partners
Criterion Energy Partners is an independent exploration and production company focused on developing decentralized direct geothermal energy projects to help commercial and industrial consumers by providing clean, reliable, baseload energy using heat from the Earth.
Ground State Technologies
Ground State Technologies is developing an edge optimization processor chip to enable energy companies to deploy more intelligent systems.
Hydrodine Catalytics
Hydrodine Catalytics has developed a zero emissions cleantech that eliminates the need for fuel gas, enables gas producers to capture Offset Carbon Credits, lowers CAP/OPEX, provides power at remote natural gas well sites, and improves operator safety.
Kanin Energy
Kanin Energy is a turnkey developer and innovative investor of waste heat to power projects—helping heavy industry monetize waste heat and decarbonize operations.
Mote
Mote is developing carbon-negative biomass gasification factories to supply customers with hydrogen.
NASADYA
NASADYA solves the growing problem of variability management in the energy grid for power plants by converting a money losing by-product, excess energy, into money making co-products, green hydrogen and oxygen.
Power HV
Power HV's monitoring sensors and bushings help oil processing plants like refineries and transportation improve safety from methane and fire while reducing T&D losses on the electricity grid by 1% by improving transformer energy efficiency by 30%.
Renewell Energy
Renewell Energy converts idle oil and gas wells into the lowest cost, most flexible, highest GHG abating energy storage devices in the world.
SeebeckCell Technologies (SCT)
SeebeckCell Technologies helps petroleum and gas industries and emerging markets such as crypto mining, data centers & BEVs solve energy wastage by integrating SCT's modules into thermal management systems, and enables 4x higher (power per weight) ratio, greener production, and scalable solution to address climate change.
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The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator was launched to increase the likelihood of success for promising startups advancing solutions for a cleaner, more efficient and sustainable future. Through a robust curriculum, custom mentor relationships and targeted corporate and investor introductions, the 12-week program will prepare energy startups to quickly accelerate their business, launch pilots and fundraise.
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator is for startups that contribute to significant energy efficiency improvements, are developing energy derived from renewable, zero-emissions sources or are curbing the environmental impact of all types of energy production, distribution or usage or enabling progress toward net zero carbon.
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