Led by CEO and Cofounder, Dr. Jason Huang, TS Conductor provides smarter power transmission lines that provide safety, reliability, and longevity, all while doubling ampacity over conventional power lines and reducing line power loss by 40%. They solve sag issues caused by heat, ice, stresses, and long spans in large conductors, while reducing costs in fitting and installation.

Co-led by Cofounder and Managing Director, Murray McCraig, ArcTern Ventures is an earthtech venture capital firm investing to solve humanity’s greatest challenges — climate change and sustainability — since 2012.

Led by Managing Director and Cofounder, Kate Frucher, The Clean Fight is a flagship not-for-profit accelerator, that identifies and scales the top growth-stage climate tech companies from around the world that are looking to expand into New York. The current focus is easy-to-adopt solutions that bring the environmental, economic, and health benefits of deep decarbonization to non-luxury buildings.

Co-led by Managing Director, Andrew Beebe, Obvious invests in world positive early-stage startups like Beyond Meat, Proterra, and Diamond Foundry, and brings perspectives as prior product designers and company operators.

Led by Founder, Executive Chairman, and CEO Sanjoy Banerjee, Urban Electric Power develops non-toxic, thermally safe, long-duration batteries made of plentiful elements such as zinc and manganese, and has the backing of university, government, strategic, and financial investors.

Led by President Blake Sturcke, Encore Renewable Energy is a community-scale solar and energy storage development company, as well as a B Corps showing leadership on diversity in the energy sector.

Led by Michael Lee, Octopus Energy is a technology-driven, renewable energy retailer, directly supplying over 3 million customers globally with 100% green electricity at a cheaper price and with a focus on incredible customer service. Founded five years ago as a global energy retailer, Octopus Energy entered the U.S. market in 2020, forming Octopus Energy U.S. and fueling the company’s global expansion. Octopus Energy is valued at over $4.6 billion and is one of energy-tech’s fastest-growing private companies. 

Bill Nussey is the founder of the Freeing Energy Project, whose mission is to accelerate the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy. His new book is: Freeing Energy: How innovators are using local-scale solar and batteries to disrupt the global energy industry from the outside in. Prior to Freeing Energy, Bill spent most of his career as a tech CEO. His first company, which he co-founded in high school, provided graphics software for early, text-based personal computers.

Led by CEO and Co-founder Kentaro Kawamori, Persefoni is a SaaS platform that enables companies and financial institutions to measure, disclose, and reduce their carbon footprint, thereby meeting stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure needs with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease.

Led by Co-Founder and CEO Lee Taylor, REsurety delivers data-driven solutions for the clean energy economy and the tools to identify value and manage risks from clean energy investments.

Led by Briana Warner, Atlantic Sea Farms is dedicated to making a powerful and positive impact on the health of our customers and oceans by creating craveable and innovative products made from sustainably farmed sea greens, all while expanding opportunities for Maine's fishing communities.

Co-led by Dr. Dmitriy Antropov, the private infrastructure integrated investment team at Partners Group ($119B+ in AUM) focuses on: (1) telecommunication infrastructure, in particular datacenters, (2) energy and mobility transformation, and (3) next-generation healthcare services.

Led by Zuleyka Strasner, Zero is an online marketplace for sustainable groceries, home goods, personal items, and more, on its way to becoming the largest sustainability platform for consumers in the country.

Led by Virginia Klausmeier, Sylvatex is a climate tech company utilizing sustainable chemistry & materials science to accelerate the shift to the electrification of transportation. We do this by massively increasing EV material production throughput while lowering the cost and carbon footprint of the biggest bottleneck in the lithium-ion battery, the cathode.

Co-led by Dr. Eric Toone, Breakthrough Energy Ventures is a long-term VC investor — anchored by Bill Gates, Ray Dalio, and mission-aligned peers — that aims to build the new, cutting-edge companies that will lead the world to net-zero emissions.

Co-led by CTO and Cofounder Staff Sheehan, Air Company is an investor-backed carbon-to-value innovator recognized by awards such as Time Magazine Invention of the Year, Fast Company World Changing Idea, and NASA Conversion Challenge.

Led by Josh Dorfman, Plantd turns atmospheric carbon into low-prices, high-performance building materials using industrial hemp, an ultra-strong, fast-growing plant that captures over 3x more carbon than trees.

Led by Co-founder and Managing Partner Paul Straub, Wireframe Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage investor focused on technology benefiting people and planet, including impact ventures focused on climate change, synthetic biology, AI, automation, and zero-emission transportation.

Led by Co-founder and COO Max Nova, NCX is a VC-backed net-zero pioneer using AI, remote-sensing, and robust forestry science to map all forest assets in the US, create the largest forest carbon project in the US, and build a marketplace of high-quality carbon offsets.

Led by Founder Derek Handley, Aera Ventures invests at the frontier of deep technology and sustainability to accelerate the world to a better future.