We support visionaries and company builders who are transforming industries

Born at Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Diamond Technologies pioneered ultrananocrystalline diamond and engineered coatings and surfaces for mechanical seals, precision electronics, MEMS and electrochemical applications.

Unmatched wear resistance, durability and chemical stability. Its industrial division was acquired by John Crane, proving the commercial power of national laboratory science.

AtlasBase stores data in synthetic DNA at 1,000 times the density of magnetic tape. The Atlas Eon 100 packs 60 petabytes into 60 cubic inches, with no electricity and no cooling needed to keep it.

Built on technology from Twist Bioscience, AtlasBase fuses DNA synthesis, proprietary semiconductor architecture and molecular engineering to solve the biggest problem in computing: the world is generating more data than it can afford to store. A $155M seed round backed by ARCH, Deerfield, Bezos Expeditions, In-Q-Tel and Earth Foundry funds the future of archival storage and data center efficiency.

Azumo's reflective LCD platform harnesses ambient light instead of fighting it, so screens stay sharp in blazing sun and dim rooms, using up to 90% less energy than backlit displays.

Light guides as thin as 50 microns mean smaller devices and dramatically longer battery life for medical, industrial, defense and consumer products. Protected by 47 patents and backed by a $30M round led by Anzu Partners, Azumo is Chicago's display breakthrough.

Digital H2O pioneered predictive analytics, large-scale data integration and cloud software to transform how energy producers source, move, manage and dispose of water.

A fragmented, inefficient market gained visibility and economic intelligence, and operators cut costs and environmental impact. Digital H2O was acquired by Sourcewater, proof that proprietary data wins in essential industrial markets.

Dragos built the platform for operational technology and ICS security from scratch. It defends power grids, manufacturers, pipelines and other mission-critical systems with advanced threat detection, proprietary threat intelligence and unmatched expertise in industrial attacks.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, trusted by customers like Koch and Georgia-Pacific, and valued at $1.7B after a $200M Series D, Dragos created an entire category of cybersecurity for the physical systems society cannot afford to lose.

Earthshot combines AI, satellite imagery, ecological science and financial infrastructure to bring industrial-scale precision to nature-based carbon projects. Its LandOS platform runs the entire project lifecycle, and its field technology speeds forest inventory by 5 to 10 times.

More than one million hectares of conservation and reforestation supported. Over $65M in project financing enabled. Earthshot is building the infrastructure of the global nature economy.

Ecotone's ZEUS anaerobic digestion technology, intelligent analytics and Soil Sauce organic fertilizer platform convert food waste on site, so customers stop paying to haul it to landfills and distant processors.

More than one million pounds of food waste diverted. Lower disposal costs, new revenue and nutrients returned to farmland. Ecotone is the circular economy for food waste, working today.

e-Zinc stores power in metallic zinc instead of lithium-ion chemistry and separates energy from power, so duration scales cheaply for days, not hours. Water-based. Nonflammable. Built from abundant materials.

Backed by C$42M, the Toronto company is delivering 10 to 100+ hours of safe, affordable, resilient power for grids, remote communities, industry and renewables.

GlidePath developed some of the country's first utility-scale battery projects: 80 megawatts of frequency regulation in Illinois, early standalone storage in Texas and landmark nonrecourse financing for batteries.

With deep energy market expertise and in-house development, financing, construction and asset management, GlidePath proved that grid-scale storage is a financeable pillar of modern electricity infrastructure.

Harvest combines high-efficiency heat pumps, intelligent software and low-cost thermal energy storage into its Smart Thermal Battery. It stores heat when electricity is cheap and clean, then delivers heating and hot water on demand.

Harvest optimizes around electricity prices, weather and household demand, cutting heating and hot water costs by up to 40% and emissions by about 90%. Ordinary HVAC becomes an intelligent, grid-responsive energy asset.

IMIO is reinventing agricultural biologicals with freeze-dried microbial technology that delivers 100,000 times more active microbes than competing products. Its Re-Gen platform turns crop residue into valuable soil nutrients, cutting fertilizer spend while lifting yields.

The proof is in the field. Across more than 10,000 acres of trials, IMIO grew corn yields by an average of 11.9 bushels per acre and unlocked up to $120 per acre in nutrient credits. A $12M seed round led by Sofinnova and about 100 customers prove the demand. Agricultural biotechnology with farm economics that win.

Intellihot's modular tankless systems eliminated the waste, floor space and reliability problems of big storage tanks. Continuous hot water on demand, optimized energy use and a system that adapts to the building.

Built for hotels, hospitals and multifamily properties, Intellihot modernized one of the most energy-intensive systems in every building. Acquired by Zurn Elkay.

InVekTek's algorithms trace back to research on the Hubble Space Telescope's oscillation problem. SwayMaster stops dangerous, wasteful crane sway with no expensive sensors and no mechanical changes.

More precision, more speed, more safety, more uptime. InVekTek makes the machines you already own dramatically more productive across cranes, robotics, manufacturing and material handling.

Monomyth Materials is a Chicago-based advanced materials company building America's domestic anode supply chain. Over 90% of active anode material comes from China. Monomyth is changing that, with synthetic graphite at scale and next-generation silicon anodes under one roof.

Its M2Graphite subsidiary has drawn more than $100M of investment since 2022 and is launching the first of three capital programs, each over $1B, to build domestic anode-grade synthetic graphite capacity, starting in Bainbridge, Georgia, and bringing back up to 1,000 high-value manufacturing jobs. Its new M2Innovations business, built on the assets of NanoGraf, adds proprietary silicon oxide anode technology, battery maker relationships and a path from R&D to pilot scale cells for EVs, energy storage and defense. Domestic graphite plus silicon: the full anode stack, made in America.

NanoGraf takes lithium-ion beyond the limits of graphite with proprietary silicon anode materials built for higher energy density. Up to 20% more EV range. More than 1,000 charge cycles. Longer runtime for portable devices.

Made in the USA, with applications across defense, mobility and consumer electronics. A critical battery material with breakthrough performance and strategic domestic manufacturing.

Network Perception's NP-View platform automatically mapped industrial networks, exposed vulnerabilities and verified segmentation with no intrusive hardware and no disruption to operations. Major U.S. utilities trusted it, and it cut network auditing time by 46%.

The acquisition by Dragos proved the strategic value of the technology and created an even more complete industrial cybersecurity offering.

NxLite's transparent, high-performance coatings dramatically improve the thermal efficiency of glass and polymers with no loss of visibility. One ultra-thin coating replaces expensive, heavy materials.

Windows, commercial refrigeration doors and transparent barriers get lighter, thinner and far more efficient. NxLite rewrites the economics of energy efficiency across construction, transportation and industry.

Omnidian's AI-powered diagnostics, predictive analytics and nationwide service network protect more than 2 gigawatts of solar and storage across over 2,000 sites. It guarantees 95% of forecast energy production.

A published commercial portfolio analysis showed a 60% cut in corrective maintenance costs. Backed by more than $87M led by B Capital, with revenue more than tripled from 2022 to 2024, Omnidian makes solar returns predictable.

Born at Yale University, Oxylus built a proprietary catalyst and electrolyzer that turn captured CO2 into methanol with 2.5 times the process energy efficiency of conventional green methanol. Renewable electricity and water in, fuel out.

Oxylus skips the costly intermediate step of green hydrogen entirely. The payoff is a path to fossil-fuel cost competitiveness for clean shipping fuel, aviation fuel feedstocks and industrial chemicals. Carbon utilization with real economics.

Recurve's FLEX platform runs on data from more than 54 million meters to forecast, measure, verify and monetize reductions in electricity demand. No theoretical estimates. Actual verified performance.

Utilities and grid operators can buy demand-side capacity right alongside generation. As electricity demand surges, Recurve unlocks the fastest, most capital-efficient new capacity on the grid: the energy we no longer need.

Root 3's software weighed energy demand, equipment efficiency, fuel prices and operating conditions to find the cheapest way to produce heating, cooling and power for universities, hospitals, airports and industrial facilities.

No new equipment required. Root 3 replaced static operating rules with intelligent optimization and cut central plant operating costs by 10% to 30%.

SPAN hardware and software give circuit-level visibility and control, coordinating EVs, solar, batteries and household loads. The panel that sat dumb on the wall for a century is now the brain of the home.

SPAN's smart load management extends home battery backup by about 40%, so homeowners get more resilience without buying more storage. As electrification accelerates, the SPAN panel is the control center of every electrified home.

Tank Utility's connected sensors, cloud analytics and intelligent logistics gave fuel distributors real-time visibility into every customer tank. The result: larger, better-timed deliveries, fewer truck rolls and no more emergency refills.

Reactive delivery became a data-driven network, with major gains in productivity, service and profit. Tank Utility was acquired by Generac.

UpSolv's patented low-temperature dissolution and purification process strips contaminants from hard-to-recycle plastic while preserving the polymer, producing high-quality recycled resin that replaces virgin material.

Unlike energy-hungry chemical recycling, UpSolv runs a closed-loop solvent process built for competitive economics, with up to 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions than virgin resin. Plastic recycling that is not just sustainable, but economically superior.

Volexion's nanoscale graphene encapsulation fixes the core limits of lithium-ion: cathode stability, cycle life, power density and temperature tolerance. It unlocks higher-performance, lower-cost chemistries, with about 5x rate capability and about 40% higher power density.

It also drops straight into existing manufacturing, with no new factories required. Up to 10x better performance and more than 30% lower cost, without rebuilding the industry.