Our portfolio

VoLo Earth is building the carbon-free economy by investing in companies that win market share on economic merit, have quantifiable carbon impact, and address multi-triillion dollar sectors.

Industry

AICrete

YEAR FOUNDED

2020

AICRETE was founded by Parham Aghdasi in 2020 and is located in Silicon Valley. The company aims to reduce both the cost and environmental impact of concrete through a unique "recipe-as-a-service" approach that leverages artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and domain knowledge.

AICRETE's platform works with concrete producers to optimize local materials to minimize their concrete mixture costs and reduce their CO2 footprint by up to 35%

Industry

Archetype

YEAR FOUNDED

2023

Archetype is a new type of application-building platform that empowers business users to create and manage their own high-quality internal tools, by using process and policy as the source of truth, rather than code.

The three founders previously worked together at Palantir, where they designed, built, and brought to market a comprehensive no-code platform that has helped enterprises around the world increase their operational efficiency by shipping internal software faster than ever before. Now, they are building Archetype to bring these superpowers to every small and medium business, because all companies should be software companies.

Electricity

Banyan Infrastructure

Banyan Infrastructure is a powerful, end-to-end platform that simplifies and streamlines project financing for both lenders and borrowers.

Our platform replaces traditional spreadsheets, email and pdfs with digitized workflows automated data ingestion, risk monitoring and contractual compliance for each loan.

Mobility

BattGenie

YEAR FOUNDED

2017

BattGenie was started from the labs of Prof. Venkat Subramanian at the University of Washington. With offices and lab space in Seattle and Austin, and an all-star team with over 100 years of cumulative experience in the energy storage technologies, BattGenie is changing the landscape of clean energy with a new paradigm of software.

BattGenie has access to a sophisticated state-of-the-art battery testing equipment including high current and high voltage battery and battery-module cyclers at Seattle and Austin.

Buildings

BlocPower

YEAR FOUNDED

2014

BlocPower™ is a Brooklyn-based climate technology company rapidly greening American cities.

BlocPower utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects and its customers are saving 20-40% on their energy bills each year.

Electricity

Blue Dot Photonics

YEAR FOUNDED

2019

BlueDot Photonics is accelerating the deployment of next-generation solar technology by developing simple, cost-effective solutions to improve solar panel performance and durability.

BlueDot's unique quantum-cutting technology makes today's silicon solar panels better. Up to 16% more energy, helping lower the cost of solar power by 10%.

Buildings

Blue Frontier

YEAR FOUNDED

2017

Blue Frontier's mission is to transform buildings into sustainable, comfortable and interactive spaces through the commercialization of a revolutionary air conditioning technology.

Blue Frontier’s AC system combines dew-point-style sensible cooling with liquid desiccant dehumidification to reduce electricity use by up to 90% (non-fan). Our system is able to solve an array of today’s largest sustainability problems — from the Duck Curve to peak load management, from humidity control to integration of intermittent renewable resources.

Electricity

Daanaa

YEAR FOUNDED

2018

Daanaa is the only chip-based technology that allows energy to be transferred freely, safely, and efficiently.

Through rigorous research, cutting-edge engineering, and a passion for sustainability, we partner with ambitious manufacturers to overcome energy challenges previously constrained by the limitations of physical hardware.

Electricity

Gaiascope

YEAR FOUNDED

2019

Gaiascope ('Gaia') is dedicated to maintaining planetary balance and combating climate change. The best way to drive investment in, and return from, clean power projects is to make those assets as profitable as possible.

Gaia's focus is the electric grid of the future: building the 'brain' for, arguably, humanity's most complex invention to date. We provide our customers the capability to optimize returns of their renewable and energy storage assets with price forecasts and bidding strategies tailored to their needs.

Electricity

H2U Technologies

YEAR FOUNDED

2020

H2U Technologies uses proprietary methods to discover and test low cost electrocatalysts, ten thousand times faster than any other method. We then apply those low-cost catalysts to a very low-cost, disruptive-design hydrogen electrolyzer.

With our IP and the world's largest electrocatalyst activity database, H2U Technologies is uniquely capable of solving a key challenge for the Hydrogen Economy: producing low-cost Green Hydrogen.

Mobility

HEVO

YEAR FOUNDED

2011

HEVO was founded in 2011 by Jeremy McCool with a mission to eliminate global reliance on fossil fuels by accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles.

The HEVO team spent nearly a decade on developing a cost competitive, third-party certified, manufacturable, and highly efficient wireless EV charging product suite. By enabling drivers to simple park and power up, HEVO paves the way for mass adoption of electric vehicles.

Electricity

HST

YEAR FOUNDED

2012

HST is a pioneer in applying search technology to accelerate the path to a zero carbon world. Their suite of digital solutions engages companies of any size to purchase radically more clean energy and make the world cleaner.

View® applies it to clean energy development and Cue® applies it to clean energy procurement. Together, both platforms from HST enable more Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with balanced risks for cost-competitive, wholesale clean energy.

Industry

Heimdal

YEAR FOUNDED

2020

Heimdal builds machines that permanently capture and store atmospheric CO2 and stabilize the oceans. Every year, 40 billion tonnes of CO2 is released. We use electricity to extract the acid part of seawater, which has been increasing due to increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Extracting the carbon-genic acid allows for more CO2 to be removed from the atmosphere and restore stability to the oceans. We're building a solution that’s scalable and the lowest cost of carbon captured directly from the atmosphere, today.

Mobility

Ion Storage Systems

YEAR FOUNDED

2015

ION's radically different battery concept enables safe, high energy density cells without the use of precious raw materials like graphite.

Instead of graphite, ION uses a ceramic cell design that requires no anode material. Its cell extracts the lithium already present in cathode materials and uses its highly conductive ceramic to plate it as lithium metal into engineered voids.

Industry

Loamist

YEAR FOUNDED

2023

Loamist is the pioneering cleantech feedstock platform that connects suppliers of bio-waste streams with emerging cleantech startups focused on using these feedstocks to decarbonize industrial materials.

As a catalyst in the cleantech sector, Loamist is committed to driving growth and making significant contributions to global decarbonization efforts.

Industry

Magrathea Metals

YEAR FOUNDED

2022

As civilization expands on and off Earth, Magrathea strives to preserve the planet’s natural capital like rainforests and indigenous ecosystems by minimizing mining. Aluminum and steel are condemned to cost structures unprotected from declining ore grades and purities which necessarily increases cost over time.

Magrathea is making metal without mining for the era of electrification and decarbonization. We’re developing generational upgrades to magnesium production technology that radically reduces cost and environmental impact. We already made the 21st century’s first ingots of metal from seawater.

Industry

Nth Cycle

YEAR FOUNDED

2017

Nth Cycle’s technology transforms the outputs of metal scrap, electronics recycling, untapped mining resources, and waste from existing mines into high-purity critical minerals ready to be used in new production.

Nth Cycle’s unique, modular electro-extraction technology supports refiners, miners and battery recyclers as an alternative or enhancement to older, emissions-intensive hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes.

Electricity

Pearl Street Technologies

Pearl Street Technologies' mission is to enable a more reliable, resilient, and sustainable power grid through advanced modeling, simulation, and optimization tools.

By leveraging powerful circuit simulation methods developed to study billion-transistor electronic systems, SUGAR™ (Suite of Unified Grid Analyses with Renewables) offers industry-leading convergence robustness for power grid analysis.

Industry

Polycarbin

YEAR FOUNDED

2019

Polycarbin is a resource management platform that is transforming the single-use scientific supply chain of today into the sustainable, circular economy of tomorrow.

With on-site sortation made simple with intuitive diversion bins, coupled with the visibility offered by proprietary waste analytics platform, Polycarbin offers an environmentally responsible and cost-saving medical waste management solution.

Mobility

Pronoia

YEAR FOUNDED

2017

Pronoia is building the world's first physics-based battery to unlock large-scale energy storage.

Pronoia is accelerating the transition to 100% renewable energy with novel energy storage technology that improves capacity by orders of magnitude.

Mobility

Rain

YEAR FOUNDED

2019

Rain equips fire agencies to stop fires before they grow out of control, using automated aircraft stationed throughout high risk areas.

Rain integrates with early detection sensors to dispatch nearby autonomous helicopters within seconds, so that fires can be contained within minutes.

Electricity

Salient Energy

YEAR FOUNDED

2016

Salient Energy supports a rapid transition to clean energy by making safe, sustainable, and affordable zinc-ion batteries to power the clean energy revolution, providing a scalable alternative to lithium-ion.

Mobility

Sepion Technologies

YEAR FOUNDED

2015

Sepion brings a differentiated approach to replacing graphite anodes with lithium metal by combining the latest in nanoscience, polymer chemistry, and cell engineering to safely unlock a 40% increase in electric vehicle range with a gigafactory-compatible solution.

Buildings

Shimmer Industries

YEAR FOUNDED

2017

Shimmer provides the industry's most advanced, end-to-end software for designing interactive lighting at commercial scale with automated energy code compliance.

Shimmer's unique set of features make it ideal for a wide range of lighting applications

Industry

Skyven Technologies

YEAR FOUNDED

2013

Skyven is a decarbonization partner helping large industrial facilities identify, fund and build attractive solutions to reuse thermal energy and reduce fuel spend.

Skyven is a nationally recognized leader in commercial and industrial decarbonization of thermal energy, backed by distinguished institutions such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), California Energy Commission (CEC), and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).

Electricity

Solar Inventions

YEAR FOUNDED

2018

Solar Inventions’ technology is based on the inventions of its co-founder, Dr. Ben Damiani. The company’s first product, the Configurable Current Cell (C3), allows the company to create multiple circuits and integrated electronic components directly on a single silicon solar cell, all without cutting the wafer or introducing disruptive process changes.

C3 works with nearly all mainstream silicon cell architectures, which make up about 95% of the global market, and has the potential to reshape the industry by offering one of the least expensive ways to improve the efficiency and functionality of silicon solar.

Electricity

Sylvatex

YEAR FOUNDED

2012

Sylvatex (SVX) is an advanced manufacturing technology company that collaborates with electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturers. Their proprietary waterless process produces cathode active material (CAM) using fewer steps and less energy.

We are addressing the core of the EV battery scaling challenges: cost, supply, and carbon footprint. The technology greatly reduces the time to produce CAM in reactors a fifth the size of traditional reactors. Thus manufacturers have improved capacity and return on capital.

Electricity

Traverse

YEAR FOUNDED

2018

Traverse is automating the process of techno-commercial feasibility assessments of large and complex capital infrastructure projects using AI and automation. We start from fundamentals in civil/mechanical/electrical and geospatial engineering which then leads to full project finance commercial modelling.

Our workflow automation exhausts all possible permutations to find the best pool of projects in terms of risk, financial performance and environmental considerations. We have applied our platform to Wind and Hydropower and have worked on 10GW of projects globally (~$2B in constructed asset value).

Mobility

Traxen

YEAR FOUNDED

2018

Traxen is dedicated to leading the trucking technology market rapidly into the future by developing the most useful combination of technologies to promote safe driving, efficient fuel use and to provide beneficial and actionable big data to heavy duty trucking industry.

Our solution delivers value through significant cost-savings on fuel, as well as reduced insurance and training cost by assisting drivers by providing them with advanced safety features Drivers can enjoy a new level of drivability with Traxen’s driver assistance features, keeping them engaged with non intrusive signals and alerts, preventing alert-fatigue.

Electricity

Veckta

YEAR FOUNDED

2019

VECKTA is simplifying and accelerating the transition to a more profitable and sustainable energy future.

VECKTA empowers businesses to competitively deploy onsite energy solutions across their operations. In one integrated Platform, business leaders have access to actionable insights and a vibrant marketplace of vetted providers to confidently plan, assess, deploy and monitor their energy transition strategy with maximum efficiency.

Electricity

Wattch

YEAR FOUNDED

2020

Wattch's data analytics platform offers monitoring and intelligence services for distributed energy systems.

The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence and IoT to predict usage and provide predictive maintenance, and offers time monitoring, alerts, and remote diagnostics, enabling companies to determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate maintenance downtime.

Buildings

ZERO

YEAR FOUNDED

2022

Zero is a home electrification marketplace that provides a convenient platform for homeowners to plan, purchase, and schedule home electrification projects.

Zero provides homeowner-friendly electrification guidance & assistance through a virtual home assessment, a custom-tailored roadmap, and scoped & priced electrification projects without a single home visit.

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