11 Climate Tech Companies Join Launch Alaska Portfolio
Launch Alaska is thrilled to introduce the newest members of the Launch Alaska Portfolio, reflecting Alaska’s expanding climate tech capacity and growing clean energy economy.
These 11 companies offer innovative technologies ranging from affordable heating hardware to long-duration energy storage, remote ecological assessment solutions, geothermal energy technology and more. While completing the eight-month Tech Deployment Track program, the companies built relationships with Alaska partners and made substantial progress on 17 potential projects around the state. The projects serve everyone from local tribes to major corporations to regional utilities, everywhere from the North Slope to Dutch Harbor to Metlakatla and beyond.
As members of the Launch Alaska Portfolio, these 11 companies will continue to play a key role in our mission to accelerate the energy transition and catalyze Alaska’s clean energy economy. We’re proud to support them and their work with Alaska communities.
Energy
Cache Energy - Champaign, Illinois, USA: Cache Energy provides long-duration energy storage that is safely installed anywhere and transported everywhere.
EcoSnap - Centennial, Colorado, USA: EcoSnap provides affordable and efficient heating and cooling to small to medium spaces.
GreenFire Energy - Walnut Creek, California, USA: GreenFire Energy Inc. develops and deploys closed-loop geothermal technology called GreenFire's GreenLoop(TM), to accelerate the generation of clean, continuous, reliable geothermal energy.
ICE Thermal Harvesting - Houston, Texas, USA: ICE leverages proven heat-to-power concepts to harvest heat from numerous processes and converts it to emissions-free electricity through a modular, mobile system designed for plug-and-play use.
Transportation
Birdstop - Concord, California, USA: Birdstop is a remote sensing platform using drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Montis Corporation - Wasilla, Alaska, USA: Montis Corporation provides aviation weather systems and services.
Rhythmos - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA: Rhythmos provides an advanced machine learning platform that optimizes Electric Vehicle charging for the utility, fleet, and energy market.
Industry
Circle Seafoods - Oakland, California, USA: Circle Seafoods buys, preserves, transports and sells wild Alaskan salmon.
Gentian - London, England: Gentian developed a way to create an ecological assessment remotely, mapping sites to create an inventory of vegetation and natural features for conservation and sustainable development.
Hearth Labs - New York, New York, USA: Hearth Labs provides thermal-LiDAR sensors to improve energy efficiency and occupant comfort in the built environment.
Vibrant Planet - Truckee, California, USA: Vibrant Planet accelerates land restoration in fire prone ecosystems through cloud-based adaptive management.
Applications for the 2024-2025 Tech Deployment Track program are open now through May 1. Learn more and apply here.