After a competitive application process filled with outstanding companies from around the globe, we’re proud to announce the members of Launch Alaska’s fifth Tech Deployment Track cohort. 

These 19 innovative companies bring cutting-edge technologies that can help unlock enormous economic opportunities for Alaska communities. From heat pumps and seafood processing to AI platforms and energy storage solutions, these technologies can help decarbonize Alaska’s energy, transportation, and industrial sectors, bringing long-term cost savings for Alaska businesses and consumers. 

Of the 19 companies, 14 hail from the United States, including one from Alaska. Four companies are based outside of the United States with two in the United Kingdom, one in Sweden and another in Canada.

When Tech Deployment Track kicks off in Anchorage in September, these companies will present their technologies to a curated group of volunteer advisors, who in turn provide invaluable feedback on potential partnership and project opportunities in Alaska. 

Over the ensuing months, cohort companies will work alongside Alaska partners to vet and develop projects in communities around the state. If successful, cohort companies will end the program with a variety of promising, in-progress projects – and an invitation to join the Launch Alaska Portfolio. 

The eight-month process benefits from a variety of federal, state, and local support: Tech Deployment Track is made possible with funding from the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, as well as volunteer assistance from dozens of Alaska businesses, agencies, and organizations.

Together, we’re thrilled to welcome the members of the 2023 Tech Deployment Track cohort.

Energy

Cache Energy - Champaign, Illinois, USA: Cache Energy provides long-duration energy storage that is safely installed anywhere and transported everywhere

EcoSnap, LLC - Centennial, Colorado, USA: EcoSnap provides affordable and efficient heating and cooling to small to medium spaces.

GreenFire Energy Inc. - 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.

Grengine Inc. - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Grengine builds battery storage systems (BESS) to combat GHG production and alleviate energy poverty.

Heila Technologies - Somerville, Massachusetts, USA: Heila Technologies is pioneering the future of microgrids with a flexible, bottom-up design that ensures distributed energy resources operate reliably.

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.

W4P Waves4Power AB - Göteborg, Sweden: Waves4Power converts the power of ocean waves into grid quality electricity.

Transportation

Birdstop, Inc. - Concord, California, USA: Birdstop is a remote sensing platform using drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

Flux Marine Ltd. - Bristol, Rhode Island, USA: Flux Marine builds 100% electric propulsion systems for boats.

Montis Corporation - Wasilla, Alaska, USA: Montis Corporation provides aviation weather systems and services.

Mythos AI Inc - West Palm Beach, Florida, USA: Mythos develops autonomous & self-driving vessel technology to mitigate workforce shortages allowing maritime industries to scale.

Rhythmos - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA: Rhythmos provides an advanced machine learning platform that optimizes Electric Vehicle charging for the utility, fleet, and energy market.

Industry

Blumen Systems - San Francisco, California, USA: Blumen aggregates federal and state geospatial datasets and regulatory documents and builds AI systems to give project developers and contractors automated spatial intelligence from site selection to permitting to project development across carbon sequestration, geothermal, hydrogen, and minerals projects.

CarbonPath - Chicago, Illinois, USA: CarbonPath developed a new registry for the voluntary carbon offset market that is differentiated by focusing on industrial polluters and places all measurement, reporting and verification on a public blockchain for all to see and review.

Circle Seafoods - Oakland, California, USA: Circle Seafoods buys, preserves, transports and sells wild Alaskan salmon.

Gentian Ltd - 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.

SulNOx Group - London, England: SulNOx invents natural, biodegradable products which significantly increase fossil fuel efficiencies by improving combustion, thereby reducing both Greenhouse Gas and particulate matter emissions, whilst also reducing maintenance costs.

Vibrant Planet PBC - Truckee, California, USA: Vibrant Planet accelerates land restoration in fire prone ecosystems through cloud-based adaptive management.