Meet the Launch Alaska Portfolio

The Launch Alaska Portfolio is filled with innovative graduates of our Tech Deployment Track program and previous 2016-2019 accelerator cohorts. These energy, transportation, and industry-supporting companies work with Alaska partners to pursue project opportunities around the state, from clean energy development to decarbonized transportation and emissions-reducing industrial solutions.

Keep reading to learn more about the 41 climate tech companies in our portfolio.

Energy

  • 60Hertz (Anchorage, AK; USA) brings maintenance of rural power plants, known as microgrids, and training of rural operators into the 21st century by digitizing records that otherwise live with paper, pencil and fax. As a result, our customers tell us we are extending the life of infrastructure by at least 2-3 years, saving 100s of hours of administrative time, easing state and federal regulatory compliance, and empowering Alaska Native operators with modern tools to do their jobs.

    The team has worked closely with Alaska utilities, Native-serving nonprofits and tribes to design simple, culturally relevant software that does not require existing computer experience.

  • Ageto (Fort Collins, CO; USA) has created the Ageto Renewable Controller, a simple, intuitive, and operator-focused microgrid control solution that maximizes clean, renewable energy while ensuring the power system is stable and resilient.

  • Blue Planet Energy Systems (Honolulu, HI; USA) has a mission is to eliminate the use of carbon-based fuels and power the world with clean, reliable, affordable energy by developing high-performance energy storage systems.

  • BoxPower (Grass Valley, CA; USA) provides prefabricated solar minigrids in 20' shipping containers as a clean, reliable, and affordable alternative to diesel generators for off-grid and under-served commercial energy consumers. Through standardization and mass-production, BoxPower provides energy for half the cost of fossil-fuel generation, while avoiding up to two-million pounds of CO2 emissions with each system. By training and utilizing local labor for assembly, installation, and maintenance, BoxPower provides local economic and workforce development while maintaining a sustainable, capital-light and rapidly-scalable business.

    BoxPower demonstrated its viability in Alaska in 2018, with three systems successfully installed in Buckland, Alaska. Together, these three BoxPower Solar Containers will provide approximately 47,000 kWh of energy, for less than half the cost of diesel generation. BoxPower continues to work with rural Alaska communities to deploy its technology and support their local needs for clean, reliable, low-cost power.

  • CalWave (Oakland, CA; USA) works on technologies that utilize the vast energy of ocean waves with superior, scalable power generation.

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

  • Carter Wind (Wichita Falls, TX; USA) is a manufacturer of next generation wind turbine technology that is self-erecting and designed for utility, distributed, and microgrid power generation applications in the most remote, environmentally extreme locations.

  • *Dynamhex Technologies (Kansas City, MO; USA) offers its Decarbonization-as-a-Service (DaaS) technology platform for companies, municipalities, and utilities to meet climate targets with data-driven solutions.

    *Acquired by Constellation

  • EcoSnap (Centennial, Colorado, USA) provides affordable and efficient heating and cooling to small to medium spaces.

  • GreenFire Energy (Walnut Creek, California, USA) 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) 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.

  • Oklo (Sunnyvale, CA; USA) is developing very small advanced fission reactors to provide affordable, reliable, safe and clean power to save people money on their energy bills, bring power to those without it, and reduce emissions. Oklo's technology requires no refueling for over a decade, enables the conversion of used nuclear fuel to clean energy, and avoids millions of tons of CO2 over the alternatives. And Alaska has been a central part of the company’s deployment aspirations since the beginning. They’re excited to see how a new era of advanced micro nuclear can help address the energy and cost challenges that face Alaska and the world.

  • Onboard Dynamics (Bend, OR; USA) is leading the climate-tech revolution with the introduction of its unique, patented natural gas compression technology. This mobile, scalable, affordable technology platform enables our customers to achieve economic value and environmental benefits by simplifying the compression and movement of natural gas.

  • Radiant (El Segundo, CA; USA) develops portable nuclear power reactors that can replace diesel generators, improving local air quality, reducing global warming, and they can ship out to be refueled, leaving a superior natural environment.

  • Sage Geosystems (Houston, Texas, USA) designs and installs geothermal power plants.

  • Switched Source (Chicago, IL; USA) provides power-electronics solutions so that utility, commercial, and industrial system owner-operators can update and fortify electric distribution systems, to match rapid advancements in energy generation and reliability needs.

  • VECKTA (San Diego, CA; USA) is a cloud-based platform and marketplace for onsite energy that helps commercial and industrial businesses lower their energy costs, improve their reliability, and reduce their carbon emissions.

Transportation

  • Ampaire Inc.’s (Hawthorne, CA; USA) mission is to be the lead developer of trusted, practical, and compelling electric aircraft from short-haul cargo to supersonic passenger transport.

  • Avari Aerospace (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) manufactures drones for professional use educating and equipping the workforce, and leading industry-disrupting technology integrations for global adoption.

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

  • ElectricFish (Fremont, Calif., USA) develops and deploys resilient electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure where others cannot.

  • Jule (Toronto, ON; Canada) With the global increase in electric vehicles (EV) comes an increased demand for charging stations. But Super Fast charging causes problematic demand spikes on the grid. Jule is addressing this by pairing charging stations with advanced storage. It provides modular, smart energy storage solutions with innovative applications for community storage, EV charging, auxiliary power units, storage for renewable energy projects and other custom applications.

  • Montis Corporation (Wasilla, Alaska, USA) provides aviation weather systems and services.

  • Parallel Flight Technologies (La Selva Beach, CA; USA) develops patent-pending technology that allows drones to fly for hours with a heavy payload.

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

  • Signol (London, England; UK) builds on cutting-edge behavioral science with a proprietary data analytics platform to help companies identify inefficiencies, change behaviors, and save on their fuel and energy costs. Signol was launched in 2017 following a research project between one of the company’s founders (then a researcher at Boston University) and Virgin Atlantic, where they cut carbon emissions and saved $5.4 million over 8 months. We’re excited to connect them to the global logistics, shipping and aviation hub that is Alaska.

  • ZeroAvia (Hollister, Calif., USA) is building a zero emissions hydrogen-electric aviation powertrain; a fully electric propulsion system powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Industry

  • Aquagga (Tacoma, WA; USA) is a lean hardware startup that seeks to end water contamination from toxic “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS.

  • Biomass Controls PBC (Woodstock, CT; USA) develops solutions to water and sanitation challenges with human-centered innovations that harness the potential of waste streams by generating energy, clean water, and biochar products.

  • Blue Ocean Gear (San Mateo, CA; USA) makes intelligent, connected buoys for commercial fishing fleets to track gear on the ocean.

  • Circle Seafoods (Aberdeen, Washington, USA) buys, preserves, transports and sells wild Alaskan salmon

  • Ebb Carbon (San Carlos, Calif., USA) offers a technology that reverses ocean acidification while capturing and permanently storing CO2 as oceanic bicarbonate.

  • ecoSPEARS (Altamonte Springs, FL; USA) eliminates toxins like PCBs and other persistent organic pollutants from the environment utilizing non-thermal and non-combusting remediation technology developed by NASA.

  • Fluitec (Dordrecht, the Netherlands) converts industrial lubricants and hydraulics to Fill-for-Life(TM) fluids: reducing CO2 emissions and waste oil as well as saving money.

  • Gentian (London, England) 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.

  • Greensparc (San Francisco, CA; USA) provides energy market optimization for data centers and computational workloads by providing real-time market energy market intelligence SaaS and IaaS solutions for enterprise clouds, cloud service providers and distributed application developers and providers.

  • Hearth Labs (New York, New York, USA) provides thermal-LiDAR sensors to improve energy efficiency and occupant comfort in the built environment.

  • Ivaldi (San Leandro, Calif., USA) provides software and services to heavy industries, enabling them to source locally manufactured spare parts on demand.

  • Kartorium (Anchorage, AK; USA) is a state-of-the-art digital twinning platform that enables quick creation of three-dimensional representations of facilities and infrastructure, overlayed with layers of pertinent data. This robust platform is designed to revolutionize how businesses conduct work planning, training, and operational monitoring.

  • The Crop Project (Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a regenerative ingredients business focused on sugar kelp commercialization.

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