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The Amazon Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 cohort, announced in August 2024, features 21 startups focused on “the needs of enterprises looking to accelerate their energy transition through emerging technologies.”
The accelerator offers co-innovation partnerships and trials between the startups and energy companies, utilities & industrial corporations, Amazon notes.
Six key areas of focus include:
- Decarbonizing Amazon’s own operations.
- Generative AI solutions for clean energy.
- Water tech acceleration.
- Energy storage.
- Grid modernization and security.
- Alternative fuels.
Amazon, which announced the accelerator members on August 14, will host in-person business sprints in October 2024; virtual mentorship services in November 2024; and an in-person innovation showcase in March 2025, the company said.
Here’s a list of startups participating in the Amazon Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 cohort:
1. BET Motors (EV Truck Solutions)
Founded: 2023
Headquarters: Graz, Styria, Austria.
BET Motors has developed an EV truck chassis platform that boosts efficiency and sustainability, enhancing range while reducing costs. The company’s mission: “Develop the groundbreaking new technology for the next generation electric trucks delivering maximum range and payload at minimum cost of ownership.”
2. BlocPower (Building Decarbonization)
Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York.
Block Power provides a “one-stop-shop” of turnkey software, financing, construction, and engineering expertise to make the building electrification process smoother. They use AI and fintech to decarbonize buildings and whole cities.
3. ChargeWheel (EV Charging)
Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Burlingame, California.
ChargeWheel develops bidirectional battery and software technology can upgrade grid power levels at data centers and EV charging sites. Their high-capacity battery packs and intelligent energy management systems can mitigate peak loads, ensuring efficient and reliable power supply.
4. DeepIQ (Software)
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Houston, Texas.
DeepIQ develops an AI-powered platform combining IT-OT contextualization to provide industrial experts a 360° view of enterprise data for scalable insights. DeepIQ has been employed by clean energy companies to discover rare earth metals critical for the energy transition, measure carbon sequestration, and optimize operations to reduce emissions.
5. EH Group (Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology):
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland
EH Group focuses on the decarbonization of heavy duty mobility, large stationary power, and aviation where batteries alone are insufficient. Their unique fuel cell stack technology, offers unrivalled performance, efficiencies and radical cost reductions.
6. Electriq (Hydrogen Power)
Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Tirat Carmel, Israel
Electriq develops sustainable, circular, and zero-emission hydrogen powder for off-grid and mobile applications.
7. Faradai (Software)
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
The company provides enterprise AI software for digitizing and automating net zero efforts. By combining granular data, advanced machine learning algorithms, and deep sustainability expertise, they provide real time data acquisition, data management, compliance, and reporting tools to help large companies decarbonize their facilities.
8. Genesis Systems (Water Scarcity)
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Tampa, Florida
Genesis develops WaterCube products — which generate hundreds to millions of gallons of sustainable fresh water from air while capturing carbon, helping solve the global water and climate crisis with residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, and government applications at utility-scale.
9. Moment Energy (Battery Energy Storage Systems)
Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Moment Energy develops battery energy storage systems made from repurposed electric vehicle batteries.
10. NET2GRID (Software)
Founded: 2011
Headquarters: Zeist, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Net2Grid’s SaaS platform analyzes residential energy data to deliver detailed household energy profiles and insights for personalized customer experience and business intelligence.
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Here are the additional startups participating in the Amazon Clean Energy Cohort 4.0.
11. PolyJoule (Energy Storage)
Founded: 2011
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
PolyJoule develops conductive polymer battery systems — which provide a cost-effective, safer path to 21st century electrification for urban load centers, remote outposts, and anywhere in-between.
12. QEA Tech (Building Decarbonization)
Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Markham, Ontario, Canada
QEA Tech conducts detailed building envelope energy audits using drones, thermography, and proprietary AI software. They pinpoint various envelope issues, quantify energy loss, and recommend targeted retrofits that maximize energy savings and ROI.
13. Relyion Energy (Battery and Energy Storage)
Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California
Relyion develops an AI battery management software platform powered and hardware that enable long-lasting, reliable, safe, and scalable battery energy storage.
14. Safemode (Mobile Apps)
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Safemode’s gamified mobile app helps trucking companies and commercial fleets increase driver motivation through a personalized incentive program that rewards drivers based on their performance. SafeMode’s customers report a 5% decrease in fuel consumption and GHG pollution and a 30% reduction in accidents.
15. Salient (Weather Forecasting and Decision Support Software)
Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ssalient helps companies in the energy, agriculture, and other sectors make more profitable weather decisions from two-weeks to one-year in advance, by “providing the world’s most accurate and reliable weather forecasts and decision-support tools at that timescale, also known as subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting,” the company said.
16. Splight (Energy Grid Technologies)
Founded: 2021
Headquarters: San Mateo, California
Splight’s software uses real-time data and algorithms to “unlock millions of terawatts of clean energy trapped by traditional grid operations while enhancing reliability.”
17. Subeca (Smart Water Management Solutions)
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: San Diego, California
The company develops smart metering, pressure management, shut-off values, and cloud-based IoT systems for utilities and consumers.
18. Syzygy Plasmonics (Chemical Industry Decarbonization)
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
The company has developed an electrified chemical reactor for the production of clean hydrogen and SAF (sustainable aviation fuel). Syzygy’s technology reduces the cost of these products by 20%-40% vs other clean alternatives, the company asserts.
19. Teknobuilt (Construction Management Software)
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
The company’s cloud-based construction project management software reduces re-work, interruptions, and wastage, allowing projects to be completed ahead of schedule and within budget in a safe, smart, and sustainable manner.
20. Tyromer (Tire and rubber reuse)
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The company uses a non-chemical continuous extrusion technology to convert scrap tire rubber crumb into Tire-Derived Polymer (TDP) for reuse in tire production. The use of TDP in commercial truck retreading offers large fleet owners substantial savings on CO2 from the production of virgin retread rubber.
21. VIA (Energy and Environmental Data Platform)
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Somerville, Massachusetts
VIA’s software enables real-time data verification, automated ingestion, and privacy-preserving analysis across multiple private data sources including energy and environmental data.
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