Fervo Energy develops and operates next-generation geothermal power projects that produce continuous, low-carbon electricity by tapping heat from deep beneath the Earth’s surface. The company applies advanced drilling methods, including horizontal drilling and data-driven subsurface analytics, originally developed in the oil and gas sector, to create enhanced geothermal systems in locations previously uneconomic for traditional geothermal power production. Fervo’s technology integrates downhole sensors and real-time data analysis to optimize well performance and heat extraction for reliable, around-the-clock baseload power. Its flagship development, Cape Station, is designed to deliver multi-hundred-megawatt capacity to the grid, with long-term power purchase agreements in place and phased commercial operations targeting mid-decade.

Antora Energy delivers zero-carbon industrial heat and power to heavy industries that are more reliable than fossil fuels. Antora’s thermal energy storage soaks up excess solar and wind electricity and uses it to heat blocks of carbon so they glow like inside a toaster.

Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources.

PulSenics is a provider of real-time electrochemical system monitoring and control solutions. It utilizes Artificial Intelligence technology for electrochemical system monitoring and provides insights about electrolyte concentration, membrane health, power consumption, electrode adsorption, and others.

Resonant Link delivers 5x faster and highly efficient wireless power for applications big to small, from massive industrial trucks to medical devices smaller than a fingernail. Resonant Link’s mission is to provide fast, safe, and reliable wireless power to help people, businesses, and the planet thrive.

Channing Street Copper Company provides Energy Storage Equipped (ESE) appliances such as induction cookers. The company offers an induction cooker that uses electricity to directly heat the pan, and it's an electric range that works during a power outage. Channing Street Copper Company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design.

Osmoses engages in decarbonizing gas separations to eliminate one gigaton of carbon emissions per year.

Aralez Bio uses engineered enzymes to make valuable products in a sustainable way. The company has invented a novel enzymatic method for synthesizing noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs), also called unusual or unnatural amino acids. Its proprietary approach enables over 100 ncAAs to be synthesized with perfect enantiopurity in just a single step, with water as the only byproduct.

Photonect, is a Rochester-based startup, addressing a critical bottleneck in photonics packaging: slow, costly, and unstable fiber-to-chip attachment. Our patented oxide mode converter and adhesive-free laser fusion process form permanent glass-to-glass bonds in under a minute, boosting efficiency from 50% to 80%, increasing throughput 10×, and reducing per-device costs by 50% while maintaining <1 dB coupling loss. These innovations enable high-performance photonic packaging at previously unattainable speed and affordability. Photonect is now advancing this technology into PIX-Attach, the first-of-its-kind, Rochester-designed laser splicing system for high-volume photonic integration.

Noble Thermodynamic Systems specializes in the creation of reciprocating engines that utilize the process of recycling a noble gas.

Activate empowers entrepreneurial scientists and engineers to transform their research into world-changing products and businesses. By supporting scientists from the very beginning of their entrepreneurial endeavors, they often find us to be the decisive factor in enabling them to either successfully scale their ideas or prevent them from ever taking off. These scientists will introduce innovative products to the market that revolutionize the way they generate energy, manufacture goods, operate our buildings, facilitate global transportation, and utilize resources to sustain their society.