C2M’s 2022 entrepreneurs are associated with a wide range of top-tier accelerators, incubators, universities, and government programs, including ARPA-E, Berkeley SkyDeck, California Energy Commission, Chain Reaction Innovations, Cleantech Open, LanzaTech, National Science Foundation (NSF), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), New Energy Nexus, San Diego Economic Development Council, Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN), and Stanford University (StartX, Cardinal Ventures, TomKat Center for Innovation Transfer).

Artyc

Refrigerant-free, long-duration, battery-powered cold transport and storage for keeping products at temperature throughout the supply chain.

  • STANFORD
  • TRL 4 – LAB PROTOTYPE: Component testing in a laboratory environment.
  • Slides

FLO Materials

A portfolio of infinitely recyclable polymers, offering recycling-as-a-service and providing turn-key solutions for circular product design, circular manufacturing, and end-of-life product management.

  • CYCLOTRON ROAD / ACTIVATE BOSTON, LBNL, Harvard
  • TRL 4 – LAB PROTOTYPE: Component testing in a laboratory environment.
  • Video
  • Slides

Frost Methane

Finds concentrated methane sources, designs and installs highly efficient, remotely monitored flares to destroy the methane and bids these projects into carbon offset markets.

  • ARPA-E
  • TRL 6 – SYSTEM PROTOTYPE Demonstrated in field environment with close to expected performance.
  • Video
  • Slides

GenH

Rapidly deployable, fully modular hydropower system to electrify the ~80k non-powered dams and canal heads without construction or need for storage to generate clean, stable, and cost-competitive renewable energy.

  • CALSEED, CALCEF, I-CORPS, BLUETECH VALLEY, NSF, ASME, Nasdaq, Boston Globe, LACI, MassCEC, dena, and California Energy Commission
  • TRL 6 – SYSTEM PROTOTYPE Demonstrated in field environment with close to expected performance.
  • Video
  • Slides

Intropic Materials

Makes plastics truly composable and self-destructing by embedding degrading enzymes inside, enabled by a patented, tunable, scalable, orthogonal enzyme stabilization platform.

  • OTHER DOE, CYCLOTRON ROAD / ACTIVATE BOSTON, I-CORPS, NSF, UC BERKELEY, UC Launch
  • TRL 4 – LAB PROTOTYPE: Component testing in a laboratory environment.
  • Video
  • Slides

Niron Magnetics

Powerful, low cost, and environmentally sustainable permanent magnets to free electrification from dependence on rare earth elements.

  • ARPA-E, OTHER DOE, University of Minnesota, Marquette University, Defense Logistics Agency
  • TRL 5 – FIELD PROTOTYPE: Component testing in the intended field environment.
  • Video
  • Slides

Quino Energy

Practical, scalable, and non-flammable energy storage for homes and grids, made possible by a proprietary zero-waste process that transforms coal and wood tar into designer flow-battery reactants.

  • ARPA-E, OTHER DOE, Harvard University
  • TRL 4 – LAB PROTOTYPE: Component testing in a laboratory environment.
  • Video
  • Slides

Windscape AI

Increases wind farm energy production, uptime, and ROI, processing AI data from very low-cost sensors around wind projects. Patented. Demonstrated.

  • Batchery
  • TRL 5 – FIELD PROTOTYPE: Component testing in the intended field environment.
  • Video
  • Slides