Portfolio

Startup companies selected to IN2 are chosen because they have a high probability of making a real impact on the environment once they reach the market at scale. They are providing viable solutions in affordable housing, commercial buildings, and sustainable agriculture.

75F

Energy Management

75F offers an easy-to-setup HVAC controls system that has the potential to save 80 percent in deployment labor versus traditional controls systems.

Visit 75F website

7AC Technologies

HVAC

7AC Technologies offers a new approach to air conditioning technology, delivering extreme energy savings and the ability to maximize climate-friendly refrigerants.

Visit 7AC Technologies website

Adept Materials

Materials

Adept Materials is developing a multifunctional building material that automatically regulates the flows of heat and water vapor through surfaces.

Visit Adept Materials website

Aeroshield

Materials

AeroShield manufactures a super-insulating, nanoporous form of glass for energy efficient windows.

Visit Aeroshield website

AgroSpheres

Crop Nutrition

AgroSpheres is enabling the efficient and improved use of synthetic chemicals and biologicals with the goal of cutting chemical pesticide use by 50 percent.

Visit AgroSpheres website

Aker

Crop Protection

Aker automates the crop-scouting process by capturing and analyzing the presence and intensity of pests and pathogens below the crop canopy.

Visit Aker website

APANA

Water

The APANA water management system offers an innovative solution that goes beyond conservation and enables you to manage your water in real time.

Visit APANA website

Atlas Sensor Technologies

Indoor Agriculture

Atlas Sensor Technologies is developing technology to monitor feedwater chemistry to increase efficiencies in indoor agriculture.

Visit Atlas Sensor Technologies website

BlocPower

HVAC

BlocPower replaces fossil fuel-based systems with carbon-free tech and increases efficiency for buildings in diverse communities.

Visit BlocPower website

Blokable

Advanced Manufacturing and Construction Innovation

Blokable manufactures a highly energy efficient, pre-fabricated building system that reduces the cost for the company to develop multi-family housing.

Visit Blokable website

Blue Frontier

HVAC

Blue Frontier is a pre-revenue cleantech startup, founded to commercialize the innovative integration of low-cost thermochemical energy storage (ES) with a revolutionary air conditioning (AC) technology.

Visit Blue Frontier website

buildee

Energy Analysis

buildee is a cloud-based platform that connects data and applications, bringing together valuable building data for retrofit decision-making.

Visit buildee website

Community Energy Labs

Energy Management

Community Energy Labs’s AI-powered clean building control platform helps utilities and school districts assess decarbonization goals.

Visit Community Energy Labs website

CorePower Magnetics

Grid Technologies

CorePower Magnetics' patented high-performance electric motors, inductors, and transformers will extend EV range and improve grid efficiency.

Visit CorePower Magnetics website

CoverCress Inc.

New Crops

CoverCress is developing a winter crop that covers soil over winter, protecting it from harsh conditions, while producing a low carbon intensity crop for renewable fuel and food.

Visit CoverCress Inc. website

Cypris Materials

Materials

Cypris Materials creates paintable heat-reflective coatings as a roofing retrofit for both residential and commercial building to reduce cooling loads.

Visit Cypris Materials website

Cytophage Technologies

Crop Protection

Cytophage Technologies aims to overcome the problem with evolving bacteria that becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics by using synthetic biology.

Visit Cytophage Technologies website

Darcy Solutions

HVAC

Darcy Solutions develops and installs groundwater-sourced heating and cooling systems intended to improve the environment and reduce HVAC costs in buildings.

Visit Darcy Solutions website

EarthSense

Precision Agriculture

EarthSense is deploying robotics and machine learning to collect data that will allow farmers to increase yields, eliminate superweeds, and improve crops.

Visit EarthSense website

EdgePower

Energy Management

EdgePower is a buildings energy management software company who were acquired by Just Energy.

Visit EdgePower website

Edison Agrosciences

Advanced Breeding Technologies

Edison Agrosciences tackles the problem of the endangered natural rubber supply by increasing the amount of rubber already produced by the sunflower plant.

Visit Edison Agrosciences website

EnKoat

Materials

EnKoat has re-engineered traditional architectural coatings, like paint, plaster and stucco, into energy-saving coatings by incorporating phase change materials.

Visit EnKoat website

ESS Inc.

Energy Storage

ESS Inc. manufactures low-cost, long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications.

Visit ESS Inc. website

Geli

Energy Management

Geli’s end-to-end software platform streamlines the energy storage development process, offering the industry’s only solution for design, automation, and management.

Visit Geli website

Glass Dyenamics

Materials

Glass Dyenamics is developing low-cost plug-and-play smart windows for energy-efficient buildings, homes, and smart cities.

Visit Glass Dyenamics website

Go Electric

Energy Management

Go Electric delivers turnkey, distributed energy storage solutions that provide energy security and energy efficiency to facilities and the grid.

Visit Go Electric website

GrowFlux

Indoor Agriculture

GrowFlux is designing an intelligent horticultural lighting control panel that enables energy savings of 20%-30%.

Visit GrowFlux website

HabiTerre

Precision Agriculture

Habiterre uses a system-of-systems approach to create a holistic picture of farm production systems and performance, improving emissions, water use, yield, and more.

Visit HabiTerre website

Impetus Ag

Crop Protection

Impetus Ag is developing next-gen crop insect control products with an eco-friendly platform that enhances the performance of current biological products.

Visit Impetus Ag website

Impossible Sensing

Precision Agriculture

Impossible Sensing boosts soil management, merging in-situ sensors with regular farming operations to maximize land potential and improve profitability through sustainable practices.

Visit Impossible Sensing website

InnerPlant

Crop Enhancement, Crop Protection

InnerPlant develops seed technology to tap into plants’ natural response pathways and code crops to communicate specific stresses via easy-to-collect optical signals.

Visit InnerPlant website

Intrinsyx Bio

Crop Nutrition

Intrinsyx Bio plant probiotics increase crop yield, reduce excess fertilizer, and improve soil and water conditions.

Visit Intrinsyx Bio website

J2 Innovations

Energy Management

J2 created FIN Framework, the most open software platform for building automation & IoT and was acquired by Siemens.

Visit J2 Innovations website

Kelvin

HVAC

Kelvin, formerly Radiator Labs, is solving a 100-year-old problem: the lack of comfort and efficiency in steam-heated buildings.

Visit Kelvin website

Kit Switch

Advanced Manufacturing and Construction Innovation

Kit Switch installs prefabricated walls and ceilings with integrated plumbing and electrical systems in underutilized housing units.

Visit Kit Switch website

Ladybug Tools

Energy Analysis

Ladybug Tools is a collection of computer applications that support the design process for sustainable buildings and net-zero districts seeking to employ cutting-edge energy technologies.

Visit Ladybug Tools website

LiquidCool Solutions

Data Infrastructure

LiquidCool Solutions are leaders in edge computing and designers of the world’s most efficient liquid cooling technology for electronic equipment.

Visit LiquidCool Solutions website

Maalka

Energy Analysis

Maalka is an open, energy efficiency platform designed to help cities and building owners easily meet their commercial benchmarking goals.

Visit Maalka website

Mirai Solar

Indoor Agriculture

Mirai Solar’s photovoltaic shade screen technology enables sustainable, large-scale agriculture by empowering net zero-energy food production facilities with lower operating costs than current alternatives.

Visit Mirai Solar website

mobius

Crop Nutrition

mobius is creating naturally biodegradable and compostable materials that can replace fertilizers for improved plant and soil health.

Visit mobius website

NeoCharge

Software

NeoCharge is building an integrated software platform that will synchronize charging of electric vehicles and appliances for cleaner and more affordable charging access.

Visit NeoCharge website

NETenergy

Energy Storage

NETenergy has created a thermal battery using its Black Ice technology, which works much like an electrical battery, except it stores thermal energy.

Visit NETenergy website

New West Genetics

Indoor Agriculture

New West Genetics is creating proprietary hemp seed bred for high-yield and stability.

Visit New West Genetics website

NEXT Energy Technologies, Inc.

Smart Glass

NEXT offers low-cost, printable, transparent coatings that are seamlessly integrated into windows, allowing for the harvest of light energy for use as onsite renewable power.

Visit NEXT Energy Technologies, Inc. website

NineDot Energy

EV Infrastructure

NineDot Energy supports grid reliability by using the batteries in fleets of electric vehicles to supply energy back to the grid during times of peak electricity demand.

Visit NineDot Energy website

Peptyde Bio

Crop Protection

Peptyde Bio strives to provide a safe alternative to combat fungal diseases even as resistance to current solutions accelerates.

Visit Peptyde Bio website

Plastomics

Crop Enhancement

Plastomics is developing technology to introduce beneficial traits into plant cells, creating crops that can withstand insects, diseases, and weeds while delivering higher yields and environmental benefits.

Visit Plastomics website

Pluton Biosciences

Crop Protection

Pluton Biosciences is micro-mining and supplying microbes targeted at specific pests, including those with biological resistance to current products.

Visit Pluton Biosciences website

PowerFlex

Energy Management

PowerFlex Systems provides affordable large-scale electric vehicle charging solution for workplaces and have been acquired by EDF Renewables North America.

Visit PowerFlex website

Pre Framing

Materials

Pre Framing is an innovative, partially-prefabricated solution which allows homebuilders, general contractors and framers to build standard and gable walls faster, with less waste and more precision than traditional methods.

Visit Pre Framing website

ProStar Energy

Energy Management

ProStar Energy is a leading energy efficiency innovator in HVAC retrofit and building automation solutions that will meet you where you're at in your journey to achieve energy efficiency.

Visit ProStar Energy website

RNAissance Ag

Crop Protection

RNAissance Ag is developing a safe, effective, and environmentally sustainable insecticide for precision pest management.

Visit RNAissance Ag website

Robigo

Crop Protection

Robigo is shaping microbial communities to create a more sustainable food system.

Visit Robigo website

Running Tide

Crop Enhancement

Running Tide designs and develops integrated systems to deploy nature-based interventions that remove carbon, combat ocean acidification, and increase the scientific understanding of ocean ecosystems.

Visit Running Tide website

Sentinel Fertigation

Precision Agriculture

Sentinel Fertigation leverages remote sensing and geospatial data to empower precision nitrogen management, particularly for farmers who fertigate.

Visit Sentinel Fertigation website

Shifted Energy

Energy Management

Shifted Energy developed a Power Controller and accompanying software that converts existing electric water heaters into intelligent, grid-interactive water heaters.

Visit Shifted Energy website

SolGro

Physical Infrastructure

SolGro has developed a nanoparticle film designed to increase crop productivity through light conversion on greenhouses.

Visit SolGro website

Span

Energy Management

Span is developing a panel that replaces traditional electric panels to deliver a new level of energy automation in the home.

Visit Span website

Stash Energy

HVAC

Stash Energy’s mission is to provide cost-effective, eco-friendly, and convenient solutions for renewable and clean energy sources.

Visit Stash Energy website

STRATIS

Energy Management

STRATIS is an IoT Platform that provides smart access, energy, water, and automation management for multifamily and student housing.

Visit STRATIS website

SunPath

Indoor Agriculture

SunPath is using fiber optics to deliver sunlight deep inside buildings, increasing crop yield and quality in controlled environment agriculture.

Visit SunPath website

Tallarna

Software

Tallarna is an analytics company with a platform that enables building owners to act with confidence and speed towards the legislative goals of carbon net zero.

Visit Tallarna website

TerViva

New Crops

TerViva is commercializing pongamia trees to increase the global supply of plant protein and vegetable oil while restoring agricultural land.

Visit TerViva website

ThermoLift

HVAC

ThermoLift's TCHP™ natural gas-powered air conditioner and cold-climate heat pump combine heating, cooling, and hot water delivery into a single appliance utilizing a proven thermodynamic cycle to improve system efficiency.

Visit ThermoLift website

Turntide Technologies

HVAC

The Turntide Technologies Smart Motor system marries a patented high rotor pole switched reluctance motor with matching motor controller, optional IoT Supervisor, and powerful user-friendly software.

Visit Turntide Technologies website

UbiQD

Smart Glass

UbiQD is producing nanomaterials for energy harvesting that provide a simple, scalable, low-cost, and aesthetically pleasing approach to solar windows.

Visit UbiQD website

VG SmartGlass

Smart Glass

VG SmartGlass (previously SmarterShade) delivers instant privacy, glare, and energy control built into a window.

Visit VG SmartGlass website

WattIQ

Energy Management

WattIQ is a full-stack cleantech company that provides plug-level energy monitoring and control to solve energy and asset management problems for the enterprise.

Visit WattIQ website

Whisker Labs

Energy Management

Whisker Labs develops sensing and software technology for home intelligence and was acquired by Earth Networks, which operates the world’s largest weather observation network.

Visit Whisker Labs website

Yotta Energy

Energy Storage

Yotta Solar is modular energy storage integrated with solar, designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency on commercial buildings.

Visit Yotta Energy website
75F

75F offers an easy-to-setup HVAC controls system that has the potential to save 80 percent in deployment labor versus traditional controls systems.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

7AC Technologies offers a new approach to air conditioning technology, delivering extreme energy savings and the ability to maximize climate-friendly refrigerants.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, HVAC

Adept Materials is developing a multifunctional building material that automatically regulates the flows of heat and water vapor through surfaces.

Alumni, Housing, Materials

AeroShield manufactures a super-insulating, nanoporous form of glass for energy efficient windows.

Housing, Materials

AgroSpheres is enabling the efficient and improved use of synthetic chemicals and biologicals with the goal of cutting chemical pesticide use by 50 percent.

Agriculture, Crop Nutrition

Aker automates the crop-scouting process by capturing and analyzing the presence and intensity of pests and pathogens below the crop canopy.

Agriculture, Alumni, Crop Protection

The APANA water management system offers an innovative solution that goes beyond conservation and enables you to manage your water in real time.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Water

Atlas Sensor Technologies is developing technology to monitor feedwater chemistry to increase efficiencies in indoor agriculture.

Agriculture, Indoor Agriculture

BlocPower replaces fossil fuel-based systems with carbon-free tech and increases efficiency for buildings in diverse communities.

Housing, HVAC

Blokable manufactures a highly energy efficient, pre-fabricated building system that reduces the cost for the company to develop multi-family housing.

Advanced Manufacturing and Construction Innovation, Alumni, Housing

Blue Frontier is a pre-revenue cleantech startup, founded to commercialize the innovative integration of low-cost thermochemical energy storage (ES) with a revolutionary air conditioning (AC) technology.

Commercial Buildings, HVAC

buildee is a cloud-based platform that connects data and applications, bringing together valuable building data for retrofit decision-making.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Analysis

Community Energy Labs’s AI-powered clean building control platform helps utilities and school districts assess decarbonization goals.

Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

CorePower Magnetics' patented high-performance electric motors, inductors, and transformers will extend EV range and improve grid efficiency.

Grid Technologies, Mobility

CoverCress is developing a winter crop that covers soil over winter, protecting it from harsh conditions, while producing a low carbon intensity crop for renewable fuel and food.

Agriculture, Alumni, New Crops

Cypris Materials creates paintable heat-reflective coatings as a roofing retrofit for both residential and commercial building to reduce cooling loads.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Materials

Cytophage Technologies aims to overcome the problem with evolving bacteria that becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics by using synthetic biology.

Agriculture, Crop Protection

Darcy Solutions develops and installs groundwater-sourced heating and cooling systems intended to improve the environment and reduce HVAC costs in buildings.

Housing, HVAC

EarthSense is deploying robotics and machine learning to collect data that will allow farmers to increase yields, eliminate superweeds, and improve crops.

Agriculture, Precision Agriculture

EdgePower is a buildings energy management software company who were acquired by Just Energy.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

Edison Agrosciences tackles the problem of the endangered natural rubber supply by increasing the amount of rubber already produced by the sunflower plant.

Advanced Breeding Technologies, Agriculture

EnKoat has re-engineered traditional architectural coatings, like paint, plaster and stucco, into energy-saving coatings by incorporating phase change materials.

Housing, Materials

ESS Inc. manufactures low-cost, long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Storage

Geli’s end-to-end software platform streamlines the energy storage development process, offering the industry’s only solution for design, automation, and management.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

Glass Dyenamics is developing low-cost plug-and-play smart windows for energy-efficient buildings, homes, and smart cities.

Alumni, Housing, Materials

Go Electric delivers turnkey, distributed energy storage solutions that provide energy security and energy efficiency to facilities and the grid.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

GrowFlux is designing an intelligent horticultural lighting control panel that enables energy savings of 20%-30%.

Agriculture, Indoor Agriculture

Habiterre uses a system-of-systems approach to create a holistic picture of farm production systems and performance, improving emissions, water use, yield, and more.

Agriculture, Precision Agriculture

Impetus Ag is developing next-gen crop insect control products with an eco-friendly platform that enhances the performance of current biological products.

Agriculture, Crop Protection

Impossible Sensing boosts soil management, merging in-situ sensors with regular farming operations to maximize land potential and improve profitability through sustainable practices.

Agriculture, Precision Agriculture

InnerPlant develops seed technology to tap into plants’ natural response pathways and code crops to communicate specific stresses via easy-to-collect optical signals.

Agriculture, Crop Enhancement, Crop Protection

Intrinsyx Bio plant probiotics increase crop yield, reduce excess fertilizer, and improve soil and water conditions.

Agriculture, Alumni, Crop Nutrition

J2 created FIN Framework, the most open software platform for building automation & IoT and was acquired by Siemens.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

Kelvin, formerly Radiator Labs, is solving a 100-year-old problem: the lack of comfort and efficiency in steam-heated buildings.

Housing, HVAC

Kit Switch installs prefabricated walls and ceilings with integrated plumbing and electrical systems in underutilized housing units.

Advanced Manufacturing and Construction Innovation, Housing

Ladybug Tools is a collection of computer applications that support the design process for sustainable buildings and net-zero districts seeking to employ cutting-edge energy technologies.

Commercial Buildings, Energy Analysis

LiquidCool Solutions are leaders in edge computing and designers of the world’s most efficient liquid cooling technology for electronic equipment.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Data Infrastructure

Maalka is an open, energy efficiency platform designed to help cities and building owners easily meet their commercial benchmarking goals.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Analysis

Mirai Solar’s photovoltaic shade screen technology enables sustainable, large-scale agriculture by empowering net zero-energy food production facilities with lower operating costs than current alternatives.

Agriculture, Indoor Agriculture

mobius is creating naturally biodegradable and compostable materials that can replace fertilizers for improved plant and soil health.

Agriculture, Crop Nutrition

NeoCharge is building an integrated software platform that will synchronize charging of electric vehicles and appliances for cleaner and more affordable charging access.

Housing, Software

NETenergy has created a thermal battery using its Black Ice technology, which works much like an electrical battery, except it stores thermal energy.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Storage

New West Genetics is creating proprietary hemp seed bred for high-yield and stability.

Agriculture, Indoor Agriculture

NEXT offers low-cost, printable, transparent coatings that are seamlessly integrated into windows, allowing for the harvest of light energy for use as onsite renewable power.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Smart Glass

NineDot Energy supports grid reliability by using the batteries in fleets of electric vehicles to supply energy back to the grid during times of peak electricity demand.

EV Infrastructure, Mobility

Peptyde Bio strives to provide a safe alternative to combat fungal diseases even as resistance to current solutions accelerates.

Agriculture, Crop Protection

Plastomics is developing technology to introduce beneficial traits into plant cells, creating crops that can withstand insects, diseases, and weeds while delivering higher yields and environmental benefits.

Agriculture, Alumni, Crop Enhancement

Pluton Biosciences is micro-mining and supplying microbes targeted at specific pests, including those with biological resistance to current products.

Agriculture, Alumni, Crop Protection

PowerFlex Systems provides affordable large-scale electric vehicle charging solution for workplaces and have been acquired by EDF Renewables North America.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management, Mobility

Pre Framing is an innovative, partially-prefabricated solution which allows homebuilders, general contractors and framers to build standard and gable walls faster, with less waste and more precision than traditional methods.

Alumni, Housing, Materials

ProStar Energy is a leading energy efficiency innovator in HVAC retrofit and building automation solutions that will meet you where you're at in your journey to achieve energy efficiency.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

RNAissance Ag is developing a safe, effective, and environmentally sustainable insecticide for precision pest management.

Agriculture, Crop Protection

Robigo is shaping microbial communities to create a more sustainable food system.

Agriculture, Crop Protection

Running Tide designs and develops integrated systems to deploy nature-based interventions that remove carbon, combat ocean acidification, and increase the scientific understanding of ocean ecosystems.

Agriculture, Crop Enhancement

Sentinel Fertigation leverages remote sensing and geospatial data to empower precision nitrogen management, particularly for farmers who fertigate.

Agriculture, Precision Agriculture

Shifted Energy developed a Power Controller and accompanying software that converts existing electric water heaters into intelligent, grid-interactive water heaters.

Energy Management, Housing

SolGro has developed a nanoparticle film designed to increase crop productivity through light conversion on greenhouses.

Agriculture, Alumni, Physical Infrastructure

Span is developing a panel that replaces traditional electric panels to deliver a new level of energy automation in the home.

Energy Management, Housing

Stash Energy’s mission is to provide cost-effective, eco-friendly, and convenient solutions for renewable and clean energy sources.

Housing, HVAC

STRATIS is an IoT Platform that provides smart access, energy, water, and automation management for multifamily and student housing.

Alumni, Energy Management, Housing

SunPath is using fiber optics to deliver sunlight deep inside buildings, increasing crop yield and quality in controlled environment agriculture.

Agriculture, Indoor Agriculture

Tallarna is an analytics company with a platform that enables building owners to act with confidence and speed towards the legislative goals of carbon net zero.

Housing, Software

TerViva is commercializing pongamia trees to increase the global supply of plant protein and vegetable oil while restoring agricultural land.

Agriculture, New Crops

ThermoLift's TCHP™ natural gas-powered air conditioner and cold-climate heat pump combine heating, cooling, and hot water delivery into a single appliance utilizing a proven thermodynamic cycle to improve system efficiency.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, HVAC

The Turntide Technologies Smart Motor system marries a patented high rotor pole switched reluctance motor with matching motor controller, optional IoT Supervisor, and powerful user-friendly software.

Commercial Buildings, HVAC

UbiQD is producing nanomaterials for energy harvesting that provide a simple, scalable, low-cost, and aesthetically pleasing approach to solar windows.

Commercial Buildings, Smart Glass

VG SmartGlass (previously SmarterShade) delivers instant privacy, glare, and energy control built into a window.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Smart Glass

WattIQ is a full-stack cleantech company that provides plug-level energy monitoring and control to solve energy and asset management problems for the enterprise.

Alumni, Commercial Buildings, Energy Management

Whisker Labs develops sensing and software technology for home intelligence and was acquired by Earth Networks, which operates the world’s largest weather observation network.

Alumni, Energy Management, Housing

Yotta Solar is modular energy storage integrated with solar, designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency on commercial buildings.

Commercial Buildings, Energy Storage