BE Fellows

Enhancing agricultural climate adaptation and resilience by protecting crops against frost damage using autonomously operating microbes

Aikido Technologies has designed a self-erecting platform for floating, offshore wind turbines to overcome key barriers to increasing offshore wind energy production

Building the future of energy with stimulated geologic hydrogen—harnessing natural subsurface processes to produce clean hydrogen directly from the earth

Arcturus is creating a new wire technology stack that infuses advanced carbon nanomaterials into metals to push past the material limits of traditional conductors where performance breaks down.

Arculus Solutions is future-proofing current natural gas transmission pipelines to safely transport hydrogen

Arinna is empowering humans and machines with abundant solar energy via its paper-thin power-dense solar panel technology

Tackling industrial CO₂ emissions from two angles—what goes in and what comes out—and using commonly found rocks to do it

Barocal is revolutionizing cooling and heating with a breakthrough solid-state technology that offers very high energy efficiency without harmful refrigerant gases

Beyond Silicon is developing a tandem solar cell that enables efficiency beyond 30% and unlocks the next generation of solar energy

Producing sustainable hydrocarbon fuels from captured CO₂ and renewable H₂—offering decentralized alternatives to fossil-based fuels to meet energy demands

Calion’s cooling technology eliminates refrigerants that account for almost 20% of global warming by simply using salt and water—the world's two safest and most abundant materials, and uses a new thermodynamic cycle that is more efficient, making cooling cheaper than ever

Celluol is using the power of biology to convert underutilized waste such as crop or forest residues into fuels and chemicals.

CemVision AB combines three different technologies into one process to reduce carbon emissions from cement and concrete production

Developing an electrochemical process using only water and electricity to convert captured CO2 into basic chemicals that can be used to make everyday products

Chement's patent-pending technology eliminates all CO2 emissions in cement production.

ChemFinity Technologies is developing new porous membrane materials to reduce the energy needed to purify salt water and recover valuable metals

Clear Skies Hydrogen (CSH2) seeks to deliver refueling with diesel-parity cost and operating convenience to unlock large-scale adoption of hydrogen for trucking and heavy-duty transport

ClimateCrop enhances plants' genetics using non-GM techniques to increase yield per unit area with less inputs, resulting in a lower carbon footprint

Conduit Tech develops tools that make it easier for HVAC contractors to install and maintain low-emissions residential heating and cooling technologies

Developing a novel catalytic technology that converts biogas into bio-methanol in a lower cost, simplified process

Developing a technology that recycles waste PET back into its original monomer, with the goal of enabling a sustainable, closed-loop process that eliminates plastic pollution and reduces emissions

Dioxycle is a company that is converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products through low-temperature electrolysis

Electroflow Technologies is decarbonizing lithium production by using renewable electricity to convert saltwater into battery grade lithium chemicals

Entropy Lab is optimizing material properties to create paints and coatings which passively cool buildings to save energy and reduce the urban heat island effect.

Espiku has developed a technology to concentrate Li-containing brines while producing clean water and solid salts, allowing cost-competitive mineral extration with lower environmental impact

EverBloom is giving discarded proteins a second life, transforming them into fibers that emulate textiles such as cashmere and wool and improving the environmental footprint of the fashion industry.

Every Electric enables people to monetize grid flexibility through batteries, which allows hybrid support for everyday loads

EvolOH (ee VOH loh) is blazing a path toward low-cost, green hydrogen production using innovative electrolyzer materials and hardware

Ferrum is commercializing a melter technology to make existing low-emission steel plants cost-competitive with carbon-based technologies

Furno is leveraging oxyfuel combustion and novel design to develop smaller, less capital-intensive, and energy efficient plants that enable the production of zero-emission cement

Gallox Semiconductors is reducing energy waste by improving the efficiency of power conversion through the use of gallium oxide-based transistors and diodes.

Gencores produces high-performance and ultra-light composite metamaterials enabling radical improvement in vehicle efficiency.

GeoKiln is unlocking the next onshore energy revolution by producing clean, low-cost hydrogen directly from iron-rich rocks using proven oil and gas technology.

Green COP enables the production of second-generation biobutanol from agricultural waste, supporting the global transition to renewable energy.

Hertha's technology enables steel production from any grade of iron ore or waste oxide, in any format—including fines and lumps—in a semi-continuous, single-step, cost-competitive process

Hgen enables cheaper and more efficient clean hydrogen production that seamlessly integrates with renewable energy systems

Developing a direct air carbon capture system that utilizes organic chemical compounds to increase capture efficiencies and reduce energy consumption by lowering regeneration temperatures

Hoofprint Biome is developing probiotics that improve cattle health and digestive efficiency while eliminating methane production

HyperHeat is developing an all-electric industrial heater which can reach 2000°C to directly electrify industrial processes in hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement, chemicals, and glass.

Hyperion Transport Systems is developing a novel electric thruster for in-space propulsion with higher fuel efficiency and thrust density, increasing maneuverability and mission capability while reducing propellant usage.

LiftOFF Technology's drop-in battery chemistry can triple energy density while enhancing cell safety by using abundant domestic elements, unlocking electrification for aviation, maritime, and edge-AI systems.

Lincore has developed a circular refining technology that extracts critical minerals from batteries, and processes them into ready-to-use battery precursors

Revolutionizing the ammonia production process, making it cleaner, cheaper, and scalable

Electrifying key processes in lime and cement production to eliminate fossil fuel-generated CO₂ emissions—and capturing remaining emissions for storage

Loamist's platform simplifies the sourcing of renewable biomass feedstocks by combining software with a physical network to gather, standardize, and track biomass feedstocks

MacroCycle seeks to decarbonize the plastics industry by upcycling low quality waste plastics into high quality plastic products through a novel low-energy chemical process

Developing the first high-temperature liquid-phase carbon capture materials for use in industrial processes that could substantially reduce costs and energy losses relative to incumbent technologies

Marathon Fusion designs, engineers, and scales next-generation fuel-processing technologies to enable the deployment and scale-up of fusion power plants

Mars Materials is commercializing a technique that transforms captured CO₂ emissions into a compound used to produce low-cost, low-carbon materials for industrial use

MetPeel is a new manufacturing process for making steel sheet and strip using a unique low-temperature, single-step process in place of conventional fossil-fired hot rolling

Molten Industries produces graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries and clean hydrogen for steel & chemical production using methane pyrolysis

NitroVolt is decarbonizing nitrogen-based fertilizer production and making the agricultural sector more resilient with a novel production process

Developing a scaffolding platform to enable cost-effective production of whole cuts of cultivated meat at scale, accelerating adoption of this sustainable source of animal protein

Olokun Minerals uses a mineral recovery process to provide mineral-based products sustainably sourced for a variety of industries

Othersphere's search engine for global infrastructure helps developers, financiers, and operators build better projects faster

Path Power is developing a self-boring high-voltage transmission cable system that enables faster, cheaper, and less disruptive underground power line installation.

Phase Biolabs leverages modified microorganisms to recycle carbon dioxide more efficiently into cost-competitive carbon-negative chemicals and carbon-neutral electrofuels

Building tools and consumables to metalize silicon cells with base metals instead of silver, reducing costs and accelerating adoption of more efficient cell designs

Phycobloom has developed modified algae that produces an oil that can be used for biofuels while also capturing carbon

PowerNaP Energy is making batteries cheap. We engineer battery materials that increase the energy density of sodium-ion batteries, raising them to parity with lithium-ion at roughly half the cost.

Prospect Growth manufactures nanofertilizers that boost crop yields, decrease costly nutrient inputs, and minimize environmental losses.

Qarbotech is revolutionizing farming by harnessing carbon nanomaterials to boost plants' light-use efficiency, enabling higher yields while advancing circular, low-emission agriculture.

Queens Carbon is developing a hydrothermal processing technology to significantly reduce the energy consumption and cost for both carbon capture and carbon-neutral cement production

Rarefied is developing a novel propulsion mechanism that allows lightweight platforms to stay aloft in near-space (30-100 km altitudes) using only sunlight.

RenewCO₂ is commercializing a proprietary catalyst and one-step process to convert CO₂ into cost-competitive carbon-negative monomers, chemicals, and fuels

Renewable Iron Fuel Technology (RIFT) is leveraging hydrogen and the rusting properties of iron to produce carbon-neutral energy for heat-intensive industries

Silicate permanently removes excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via the acceleration of a natural geochemical process—mineral weathering

Sinkco Labs has developed a biogeomimetic process for carbon removal leveraging marine sediments, an existing carbon sink

Spark is pioneering work toward net-zero aviation and broader industrial decarbonization with its cost-effective, demand-responsive e-fuel technology, designed to integrate seamlessly with lowest-cost, intermittent renewables.

Step Function is leveraging the chemical potential of ferrous iron rich natural minerals and industrial wastes to produce low-cost carbon-negative fuels.

Sustainable Chemicals has developed a bioplastic that is cost and performance competitive with petroleum bases plastics

Developing the first portable device for converting post-harvest crop and forest residues into bioproducts that can be used by even the most hard-to-access, underserved communities

Terra Oleo is pioneering microbial technology to create next generation fats and oils that sustainably power the world's products.

Thunderstone uses high voltage electricity to loosen underground deposits opening the door for metals from previously uneconomic ores without excavation nor tailings.

Unemit's direct air capture technology is scalable to gigatons, swift in its path there, and sustainable

Valoron transforms non-recyclable waste into clean chemicals and fuels for industries that are hardest to decarbonize.

Verne is developing critical power and cooling infrastructure to power the new industrial base

Vertility Health is developing a sperm selection technology that enables farmers to breed cattle with specific traits - faster, more precisely, and without gene editing.

Voluna uses autonomous neutron technology to deliver real-time geochemical mapping for mineral exploration

WattAir is turning waste heat and sunlight into clean water and efficient cooling using their modular sorbent-coated heat-exchanger system