Department of Energy — 2020 Investments
89 investments dated 2020 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
Acadian R&D develops advanced carbon materials, converting waste-derived biochar from domestically sourced renewable feedstocks into lower-cost graphene oxide replacement products.
CleantechDeep TechNew Materials
Achillea Research develops software products and provides consulting for power systems, focused on integrating inverter-based resources (IBRs) into the electrical grid.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Penn Oak Energy Services provides energy supply solutions for large energy users, including gas trading, bulk fuels and secondary markets, electricity, and green energy certifications.
Energy
Philip J. Parker
Air Dynamics designs and manufactures custom industrial air and particle control systems—including dust collection, pneumatic conveying, air purification, central vacuum, and explosion protection—to solve airflow and contaminant challenges at their root cause.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechHardwareYork, US
Alchemr develops industrial-scale water electrolyzers that operate with intermittent power sources and do not rely on precious metals, aiming to produce low-cost green hydrogen.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
AltiSora develops specialty materials technology, including high-performance coatings ("Cimentaire") that reuse recycled wind turbine blade waste, integrally waterproof foamed concrete additives, and waterproofing gels.
Circular EconomyConstruction TechNew Materials
Antares Group (operating as Stark Tech) provides clean energy consulting and owner's engineering services for solar projects, covering site development, land acquisition, interconnection, design, and feasibility analysis.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
ARES Security offers an enterprise security software platform with a set of tools, including its AVERT solutions, aimed at improving operations, security, and safety for organizations across multiple industries.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Automat Solutions is a U.S.-based company that develops battery electrolytes and uses AI to accelerate materials discovery and formulation.
AI & Machine LearningEnergyNew MaterialsSan Leandro, US
Berkeley, US
Bruce Wootton(Executive Officer, Director)Francesco Borrelli(Executive Officer)Santosh Alexander(Executive Officer, Director)
Barron Associates develops intelligent and adaptive technologies to measure, model, predict, and control complex systems, with the aim of improving performance, safety, and efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Centroid Lab develops modeling, simulation, and visualization software built on its NDYN enterprise platform, including a fluid solver (Neutrino) and fire modeling and risk analysis tools (FRI3D) for scenarios such as wave-impact, flooding, and nuclear plant fire safety.
CleantechDeep TechEnterprise Software
Chemtronergy is a cleantech company conducting R&D on sustainable energy technologies, including solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolyzers, and all solid-state lithium batteries for power generation, chemical/hydrogen production, and energy storage.
CleantechDeep TechEnergySalt Lake City, US
ClearlyEnergy provides software and analytics for building energy benchmarking and Building Performance Standards (BPS) programs, serving jurisdictions and utilities across the United States.
CleantechEnergyPropTech
Véronique Bugnion(Co-founder & CEO)
Ithaca, US
Clayton Poppe(Executive Officer, Director)Tobias Hanrath(Director)David Erickson(Director)Jason Salfi(Executive Officer, Director)
Duryea Technologies designs and manufactures BLDC (brushless DC) motors, generators, IC engines, and power electronics, offering engineered-to-order solutions and product development services to OEMs alongside a line of standard motor-based products.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Crystal Positioning Systems provides equipment for room-temperature and controlled-humidity crystallography, including a thermal shipper that maintains samples at 20°C for up to 168 hours.
BiotechDeep TechHardware
Exergi Predictive develops energy, power, and predictive analytics technologies using physics-informed AI and machine learning to improve readiness, resilience, and fleet performance.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnergy
Grid Fruit provides AI-driven energy monitoring and control technology for food retailers, offering real-time energy tracking, demand-response consulting, and energy auditing services.
AI & Machine LearningEnergyRetail Tech
HighRI Optics designs and produces high-refractive-index optical components.
Deep TechHardwareNew Materials
iMetalX develops real-time perception and characterization software for space object tracking and orbital operations, serving U.S. national security missions.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechSpace TechSausalito, US
Nehal Gajjar(CEO and Founder)Alex Fleming(CTO & Cofounder)
Infisys provides data engineering, analytics, and reporting services, including consulting, education, and hands-on development, with a focus on open architectures and long-term maintainability.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Edward M. Roush
ISSI provides support services to federal customers including the US Department of Defense, US Navy, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health, as well as U.S. industry and academic laboratories.
Deep TechDefense Tech
Kebotix uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and laboratory automation to discover and develop new materials and molecules.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew MaterialsCambridge, US
Dennis Sheberla(Executive Officer)Semion Saykin(Executive Officer)Alan Aspuru-Guzik(Executive Officer)Ashish Kulkarni(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTong Hui(Director)Andrew Krowne(Director)
Ampere Scientific develops sensor and control systems paired with a software suite for monitoring and controlling the Vacuum Arc Remelting process.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
Provides power plant performance monitoring that combines first-principles heat balance analysis with data-driven advanced pattern recognition to detect changes in plant performance.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaS
KVA Stainless manufactures and supplies stainless steel and high alloy welded tubing, and develops patented welding and thermal processing technologies for air-hardenable alloys used in engineered tubing products.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
Sanchez Engineering develops optical and sensor-based technologies, including PIQuE software for Windows that analyzes geotagged image collections to detect photogrammetry reconstruction issues and an Android app for calculating drone flight parameters such as height, field of view, and ground sample distance.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardware
Sanchez(Founder, Optical Engineer, Drone Pilot)
Microcvd develops and commercializes Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition (Laser CVD) additive manufacturing technology, designing and building custom systems and offering production print services such as conformal printed antennas and direct-write patterns on ceramics.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
Millennitek manufactures and designs advanced technical ceramics and composites, including neutron absorbers and gamma/neutron shielding materials, for the nuclear and energy industries.
Deep TechEnergyNew MaterialsKnoxville, US
Steve GetleyDrew SpradlingMatthew Buchmeyer
Multiscale is an advanced manufacturing and engineering company offering hybrid metal additive manufacturing, precision machining, polymer forming, composites, tooling, and inspection services.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
NanoVMs builds unikernel technology (based on the Nanos operating system and the Ops tooling) that packages applications into small, single-purpose virtual machines without a traditional OS, aiming for faster boot times, higher server density, and reduced attack surface.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Nielson Scientific provides 3D microfabrication and nano ablation services for semiconductors, metals, and other materials, using electrical and mechanical engineering to build custom microsystems and microdevices.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
OceanMotion develops products that convert and store wave energy, serving scientific and oceanographic observation, maritime and offshore aquaculture monitoring, and maritime security, defense, and ISR applications.
CleantechDefense TechEnergy
OceanSpace Sensors makes the Aquatic Imager, a device for sampling and imaging zooplankton and other small particulates (~0.5-50 mm) in aquatic environments.
Climate TechDeep TechHardware
Pancopia builds technologies, including its patented FreshFlush system, that accelerate natural biological processes to treat nutrient waste and recover water in animal agriculture, targeting lagoon-based livestock operations such as swine farms.
AgTechCleantechClimate Tech
Bill Cumbie(CEO)
Pecos Wind Power builds small wind turbines optimized for low wind speeds, using a prefabricated foundation to reduce construction time and offering flexible financing to help customers lower electricity costs.
CleantechEnergyHardwareSomerville, US
JOSHUA GROLEAU(Executive Officer)
BoardJAMES FORTE(Director)CAMERON REAGOR(Director)
PSD combines building science with software tools, engineering services, and training to help utility companies, program implementers, and building performance professionals design energy efficiency programs and achieve energy savings.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
Picoyune makes the MA-1, a portable mercury vapor analyzer that uses proprietary plasmonic sensors to give continuous, live readings and log worker exposure across a shift.
Deep TechHardwareIoT
PolyMaterials App is a technology company developing supercapacitor and energy-storage devices, including a hybrid supercapacitor called Poly-Scap.
Deep TechEnergyNew Materials
RadTran is a company specializing in the separation and concentration of critical radioisotopes, including radium-226 and radium-228, from uranium and thorium process streams.
BiotechDeep TechHealthtech
Saleem Drera(President & CEO)
RenewCO₂ develops an electrocatalytic carbon utilization technology (eCUT) that converts waste CO₂ from industrial emissions into chemicals and fuels using only water and electricity and a patented catalyst.
CleantechClimate TechNew MaterialsSomerset, US
Karin Calvinho(CTO)Anders Laursen(CEO)
BoardNeal Dikeman(Director)
ResilientGrid provides software for electric grid control room operators, integrating multiple data streams into a single view for system-wide situational awareness and linking operator desktops with control room video walls for real-time network monitoring.
EnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
ROI Engineering LLC provides control system integration engineering, consulting, and technical services, including PLC programming, SCADA/HMI development, and turnkey automation projects for manufacturing and industrial clients across various market sectors.
Advanced ManufacturingEnterprise SoftwareHardware
Sequent Logic designs custom RF and mixed-signal electronics along with signal acquisition, DSP, and waveform synthesis solutions supporting ultra-wide bandwidths and high throughput.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
SkyNano develops an electrochemical technology that captures CO₂ from industrial by-products and converts it into solid carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and battery-grade graphite at low cost.
CleantechClimate TechNew Materials
SYNDEM develops grid-forming inverters and Virtual Synchronous Machine (VSM) technology that integrate solar, wind, EVs, storage, AI data centers, and loads using the synchronization physics of synchronous machines, providing autonomous, cyber-resilient stabilization for power grids.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Terrafore Technologies develops thermal energy storage systems—including encapsulated phase change materials (TerraCaps) and dual-media thermocline storage (TerraKline)—that aim to lower the cost of storing thermal energy from concentrated solar power (CSP) plants.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Bean Cellar is a specialty coffee roaster that sources beans from small farms in Southeast Asia and roasts them in small batches.
ConsumerFoodTech
Upstream Tech builds software for land and water management, including its Lens (geospatial monitoring) and HydroForecast (hydrological forecasting) products.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechSaaS
Marshall Moutenot(Chief Executive Officer)Alden Keefe Sampson(Chief Technology Officer)Carolyn duPont(Chief Commercial Officer)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.