Advanced Professionals Insurance and Benefits Solutions: With decades of combined domain expertise, Advanced Professionals help associations, producers, and carriers grow their business with an array of exclusive wholesale benefits plans and offerings. We deliver it all with concierge-level client service through a centralized hub that streamlines the entire process.
Alder & Co: Alder is a global clean energy and climate tech marketing agency combining deep expertise in growth marketing with a bold approach to building daring and disruptive brands.
Banyu Carbon to radically reduce the cost of carbon capture. By providing low cost and easily verified carbon credits to companies and governments with ambitious climate goals, we seek to avoid the worst environmental impacts of climate change and hasten the transition to a net-zero carbon economy.
BlueDot Motorworks: Blue Dot Motorworks provides significant savings to fleet operators and individual drivers by electrifying their existing cars and light trucks. Our universal plug-in hybrid conversion kits can be installed on nearly any vehicle, by any mechanic, in about a day, and reduce typical fuel consumption by 70%. Our highly scalable and mass-producible products can pay for themselves in under two years and can save tens-of-thousands of dollars over their lifespan, all while dramatically accelerating the decarbonization of road transportation.
CarbonQuest‘s mission is to provide advanced decarbonization technologies and solutions for the distributed built environment.
The Clean Energy Entrepreneur Cluster is a collaborative initiative led by E8 Angels, CleanTech Alliance, Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, and Latino Founders focused on accelerating early-stage clean energy innovation. The cluster supports entrepreneurs bringing promising climate technologies to market, with a special emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in overburdened communities. It provides targeted training, mentorship, and investor access to help startups and community-based entrepreneurs develop business strategies, technical solutions, and deployment plans. With broad relevance across sectors—from green hydrogen to maritime and infrastructure decarbonization—the cluster plays a foundational role in advancing the clean energy economy across Washington and beyond.
Cool Amps Energy Solutions is an On-Site Engineering Systems. Our localized, modular, and mobile recovery platforms keep critical materials under your control.
Emerald Battery Labs is revolutionizing sodium-ion batteries. Utilizing a localized critical mineral free supply chain, we create advanced materials which improve the performance and reduce the cost of sodium-ion batteries.
E8: Founded in 2006 as the Northwest Energy Angels, E8 was the first 501(c)(6) angel group in the United States to focus exclusively on clean technology and sustainability.
Our community adopted the name Element 8 in 2014, now abbreviated to E8, to reflect the symbolism of Oxygen, the eighth element, as a catalyst for transforming both our planet and economy. We aim to breathe life into and fuel enterprises committed to creating a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable, and prosperous world.
A distinguished community of accredited angel investors and partner organizations, E8 harnesses the potential of enterprise combined with investments to accelerate the clean technology revolution and amplify investment returns. E8 offers seasoned and new investors early-stage deals, learning opportunities, and networking events to build an innovative portfolio that aligns with their interests and goals.
The Focus on Fusion Cluster is a consortium of the fusion energy companies and surrounding ecosystem that aims to overcome common industry challenges.
This multi-pronged innovation cluster seeks to raise the profile and competitiveness of the fusion energy industry through key collaborations in areas such as supply chain, regulatory hurdles, workforce development, and community benefits and engagement.
Our mission is to increase competitiveness and actively demonstrate the benefits of industry co-location in the state of Washington and the region.
Humankind Homes: We build homes that are Net Zero Energy, using carbon-negative blocks, and designed to resist nature’s disasters. At the same time, we know that these homes must be affordable and look like an actual ‘home’.
Johnston Engineering is the region’s only product development engineering firm with true integrated engineering design, analysis, and fabrication. Our approach of integrated design and analysis ensures the quickest product development cycle with the least number of prototype iterations which saves our customers time and money. We design, fabricate, and deliver your product in a timely manner and at a competitive price.
Lateral Systems is a platform company targeting Indoor Farming Systems to empower farmers with data insights to advance regenerative agriculture.
Latino Founders is investing in the entrepreneurs that are redefining our communities for lasting impact
Novara Energy Alliance is a new partnership network with a mission to amplify the region’s energy expertise and innovation. This session reviews the evolution of this new innovation alliance, from the history of public-private-academic partnership work in Spokane’s university district, to recent federal and state grant-funded work on grid resilience to future plans that hope to enhance collaboration and promote the Inland Northwest’s energy innovation story to inspire investment and widespread support.
Powerize NW: More than 80 Powerize partners in Oregon and Washington work together to develop and advance secure technologies (OSIC) for the grid and utility-scale energy storage (BESS). They represent the public sector, industry, utilities, universities, startups, community groups, and philanthropic and venture capital. Together we address policy and research gaps to scale a world-class ecosystem for next-generation smart grid technologies.
Washington Clean Energy Testbeds – The University of Washington Clean Energy Institute created the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds to accelerate the development, scale-up, and adoption of new technologies in solar harvesting, energy storage, and system integration. This open-access facility in Seattle, founded on the principle that users retain all intellectual property, offers customized training and use of instruments for fabricating prototypes, testing devices and modules, and integrating systems. The facility also houses meeting and office space where users from academia and business work and collaborate.
Through special events, Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor-in-Residence programs, and community-sponsored networking opportunities, the Testbeds are an active gathering space for cleantech innovators and investors.
Washington State University, Institute for Northwest Energy Futures (INEF) is entrusted to meet the global challenge of developing a reliable and resilient energy future. INEF is using an integrated systems approach to optimize the interrelationship between emerging clean technology solutions, existing resources, and the economic, social, and policy ramifications of these solutions. By fostering collaboration, innovation, and policy development, we aim to accelerate the adoption of reliable and affordable electricity and transportation fuels.
ZILA BioWorks: We develop innovative biomaterials and processes that meaningfully prioritize people, planet, and performance.