1776 traveled the world—from Africa to China to our own backyard—and found the most promising 16 startups revolutionizing energy—everything from production to storage to efficiency & more. Join us as these 16 entrepreneurs face off for two $50,000 prizes and a spot to join the rest of the “Elite Eight” for the Global Finals on Saturday, May 16. Consider this your glimpse into the future of energy throughout the world and an opportunity to meet the people behind the biggest ideas with global impact.
Meet the 16 competing startups below!
Schedule:
4:00 – 6:00 pm: Startup pitches — Each startup will get 2 minutes to pitch their business, followed by another 2 minutes of questioning by the investor & industry expert judges. Startups will be judged based on how big their potential market is, how much traction they’ve gotten so far, and other factors that evaluate whether the entrepreneur has the idea and the team to scale globally.
6:00 – 6:45 pm: Reception, opportunity to meet startups, and judging
6:45 pm: Two Semifinalists Announced
Dress code: Startup friendly
There will be casual food and drink provided.
Location: Lansburgh Theatre – 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005
Cross Streets: E Street NW & 7th Street NW
Parking: Garage Entrance on 8th Street between D and E Streets NW, Cost: $12/day
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown (Red Line) at 7th and G Streets, 2 blocks from the Theatre.
There will be bus transportation from the Lansburgh Theater to the Energy & Sustainability Gala. Buses will run back and forth between Lansburgh and the gala location; the final bus to Lansburgh will leave the gala location at 10:15 p.m.
Want more startup action throughout the week? Join us for our a.m. energy & sustainability conference, or buy a badge for the whole week!
Competitors
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Tagaddod
Tagaddod is a renewable energy startup based in Cairo, Egypt, currently focusing on the production and export of biodiesel from waste cooking oil.
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Lucelo Technologies
Lucelo’s mission is to put electrical power in places where it currently does not exist with low-cost printable solar cells. Their goal is to turn every day plastic, paper, and fabric media into readily accessible micro power grid.
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Energy Guru Sharpersun
Energy Guru Sharpersun has developed solar boilers to displace industrial heat energy.
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Seeder
Seeder is a green-building marketplace for commercial buildings to get matched to the best services and technologies that enable them to save energy and access the incentives to help pay for these improvements. By using Seeder, property developers and managers can meet the latest green building regulations, increase property value…
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Miito
Miito believes that simplicity and innovation can provide logical solutions to well known problems. Their aim is to create intuition-driven everyday products by approaching the design and development from a humanistic starting point.
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Orco Power
Orco Power is an energy service company that produces additives that modify crude oil to replace diesel fuel in high RPM engines. They have developed an additive that, applied with our proprietary additive feeding system, modifies crude oil and makes it a viable replacement to diesel fuel in high RPM engines.
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SmarterShade
SmarterShade is a novel approach which finally makes smartglass simple and affordable. A user can make any window can go from clear to completely dark; with various shades in between. This results in a significant energy reduction by blocking out unwanted solar heat.
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Exergyn
Exergyn has developed an engine that runs on hot water. Technically, this engine—the Exergyn Drive—is capable of converting low-grade waste heat to power. Crucially, it does this in a commercially attractive way.
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BaseTrace
BaseTrace provides DNA-based tracers that can show where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments.
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EcoEnergy
EcoEnergy provides clean energy solutions to the rural energy-poor of Pakistan through its deep distribution network. The network enables EcoEnergy to provide relevant products in villages located beyond the grid and through existing distribution and bank branch networks.
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MODEBO
Modebo’s goal is to provide efficiency and savings to buildings in an easy and inexpensive way, affordable to all. The key is setting trends in technology, generating and analyzing energy data to revolutionize international consumption.
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PowerGen Renewable Energy
PowerGen Renewable Energy, which rebranded from WindGen Power in 2013, installs kilowatt-scale wind and solar power systems in East Africa, as well as solar water-pumping systems, inverter-battery backup systems, LED lighting and solar water heating. PowerGen has undertaken projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Somalia.
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Radiator Labs
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Sealed
Sealed partners with trusted, certified contractors to install and maintain energy-saving home improvements to guarantee that residents will save money after making energy-saving home improvements.
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WattBlock
Wattblock gives owners corporations and body corporates an energy saving roadmap by using details about your block to make calculations about your common area energy consumption. After entering your details, Wattblock does the analysis for you, providing a simple report to assist you in driving down your strata levies.
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Aquanos
Aquanos has developed a unique wastewater treatment technology and system, which uses a fraction of the energy required by conventional wastewater treatment plants. The system is based on a novel approach, using microalgae to produce the oxygen required for aerobic wastewater treatment, which then takes place on a fixed-film system.
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GridCure
GridCure provides a smart-grid analytics solution with a system that is able to consume utility data from smart meters, combine it with utility external data such as weather or local population demographics, and return utilities insights.
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Strauss Energy
Strauss Energy’s vision is to reduce extreme poverty by converting freely available clean energy into passive income, using an architecturally appealing roofing tile made of plastic with solar cells to generate power from the sun enough to power the house in question and a little extra to sell.
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Green Cosmos Energy
Green Cosmos started as a renewable energy consulting company and then transformed into a big data energy analytics company. It has developed a real-time energy analytics and sustainability solution with solar integration decision-support on the cloud.
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Eco Fuels Kenya
EFK Group produces energy (biofuel, briquettes) and agriculture (fertilizer, poultry feed) products for industrial customers through a no-waste manufacturing process based entirely on the Croton nut, which grows indigenously across 8 African countries and has no other commercial, productive or edible use.