Meet the companies who have participated in our Venture Fellows program.
Supporting innovators to pilot and scale solutions that enhance community resilience and adaptability to weather disasters and related environmental conditions.
2025 Cohort.
Aequor discovered novel chemicals in the coral reef that eliminate bacterial and fungal contamination in minutes and prevent their formation for days. The company’s EPA-approved, non-toxic analogs out-performed toxic biocides currently used in water treatment systems and agro-industrial processes, as validated by the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and multinationals to disperse biofilm and fouling, improve filtration of PFAS and other toxic chemicals from water sources and save up to 50% energy consumption.
EvoNatura designs plastics with an expiration date. Through drop-in microbial additives compatible with existing manufacturing, EvoNatura programs plastics to degrade after use, eliminating permanence while preserving performance.
From The Land LLC developed and offers Littlest Big Farms, indoor vertical micro-farms for small farmers, nonprofits, and cities. These climate-smart units use 90% less water than outdoor farming and up to 5x less energy than container farms. Their mission is to build a network of Littlest Big Farms to increase food production and livable wage incomes.
HexHomes is committed to bringing innovative solutions to make housing more affordable for residents in California through design, construction, and transportation solutions for modular housing. The company strives to accomplish these goals by prioritizing Affordability, Customizability, Quality, Expandability, and Timeliness throughout their design process.
Mack Research, based in Los Angeles, is transforming clean technology in the building industry with facade-integrated wind energy modules that oscillate to generate on-site renewable power. These systems complement solar by boosting energy resilience and reducing carbon footprints for mid-to-high-rise buildings. Mack Research also provides advanced analysis services, from climate assessments to fluid dynamics, to ensure optimal design and integration.
Ouros Materials is a materials innovation startup building high-performance low-cost materials for construction. The building materials industry is facing unprecedented challenges around fire resiliency, affordability, and environmental impact. The company is changing the norm with new advanced materials technology that is ultra-tough, fire-resistant and 90% lower embodied carbon using their breakthrough low-temperature renewable-energy powered manufacturing that utilizes carbon.
Pure Energy Stream is an energy management company offering hardware-software solutions that optimize fossil fuel and renewable energy use in commercial and industrial facilities. The company’s EcoMAXIM system reduces utility demand and recycles wasted internal power to cut energy costs and emissions. They help facilities become more efficient and self-sustaining while advancing decentralized energy.
Reframe Systems is building the fastest network of robotics and AI-powered microfactories to deliver climate-resilient homes for all. The company’s first microfactory in Andover, MA is producing 20+ homes this year and they’re launching our second microfactory in Los Angeles to accelerate the rebuild of over a thousand homes.
Symmetry Wood creates a new type of wood from food waste, Pyrus™, to replace endangered tropical hardwoods, the logging of which causes significant rainforest destruction and enables a $1.6 billion import market in the U.S. alone. The company is starting by replacing hardwood in musical instruments and will later target flooring, decking, furniture, siding, and more.
Power companies inflict about 50% of the wildfire destruction in the U.S. – with most of the risk coming from overhead power lines touching trees. Existing solutions (putting wires underground, installing insulated wires) cost way too much ($1M-$4M per mile) and take way too long (many years). Witching Hour uses a robotic system to insulate wires in-place, reducing the risk of those wires starting a fire. The company’s solution is about 6x cheaper and an order of magnitude quicker.
2024 Cohort.
AirVitalize is saving lives and the environment by cleaning outdoor air in targeted locations. Outdoor particulate matter pollution is responsible for expedited glacial melt, destruction of fragile water ecosystems, rain acidification, and 1 in 9 premature deaths per year. AirVitalize’s Vita is a compact, mobile, and filterless device that creates healthier air within the range of one football field. What makes AirVitalize unique is the company’s focus on regions that experience temperature inversions, where pollution gets trapped due to frequent atmospheric conditions. As global temperatures rise, inversions become more frequent, causing a rapidly growing health and environmental crisis from outdoor air pollution. AirVitalize’s Vita ensures we will all have access to healthy air outside for generations to come.
Everyone deserves dignity — especially those looking to put food on the table. This is Bag/Get’s singular focus, to improve the user experience across all levels of the food supplementation ecosystem. Bag/Get’s software creates value for all three stakeholders involved: the food banks, food pantries, and their collective food-insecure clientele. Our platform delivers client data collected at the pantry level to their partnered banks & simplifies the reporting process between the two parties. It serves as operational software for pantries to drastically improve efficiency and save countless employee hours, including robust tooling for volunteer management and client intake. Pantry clients are served by personalized user accounts and access to up-to-date information at the community level. All the anonymized data collected in the process, allows for our software to generate a vivid picture of the state of food insecurity in our society today.
Hago Energetics is decarbonizing the industrial and transportations sectors by making low carbon hydrogen from waste materials. We work with farms, landfills and wastewater treatment plants to convert their waste methane to hydrogen useful for heavy duty transportation. In the process we also make biochar, a soil amendment useful for enhancing plant growth.
Replate is the world’s leading food recovery platform helping companies donate surplus food to communities in need. Our vision is to create a food system without waste to mitigate climate change and nourish people and the planet.
SEED is a Certified B-Corp democratizing agriculture technology and closing a digital poverty trap experienced by underserved farmers — mostly represented by Black, Brown, Indigenous and women farmers — in some of the hottest and most polluted urban and developing communities. Our soil carbon sensor delivers real-time, ground-truthed data for remediation and increased yields, ensuring these farmers will not again be left behind because of cost and or access to innovation.
Algas Organics is helping the packaging, paper & pulp industry cut deforestation with our novel seaweed-based fiber that grows ˜320x faster, is ˜40% cheaper, and uses ˜80% less energy than traditional wood fiber. Our patented extraction technology allows us to eliminate heavy metals from invasive Sargassum seaweed and turns this biomass into cost-effective climate-tech solutions to help carbonize major industries.
Gradible stands at the forefront of Miami’s sustainability movement as the city’s first environmental concierge. With a commitment to guiding organizations towards a profitable path to sustainability, Gradible offers a holistic suite of services, including Fractional Chief Sustainability Officer services, strategic social impact improvement, and access to a diverse platform of eco-friendly products, services, and technologies. This 100% female minority-owned enterprise partners with reputable companies all around the world to deliver measurable sustainability solutions, targeting sectors such as hospitality, healthcare, education, sports and more. Gradible’s mission is to inspire businesses in Miami and beyond to embrace responsible practices, ensuring economic growth goes hand in hand with environmental stewardship.
Kadeya’s patented beverage kiosk washes, sanitizes, inspects, and refills bottles to hydrate frontline workers with lower logistics, costs, and safety risks, a $30B market opportunity just in the US. By decentralizing and automating the beverage supply chain, they eliminate 99.9% of plastic waste and 75% of GHGs versus single use beverage containers. Kadeya has global scalability potential and stands to eliminate the need for single use beverage packaging forever, for everyone everywhere.
WatQ.AI is an AI-based platform to enhance data monitoring systems, identify source contamination, and forecast water quality in Miami’s Bay. Utilizing machine learning, the platform will analyze data from monitoring stations and remote sensing to predict water quality trends.
2023 Cohort.
Aquaria’s solar-powered atmospheric water generators safeguard community access to water against disruptions, contamination, drought and climate change. The humidity in the air around us is the most resilient source of water on the planet — where there is air, there is water. As urban groundwater resources are rapidly depleted, and droughts and extreme weather events become more frequent, we can look to the sky for a renewable source of water right where we need it. Aquaria’s unique IP makes for the lowest cost solar-powered water generator that can provide enough continuous drinking water for 300 people.
Healing Gardens is the “Airbnb of Gardens,” incentivizing the use of private gardens or unused land to become revenue-generating community garden spaces. Healing Gardens is a marketplace that makes regenerative organic urban gardens and farms more accessible to urban communities that have been losing access to nature. Gardens can be used to hosts to events, co-working, farming, herbal samplings, wellness activities, yoga, sunset tea ceremonies, cultural workshops and catered experiences. The company’s mission is to draw awareness to the physical and mental wellness benefits of gardens while activating a regenerative organic garden network that reverses climate change.
Seventeen billion square feet of non-residential buildings are currently vacant, of which 6 billion square feet are already zoned for housing. Kit Switch, a next-generation modular interiors company, specializes in the design of eco-friendly kit components to assemble affordable, sustainable and reconfigurable housing units within existing structures. This tackles the unused commercial real estate crisis alongside the affordable housing crisis. The company’s kits of plug-and-play building components replace the traditional fragmented, uncertain and time-consuming retrofit process.
Prosperity Market is a solar-powered “farmers market / food truck on wheels” that sources food from black urban farmers, chefs and artisans to transform local ecosystems and economies through agriculture, food access, nutrition education and community partnerships. We travel throughout LA making it easy to support black businesses while creating healthy and affordable food access for communities in need.
Radiant Innovation offers sustainable cold storage to enable communities to more effectively obtain, store and distribute food to reduce food insecurity. The company’s solar-powered cooler unit — a patent-pending, customized shipping container — is a stand-alone product that meets the needs of growing local food systems. It is meant to be deployed off-grid, providing a new and flexible cold storage option for stakeholders along the cold chain to maintain food safety, reduce nutritional losses of perishable foods and increase access to nutritious food to consumers lacking healthy food options.
ThermoShade is an outdoor cooling company that aims to make our public spaces more comfortable for people to work, learn, and play—and to make our cities more resilient to climate change. ThermoShade is developing a passive cooling panel that can be retrofitted to outdoor spaces, creating a shady environment that feels up to 20°F cooler than a basic awning, without using any electricity or water. ThermoShade panels can provide relief to anyone subjected to extended heat exposure, such as frontline workers, commuters waiting for buses, students playing on asphalt playgrounds, restaurant and warehouse workers, and sports participants and attendees.
VNDRMATCH is transforming corner stores into healthy food stations to reduce urban food deserts. The company is challenging food supply chains and reimagining food sourcing in Los Angeles. By connecting existing infrastructure — corner stores— with resources for healthy, affordable foods, the company aims to address food insecurity and inequality, providing everyone the right to nutritious food. With their platform, the company strives to create a more equitable food system through innovative technology and extensive local partner collaboration. VNDRMATCH believes everyone should have access to affordable, nutritious and delicious food.
Now more than ever it is critical that our community, including our children, change their behaviors to reduce the production of carbon dioxide (CO2), slow the impacts of climate change and conserve our water resources. Dream in Green assists diverse organizations, including schools, households, local governments and businesses to reduce their environmental footprint. By establishing partnerships in Miami communities, the company develops, implements and oversees educational programs and workshops that promote environmentally sustainable behaviors among all age groups.
GROWLOT is democratizing food access through landscape beautification and innovative food service catered to local needs. The company turns vacant and abandoned lots into healthy neighborhood food sources by providing a subscription-based vertical grow garden with garden-to-box restaurant and delivery food service. These gardens will be “micro grow stations” that can be leased by members of the neighborhood who want access to fresh produce but may not have the space, time or know-how to grow their own. To further activate the space, classes will be offered to the community to educate kids and adults on urban gardening, healthy eating and meal prep tips.
Hyperlocal Farms integrates aquaculture with hydroponics to create a self-sustaining symbiotic food ecosystem that provides local fresh food to underserved urban communities. Hyperlocal Farms’ method uses 95% less water, creates zero waste and produces a much higher yield than typical urban farming. Hyperlocal Farms raises aquatic animals such as fish whose waste products serve as a source of nutrients for plants cultivated in water-based systems. By reciprocally purifying the water, this method creates a synergistic relationship between plants and animals, resulting in a high yield of fruits, vegetables, and herbs with significantly reduced resource utilization compared to traditional farming practices.
Five hundred seven global coastal communities are at imminent risk from rising sea levels. Kind Designs is the world’s first company to 3D print living seawalls that function as coral reefs. These reefs to protect coastal communities and sequester CO2. Kind Designs’ living seawalls have built-in sensors to track essential water quality data, transforming seawalls into a protective and sensory organism that improves biodiversity. Living seawalls are cheaper and faster to produce and permit than any conventional seawall products on the market today.
Phytoflora’s “green infrastructure” innovation uses floating treatment wetlands (FTW) — a created ecosystem that mimics natural wetlands’ nutrient reduction processes by using floating rafts to support hydroponically grown plants. This solution builds on indigenous methodology used in Latin America for centuries. The company seeks to remediate nutrient pollution in South Florida waterways using market crops on floating treatment wetlands, producing plants and mangrove saplings that can then be planted to increase coastal resilience.
Solar United runs solarize campaigns, “co-ops,” that are free bulk purchase programs that use economies of scale to help more homeowners access solar energy. The company has been consistently innovating and pushing to expand equitable access to solar in Florida, a policy-enabled, access-barren landscape. With increased support, the company seeks to leverage solar energy community ambassadors to increase educational awareness and consumer protection in underserved, energy burdened neighborhoods.
Current Cohort.
Take a look at each of the companies who are currently participating in our 2025 Venture Fellows program.
The Venture Fellows program is a nine-month, immersive experience that supports innovators to pilot and scale solutions that enhance community resilience and adaptability to weather disasters and related environmental conditions at no-cost and no-equity.
Los Angeles and Miami are two cities where climate change will continue to have a major impact on underserved communities. The Venture Fellows selected for this inaugural cohort are entrepreneurs who are ready to address some of the challenges these communities face, such as accessing clean water, reducing the impact of sea-level rise and improving the livability of urban spaces.
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