The Clean Fight New York, a nonprofit climate-tech accelerator, has unveiled the nine startups that will be the second cohort of its program to support companies working to decarbonize and electrify New York’s non-luxury residential and commercial buildings.
Each of the companies selected for the six-month program is eligible for a range of tailored benefits, including up to $250,000 per company in grants, hands-on assistance from industry-leading customer and capital partners, support services worth $25,000 per company and expert advice on navigating the New York market.
Aeroseal, a climate technology company based in Miamisburg, is one of only nine companies selected from a field of more than 135 companies.
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The Clean Fight said the inaugural cohort, which graduated in April, has already made significant traction in New York, including receiving $900,000 in grant funding from The Clean Fight and raising more than $100 million in follow-on funding. In addition, the startups have won 14 contracts or are in advanced discussions with partners in the state, and two-thirds of the companies have established or expanded their base in New York.
Companies in the second cohort include:
- Aeroseal, which has developed a sealant that injects micro-particles into leaks as small as a human hair, to eliminate drafts in homes.
- Allume Energy, developer of the world’s only behind-the-meter hardware designed to enable multi-family homes to share solar from a single rooftop system, allowing this underserved segment to access the financial and environmental benefits of solar for the first time.
- CleanFiber, maker of a high-performance insulation made from recycled cardboard that can provide superior performance at a lower cost. It can eliminate hundreds of millions of annual carbon emissions by improving efficiency, reducing the energy required to produce insulation and by directly sequestering carbon.
- Flair, an IoT-building company transforming traditional residential HVACs to increase comfort, reduce energy usage and enable the path to hybrid and full electrification via grid-interactive controls and vents.
- Indow, which is making custom window inserts that simply press inside existing frames, reducing the massive energy loss from windows and reducing noise at a fraction of the often-prohibitive cost of window replacement.
- Pearl Certification, developer of a certification and marketplace platform that incentivizes homeowners to make efficiency, renewable energy and resilience upgrades due to the proven increase to home value that comes with certification.
- Runwise, a low-cost, fast-to-install monitoring and control software platform, using inside temperatures, weather predictions and machine learning to remotely and seamlessly adjust a building’s energy and carbon output.
- SWTCH Energy, an electric vehicle charging-as-a-service and DER integration for multi-family buildings, reducing financial barriers and enabling more equitable access to charging
- Urban Electric Power, which is making a rechargeable zinc-based battery energy storage system for power resiliency and demand management in residential, commercial, grid-scale and microgrid applications.
The Clean Fight said its customer and capital partners are already implementing innovative and scalable solutions to bring New York’s buildings to net zero, while creating replicable blueprints for the rest of the market to follow. Customer partners include Beam Living, Bright Power, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Carrier, City of Ithaca, Con Edison, Fairstead and Handel Architects. Capital partners include Bayview PACE, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Broadscale and Camber Creek. NYC Housing Partnership is a strategic partner.
Launched in 2020, Clean Fight is supported by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and New Energy Nexus.
“The Clean Fight NY understands how critical it is to decarbonize the world’s homes and buildings,” said Amit Gupta, Aeroseal’s CEO. “Programs like this will help Aeroseal accelerate its plans to reduce carbon emissions in buildings by 1 gigaton annually. Other states should take notice based on the economic impact and potential for job creation programs like The Clean Fight NY are having nationally.”
Founded in 2001, Aeroseal engineers duct-sealing technology for residential and construction clients in 50 states and more than two dozen countries. The company has been on a rapid growth trajectory since its establishment, and today, Aeroseal’s duct-sealing tech has generated more than $500 million in energy savings, and its footprint has expanded to 1,200 dealer partners in 27 counties.
