ALUMNI & FINALISTS

Utah Pulse: Two USTAR/USU Technologies Reach Semifinaist Stage in Cleantech Open

VolumeWind™ and DIAL Emissions Monitoring, two technologies under development by researchers at the Utah State University Research Foundation (USURF), have reached the semifinalist stage in the Rocky Mountain bracket of the national CleanTech Open contest.
VolumeWind utilizes laser sensing to help the wind power industry more effectively site wind towers and increase power generation efficiency. DIAL [...]

KCBS: New from The Farm

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The Real Story attended Clean Tech Open in San Jose last week, and talked to Danny Gilliland from Driptech, the manufacturer of low-cost drip irrigation systems for farmers in developing countries.
The idea behind the Driptech system, which runs creates water pressure from the gravity inside an oil drum, [...]

earth2tech: viaCycle: Bike Sharing in a Tech-Enabled Box

ViaCycle, a startup spun out of the Georgia Institute of Technology, aims to take the idea of bike-on-demand networks, strip out the pricey infrastructure, amp up the location-based services, and deliver a system that will let universities and municipalities implement bike sharing programs with more flexibility and lower cost.
The company, a semifinalist in this year’s [...]

VentureStart: Sacramento Startup Micromidas Raises Series A Round

Micromidas has just completed its first major round of funding, having raised $3.6 million. The funds will be used to deploy their technology at the pilot scale.
Micromidas, based in West Sacramento, develops and scales environmentally benign biological and chemical processes that produce valuable chemical and material commodities from waste biomass. The first Micromidas application for [...]

Triple Pundit: New Sky Energy Turning Agricultural Waste into Clean Water for California’s Farms

The last several years have not been easy for California’s San Joaquin Valley, which is arguably the nation’s bread basket—or perhaps, fruit basket for its plentiful citrus, stone fruit, and grapes. Sparse rain and reduced water moved from the Sacramento river delta region has resulted in barren farms and dying orchards.  Meanwhile, irrigation runoff has [...]