IgniteX Program Alumni

Through our IgniteX Climate Tech Accelerator program, Black & Veatch partners with innovative companies who share our passion for solving the world's most complex problems. Check out our past program participants below!

• EarthEn enables grid resiliency with flexible renewable energy storage solutions and AI. Their novel thermo-mechanical solutions use CO2 in a closed loop to store energy in a cost-effective and highly scalable manner.

• CarbonQuest is elevating standard carbon capture and sequestration solutions for commercial and residential buildings. Through their cost-effective modular technology, they deliver a widely accessible emission reduction solution.

• Mars Materials aims to reverse humanity’s industrial waste carbon footprint. They replace petroleum as a feedstock through their process to sequester CO2 into everyday products such as carbon fiber and wastewater treatment chemicals.

• Strive is a sustainable nutrition company making things simpler, healthier, and better for the planet. Using precision fermentation, they create protein-enriched, animal-free milk and other beverages that are better-tasting and more nutritious.

• Spira uses algae to replace harmful petrochemicals and reinvent the basic materials we use every day. They create carbon negative materials from genetically engineered algae to produce ingredients for food, cosmetic and textile companies.

• Looq AI automates the creation of digital twins by capturing the complex physical world in detailed and intelligent 3D models. Their proprietary AI technology optimizes survey and inspection workflows to build and operate our society’s critical infrastructure.

• Simerse enhances GIS, asset inventory, and condition monitoring through visual data AI for utilities, telecommunications, and cities. They collect visual data from mobile phones, drones and utility vehicles and send key information back to your GIS platform.

Recognizing that the world needs creative ways to counter the ongoing climate crisis, our 2021-2022 program focused on innovators developing decarbonization solutions, reinventing their industries, and delivering more sustainable solutions. 

• Carbon Upcycling: Converts waste CO2 into high performance additives enabling the production of low-carbon concrete.

• Circ: Created a technology system that returns clothes to the raw materials from which they were made, thus threading together the future of circular fashion.

• ElectricFish: Develops and deploys networked energy storage for extreme-fast EV charging to power a sustainable, resilient, and equitable energy future.

• Next Hydrogen: Has revolutionized electrolyzer cell design architecture to generate green hydrogen economically and at scale.

• Nitricity: Produces nitrogen fertilizer from air, water, and renewable electricity.

• ReJoule: Maximizes the value of electric vehicle batteries with its advanced battery diagnostics technology.

• Revterra: A kinetic battery offering a modular, cost-effective, and highly scalable solution to the increasingly important energy storage market – bringing a new spin to the energy transition.

• Twelve: The carbon transformation company eliminating emissions by transforming CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels.

Our 2020 program focused on working with companies developing solutions to reduce the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported by Black & Veatch, these innovators advanced their solutions for disinfection and environmental sensing to facilitate a safe return to work, health screening, and tracking/tracing. 

• Aquisense: Desktop ultraviolet (UV) disinfection of masks

• Motega: Developed a multi-day persistent sanitizer for surfaces and hands.  Company has formulation specialists in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, foods and chemicals.

• NanoGuard: Reactive gas (ozone) disinfection for food and other markets

• Windgo: Smart UV lighting

• University of Missouri: Biosensor for rapid pathogen detection

• InnovaPrep: Concentration device for pathogen detection

• Fluid Robotics: Automated sampling devices and wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)

• Transcend H2O: Automatic site design for portable, quickly deployable mobile and modular solutions

• Field2Base: Mobile data collection partner for COVOPERATE

• Translational Pulmonary & Immunology Research Center: Health partner for return-to-X assessments

• OneScreen: Infrared temperature scanner

• Ubudu: Small wearable for social distance compliance and contact tracing

• EB Systems: Indoor/On-Site tracking, contact tracing, and real-time alerting systems

• Energy Cloud: Air filtration system

• MySidewalk: City intelligence platform

• OnFrontiers: Platform for enterprise knowledge networks

• Cykyl Systems: Pneumatic device for constant air pressure in medical and other devices

• Avatour: 360-degree virtual telepresence

“We have a lot to build.” That was the recurring theme for the first Black & Veatch IgniteX program. Each company presented their technologies that aligned with Black & Veatch’s mission of Building a World of Difference through innovation in sustainable infrastructure.

• Electriphi (now Ford Pro): Fleet electrification for cutting down carbon emissions

• Built Robotics: Autonomous construction equipment for worker safety and faster builds

• InfraLytiks: AI data analytics for sustainable infrastructure improvement

• ecoSPEARS: Environmental remediation in waterways

• Aware Vehicles: Smart drones for precision agriculture and infrastructure maintenance

• Novonutrients: Converting CO2 emissions into protein-rich feed for aquaculture

• Extensible Energy: Helping commercial building owners save money by going solar