Portfolio Companies

Alumni Community

Our community of alumni companies keeps growing.

1000 Ecofarms was founded by Mark Meytin and is an online marketplace that matches suppliers of organically-grown products with ethically-conscious consumers.

AQUEES provides property owners/managers opportunities for water conservation so that informed decisions can be made to implement efficient water usage practices.

AgUnity designs technology solutions with, and for, smallholder farming communities in low- and middle-income countries. Tackling issues of poor connectivity, a lack of digital literacy and a lack of affordability, AgUnity is bringing last mile communities into the digital and financial economy. Learn more.

Ally Power Inc. is a hydrogen production company that specializes in the design of the Hydrogen and Electric Gas Station. Their stations are capable of refueling or recharging both hydrogen fuel cell and electric battery vehicles as well as generating excess electricity for sale to the grid. Learn more.

Apogee Farms  is a fresh produce company committed to setting a nationwide urban farming standard. With strategic planning, community benefit and community engagement, they are transforming a 10,500 sq ft space in Washington, DC into a vibrant hyper-local food source to provide the local community with year round freshness, quality and nutrition while addressing environmental concerns of traditional agriculture. Learn more.

BTU Insight creates solar powered consumer products, including the SunOmatic, a window mounted solar space heater. Learn more.

Cinnamon Tree Organics brings flavor, heritage and supply chain transparency in the form of single-origin spices sourced directly and equitably from small farmers in Sri Lanka. Learn more.

Climate Decision provides information to help organizations and businesses make better decisions, improve continuity and reduce losses caused by severe weather.

Veteran-owned Cosmos Roastery is Maryland’s first zero-emission specialty coffee roaster, which seeks to research and develop innovative roasting methodology designed to maximize coffee’s natural cognitive and health-boosting properties. Learn more.

Dgrid Energy is the manufacturer, assembler, integrator, and distributor of the Solar Cool Cube, solar powered 20m3 energy station and walk in refrigeration system providing cold storage in emerging markets. Learn more.

Doo Consulting, LLC supports architects, contractors, developers, and owners in achieving sustainability goals and certification for buildings and businesses. We are committed to advancing environmentally sustainable practices across industries.

Dress It Up Dressing creates responsibly and sustainably produced salad dressing.

Elysian Holdings uses industrial hemp to create certifiably compostable beverage containers. Learn more.

Future Forward Foods is a health and wellness company that produces healthy, wholesome, engaging consumer packaged goods. Learn more.

GOEFER is a plug-load energy solution providing value and savings to every appliance or device connected to our GOEFER Energy Management platform, because every watt matters.  Learn more.

Grateful Gardeners is a local, sustainable, and organic cut flower farm founded in Boyds, MD in the heart of the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve in 2018. Their mission is to produce year-round organic flowers and foliage to retail, wholesale, and floral design customers in the greater DC metropolitan region. Learn more.

Greenlist™ is a patent-pending technology that enables the direct transfer of merchandise from a customer returning a product to another customer who wants to purchase the product. By eliminating the middle steps in the current returns model, this solution saves stores time and money, and lessens the environmental impact of each return. Learn more.

JaM Treats is a nutritionally-focused sweet snacks business. Gluten free, soy free, and refined sugar free. Learn more.

Joyful Bath Co. crafts natural and organic body care products including hemp ultra therapy, mentholated shower steamers, bath bombs, face & body soaps and bath salts. Vegan and cruelty-free, our products contain naturally effective healing ingredients – pure hemp extract, menthol, coconut oil, ginger root, oats, green tea, coconut milk, mustard seed and more.

Last Call connects users, in particular college students, with discounted unsold food from a variety of eateries in order to reduce food waste and provide access to more affordable meal options.. Learn more.

Living Canopies sells the Living Umbrella, an easy, smart, and environmentally friendly way to grow fruits, vegetables, or beautiful flowering vines above your head, while reducing stormwater flows and reversing the urban heat island effect. Learn more.

Loop Closing deploys an on-site composting network to transform food waste into a resource for solving environmental, equity, and capacity problems while reducing clients’ costs. Learn more.

MāKā Superfood’s ready-to-drink organic beverages are a combination of wheatgrass, herbal tea and delicious fruit juices, as well as being +Energized+ with yerba mate and guayusa. Learn more.

Manta Biofuel developed a suite of technologies that enable them to produce renewable crude oil that is cost competitive with fossil crude oil. Manta Biofuel’s proprietary technology allows them to harvest algae grown naturally in open ponds. Manta Biofuel farms algae instead of manufacturing it. This allows them to keep production costs lower than previous algal growth systems. They’ve also developed innovations that allow them to convert algae to crude oil much more cost effectively than has been done by other companies.

Mark Leisher Productions is a video-focused creative agency for corporations, nonprofits, and mission-driven businesses who want to tell their story, inspire and promote action.

Mas Panadas makes one of the most popular South America dishes available to everyone, and for that, we’re thankful! The empanadas are simple, healthy, and delicious, and they are a satisfying meal on the go. Learn more.

Paradigm One is addressing the challenge of single-use waste in the foodservice sector by providing a high-quality reusable takeout container service to companies and consumers on a subscription basis. Learn more.

Plastic Tree is a waste management company that collects clean, undamaged, intact materials for REUSE. This collection system helps businesses meet supply chain needs and reduces the carbon emissions incurred from processing and transporting materials at greater distances. Learn more.

The Montgomery County Food Council is an independent nonprofit organization, formed and led by individual community members and representatives of local businesses, government, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions that broadly represent the food system both substantively and geographically.

Neighborhood Sun is a Maryland-based, Maryland-focused community solar company dedicated to empowering all individuals to choose solar power. Neighborhood Sun puts their customers first to make sure that clean energy is accessible to everyone, especially those who are the most vulnerable in the face of climate change. Neighborhood Sun workw alongside local beneficiaries to enable communities to make environmentally just and economically accessible energy choices.

Pirl builds next generation electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to accelerate the transition to electrified transport. Using the latest Internet-of-Things (IOT) technology, we deploy stations that charge rapidly, have a lower environmental footprint, and delight owners with an engaging user experience. Learn more.

Rendered Inc. is a sustainable solution for the clothing marketplace that works to combat large “fast-fashion” companies by vending quality & rare used apparel – and also educating our following about different sustainable practices. Learn more.

Rock Creek Conservancy exists to restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect. Rock Creek Conservancy is the only organization dedicated solely to Rock Creek and its parks. Rock Creek Conservancy is uniquely positioned to foster outreach, education, and efforts to overcome threats to Rock Creek.

Spira creates devices to grow algae for cost-effective protein as a food ingredient.

Sugo Sauces create artisanal premium pesto sauces, which are prepared according to classic Italian recipes using organic, all-natural and locally-sourced ingredients. Learn more.

Terran Material Resources decommissions and transports industrial-grade lithium-ion batteries to recycling facilities. Their patent pending technology addresses the root cause of the high cost of shipping hazardous waste, by decreasing the hazards associated with shipment for public and private customers. Learn more.

Texiles is a startup clothing recycling service dedicated to eliminating clothing waste in the landfill. Learn more.

Tree Hugger Gum makes bubble gum with all natural ingredients.

TrueAlgae produces high quality microalgae which, under the right autotrophic conditions of sunlight, carbon dioxide and nutrients, can reproduce itself in water at an astonishing rate. Their products contain an abundance of healthy nutrients including proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals, chlorophyll and vitamins that are safe and can be used for a wide variety of applications: soil, plants, feed for poultry, animals and fish and nutraceuticals. Learn more.

Universal Schedule is developing SmartPrices™️ a game changing financial technology infrastructure platform to bring together consumers, small business retailers, manufacturers, and subsidizers, and that can be deployed in ways to stabilize food prices as a new tool to address food insecurity and food deserts by generating value for stakeholders, incentives for businesses, and direct price credits for consumers. Learn more.

Up Top Aces is a small team of DC residents committed to create agriculture as a fixture of city life.  Since our foundation in 2014 by three DC natives, the mission to convert underutilized green space into vibrant landscapes has continued to evolve. Not only do the farms and gardens grow food for their neighbors, but they also play a larger environmental role in capturing storm water runoff and creating pockets of biodiversity in the city.

Urbanized turns waste into innovative and eco-friendly products. The vision of the Urbanized team is to turn all waste into useful goods.

VegAndes seeks to bring Bolivian-inspired, plant-based cuisine to the DC-Maryland-Virginia region. Their first two products are the salteña and Bolivian coffee.  Learn more.

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