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The BE Fellows program supports innovations across all Five Grand Challenges.
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The BE Fellows program supports innovations across all Five Grand Challenges.
Explore job openings in the BEF portfolio.
Arinna
Arinna is empowering humans and machines with abundant solar energy via its paper-thin power-dense solar panel technology.
Barocal
Barocal is revolutionizing cooling and heating with a breakthrough solid-state technology that offers very high energy efficiency without harmful refrigerant gases.
Celluol
Celluol is using the power of biology to convert underutilized waste such as crop or forest residues into fuels and chemicals.
Clear Skies H2
Clear Skies Hydrogen (CSH2) seeks to deliver refueling with diesel-parity cost and operating convenience to unlock large-scale adoption of hydrogen for trucking and heavy-duty transport.
CRecTech
CRecTech has developed a novel catalytic technology that simplifies the operational process and production cost of converting biogas into bio-methanol, making renewable methanol fuel more affordable for the maritime sector to accelerate their transition toward net zero CO2 emissions.
Espiku
Espiku’s technology concentrates Li-containing brines while also producing clean water and solid salts; this enables cost-competitive mineral extraction with no fouling, no membranes, no liquid discharge, and minimal environmental impact.
Gallox Semiconductors
Gallox Semiconductors is reducing energy waste by improving the efficiency of power conversion through the use of gallium oxide-based transistors and diodes.
HyperHeat
HyperHeat is developing an all-electric industrial heater which can reach 2000°C to directly electrify industrial processes in hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement, chemicals, and glass.
Lincore
Lincore has developed a refining technology to extract critical materials from spent Li-ion batteries with a variety of chemistries and process them into ready-to-use battery precursors while minimising waste, creating circular battery supply chains.
Loamist
Loamist's platform simplifies the sourcing of renewable biomass feedstocks by combining software with a physical network to gather, standardize, and track biomass feedstocks.
Prospect Growth
Prospect Growth manufactures nanofertilizers that boost crop yields, decrease costly nutrient inputs, and minimize environmental losses.
Rarefied
Rarefied is developing a novel propulsion mechanism that allows lightweight platforms to stay aloft in near-space (30-100 km altitudes) using only sunlight.
Sinkco Labs
Sinkco Labs is developing a scalable and cost-effective solution for permanently storing organic carbon in marine sediments, ensuring safe and verifiable carbon removal
Standard Potential
Standard Potential is scaling sodium-ion battery technologies that use earth abundant minerals and optimize manufacturing for sustainable energy storage.
Step Function
Step Function is leveraging the chemical potential of ferrous iron rich natural minerals and industrial wastes to produce low-cost carbon-negative fuels.
Sustainable Chemicals
The world is drowning in plastic pollution. Plastic manufacturing currently accounts for a large and growing fraction of global CO2 emissions, while only a small percentage of plastic is ever recycled. Our aim is to achieve meaningful environmental change by designing a bioplastic that is cost and performance competitive with petroleum-based plastics.
Aikido Technologies
Aikido Technologies has designed a self-erecting platform for floating, offshore wind turbinesto overcome key barriers to increasing offshore wind energy production.
Aluminio
Developing a new approach to using aluminum to replace the silver used on solar cells, reducing the costs and accelerating adoption of more efficient cell designs.
Arculus Solutions
Arculus Solutions is future-proofing current natural gas transmission pipelines to safely transport hydrogen.
Aspiring Materials
Aspiring Materials is tackling industrial CO2 emissions from two angles - what goes in and what comes out. And we’re using commonly found rocks to do it.
Calion
Calion is reshaping the cooling and heating landscape by replacing harmful refrigerants with salt and water – the world’s two safest and most abundant materials.
CemVision AB
CemVision AB combines three different technologies into one process to reduce carbon emissions from cement and concrete production.
CERT Systems Inc.
CERT Systems Inc. has developed an electrochemical process that uses only water and electricity to convert captured carbon dioxide into basic chemicals that can be used to make everyday products including green chemicals, fuels, and plastics.
Chement
Chement’s patent-pending technology eliminates all CO2 emissions in cement production.
ChemFinity Technologies
Developing new porous membrane materials to reduce the energy needed to purify salt water and recover valuable metals.
ClimateCrop
ClimateCrop enhances plants' genetics using non-GM techniques to increase yield per unit area with less inputs, resulting in a lower carbon footprint.
Conduit Tech
Conduit Tech develops tools that make it easier for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) contractors to install and maintain low-emissions residential heating and cooling technologies.
Dioxycle
Dioxycle is a company that is converting carbon dioxide into valuable products through low-temperature electrolysis.
Electroflow Technologies
Electroflow Technologies is decarbonizing lithium production by using renewable electricity to convert saltwater into battery grade lithium chemicals.
EvolOH
EvolOH (ee VOH loh) is blazing a path toward low-cost, green hydrogen production using innovative electrolyzer materials and hardware.
Ferrum Technologies
Ferrum is leveraging their unique hydrogen-plasma technology to produce carbon-free steel.
Furno
Furno Materials is working to re-envision the way we make cement, leveraging oxyfuel combustion and a novel design to enable the production of zero-emission ordinary portland cement.
Gencores
Gencores produces high-performance, lightweight materials for light-duty automobiles, increasing vehicle efficiency and range.
Hertha
Hertha is developing an iron and steel manufacturing process that replaces coal with renewable power and hydrogen to reduce sector emissions by more than 95%.
Hgen
Enabling cheaper and more efficient clean hydrogen production that seamlessly integrates with renewable energy systems.
Holocene
Holocene is developing a direct air carbon capture system that utilizes organic chemical compounds to increase capture efficiencies and reduce energy consumption by lowering regeneration temperatures.
Hoofprint Biome
Hoofprint Biome is developing probiotics that improve cattle health and digestive efficiency while eliminating methane production.
Liquium
Liquium is revolutionizing the ammonia production process, making it cleaner, cheaper, and scalable enough to decarbonize heavy industries, including shipping, aviation, heat and power generation, and chemical production.
Litherm Technologies
Litherm Technologies GmbH is electrifying key processes in lime and cement production to eliminate fossil fuel-generated CO2 emissions—and capturing remaining emissions for storage.
MacroCycle Technologies
MacroCycle seeks to decarbonize the plastics industry by upcycling low quality waste plastics into high quality plastic products through a novel low-energy chemical process.
Mantel
Developing the first high-temperature liquid-phase carbon capture materials for use in industrial processes that could substantially reduce costs and energy losses relative to incumbent technologies.
Marathon Fusion
Marathon Fusion designs, engineers, and scales next-generation fuel-processing technologies to enable the deployment and scale-up of fusion power plants.
Mars Materials
Mars Materials is commercializing a technique that transforms captured CO2 emissions into a compound used to produce low-cost, low-carbon materials for industrial use.
MetPeel
MetPeel is a new manufacturing process for making steel sheet and strip using a unique low-temperature, single-step process in place of conventional fossil-fired hot rolling.
Molten Industries
Molten Industries is developing a process to create low-cost hydrogen that avoids carbon emissions while consuming seven times less renewable electricity.
NitroVolt
NitroVolt is decarbonizing nitrogen-based fertilizer production and making the agricultural sector more resilient with a novel production process.
Novel Farms
Novel Farms is developing a scaffolding platform designed to enable the cost-effective production of whole cuts of cultivated meat at large-scale, accelerating the widespread adoption of this sustainable source of animal protein.
Olokun Minerals
Olokun Minerals uses a mineral recovery process to provide mineral-based products sustainably sourced for a variety of industries.
Othersphere
Othersphere’s search engine for global infrastructure helps developers, financiers, and operators build better projects faster.
Phase Biolabs
Phase Biolabs leverages modified microorganisms to recycle carbon dioxide more efficiently into cost-competitive carbon-negative chemicals and carbon-neutral electrofuels.
Phycobloom
Phycobloom has developed modified algae that produces an oil that can be used for biofuels while also capturing carbon.
Queens Carbon
Developing a hydrothermal processing technology to significantly reduce the energy consumption and cost for both carbon capture and carbon-neutral cement production.
RenewCO2
RenewCO2 is commercializing a proprietary catalyst and one-step process to convert CO2 into cost-competitive carbon-negative monomers, chemicals, and fuels.
RIFT
Renewable Iron Fuel Technology (RIFT) is leveraging hydrogen and the rusting properties of iron to produce carbon-neutral energy for heat-intensive industries.
Silicate
Silicate permanently removes excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via the acceleration of a natural geochemical process – mineral weathering.
Takachar
Developing the first portable device for converting post-harvest crop and forest residues into bioproducts that can be used by even the most hard-to-access and underserved rural agricultural communities.
Unemit
Unemit’s direct air capture technology is scalable to gigatons, swift in its path there, and sustainable.
Verne
Verne is developing high-density hydrogen storage systems, minimizing the cost to transport and store hydrogen
In addition to Breakthrough Energy Fellowships, we offer 12-month, one-time grant awards for promising early-stage research.