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2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pano AI and its fire-detecting AI

When blazes are confirmed, Pano alerts fire monitoring agencies, providing images and location data that help them respond quickly. As firefighters battle the blaze, the company continues to provide up-to-date, highly zoomable... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: LanzaJet and its next-generation jet fuel

LanzaJet’s technology makes jet fuel using alcohol, which can be sourced from a variety of materials, including corn and sugarcane. The company’s process starts with ethanol and then uses a series of... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Rondo Energy and its hot bricks

Among startups trying to commercialize zero-emissions heat batteries, Rondo stands out for its simple approach. Competitors’ heat batteries often involve some kind of new technique or engineered material that’s a few steps... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Electric Hydrogen and its push to mass-produce a carbon-free fuel

Electric Hydrogen wants to address these issues by developing electrolyzers that have about 10 times the capacity of today’s standard devices while also being more affordable and efficient. The company is already... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pivot Bio and its nitrogen-delivering microbes

Pivot Bio, a biotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, is harnessing microbes to deliver a usable form of nitrogen directly to the roots of crops, reducing the amount of synthetic fertilizer farmers... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Sun King connects low-income households to clean energy

This is what Sun King has been able to deliver. By providing solar panels, handheld solar-powered lamps, batteries, and home systems that power lights and devices to communities in sub-Saharan Africa and... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Ceibo and its copper mining tech

The remaining 80% of the world’s copper comes from copper sulfide ores, which don’t dissolve well in acid. To extract that copper, the industry uses a more energy- and water-intensive process that... Read more »

2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: First Solar and its advanced solar panels

Today, Chinese firms produce the vast majority of the world’s solar panels. Most build cells that incorporate a layer of silicon to absorb the sun’s light and awaken electrons within, which then... Read more »

The Download: smart glasses, and tiny AI models

In case you missed the memo, we are barreling toward the next big consumer device category: smart glasses. At its developer conference last week, Meta introduced a positively mind-blowing new set of... Read more »

Why bigger is not always better in AI 

Every day across Hollywood, scores of people read through scripts on behalf of studios, trying to find the diamonds in the rough among the many thousands sent in every year. Each script runs... Read more »