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Energy startup CTFusion folds as co-founders land at rival Zap

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The former CTFusion team, from left to right: CEO Derek Sutherland; Chris Ajemian, vice president; Kyle Morgan, scientist; and Aaron Hossack, chief technology officer. But the startup’s expertise is not lost: three of its four co-founders have taken roles at former rival Zap Energy.

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How do you capture the ocean’s energy? Peek under the hood of a startup’s ‘anti-boat’ power device

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Oscilla Photo) Oscilla Power , a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. There are no land-based energy systems to borrow from and adapt to the sea. Navy Wave Energy Test Site. The Seattle-based business envisions deploying thousands of devices along the U.

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Meet the climate startup helping other climate startups fund their ventures with lower cost loans

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Enduring Planet’s co-founders, from left: Chief Technology Officer Joshua Krafchin, CEO Dimitry Gershenson, and Chief Operating Officer Erin Davis. Enduring Planet Photo) Government grants and publicly funded projects have been a boon to climate tech and clean energy businesses. million from investors.

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Former Intellectual Ventures exec named CEO of startup destroying PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

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He was most recently an entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Washington’s Clean Energy Institute, and previously was vice president of sciences at Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, an umbrella organization tackling climate change. GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Aquagga is a for-profit, public benefit corporation.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

CIO Business Intelligence

DTN is more than just a weather forecaster: It also offers decision-support services to companies in agriculture, energy, commodities, and the finance industry. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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Stealthy aviation startup attracts backers while getting a prototype ready for takeoff

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“Everyone says they’re the SpaceX of, you know, ‘Z,'” said Jake Armenta , a former Boeing engineer who’s one of Outbound’s founders and its chief technology officer. “But I really hope that we can harness a lot of that energy in our company.”