Cruise Alternatives

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Precip

Energy and Climate

Precip uses AI to make hyperlocal weather observations. We’re started with the most important dimension of weather: rain. For example, one of our customers uses Precip daily to make sure their heavy trucks won’t get stuck in muddy fields. Our highly rated mobile app is the best way to see rain and snow totals anywhere.

Starlight Charging offers ultra-low-cost EV-charging to condos and apartments. Our power-balancing software enables our network of installers to install chargers without expensive infrastructure upgrades, cutting the cost by 10x compared to any other option. Through Starlight's Partner Program, electricians and small business owners can create their own charging network and generate passive income with owner-operated charging stations using Starlight battle-tested software.

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ACX

Energy and Climate

ACX is developing a new standard for precision agriculture technologies by providing sustainable, eco-friendly alternatives to chemical pesticides. Our mission is to transform agriculture through sustainable biological crop protection that increases yields while safeguarding the environment, farmers, and consumers.

Spark is an AI-powered planning and workflow tool for large-scale clean energy developers that lets them break ground faster. With Spark, developers can search across thousands of PDFs, maps, and websites to identify requirements and screen locations in seconds, not weeks. Julia and Tae were previously engineering and product managers at Brex, Tesla, and Apple. They grew up within 10 minutes of each other in Brazil but met in the US through a shared passion for software and infrastructure for society.

Vista designs, finances, installs, and manages energy storage and solar at commercial, industrial, and multifamily properties for $0 upfront, helping businesses save up to 30% on their energy bills. The founding team previously worked at SpaceX, Rocket Lab, NASA and Firefly.

Sorcerer is deploying a global network of persistent airborne sensors to fuel advanced weather forecasting. Our high-altitude balloons collect 1000x more data than existing systems and are already used daily by meteorologists to track extreme weather across the US and Central America.

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Silurian

Energy and Climate

Silurian is building foundation models for simulating Earth, starting with weather. From assessing the risk of wildfires to predicting the energy grid load, we provide an infrastructure layer for our planet. Our frontier models push the boundaries of what can be simulated on Earth and improve decision making across vital sectors including energy, insurance, agriculture, and logistics.

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Rewbi

Energy and Climate

Rewbi uses AI to optimize grid-connected battery storage. We generate revenue by charging when electricity is cheap and discharging when electricity is expensive. We rent battery storage for a fixed fee per month, and we earn 2x that fee in monthly revenue by dispatching the battery optimally. Today, power companies use human traders to manually track grid conditions and update the battery’s dispatch schedule. However batteries can adjust their power output 100x faster than traditional power generation (e.g. hydro, coal, nuclear, gas), with the ability to go from full-speed charging to full speed discharging in under a minute. Electricity prices change every 5 minutes, often by 300% or more. Our AI better tracks 100s of live inputs, and it makes decisions faster than a human operator (with lower overhead!), improving revenue 2x.

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Offstream

Energy and Climate

Offstream is Vanta for carbon compliance. Today, every new infrastructure project, from data centers to biomass power plants has a complicated mess of local, state, federal, and private sector standards that they must understand and comply with to make their projects profitable. Offstream solves this by using LLMs to parse regulations, generate technical reports for customers, and manage 100,000+ operational data points on project’s lifecycles. We cut the time customers spend on compliance by 90% and at 1/5th of the cost of alternatives.

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Plume

Energy and Climate

Plume is an AI-powered geospatial platform for site selection in energy infrastructure projects. Selecting the right sites requires analysis of +50 geospatial, grid, and regulatory constraints across fragmented data sources. Plume changes the process by enabling users to interact with geospatial data using natural language.

Every battery company spends tens of millions of dollars a year on experiments. Simulations that replace experiments reduce these costs but are currently underutilized in industry because they are hard to create and run. We make simulations accessible to every engineer, by helping them to create models from their own data, then run large scale simulations in the cloud to explore the full design space.

With autarc we are building the OS for Europe's One-Stop Energy Installers. The problem: Energy installers are eager to expand their deployment of heat pump and photovoltaic systems, yet they are constrained by inefficient sales, planning, and installation processes. The solution: Our B2B software integrates CRM, planning, and design tools into a unified platform. This enables SMB installers to drastically cut down the pre-installation phase of home energy projects, from several weeks to just minutes. By leveraging LiDAR for spatial analysis, computer vision for automated assessment, and AI for system recommendations, we streamline the entire workflow. This results in a time reduction of up to 90%, enabling installers to confidently transition to and scale up sustainable home energy solutions.

Curo enables electric vehicle fleets to lease EV chargers. We do this by providing a standardized process so that any EV charger owner can host a fleet, such as an office building overnight when their employees go home. Owners of EV chargers get <15% usage after paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to install, and fleets are rapidly trying to electrify yet charging is a huge bottleneck. Curo increases revenue 5x for charger owners and enables fleets to electrify instantly, at a fraction of the cost. We're live across 5 states, having grown 50% MoM for the past 6 months. Curo is already backed by investors like Blue Bear, Not Boring, Slow and Eniac.

Our technology enables li-ion batteries to charge extremely fast while retaining long cycle life using smart control algorithms.

Helion is creating the world’s first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited zero-carbon electricity.

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. (Oklo) is developing advanced fission power plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, has performed successful prototypic fuel fabrication, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, developed the first advanced fission combined license application accepted and docketed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories. Oklo has been featured in Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and is featured in the Oliver Stone documentary Nuclear, among other features.