Meet the winners from last year

Carbicrete

CarbiCrete’s innovative technology revolutionizes the concrete industry by eliminating the need for cement, using steel slag as a sustainable binder, and permanently sequestering CO2 within concrete products. This dual strategy of sequestration and emission avoidance underscores CarbiCrete’s significant impact on fighting climate change and supporting the circular economy and the transition to net-zero emissions by 2050, with the scalability of its CO2 conversion process making it suitable for large-scale deployment both in Canada and globally. 

Find out more here: https://carbicrete.com/

Calix

Calix’s unique platform technology is a new type of kiln, or furnace, that delivers indirect heating of minerals to revolutionise industrial heating in heavy industries such as cement, steel, alumina and critical minerals industries, as well as the direct air capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the production of sustainable environmental products. Calix’s technology enables efficient, precise, and flexible energy use in mineral processing, including from intermittent renewable sources, to reduce emissions and enhance operations. It’s hybrid fuel technology, with fast switching between electricity and combustion options, is designed to reduce costs and allow energy intensive facilities to be integrated into the grid, thereby supporting grid stabilisation through the provision of industrial demand side response services. 

Find out more here: https://calix.global/

Undesert Corporation

Undesert Corporation is an innovative water technology company committed to addressing the critical challenge of water scarcity in arid and drought-stricken regions. Founded in 2021 and based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, we specialize in transforming contaminated and underutilized water sources into clean, usable water through our patented **Salty Wastewater Purification (SWAP)** technology.  

Find out more here: https://www.undesert.com/

Nehali Jain, Chief of Staff, Antora Energy 

Nehali Jain is the Chief of Staff at Antora Energy. Antora builds and deploys American-made thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost renewable energy.  Nehali leads fundraising and strategic growth at Antora. Prior to joining Antora, Nehali shaped climate strategy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led the foundation’s climate change adaptation strategy for Asia and collaborated with leadership across four continents to deploy $150M aimed at doubling incomes of hundreds of millions of farmers worldwide.