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5 Award Winners at Energy Venture Fair Announced

On November 9, 2006, in Blog, by Neal Dikeman

I attended the Energy Venture Fair in Santa Clara this week, and had a chance to see a number of the presenting companies. CEOs of nearly 50 startups from solar to batteries to hybrid systems were hawking their companies.

The most interesting to my eye included Wireless Seismic, a developer of a low power, high bandwidth, short distance RF mesh based wireless technology that can cut the cost of a seismic run for onshore oil & gas by up to 50%.

The winners of the 5 Most Promising Companies awards were announced this afternoon as follows:

Zolo Technologies – A Colorado based startup pitching its laser based instrumentation system for optimizing combustion in coal fired boilers for better efficiency and NOx savings.
Wilson Turbopower – Wilson, a holdover from the microturbine development, is commercializing a high efficiency ceramic recuperator (heat exchanger).
KiteShip Corp – A developer of of Very Large Free Flying Sails for ship transport, and previously the winner of the California Cleantech Open Transportation Prize.
Ice Energy – A startup with another intriguing product that has been making the rounds, this one stores thermal energy for home or business use in the form of a gigantic icemaker.
Hythane – Another Colorado based startup, this one focused on natural gas/hydrogen fueled products.

So congratulations to each!

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Neal Dikeman

Neal is a founding partner of Jane Capital Partners LLC, a cleantech merchant bank whose clients have included the technology arms of multinational energy companies. He has served as a director of several technology companies, is chief blogger for Cleantech Blog, named one of the 50 Best Business Blogs by the London Times, and chairs industry portal Cleantech.org. He is currently the Chairman of Jane Capital’s recently acquired Greenhome.com operating company, the original ecommerce ecostore. He is a cofounder and director of venture backed carbon IT startup Carbonflow, a Jane Capital spin-out in SaaS worfklow for the carbon markets where he served as founding CEO and raised the first two rounds of finance. Prior to that he cofounded Jane Capital spin-out SC Power Systems, Inc. and its successor Zenergy Power plc (AIM:ZEN) in superconductor technology for the power grid, helped launch WaiterPad POS Systems, Inc. in wireless hospitality POS solutions, and led the spin-out of Fideris, Inc. in fuel cell test & measurement. He previously served as Director of Business Development for Globalgate, the parent company of Yellowpages.com, and as an associate at private equity fund manager Doyle & Boissiere. Before entering private equity, he began his career in energy investment banking at Bankers Trust, and has a B.A. from Texas A&M University.

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