Congratulations to 2024 Winners!

Winner:  hydroGel
Runner-Up:  Arculus Solutions
People's Choice:  Arculus Solutions

The US National Winner receives a $50,000 SAFE Note Prize.

From the 92 startups graduating the 2024 US Accelerator, two major regional pitch competitions whittled the companies to Regional Winners and Runners-Up who became the Top 18 National Semifinalists.

A unique aspect of Cleantech Open's nonprofit mission is that we work deeply with, and "level up," all entrepreneurs going through our 6 month program - and then we run pitch competitions at the end. 

This is in contrast to many other accelerators that sometimes brag about accepting only a tiny fraction of applicants (just like Harvard!) and then work with just 5-10 companies per cohort. We work with 100+ - therefore building a huge cadre of better-skilled entrepreneurs, whether to benefit their current CTO venture or other future ventures.

Go to the Global Ideas page for our international competition.

Tuesday 10/29/2024:

Top 6 US National Finalists Pitch at CTO Global Forum.
Open, public pitch sessions at Marriott, in order:

Scalvy Inc (Transportation, West)

Energy ReLeaf (Energy Distribution & Storage, Midwest)

Arculus Solutions (Energy Distribution & Storage, Northeast)

BlueUrbn (Green Building, West)

hydrogel (Ag, Water & Waste, Northeast)

FLUIX (Energy Efficiency, West)

Monday 10/28/2024:

Top 18 US National Semifinalists Pitch at Global Forum
(these are private pitch sessions):

AP Renewables (Energy Efficiency, Northeast)

Arculus Solutions (Energy Distribution & Storage, Northeast)

BlueUrbn (Green Building, West)

Carbon Utility LLC (Ag, Water & Waste, Rocky Mountain)

D.TO (Green Building, Northeast)

ENAMP (Energy Distribution & Storage, West)

Energy ReLeaf (Energy Distribution & Storage, Midwest)

Finev (Transportation, Northeast)

FLUIX (Energy Efficiency, West)

GaiaVerse (Information & Communications Technologies, South Central)

Green Spear (Chemicals & Advanced Materials, Northeast)

Helios Industries (Energy Generation, South Central)

hydrogel (Ag, Water & Waste, Northeast)

Next Marine Solutions (Energy Generation, Northeast)

Project K Energy, Inc. (Energy Distribution & Storage, West)

Scalvy Inc (Transportation, West)

SiLi-ion Inc. (Chemicals & Advanced Materials, West)

Turnover Labs (Chemicals & Advanced Materials, Northeast)

See details about All 2024 Companies

Regional Winners:

Competed September 2024

Arculus Solutions (NE)

BlueUrbn (W)

Carbon Utility LLC (RM)

ENAMP (W)

Energy ReLeaf (MW)

FLUIX (W)

GaiaVerse (SC)

Green Spear (NE)

Helios Industries (SC)

hydrogel (NE)

Project K Energy, Inc. (W)

SiLi-ion Inc. (W)

Turnover Labs (NE)

For the Northeast, read the CTONE Press Release about their regional event, additional prizes and mentor / volunteer recognitions just held in early October.