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Our Portfolio Companies
Explore the Obvious portfolio and learn about the companies driving humanity forward across economic health, human health, and planetary health.
AI Fleet is a technology company that is disrupting the $800b antiquated trucking industry. By leveraging advanced algorithms, we are introducing efficiency into the supply chain, empowering our drivers to maximize their earning potential, and prioritize their time home with family. We are creating the first truly scalable trucking company by reversing the industry trend of high driver turnover and underutilized assets
AMPLY is providing a usage-based charging service to fleets transitioning to EVs, including delivery, private fleet, transit agencies, school bus operators, and autonomous fleets. The company is mitigating the complexity and risk associated with charging - scheduling, coordination, demand charges, time-of-use, utility interconnection, DR programs, upfront CAPEX, and O&M - by turning it all into a per-mile driven usage fee to customers.
Arbor is a digital energy platform that helps renters and homeowners save on home energy costs and live more sustainably. Arbor created software to automatically monitor its customers’ electric bills to make sure they are on a low priced rate plan, and recommend the best home electrification upgrades based on their usage, home and preference profile. Customers who have signed up are saving on average over $500 per year.
Canvas is a construction robotics startup whose mission is to enable people to build in bold new ways. We develop technology that improves the quality and affordability of the places we work and live, while improving the working conditions of the people who build these spaces. Canvas improves productivity and safety in construction by bringing robotics and automation to site. The Canvas system is currently being applied in drywall finishing, one of the most dirty, dull, and dangerous parts of construction.
Dexterity delivers end-to-end automation for customer supply chains using intelligent dexterous robots that can pick, move, pack, and collaborate. Our robots are designed to do kitting, picking, packing, counting, sorting, palletizing, and fulfillment. We have a particular focus on packaged food, cosmetics, industrial parts, consumer goods, parcels, and boxes.
Diamond Foundry has spent years perfecting a high-techology process to grow cultured diamonds in their California laboratory. The results are 100% real certified diamonds, with exceptional color and clarity. These diamonds are free of the environmental and social damage associated with diamond mining and are made in America.
Enbala changes today's grid paradigm. Enbala's platform connects a network of distributed energy resources to support the continuous balance of supply and demand across the electricity grid. By capturing and aggregating the inherent flexibility when process loads use power, Enbala delivers valuable flexibility to electric system operators and utilities.
Enervee connects retailers, manufacturers, governments and utilities through an integrated product recommendation platform that is distributed via online, in-store, mobile and social channels. The Enervee® Score provides a universal way of comparing a product’s energy efficiency, based on industry standards, against all models available on the market. Through its global data platform, Enervee provides the most up-to-date information to help inform energy-smart decisions.
Forum Mobility is tackling the massive undertaking of electrifying the movement of goods and notably in and around ports. We are delivering solutions that are emission free, economic and empower thousands of independent operators shipping our cargo today. We deliver comprehensive network and vehicle solutions so that our fleet partners can focus on the movement of goods and not how to navigate financing, incentives and where their next electric vehicle charge is coming from.
Inspire is creating a brighter energy future by delivering the world’s first consumer-focused clean energy platform for the energy-efficient connected home. Inspire combines software, hardware, and services to deliver scalable impact and improve efficiency in the fight against climate change. Inspire identified the opportunity to make a significant impact to combat the effects of climate change at the consumer level – replacing dirty energy with clean energy in the home.
Renting a home can be a painful process, one that hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years. The hunt is fragmented, tedious, and often includes high fees. Rent payments can attribute up to 35% of your income yet paying on time typically gets you nothing in return. We aim to change this by building a rental experience that is rewarding for renters, landlords, and local communities.
Lightship is the first American all-electric RV manufacturer currently designing and producing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer for the electric age. As the macro transition to an all-electric transportation ecosystem accelerates, Lightship is building a critical element to enable the electrification of pickup trucks, while bringing the increased convenience and superior performance that electrification offers to a pastime enjoyed by over 11 million American families.
Mosaic makes financing solar energy accessible and affordable for homeowners by providing the simplest borrower experience in the industry. Customers are connected to top solar installers and can qualify instantly for no money down loans with fixed interest rates and multiple term options. For solar installers, Mosaic provides a streamlined financing platform to drive sales growth.
Based in San Francisco, Planet Labs designs, builds and operates the largest constellation of Earth Imaging satellites ever; and aims to access to Earth imagery through their cloud-based imagery and analytics platform. With Planet Labs data, anyone can detect, understand and respond to change at a global scale.
Based on the need for more affordable and sustainable home construction in the growing urban infill market, Plant Prefab will operate as the first factory in the nation dedicated to sustainable construction materials, processes and operations. Plant will manufacture custom single and multi-family homes that are high quality, healthy, and durable. By building off-site with full time staff, Plant will deliver low cost homes in half the time and with less waste than traditional site-based general contractors. Plant is targeting individuals, developers and architects who want a more reliable, time saving, and cost efficient solution for the custom homes they have designed or want to build.
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 370 vehicles to different municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.
Pyka is defining the future of safe, environmentally-friendly, and cost-effective aviation with autonomous electric airplanes for crop protection and cargo transport. Pyka designs, develops and manufactures an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary autonomous flight control software, flight computers, high-energy density batteries, advanced electric propulsion systems, and custom carbon composite airframes. Today, Pyka has supplied their aircraft to real-world customers across four separate continents and secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA, solidifying their position as a global leader in the commercialization of large-scale autonomous electric aircraft.
Senken is an easy-to-use platform to access the largest selection of climate assets for transparent climate action and finance. With Senken, we make it easier for companies and investors to support regenerative climate projects by buying verified carbon credits. Senken provides additional security and transparency at the data level to ensure the quality and integrity of each project. Confidently purchase, trade, and retire carbon credits to reach your companies’ net-zero ambitions.
Seriforge automates carbon fiber fabrication for mass production, cutting manufacturing costs by up to 90%. Carbon fiber is the lightest, strongest material available. However, most carbon fiber parts are made by hand, which is expensive and slow. Seriforge's automated production lines integrate patented hardware and robotics with advanced software design tools to mass produce carbon fiber parts. Seriforge is poised to revolutionize this $36B/year market with parts that are dramatically cheaper, easier to produce, and scalable to mass production. Seriforge was acquired by Zume.
SINAI’s platform provides the technology necessary for the world’s largest corporate emitters to build deep decarbonization strategies. The platform’s tools enable organizations to monitor, price, analyze risk, and model mitigation opportunities, unlocking capital-efficient strategies that achieve emissions reduction targets. SINAI’s tools engage organizations to transform the way they interact with their business, value chain, & the environment, helping organizations transition from ‘business as usual’ to the low-carbon economy.
Synop is building software to make it extremely simple for commercial fleets to electrify and operationalize EV's across their portfolio. Our software is reducing emissions from fleets delivering last mile goods, school buses transporting kids and Class - 8 semi's hauling goods to and from warehouses. We provide tools that take the guesswork out of charging and energy management and enable fleet operators to focus on what's most important to them, keeping their vehicles on the road and delivering the goods we as consumers rely on everyday.
Toucan builds public carbon market infrastructure to help humanity coordinate and fund efforts to rise to the climate challenge. We have launched the Toucan Carbon Bridge to bring environmental assets onto open blockchains. Our Carbon Pools aggregate credits with similar attributes, unlocking deep liquidity and easy trading. The Toucan Meta-Registry publicly couples all tokenized carbon credits with data on their attributes & origin, addressing many of the flaws and pain points of traditional carbon markets.
Zanskar is a tech-enabled geothermal exploration and development company using industry-leading research, large-scale data collection, and AI to unlock geothermal’s full potential. Our technology overcomes limited subsurface understanding that previously constrained the industry. With our new-age tools, we reduce exploration risk and cost, enabling us to discover hidden geothermal resources at scale and develop them more reliably to create cheap and carbon-free baseload power.
Zymergen is a technology company bringing its robotic automation, proprietary software, and deep computer analytics to the complex field of industrial microbiology to develop new, more efficient, more reliable ways to optimize microbes. With this platform, Zymergen saves its customers hundreds of millions of dollars by both providing them with new, better performing production microbes for existing products and by rapidly and cost-efficiently generating new stains for new products. IPO (NASDAQ: ZY): April 22, 2021.
