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Four More Rising Stars Pitch at Spotlight Event

Dec 3, 2020

On November 12, we held the last Spotlight Pitch event of the year. Over 70 people signed up. The presenters made an extra effort to tune up their pitches and the result was some of the best pitches we have heard this year. The videos of the pitches and the Q&A...

CleanStart Perspectives with Cheryl Beninga of FourthWave Accelerator

Dec 1, 2020

Meet Cheryl Beninga, cofounder of FourthWave, an accelerator for women-led technology companies in Northern California. Cheryl Beninga is the cofounder of FourthWave, an accelerator for women-led technology companies primarily located in Northern California....

Great Insights at Microgrid MeetUp

Nov 2, 2020

Over 60 people joined Part I of our microgrid meetup last night to hear three excellent speakers. Astrid Atkinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Camus Energy, discussed the microgrid management software her company is developing. It looks like it will be one of the keys to...

CleanTech Meetup – Future of the Grid

Oct 29, 2020

Join CleanStart for our monthly meetup. This month, the focus is on the future of the Grid. Join us for October’s CleanTech Meetup, a technology-focused monthly gathering that features presentations about products and technologies from companies that are already...

Microgrids a Hot Topic–Again

Sep 29, 2020

There has been an explosion in interest about microgrids and what they can do in the past decade. But there are also concerns about what some unintended consequences might be. Ironically, the electric utility business started from a collection of microgrids, but the...