Aerologix is a Sydney-based drone start-up that provides a marketplace for clients to locate their local drone pilot to complete aerial imagery projects. They are a technology company that enables drone pilots to complete complex data captures, 3D surveys and photogrammetry through a widespread distribution platform.
Aerologix has over 27,000 drone pilots on a network across Australia and New Zealand. More than 1,000 missions completed in over 70 locations across Australia. They achieved $2 million capital raise and strategic acquisition of Brazilian mapping software company Mappa in 2023. Aerologix's technology supports 135 different drone types, catering to diverse industries including renewable energy, construction, real estate and infrastructure.
A world-leading developer of GHG reduction software, CarbonAi offers a suite of software and tools to measure, monitor, manage, and monetize GHG emissions reduction data. CarbonAi software automates the aggregation, calculation, verification, and reporting of GHG reductions, streamlining the management of data from diverse, remote GHG reduction sites.
CarbonAi’s leadership team has over 75 years of experience in carbon finance and carbon markets, and engineering and project management for complex energy projects in the Middle East and Africa. CarbonAi Solutions, a proprietary software platform, has integrated over 12,500 methane-emitting devices, managed over 1.5 million files in 13 countries, and supported the verification of over 3.1 million tonnes of CO2 reductions, reducing verification data error (and related costs) from 7% to less than 1%. In 2023, CarbonAi announced collaboration with Oando PLC across several initiatives that will reduce GHG emissions in Nigeria and accelerate the country’s energy transition, including flared gas capture and usage projects, and its sustainable transport program.
Clearstone is an international process and environmental engineering firm specializing in air emission assessments and industrial air pollution control. Clearstone has developed advanced measurement techniques and air pollution control systems to meet the changing needs of industry and to satisfy current and forthcoming changes in environmental regulations.
ClearTracker has been continuously refined for more than 20 years, validated with data from more than 200,000 wells. In 2018 the Government of Canada invested $1.6M to collaborate with Clearstone to support research into technologies and practices that detect, quantify and reduce volatile organic compounds and methane emissions. In partnership with Validere, Xpansiv and Pacific Canbriam Energy, Clearstone received $1.2M of support through Sustainable Development Technology Canada in 2021 to accelerate the development technology that supports the low emissions gas market in Canada and globally.
Cultivo is a public benefit corporation that focuses on accelerating investment into nature, operating within the financial and environmental sectors. The company's main services involve using proprietary algorithms and remote sensor technologies to identify high-quality projects that can generate financial returns through natural capital, and packaging these projects into investment products for financial institutions and corporations. These investments finance sustainable activities that restore nature, generating income through natural capital flows such as carbon credits.
Cultivo raised $14 million Series A funding in January 2024 co-led by MassMutual Ventures and Octopus Energy Generation to build on its existing pipeline of high-quality nature-based carbon removal projects, allowing Cultivo to further accelerate its AI-driven science and technology platform. Cultivo signed an agreement with Octopus Energy Generation to deploy up to $40 million into natural capital projects across North America, Europe and Australasia.
DevvStream is a technology-based sustainability company that advances the development and monetization of environmental assets, with an initial focus on carbon markets. DevvStream works with governments and corporations worldwide to achieve their sustainability goals through the implementation of curated green technology projects that generate renewable energy, improve energy efficiencies, eliminate or reduce emissions, and sequester carbon directly from the air—creating carbon credits in the process.
In May 2023, Devvstream launched Buildings and Facilities Carbon Offset Program (BFCOP), a first-of-its-kind offset project that aims to reduce the barrier to entry for organizations seeking to generate carbon credit revenue within energy efficiency activities, onsite renewable energy generation, and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Later in July 2023, they launched American carbon registry-aligned program for reducing methane emissions from orphaned oil and gas wells.
In partnership with leading satellite operator Planet Labs, Earth is transforming the monitoring, reporting, and verification of nature-based solutions. Through its community network technology, Earth empowers users with real-time, actionable insights through intuitive, engaging digital interfaces. Thereby improving transparency and decision-making on the frontlines of conservation, sustainability, and human rights.
As a public benefit corporation, Earth specializes in working throughout the Global South, with a particular focus on serving the unique needs of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). Offering a fully integrated solution with satellite operator Planet, the Earth Platform can support a wide range of activities, including biodiversity monitoring for the REDD+ carbon credit market, remote satellite monitoring of forest carbon, and the verification of sustainability and worker welfare in supply chains. Planet, Earth’s partner, has built and successfully deployed 450 satellites, and currently operates over 200 in orbit collecting over 350M sq km of imagery daily.
Highwood Emissions Management is an independent, Calgary-based emissions management software and services firm. Working with industry, government, and innovators around the world, Highwood leverages data, analytics, knowledge, and experience to optimize GHG emissions management. Highwood's mission is to collaborate, innovate, and educate the way to a world with effective and affordable emissions management solutions. Their revolutionary Emissions Management Software Platform empowers companies with the tools that they need to capitalize on their greenhouse gas emissions management strategies.
Highwood is the Technical Director of Veritas, a GTI Energy Differentiated Gas Measurement and Verification Initiative, which is developing methodologies for measurement informed emissions intensity. Highwood is the Technical Director of Veritas, a GTI Energy Differentiated Gas Measurement and Verification Initiative, which is developing methodologies for measurement informed emissions intensity. For the Environmental Defense Fund, Highwood performed research and delivered a public report on the available methane detection technologies for pipeline methane leaks.
Olympus Energy has emerged from Appalachia’s natural gas history as a proud partner in the industry’s effort to safely and efficiently develop clean, reliable domestic energy. They work together with their regulators and stakeholders to responsibly develop shale gas from the world’s most prolific natural gas basin while striving for operational excellence.
In 2022, Olympus grew their employee base by 33%. They are operating on 100,000 Net Acres and are recognized by the Wildlife Habitat Council for Environmental Excellence.
Orbital Sidekick is the premier persistent monitoring service helping commercial and government organizations meet their sustainable operations, ESG, and security goals.
By January 2023 OSK technologies had monitored more than 30,000 kilometers of pipelines for various customers, with their platform having detected nearly 100s of suspected methane and liquid hydrocarbon leaks or contamination issues, and more than 300 intrusive events related to digging or construction activities. In January 2023 they raised $10 million to bring hyperspectral imaging to oil and gas pipeline monitoring. In 2023 they were selected as Sustainable Innovation Award winner for the 2023 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards and were listed by Fast Company as one of the World’s most innovative Space Companies in 2024.
Process Ecology is a leader in engineering consulting and developer of decision support tools for the Oil and Gas industry.
Rooted in process engineering, the company has a unique perspective on solving and optimizing operations with customers around the world, counting some of the largest E&P companies in the world as customers.
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. Shell is a customer-focused organization that uses advanced technologies and takes an innovative approach as they seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.
Shell serves more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service station, including more than 54,000 public EV charge points across Shell stations, on-street and at destinations. They have collaborated for 20+ years with global environmental partners. In 2023, Shell sold 279 TWh of power and 67M tonnes of LNG, used 9.7B liters of biofuels in their fuels, and made 2,791 kboe/d of oil and gas available for sale. Shell spent $628M on Research and Development projects in 2023 that contributed to decarbonization, and invested $5.6B in low-carbon energy solutions and $2.3B in non-energy products in 2023.
Digital Asset is an enterprise software company that modernizes legacy financial systems with Daml, their smart contract language, and Canton, their privacy-enabled blockchain platform. Together, this platform powers cutting-edge smart contracts and blockchain solutions, helping customers unlock new networks of value with sophisticated applications. Leading financial services, insurance, and healthcare organizations are partnering with Digital Asset to create new, multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks.
Over $4 billion real-world assets tokenized through Daml in 2023. 75% of US syndicated loans orchestrated via Daml. The top 10 leading banks are using Daml applications. $13 trillion securities financing transactions being transformed by Daml smart contract applications. $1.5 trillion repo processed on Canton every month.
EDM Council is the member-driven trade association dedicated to elevating data management and analytics as a strategic business priority. EDM Council is a neutral, global, nonprofit industry forum where businesses, organizations, regulators and other public entities collaborate to develop and implement data best practices.
EDM Council is the global trade association advocating for data management best practices, with over 350 cross-industry member organizations from the Americas, EMEA and Asia, and more than 25,000 professional members . Launched in 2021, Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) was developed by EDM Council’s CDMC Working Group, with over 300 professionals participating from more than 100 firms, including the world’s major cloud service providers (CSPs) – AWS, Google Cloud, IBM and Microsoft – plus leading financial firms, consultancies, technology firms and numerous corporation – to define the framework, key controls and automations for managing and protecting sensitive data in the cloud. In 2024, they launched Data Excellence Program, the first of its kind to recognize data management at an enterprise level.
Pollination is a global climate investment and advisory firm solely dedicated to accelerating the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive and resilient future. A certified B Corp, Pollination brings together world leaders across finance, investment, technology, law and policy to connect the dots and see around corners.
Over the past five years, Pollination has built a leading concentration of global climate and nature advisors and has launched groundbreaking partnerships, including a joint venture with HSBC to establish the world’s largest natural capital asset manager with over $900m AUM. Pollination has a presence in 13 countries globally, with over 150 major advisory clients across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and EMEA.
A pioneer in the environmental commodities market, Xpansiv operates the market infrastructure to scale the world’s energy transition. Its carbon and renewable energy registry, trading, portfolio management, and post-trade settlement platforms and operations are global market leaders. Xpansiv stands at the forefront of transaction and advisory services, playing a vital role in the carbon and energy transition markets.
Xpansiv has over 90% market share of global carbon spot volume traded on exchange with more than 2.1 billion environmental assets since 2021 and over 300 million tons of carbon emissions since 2020. They have more than 1,500 active market participants trading across water, carbon, renewables and digital fuels with over 70% of the market share of offsets and NA RECs registered utilizing their software.
Nammu21 is a digitization and analytics platform deconstructing complex interconnected documents across the finance ecosystem delivering operational efficiencies, generating new value, and connecting the business of today to the digital world of tomorrow.
Nammu21 developed a proprietary NLP system to transform the business and operations of the $5 trillion syndicated loan market. Nammu21 had a 25% increase in revenue growth between 2020 and 2023. In July 2023, Nammu21 launched N21 Public, a transformative database of publicly available loan agreements. By November, they had announced their partnership on private credit loan space project with AccessFintech.
