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Team Leader Corey Oses

Corey Oses is exploring commercialization pathways and licensing opportunities through Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. The team is developing advanced materials designed to safely immobilize nuclear waste, creating stable forms that are easier and safer to store over the long term. The company is currently in the very early stages of exploring commercialization opportunities.

Team Leader Justin Alford

TechnBloom is a community-driven solar initiative that combines clean energy generation with workforce development to address rising utility costs. By building a solar facility on surplus municipal land, the project provides direct energy cost relief to local residents while creating hands-on training opportunities for high school students and research partnerships with HBCUs. 

Team Leader Larry London

Barrow Green is developing next-generation heating and cooling solutions that are compact, energy-efficient, and free of harmful refrigerants. Designed for flexibility across a wide range of applications, our technology supports both personal and large-scale climate control needs. Our first product is a wearable cooling vest aimed at protecting workers and consumers from extreme heat, helping people stay safe, productive, and comfortable as temperatures rise.

Team Leader Bipendra Basnyat

Agri-Ai is an AI-powered animal detection and deterrence system designed to protect crops, gardens, and green infrastructure from wildlife damage—particularly from deer, raccoons, rabbits, and groundhogs. By combining computer vision, edge computing, and bioacoustic deterrence through parametric speakers, our system detects wildlife in real time and activates targeted, non-lethal deterrent signals. 

Team Leader Justin Beitzel

OkaTerra offers sustainable materials and design solutions to meet the growing demand for low carbon architecture and interiors. Their offering includes innovative materials that significantly reduce carbon footprints by working with Local farmers and Sawyers to grow regenerative supply chains for the furniture industry.

Team Leader Gopalakrishnan Anand

Energy Concepts has developed practical applications of Thermal Storage, Heat Recovery, and Heat Pumping, to benefit energy usage at district heating and cooling systems.

Team Leader Darnell Shaffer

Melastone develops, owns, and operates battery storage, EV charging, and solar behind the meter — and runs them on the Melastone Controller, which makes dispatch decisions on local hardware so the system keeps earning when the network does not.

Team Leader Samuel Bendek

Elastic Energy has developed a novel battery that stores energy using tree-sap-based elastic materials instead of lithium or other critical minerals. A motor stretches an elastic band from about 20 to 100 meters to store energy. When released, the band contracts and spins a generator, producing electricity—without chemical reactions, fire risk, or rare materials.

Team Leader Gloria Baldwin

Capital Logistics is focused on developing and customizing high-density (HD) charging solutions specifically designed for semi-trucks. The company aims to provide reliable, efficient, and scalable charging infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the commercial transportation industry, supporting the transition to cleaner, more sustainable freight operations.

Team Leader Samad Saifudin

ThresholdStack collapses inspection, modeling, and energy operations into one platform. A robot scans your building in hours. BuiltLedger turns the scan into a living model. The model tells you which upgrades pay, then proves it.

Team Leader Frank Yang

Liatris develops high-performance, non-flammable, non-toxic insulation products using patented nanopore composites.