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Get to Know the Companies
Writing the Fifth Chapter
of The Clean Fight:
Multifamily Affordable
Housing Edition

Get to Know the Companies Writing
the Fifth Chapter of The Clean Fight:
Multifamily Affordable Housing Edition

Get to Know the Companies Writing
the Fifth Chapter of The Clean Fight:
Multifamily Affordable Housing Edition

Monitoring
and Management
Retrofit
Navigation
Building
Envelope
Electrification

We are delighted to announce the ten groundbreaking companies that will make up the fifth edition of The Clean Fight’s Deployment Accelerator. This edition is dedicated to decarbonizing multifamily low-to-moderate income (LMI) and affordable housing in New York State. For many affordable housing providers, navigating retrofit projects is no small feat. The process is often complex and costly and affordable housing providers must juggle affordability, tenant comfort, and solution operations and maintenance, with limited bandwidth. The companies selected offer low-to-no upfront cost, ready-to-install solutions that can simplify the retrofit process for affordable housing providers–breaking down barriers to decarbonization.

If you’re a housing provider, engineer, or capital provider in the multifamily affordable housing ecosystem interested in collaborating, read our program flyer or email lovinia.reynolds@newenergynexus.com for more information.

Electrification

Sam Calisch
Sam Calisch
CEO

Copper develops battery-integrated appliances that make home electrification easier and more affordable. Their induction stove features built-in energy storage and plugs into a standard 120V outlet, allowing households to upgrade to efficient electric cooking without costly electric panel upgrades, while maintaining reliability during power outages.
Margaux Peltier
Margaux Peltier
CEO

Enerdrape harnesses the power of shallow geothermal energy–without the need of a drill–using its innovative geothermal panel technology to transform underground surfaces, such as parking walls, into clean, local, and renewable heat sources.
Patrick Bischoff
Patrick Bischoff
CEO

Gradient designs and manufactures innovative cold-climate window heat pumps. Its heat pump technology operates on 120v and combines the high performance of a mini-split with the simple, hassle-free installation of a window air conditioner, providing affordable and sustainable heating and cooling.

Building Envelope

Douglas Lamm
Douglas Lamm
CEO

Building Envelope Materials has developed a minimally invasive retrofit insulation system for large multifamily buildings. The system reduces thermal energy use by 20 to 30% and allows envelope upgrades without resident relocation.
Aurimas Sabulis
Aurimas Sabulis
CEO

Dextall combines cutting-edge design software with next-generation prefabricated panels. Their fully integrated prefabricated panel system shortens construction timelines, reduces labor needs 20-fold, and exceeds energy standards by 40%.

Retrofit Navigation

Alex Blumberg
Alex Blumberg
CEO

DaisyChain Energy acts as a utility for building owners, enabling them to purchase electricity at wholesale rates while securely sub-metering residents’ electricity usage and charging them based on individual consumption. The savings in electricity rates can then be used to finance decarbonization upgrades, further lowering the energy-cost burden for residents and housing providers.
Aimee Bailey
Aimee Bailey
CEO

Rock Rabbit provides AI-powered software solutions that make it fast, easy, and reliable to find, navigate and claim incentives for green building upgrades. 

Monitoring and Management

Mark Kovscek
Mark Kovscek
CEO

Conservation Labs offers a non-invasive sensor and reporting platform that provides high resolution water and plumbing maintenance insights to reduce water, energy, and maintenance costs.
Robert Cooper
Robert Cooper
CEO

Embue’s software platform turns any apartment building into a smart building by monitoring temperature and humidity in real time, allowing for visibility, control, management, and automation of every space in the building to reduce energy costs and improve efficiency.
Dr. Brendan Hermalyn
Dr. Brendan Hermalyn
CEO

Thalo Labs’ technology transforms HVAC systems into intelligent, connected systems by leveraging advanced sensors and machine learning to monitor and diagnose equipment in real time–reducing emissions, improving performance, lowering operational costs for building owners, and making decarbonization accessible at scale.
In Our Corner
We’re proud to be working with this outstanding group of collaborators and supporters in the fifth edition of The Clean Fight.
Program Collaborators
Housing Partners
Technical Experts
Capital Partners
Supporters
How We Support The Companies In Our Program
Business Development

Collapsing the sales cycle between initial customer meetings and ultimate deployment of solutions

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Business Development

We focus on facilitating relationships between cohort companies and affordable housing providers to drive to mutually beneficial deployments. We help remove the obstacles blocking providers’ and startups’ ability to implement innovative, best-in-class solutions.

Financing Support

Tailored connections to leading capital partners

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Financing Support

We connect cohort companies to the right sources of capital to best meet their specific growth needs, from venture capital, venture debt, credit, project finance and working capital.

Deployment Grants

Up to $100k per company to support deployments in NY

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Deployment Grants

Cohort companies are eligible to apply for up to $100k each to support deployments in New York State with 2:1 private match.

Bespoke Programming

Created specifically to meet the cohort’s scaling needs

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Bespoke Programming

Based on the unique needs of the cohort, targeted programming will be created to support the cohort’s scaling, e.g. navigating incentive stacking, zero-up-front business models, collaborating with community partners.

NY Navigation

Expert insight into NY’s regulatory, legislative, and incentive opportunities

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NY Navigation

We know how hard it is to break into, or expand in New York. We provide cohort companies with guidance from top regulators, utilities, industry experts, and gatekeepers on navigating the New York market.

Time Efficient Program; No Equity

6 months, 2 summits, ~2 hours a week of engagement

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Time Efficient Program; No Equity

Our streamlined program is designed to maximize impact to cohort companies with a focused and manageable time commitment, accelerating the work cohort companies are already doing to grow their business.

Our Approach
Six months (May–October). No relocation. Two in-person summits, along with ongoing engagement.
Pre-Program
In-depth needs assessment
Kickoff Summit
In-person matchmaking between cohort companies and housing partners
Virtual Connections
Meetings to progress housing partner conversations, meet capital partners, and connect with NY regulators and influencers
Showcase Summit
Sharing cohort companies' Clean Fight with investors & broader LMI and affordable community
Virtual Touchpoints
with our team, housing partners and financing partners to advance cohort companies' Clean Fight