CEP 0809
List of Teams
| Team | Description | Notes |
| Aeolian | Aeolian will design and manufacture air powered automotive engines to serve the automotive industry in Michigan | Competed in Round 2 |
| Algal Scientific | Early stage biotech and process engineering firm focused on filling in key gaps around IP in using advnaced biological and chemical engineering techniquest or convert mass produced algae into a high value chemical feedstocks or biofuels | Advanced to Finals |
| Building Energy Science | Offers complete energy efficiency retrofit solution for residential customers | Competed in Round 2 |
| C6 Partners | Operate landfill gas projects producing carbon credits through flaring methane gas | Competed in Round 2 |
| Collective Energies | Personal natural resource management, providing individual households with the ability to track their energy usage at there discretion | Competed in Round 2 |
| CTW International | Develops land-based projects that deliver climate, biodiversity, and community benefits based on accountable metrics and carbon accounting | Competed in Round 3 |
| enDep | Offer a unique Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) powertrain that provides increased fuel efficiency, reduced driving costs, reduced vehicle emissions | Competed in Round 1 |
| Energy Technology Components | Our product is a modular, portable auxiliary power unit (APU), based on proprietary and patentable fuel reformer technologies, to efficiently and economically produce electricity from a diverse range of fossil and renewable fuels | Competed in Round 3 |
| Generize | Online micro-finance network that helps local communities develop and fund sustainable energy projects to meet their climate action targets | Competed in Round 1 |
| Husk | Convert agricultural waste into high‐grade insulation that delivers a significant improvement over conventional insulation | Advanced to Finals |
| Lean Energy | Offers a complete energy efficiency retrofit solution for residential customers. | Semi-Finalist |
| Phoenix Microsystems | Fabless semiconductor company developing ultra low power microprocessors thats consume orders of magnitude less power than functionally equivalent | Competed in Round 1 |
| Potential Energy | Create clean, sustainable storage for wind energy by using depleted underground natural gas reservoirs as water storage facilities | Competed in Round 2 |
| Promethean Energy | Solar powered energy given to low income villages | Competed in Round 1 |
| SITumbra | Rigid solar shading window system configured to respond to seasonal variations with optimal energy efficiency | Finished in 4th Place |
| T2G Motors | T2G markets and sells state of the art electric motors to long haul truck manufacturers | Competed in Round 1 |
| Urban Wind Solutions | Offers vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) that provide clean energy, convenient advertising space, and positive publicity, to the owners and occupants of highrise buildings | Competed in Round 2 |
| Vital Group | Sells wind turbines to enable deployment in urban, industrial, and residential areas | Competed in Round 2 |
| Vortex Hydro Energy | Commercialize a novel method for harvesting energy from moving water in a manner that does not harm the environment | Semi-Finalist |
| We Gen | Works with communities to jointly develop community-owned renewable energy projects that will provide a financial return to members and secure a sustainable clean energy supply for the community | Competed in Round 2 |
| Wind Power Solutions | Integrate available energy sources to power a desalination and purification system for salt water | Competed in Round 1 |
| Zetta Enterprise | Intake of organic materials,conversion of these organic materials to methane gas, and sale and distribution of the methane gas | Competed in Round 1 |
If you would like to be put in contact with one of these teams, please email rachelul@umich.edu
List of Judges
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Round |
| Rob Ozar | Manager, Electric Operations | Michigan Public Service Commission | 1 |
| Fulter Hong | Manager | 1 | |
| John Cunningham | Partner | Innoventures | 1 |
| Roland Kibler | Manager, Technology Development | Next Energy | 1 |
| Nick Cucinelli | Cleantech Consultant | Independent | 1 |
| Pete Brown | Product Group Director, Cleantech | Ricardo | 1 |
| Mark Zhu | Associate | DTE Energy Ventures | 2 |
| Michael Psarouthakis | Senior Portfolio Manager, 21st Century Jobs Fund | Michigan Economic Development Corporation | 2 |
| Antonio Luck | Senior Business Analyst | Delphi | 2 |
| Matt Garrett | Senior Associate | Battery Ventures | 2 |
| Maria Thompson | President | A123 Systems | Semi-Finals |
| Skip Simms | Managing Director of Business Acceleration and Manager of the Pre-seed Capital Fund | Ann Arbor Spark | Semi-Finals |
| Sonali Vijayavaragiya | Managing Director | Augment Capital, LLC | Semi-Finals |
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