Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Cambridge based Founder operating in the Energy space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Yet-Ming Chiang
Co-Founder of A123 Systems
Yet-Ming Chiang is a co-founder of Desktop Metal. As one of the top battery experts in the world, as well as a leading materials scientist, Prof. Chiang has been integral in Desktop Metal’s development of an office-friendly metal 3D printing system, as well as building out the company’s materials science team. Prof. Chiang is also the Kyocera Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, where his research focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced inorganic materials and related devices. Prof. Chiang earned his SB in Materials Science and Engineering and his ScD in Ceramics, both at MIT. He has published approximately 200 scholarly articles and a widely-used textbook on ceramic materials, and holds about 20 issued patents and 30 pending patent applications (excluding substantially identical foreign filings).
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About 24M Technologies, A123 Systems, Baseload Renewables, Desktop Metal, Form Energy: A123 Systems is a manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries and battery systems for the transportation, electric grid, and commercial markets.
Alex Yu
Founder and President of Factorial Energy
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About Factorial Energy: Factorial Energy focuses on sustainable future with safe, high performance batteries for EVs, homes, and critical applications.
Sai Shivareddy
CEO and Co-Founder of Nyobolt
Sai Shivareddy is the CEO and Co-Founder at Nyobolt.
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About Nyobolt: Nyobolt is a developer of high-power battery technology used to serve automotive applications.
Clare Grey
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Nyobolt
Clare Grey is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Nyobolt.
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About Nyobolt: Nyobolt is a developer of high-power battery technology used to serve automotive applications.
Temple Fennell
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Clean Energy Ventures
Temple Fennell is a co-founder and Managing Director at Clean Energy Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in companies commercializing breakthrough energy technologies addressing climate change. He has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and as an investor deploying capital for his single-family office, Keller Enterprises, a member of the CREO Syndicate. He is member of MIT’s Renewable Finance Roundtable, a Senior Fellow at the University of Zurich, holds an MBA as a Sloan Fellow from MIT and an Engineering BS from the University of Virginia.
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About Clean Energy Ventures: Clean Energy Ventures is an investor in early-stage advanced energy technologies.
Shawn Murphy
Founder | Chief Executive Officer | Chief Technology Officer of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
Shawn Murphy is the co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions.
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About Titan Advanced Energy Solutions: Titan Advanced Energy Solutions is a provider of ultrasound-based battery management solutions
David Keith
Founder of Carbon Engineering
David has worked at the interface of climate science, energy technology, and public policy for 25 years. As a technology developer and innovator, he built a high accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA’s ER-2 and developed new methods for reservoir engineering to increase the safety of stored CO2. David was listed as one of TIME magazine’s Heroes of the Environment 2009. David divides his time between Calgary and Cambridge Massachusetts where he holds professorships in engineering and in public policy at Harvard University.
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About Carbon Engineering: Carbon Engineering is a clean energy company.
Lauren Kuntz
CEO & Co-Founder of Gaiascope
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About Gaiascope: Gaiascope helps energy companies and investors transition to the future in the most economic way possible.
Shravane Balabasqer
Founder | CEO of Carbon Analytics
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About Carbon Analytics: A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.
Ajay Bawa
COO, Co-Founder, and Vice President of Thiozen
Ajay Bawa is the Vice President, COO, and Co-Founder at Thiozen Inc.
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About Thiozen: Thiozen develops novel hydrogen gas production technology designed to reduce greenhouse gases.
Jeff McAulay
Co-Founder & President of Energetic Insurance
Jeff McAulay is the Co-Founder & President at Energetic Insurance
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About ADL Ventures, Energetic Insurance: Energetic Insurance unlock solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations.
Perry Carroll
Founder of The Solar Cloth Company
Perry Carroll is a Founder at The Solar Cloth Company.
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About The Solar Cloth Company: A multi-award winning innovator in the solar power market focusing on the integration of Thin Flexible Solar Panels into buildings.
Nigel Preston
Co-Founder & Vice President Product Management of Azuri Technologies
Nigel has 30 years’ global experience of embedded electronic systems development and manufacture. Previous positions include a variety of senior roles with Motorola’s Automotive business unit including European Design Centre Director, and more recently he was COO International Operations for Pi Shurlok. Nigel is a Chartered Engineer and holds a B.Eng. and PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Liverpool.
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About Azuri Technologies: Azuri brings affordable solar power to off-grid rural africans.
Drew Weibel
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder of FGC Plasma Solutions
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About FGC Plasma Solutions: Improving combustion for energy, aerospace and national security
Neil Wilson
Founder and CEO of Camfridge
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About Camfridge: Camfridge is creating a new generation of low carbon cooling products.
