Cox Cleantech Accelerator Brings Global Energy Startups to Atlanta for Cohort Two

The Cox Cleantech Accelerator, a partnership between Cox Enterprises, gener8tor, and the Georgia Cleantech Innovation Hub, announced today the next five startups that will come to Atlanta for its 12-week program.

This cohort, which is the second one since the accelerator officially launched, come from across the country and the globe. The selected startups are all focused on solving different problems related to industrial efficiency, infrastructure improvements, and energy enhancements.

Meet The New Cleantech Cohort

The new startups in the program include:

Stak Mobility (New York, New York)

Diallo Powell - Co-founder and CEO

Designed for developers, fleets and city drivers, Stak enables the transition to electric while solving a persistent urban challenge: space.

Uptime Analytics (Bogota, Colombia)

Oscar Hoyos - CEO

Uptime helps technicians and engineers boost industrial asset performance with AI-driven applications that optimize energy use, reduce emissions and mitigate risk.

WhyGrene (Seattle, Washington)

Pat Phelps - Founder and CEO

WhyGrene optimizes distributed energy systems with an all-in-one platform that helps utilities, businesses and microgrids plan, manage and coordinate clean energy assets.

Prezerv (Saint Louis, Missouri)

Cam Raufi - Founder and CEO

Prezerv is a 3D mapping platform that takes the guess work out of underground utilities projects. The goal is to help streamline operations and reduce emissions.

FNN (Gainesville, Florida)

Istvan Kereszy, PhD - CEO

FNN’s High-Risk-Lightning™ (HRL™) solution uses proprietary edge-computing sensors to track lightning strikes and environmental conditions, reducing costly investigations, downtime and  emergency response times.

Inside The Cox Cleantech Accelerator

Each selected startup in the accelerator receives a $100,000 investment. The teams also get mentorship from Cox business leaders and hands-on support around product development, customer acquisition, and fundraising.

The day-to-day operations of the cohort are run by Managing Director Miguel Granier and Program Director Hannah Turner.

Granier said the program was looking for startups that were ready for commercial pilot opportunities and could also benefit from Atlanta’s Cleantech and enterprise ecosystems.

The five startups in the cohort were selected from more than 150 applications. That field was narrowed down over a series of interviews to the top 15 finalists. Those 15 came to Atlanta to meet the selection committee in person.

The five selected companies not only stood out for their technology and business model. Granier added that the five startups were at a point where the accelerator could "impact their trajectory significantly with the resources, the access, and the partners" available during the coming three months.

The Cox Cleantech Accelerator runs two cohorts a year. The first cohort included Atlanta-based 4Earth, Saint Louis-based Accelerate Wind, Charlotte-based Flux Hybrids, New York-based Kara, and Atlanta-based Joulea.

After working with the program’s inaugural cohort, Granier said he was impressed with “the quality and the number of mentors” from the Atlanta ecosystem that joined to help the program. He added that another big highlight was how much Cox Enterprises leaned in and supported the cohort, especially when it came to making commercialization connections.

The program is part of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises’ larger commitment to invest into sustainable businesses and technologies.