Energytech Nexus Announces Global Founding Partners during Houston Energy and Climate Week’s Pilotathon
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Houston, Texas — September 28, 2025 — Energytech Nexus, a global hub for scaling energy technology innovation, announced its Global Founding Partners, representing some of the world’s most influential energy, industry, financial, and professional services organizations. This coalition was announced during its flagship Pilotathon event at the Houston Energy and Climate Week and strengthens Energytech Nexus’s position as a central platform for developing and deploying solutions to address the energy trilemma: security, sustainability, and affordability.
Since inception, Energytech Nexus has brought together leading corporations, investors, and innovators to accelerate commercialization, facilitate pilot projects, and open global market opportunities for emerging energy technologies. The announcement of these strategic partnerships marks a significant milestone in expanding the organization’s capacity to deliver measurable impact across the energyecosystem.
“Our Global Founding Partners represent the highest standards of industrial leadership, technical expertise, and commitment to innovation,” said Juliana Garaizar, Co-Founding Partner, Energytech Nexus.“Their collaboration enables us to connect groundbreaking technologies with the resources, infrastructure, and markets needed to achieve global scale.”
Energytech Nexus Global Founding Partners
Chevron Technology Ventures (“CTV”) CTV identifies and invests in externally developed early-stage technologies and new business solutions with the potential to enhance the way Chevron produces and delivers energy that’s affordable, reliable, and with lower carbon intensity. CTV has more than 25 years of being the primary on-ramp for external early-stage innovation into Chevron.
Oxy Technology Ventures (OTV)
OTV identifies innovative technologies designed to enhance Occidental's operations, making processes more efficient, reducing cost and enabling cleaner energy solutions. OTV makes strategic investments to help promising products get implemented with solutions aimed at delivering impact. These solutions support Occidental's broader goals of producing essential energy while advancing lower-carbon technologies.
The global energy company, headquartered in Spain and present in more than 20 countries, continues to advance its strategic transformation toward to its committed net-zero emissions by 2050. Its strategic focus spans renewables, advanced biofuels, renewable hydrogen, and digital transformation to enable more efficient energy solutions that reduce the carbon footprint.
"Open innovation is a cornerstone of Repsol's strategy. It allows us to connect with the innovative ecosystem, identify new technological solutions, and support startups that join us on the path toward net zero emissions by 2050”, said Gema Garcia, Director of Open Innovation and Corporate Venturing at Repsol. “This collaborative ability not only enhances the company's technological capabilities but is also an essential tool to accelerate decarbonization. Our experience and deep knowledge of the energy sector and its technologies position us as the ideal partner for the Energytech Nexus. This collaboration reaffirms our commitment to innovation and the search for disruptive solutions for a more efficient energy future".
BBVA
BBVA is a leading global financial institution providing universal banking and advisory services, with a strong focus on sustainable finance. The bank has developed innovative financing frameworks to accelerate renewable energy and low-carbon initiatives worldwide, supported by its cleantech hubs in New York, Houston, London, and Madrid.
“BBVA has the expertise to advise the Energytech Nexus ecosystem on first-of-a-kind energy projects,” said Alvaro Aguilar, Head of Strategic Projects USA at BBVA. “We support our clients throughout the full project lifecycle — from early-stage structuring to accessing capital and tax credit monetization — helping define a clear path to bankability for novel technologies.”
Latham & Watkins is a leading global law firm that brings together exceptional legal talent in financial centers around the world to advise on complex transactions, litigation, and regulatory matters. The firm’s deep market and product knowledge, industry experience, vast scale, and commitment to innovation and excellence help clients navigate their most critical challenges and achieve their goals.
Scott Craig, Austin/Houston partner at Latham & Watkins, said, “Latham is thrilled to leverage our deep experience guiding private emerging and growth companies in the energy tech sector to support the development of the companies and innovations within the Energytech Nexus hub. We can provide these innovators with the legal frameworks and compliance strategies to empower them to scale and thrive in today’s dynamic, yet highly complex deal environment.”
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement and automation technologies, offering a broad portfolio of instrumentation, services, and solutions. With more than 9,000 patents and patent applications, their expertise optimizes processes and improves safety across industries such as chemical, food and beverage, life sciences, power and energy, oil and gas, and water and waste water. Endress+Hauser empowers innovators with measurement technologies and solutions that drive efficiency and support sustainability goals.
Ormazabal specializes in smart grid solutions and advanced electrical infrastructure that enable a cleaner, more efficient, and more resilient energy system. The company’s expertise in grid modernization directly supports the integration of renewable energy and distributed energy resources.
“Through our partnership with Energytech Nexus, we look forward to advancing innovative grid technologies that will accelerate the global energy transition”, said Koldo Atxutegui, Chief Innovation Officer, Ormazabal.
Goodwin is a leading global law firm recognized for its work with high-growth companies and investors in the energy, climatetech, and sustainability sectors. The firm provides strategic legal counsel on company formation, fundraising, transactions, IP, and regulatorymatters.
David Brekke, Partner at Goodwin said, “Goodwin supports Energytech Nexus innovators with strategic, value-added legal advice for developing, commercializing and scaling their innovations.”
Sunipro delivers advanced industrial and clean energy technology solutions, supporting efficiency, performance, and emissions reduction across sectors.
“Sunipro is honored to be a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus and excited to contribute to the energy startup ecosystem. Sunipro is a Houston-based business advisory firm with deep expertise in the M&A, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity space across multiple industries. We look forward to supporting the Energytech Nexus community and helping businesses solve the energy transition challenges", said Pranav Patel, Managing Director at Sunipro.
STX Next is a technology partner that helps companies design, build, and scale digital products. With over 500 engineers, we combine Python, AI, cloud, and data expertise to deliver software fast and reliably, acting as an extension of your team to reduce risk and speed upinnovation.
“STX Next has been helping energy companies around the globe modernizing systems and applying AI to optimize operations, predict maintenance needs, enhance trading and asset performance, and support ESG goals — Our mission as Energytech Nexus founding partner is to support Energytech Nexus Stakeholders and partners to reduce risk, cutting costs, and enabling a smarter, more sustainable energy future”, said Judith Gómez Ovalle, Executive Key Account Manager STX Next.
EarthXEarthX is an international environmental nonprofit dedicated to educating and inspiring action for a sustainable future. Through events, media, and global initiatives, EarthX engages diverse audiences to drive environmental awareness and collaborative solutions. EarthX's annual signature event is the EarthX Congress of Conferences, which includes the investment and industry innovation focused EarthX E-CapitalSummit, and will take place April 20-22, 2026.
“I have had the honor of working closely with Juliana over the last several years and EarthX is excited tosupport Energytech Nexus mission and platform to help catalyze critical innovations and pragmatic solutions focused on security, sustainability, and affordability in Texas, across the country, and around the world. We are excited about their ability to bridge the divide between innovators and industry and look forward to collaborating with them and their community", said Vikram Agrawal, Senior Director of EarthX's EarthxCapital team. As a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus, EarthX expands the visibility and impact of energy-tech innovations, connecting them with global stakeholders committed to advancing sustainability.”
Greenbackers Investment Capital
Greenbackers Investment Capital is a leading ClimateTech and EnergyTech funding advisory firm. Operating globally, we help founders raise institutional capital from our vast network of specialized funds via our digital dealroom and on premises showcase events.
Mark Hannigan, Partner North America said, “As a Global Founding & Community Partner of Energytech Nexus, Greenbackers provides founders with a trusted and efficient path to institutional funding and investors with curated, highly investable deal flow. We are delighted to be working with the Energytech Nexus team and see great mission alignment between our respective organizations”.
Greentown Labs is the world’s largest climatetech and energy startup incubator, supporting more than 200 startups, with locations in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Houston, Texas. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Greentown accelerates climatetech innovation and commercialization by providing entrepreneurs with community, connections, labs, and resources.
"This partnership has been a long time coming — our organizations are kindred spirits that need to be working together to enhance the entrepreneurial support systems available to climate innovators in Houston”, said Lawson Gow, Greentown’s Head of Houston. “We're putting into action our belief that breakthroughs don’t scale in isolation—they scale when entire ecosystems move together."
Cemvita is a pioneer inindustrial biotechnology, transforming CO₂ and other waste into sustainable oils, chemicals, and fuel feedstocks through precision-engineered microbes and circular bioprocessing. Its approach delivers scalable, low-carbon-intensity solutions that dramatically reduce land and water use, positioning Cemvita as a leader in decarbonizing heavy industries.
“As a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus, Cemvita brings cutting-edge industrial biotech innovation and circular bioeconomy expertise to accelerate the deployment of nature-positive hard-tech solutions.” said Moji Karimi, CEO of Cemvita.
Kauel is an AI company that has secured 72 copyrights and 4 invention patents in Chile and the United States, demonstrating a strong commitment to innovation. Specializing in artificial intelligence and image analytics, Kauel delivers advanced solutions across energy, mining, manufacturing, health, education, and retail sectors.
“As a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus, Kauel brings deep expertise in computer vision, AI, and hardware‑software integration, enabling startups to enhance asset monitoring, safety, and predictive maintenance capabilities”, said Edmundo Casas, CEO of Kauel.
XGS Energy develops proprietary solid-state geothermal technology that delivers 24/7 clean energy without reliance on water or specific geological formations. Its closed-loop, pipe-in-pipe well architecture enables scalable, drought-resilient deployment indiverse locations.
"XGS Energy is proud to be a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus as a Houston hub for energy leadership, innovation, and partnership. Energytech Nexus is bringing technology, development, and finance around one table, enabling proven technologies like XGS’s to quickly move from early deployment to bankable infrastructure at the speed the market demands," said XGS Energy CEO, Josh Prueher. As a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus, XGS Energy brings advanced geothermal technology and a multi-gigawatt project pipeline to accelerate the commercialization of reliable, clean energy solutions.
Revterra’s Kinetic Stabilizer technology offers AI focused data centers a novel solution for managing the massive and volatile load profiles associated with running complex AI models. Traditional power protection equipment like UPS systems simply are not fast enough, reliable enough, environmentally friendly enough, or affordable enough to keep up with the needs of future AI data centers. The Kinetic Stabilizer offers physically instantaneous power quality protection in a compact footprint with true industrial scale, an infinite cycle life, and minimized environmental impact – all at a fraction of the cost. Revterra enables the future of AI infrastructure.
"Revterra is thrilled to be a founding member of the Energytech Nexus community. Building a strong network of collaborators, customers, and investors is critical for any startup - particularly when you're building novel hardware. The Energytech Nexus community has been incredible at bringing all of the right stakeholders together," said Ben Jawdat, Founder and CEO of Revterra. As a Founding Partner of EnergyTech Nexus, Revterra brings advanced energy-storage expertise and scalable solutions to support startups in real-world deployment across clean energy ecosystems.
ISR Energy is a premier project development and consulting firm specializing in both distributed generation and utility scale solar projects.With decades of experience in energy as a service, structured finance, and real estate, the firm guides clients from raw land owners to owners of mission critical facilities through feasibility assessments, design, funding, anddelivery.
“As a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus, ISR Energy brings deep project execution capability and capital structuring expertise to help startups accelerate real world deployment of their energy innovations”, said Byron Loftin, Managing Director of ISR Energy.
Collide, developed by Digital Wildcatters, is an AI-powered knowledge and community platform for energy professionals. The platform consolidates data, scanned documents, and operational systems,enabling natural-language search, regulatory workflow automation, and fast access to critical insights across complex upstream operations.
“At Collide, we believe progress happens when the right people, data,and ideas come together. Partnering with Energytech Nexus allows us to support innovators with the insights and community they need to accelerate deploymentat scale” said Collin McLelland, Co-founder and CEO of Collide. As a Founding Partner of Energytech Nexus, Collide supports startups by enabling better decision making, reducing friction in field operations, and accelerating deployment of technology solutions.
Energytech Nexus was founded by founders on the belief that strategic partnerships are vital to closing the gap between groundbreaking innovation and large-scale deployment. The Global Founding Partners announced contribute not only financial and technical resources, but also the operational expertise and global networks that enable startups to succeed.
Jason Ethier,Co-Founding Partner Energytech Nexus, emphasized that these partnerships will be pivotal: “The Energy and Climate industry deploys over $1.5Trillion in capital every year to meet our growing energy demands. Our global founding partners recognize that this energy must be delivered reliably, cost effectively, and sustainably, and have committed to ensuring that technology developed without our ecosystem can find a path to market through testing and piloting in real-world conditions. The ecosystem they support here solidifies Houston as the global nexus for the energy transition.”
About Energytech Nexus
The Energytech Nexus is a global Energytech hub on a mission to solve the energy trilemma of energy security, sustainability, and affordability by connecting founders, investors, and civic and industrial stakeholders. We are a community of founders, professionals, corporates, and investors that helps each other form authentic connections, grow on our leadership journey, and gain access to critical resources. Learn more at www.energytechnexus.com
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