Brian Barron

Lightning Systems, Inc. engages in the production of electric fleet medium-and heavy-duty vehicles including delivery trucks, shuttle buses, passenger vans, chassis-cab models, and city transit buses. Its products include Vehicles, Custom Applications, Lightning Analytics, Charging stations, and Lightning Energy engages in the provision of zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) solutions for commercial fleets. Its products include vehicles, charging stations and lightning mobile. The company was founded by Daniel S. Johnson and Timothy Reeser in 2008 and is headquartered in Loveland, CO.

Sionic Energy commercializes non-flammable electric vehicle (EV) battery technology. It develops electric vehicle battery electrolytes containing functional ionic liquids. The firm’s two electrolyte product lines under development for electric vehicle (EV) batteries are: NanoLyte Electrolyte: SF Series and HVE Series. The company was founded by Shivaun Archer, Nathan Ball, and Lynden Archer in 2011 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Steelhead Composites LLC designs, manufactures, and distributes manufactures composite overwrapped pressure vessels. It offers manufacturing of aluminum cylinders, design and analysis of composite pressure vessels, advanced filament winding of composite pressure vessels, material analysis of composite materials and plastics, cycle testing, and precision 3D inspection of parts. The company was founded by Andrew Coors in October 2010 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.

Waste to Energy Partners LLC develops and operates waste conversion facilities. Its facilities divert solid waste from traditional disposal methods and use these energy rich materials to create bi-products such as recycled carbon black, direct power, and liquid fuels. The company was founded by William Anthony Wibbeler, Jay Chaudhari, Michael Cameron, and Greg Fowler and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of NOV, Inc., Romaco Innojet is a Swiss company that specializes in drying, granulation, and coating for the pharmaceutical, food, and chemical industries. The company is based in Volketswil, Switzerland. Romaco Innojet's VENTILUS® series is based on the air flow bed technology originally developed and internationally patented by Dr. h.c. Herbert Hüttlin. The company offers processing and packaging equipment for powders and liquids, sterile and non-sterile, from laboratory to high volume equipment, and from single machines to integrated line solutions. The company also provides technical support, formats, toolings, spare parts, training, retrofits & upgrades, returns & repairs. The company was founded by Robert Henry Fenwick-Smith. Romaco was acquired by Robbins & Myers, Inc., part of NOV, Inc. from February 20, 2013 on August 31, 2001 for $118 million.

Siemens Digital Logistics GmbH develops cloud-based information technology logistics solutions. It provides AX4 which creates preconditions for collaboration of participants by displaying company branching processes and integrating the different systems and participants. The firm also offers cloud computing, project management, support and hosting. The company was founded by Holger Schmitt, Frauke Heistermann and Michael Klett in 1999 and is headquartered in Frankenthal, Germany.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. engags in the production of biofuel from garbage. It designs, develops, owns, and operates facilities that convert sorted, post-recycled municipal solid waste into ethanol. The firm's proprietary thermo chemical process converts municipal solid waste feedstock into ethanol using conventional commercial systems and alcohol synthesis process. The company was founded by James Alastair Campbell McDermott and E. James Macias in July 2007 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Colorado State University Ventures, Inc. provides intellectual property, licensing, partnership-building and entrepreneurship services. It offers business technology transfer and commercialization services. The firm provides its services to the corporate, private and government sectors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, CO.

Colorado Cleantech Industry Association promotes the clean technology industry as an association. The private company is based in Denver, CO. The company was founded by Charles R. Eggert, Steven R. Hane.

Tattile SRL develops and manufactures intelligent vision systems for quality control applications. It specializes in smart cameras, intelligent transportation systems, automatic number plate recognition, passenger information systems, video analytics, enforcement, axle counting , free flow tolling, and vehicle tracking. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Mairano, Italy.

Aravaipa Partners LLC (Aravaipa Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Robert Henry Fenwick-Smith. The firm is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Vision Chemical Systems, Inc. manufactures green and biodegradable commercial cleaning chemicals. It offers non-toxic and biodegradable cleaning chemicals for industries to reduce pollution and water usage. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Taxon Biosciences, Inc. engages in the provision of development of genomics tools to profile microbial communities. The company was founded by Matthew Ashby, Jasper Rine, and Stewart Scherer in 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Biosynthetic Technologies, Inc. manufactures biobased synthetic molecules from organic fatty acids found in plant oils. It offers biosynthetic base oil, passenger car motor oil and cocoestolide. The company is founded by Jakob Bredsguard in 2004 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Clear Comfort Water LLC manufactures and supplies water disinfection solutions for pools and SPA businesses. Its product, LifeGuard Technology, is a nontoxic chlorine alternative pool sanitation solution with a two-stage process that destroys contaminants. The company was founded by Nick Rancis and Steven Jay Berens in March 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

GigFounders LLC provides business consulting and investment services. The private company is based in Wilmington. The American company was founded by Avishay S. Katz.

Cognizer, Inc. provides software solutions. The company was founded by Avishay S. Katz, Jack Porter and Soundar Velu and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

GigCapital6, Inc. operates as a blank check company. It is a special purpose acquisition company which is incorporated for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination. The company was founded by Raluca Dinu and Avishay S. Katz on January 19, 2021 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Silver Bullet Water Treatment Co. LLC develops water treatment systems. The firm's products include agricultural, cooling tower, and industrial systems. It also offers photochemical water treatment system that controls microorganisms and scale formation without the use of toxic chemicals. The company was founded by David Kolstad and Robert I. Hanfling in 2008 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.