Every year, our Elemental Excelerator team combs through applications — this year almost 500 — from amazing entrepreneurs around the globe. We learn about solar robots, spinning batteries, even vertically-integrated cows (in case you’re wondering, that’s a cow that goes…
How our portfolio companies' applications captured our attention, shared how they would fit into the EEx community, and charted their roadmaps to changing people's lives. Pretty much every accelerator program puts together a "How to make your application stand out"…
It’s no secret that Silicon Valley drives the tech world. From smart cars to smart homes, California continues to boast the world’s latest high-tech innovations and developments. Yet many Californians still lack access to technological advancements that could dramatically improve…
When people hear “accelerator,” they often think of programs like Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Techstars. These tech accelerators, which helped launch startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Instacart, are positioned to take ideas and create companies out of them through…
In April of 2017, we rebranded to Elemental Excelerator to further embrace our systems-level approach to innovation and community transformation. Our expanded vision is to attract an exceptional community of innovators and entrepreneurs that are building businesses beyond utility grid-tied…
To close out 2017, the four mayors of Hawaii set a goal of 100% renewable ground transportation by 2045. This means we won't be shipping oil into our ports just to move food from the farm to the dinner table.…
The Elemental Excelerator team just wrapped up a week with 48 entrepreneurs, 23 global partners, and 150+ Hawaii-based stakeholders. We put together a few notes from the week to give you a little flavor! First, some context: In the spring…
Big news! Less than a week after revealing our 2018 cohort, eMotorWerks announced that they were acquired! To add icing to the cake, they were acquired by EnerNOC, a subsidiary of our Global Partner Enel Green Power. eMotorWerks is the…
Before you dive into the companies, three characteristics of the cohort stood out to us: We are leaning into three notable trends: innovative solutions in the application of machine learning to energy and mobility systems, the commercial application of peer-to-peer…
We all have an event in our lives that triggers the motion of our personal journey. Mine started as a 2 year old child with a book. The book was Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. The Giving Tree exposed me…