Meet the 2026 Milestone Makers Cohort: CleanTech

A global cohort of founders building the next generation of companies tackling clean energy, sustainable materials, and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center’s Fall 2026 Milestone Makers: CleanTech cohort brings together a truly global group of founders from across North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa who are building companies focused on some of today’s most important environmental challenges.

Their work spans clean energy, circularity, sustainable materials, waste reduction, industrial efficiency, climate intelligence and emerging environmental technologies. They are tackling challenges from long-duration energy storage and textile waste to cleaner supply chains, sustainable packaging, energy management and new materials.

Their milestones reflect the next stage of growth for their companies, including expanding into new markets, building stronger sales pipelines, validating customers and pricing, refining go-to-market strategies, securing funding and preparing for scale.

Together, this global cohort represents a new generation of founders bringing different perspectives, markets, and experiences to the shared challenge of building a more resilient future.

Annorah Lewis
Annorah LewisNeuralix Inc
Neuralix is an industrial intelligence company that combines AI, machine learning, physics-based modeling, and operational data to help industrial teams predict failures, improve asset reliability, reduce downtime, and make faster, more informed operating decisions.

Milestone: Over the next 12 weeks, I want to convert enterprise opportunities into signed customers and build a more repeatable path toward $3M+ in annual revenue.

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Baz Khuti
Baz KhutiSustain360
Sustain360 is an AI-driven sustainability platform that helps enterprises integrate carbon and cost metrics into product and project decisions. Its tools support carbon management, circularity, and decarbonization planning with a focus on turning emissions reduction into measurable business value.

Milestone: Build a clear and concise GTM commercial strategy (&plan) in detail and show a clear path to repeatable ARR sales.

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Chigozie Ubah
Chigozie UbahTelios Intelligence
Telios Intelligence helps make clean energy assets more understandable and investable. The company is focused on giving investors and operators clearer quantitative insight into clean energy opportunities so capital and operating decisions can be made with greater confidence.

Milestone: Rebuild Telios’ integrated operating model as the company’s single source of truth for pricing, revenue, pipeline and financial planning, creating the quantitative foundation for how we allocate capital, set targets and make operating decisions as we scale.

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David Alejandro Trejo Pizzo
David Alejandro Trejo PizzoCARBO ENERGY
CARBO ENERGY is developing next-generation grid-scale energy storage using hybrid non-aqueous redox flow batteries. The company is focused on safe, durable, affordable long-duration storage designed to help renewable energy remain available when the grid needs it.

Milestone: Build a scalable U.S. sales funnel for LDES batteries and successfully pitch and submit pilot proposals to at least five highly qualified prospects.

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Jazmín Salazar
Jazmín SalazarOxtron
Oxtron provides environmental management and clean-tech solutions that help companies measure, control, and capture greenhouse-gas emissions across their value chains. Its platform is designed to turn carbon management into actionable operational and commercial opportunities.

Milestone: Define and validate a scalable commercialization strategy to support repeatable commercial growth.

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Matthew Perkins
Matthew PerkinsMacro Oceans Inc.
Macro Oceans transforms traceable seaweed into high-performance, low-carbon biomaterials for beauty, food, and other applications. The company is building a larger kelp economy as an alternative to petroleum-based and resource-intensive materials.

Milestone: Develop a market expansion plan to accelerate our growth with multinational customers.

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Oluwadunsin Bolaji
Oluwadunsin BolajiDunsinCraft Collection Ltd / SachetBank
SachetBank is a packaging waste-for-value model that enables people to exchange single-use packaging waste for food and everyday essentials while helping companies manage packaging waste more responsibly and transparently. Its mission connects cleaner communities with tangible economic value from waste recovery.

Milestone: My milestone goal is to build a customer acquisition system that drives participation in SachetBank’s packaging waste-for-value exchange model through digital campaigns.

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Thalles Rezende Lorena
Thalles Rezende LorenaCarbonova AI
Carbonova builds an AI operating system for heavy industry. It combines AI agents, edge devices and engineering software to show operators the energy and margin they are losing, for a low-carbon, energy-rich and prosperous future.

Milestone: Develop our U.S. market entry strategy grounded in taking our product line to live industrial operations.

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Tomasz Mierzwa
Tomasz MierzwaMyco Renew®
Myco Renew® is a biotech company developing fungi-based technology to process hard-to-recycle textile waste, including mixed, contaminated, and low-value materials. Its work explores how fungal biotechnology can transform difficult waste streams into new circular materials and applications.

Milestone:Build and validate the technical and financing roadmap to take Myco Renew® from lab scale to a full-scale industrial installation.

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Do you have a unique perspective in your industry or field that you would like to share as a mentor?
Apply to be a mentor for the Milestone Makers at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and pay it forward by emailing colin.mahin@thecenter.nasdaq.org