The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is proud to welcome the trailblazing entrepreneurs of our Winter 2026 Milestone Makers Cohort, a mission-driven group of Clean Tech founders scaling solutions in sustainability, clean tech, and clean energy.
Milestone Makers, the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center’s flagship program, provides free, personalized business coaching, executive mentorship, and tailored support to help entrepreneurs achieve a critical milestone that accelerates company growth. Each founder in the Winter 2026 cohort was selected through a competitive application process and shares a unifying mission: to design bold, innovative solutions that benefit the planet.
From clean energy to alternatives to plastic, these entrepreneurs are redefining what’s possible in Clean Tech innovation—one milestone at a time
MILESTONE: Secure and execute installation commitments for the first 10 Revolt level charger sites by March 2026
Revolt Charging is a clean energy start up that makes EV charging easy and affordable for multifamily buildings, commercial properties, and public agencies. we handle everything end to end. Installation, rebates, and ongoing management, so property owners can offer reliable EV charging with no hassle. Our mission is to expand clean transportation access in communities that have historically been overlooked.
Grace Bosco
Carboncure Solutions
MILESTONE: Learn how to build meaningful partnerships that can help startup connect with big industries like cement sectors. I want to understand how to approach these companies, show value to our carbon capture technology, and create strong collaboration that can support testing, adoption and long-term scale.
We create affordable carbon capture solutions that captures carbon dioxide to be used as raw materials for manufacturing building materials.
MILESTONE: Develop and validate the sales playbook for future customers.
Tastee Tape is replacing plastics with a biodegradable, food-safe, and cost-effective flexible packaging film. Our patient-pending film helps food CPG businesses reduce the presence of forever chemicals (PFAS) and comply with strict, evolving sustainability regulations, all at 4x, cheaper than alternative bioplastics. We’ve gained significant traction with features on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, CNN, NBC, and TIME’s Best inventions as well as a partnership with a globally recognized food brand.
MILESTONE: Develop a scalable sales playbook to break into other US states.
Airbuild designs and deploys self-powered microalgae systems that clean polluted water and permanently remove carbon. Our technology uses algae to extract pollutants, nutrients, and CO₂ from wastewater(rivers, lakes, and sewer lagoons) then converts the biomass and local organic waste into biochar via pyrolysis, delivering clean water and durable carbon sequestration.
MILESTONE: Validate a distribution partner playbook to scale.
h2ocleanse helps communities get clean, safe, delicious and affordable water at kitchen faucets and bottle filling stations.
Key partners are facility directors, plumbers, schools, hospitals, and sustainable real estate developers.
Daniel Komolafe
First Electric
MILESTONE: Develop a framework to onboard installation teams across Nigeria to enable sustainable scale up of our solar solutions.
First Electric provides solar energy as a service solution in hard-to-reach rural communities using mesh grids.
Peter Olorundimu
Harvest Recycling
MILESTONE: Develop a playbook for our sales team such that anyone can understand and implement it
Harvest Recycling is a waste management company that helps clients turn waste into value. We provide flexible, zero-waste services, including recycling, organics, waste audits and training. These are designs to divert 90% of waste from landfills.
Adan Ramirez Sanchez
Green Fluidics
MILESTONE: Secure a signed LIO with a high- visibility event partner to deploy our first pilot installation, defining scope, commercial terms and performance metrics to accelerate paid opportunities with brands and developers.
Greenfluidics transforms building into nature-powered experiences. We help developers and brands turn facades into surfaces that generate clean energy, enhance environmental performance and create dynamic visual experiences that attract people and revenue. Our intelligent solar bio panel combines microalgae, solar technology and design into an architectural panel system that brings cities to life.
Ayodeji Whesu
Syntech Innovations
MILESTONE: Prioritize and Upgrade Ezgas’s Operational infrastructure around payouts, mapping the workflow, improving gateway reliability, improving gateway reliability, and eliminating bottlenecks so vendors and driver payments become dependable at scale.
Syntech innovations uses technology to make cooking gas easy, with EzGas a digital platform that streamlines cooking gas distribution for the household and small energy vendors in Nigeria. We provide an end system ordering, dispatching, delivering, and paying for LPG refills. Vendors manage orders, track drivers, and receive reliable payouts, while customers get fast, transparent deliveries. By replacing manual coordination with a modern operating system. EzGas improves efficiency, trust, and access in the clean energy supply chain.
Robert Zweling
Znrg Innovations
MILESTONE: Build a marketing launch plan to drive initial market adoption against establishes OEMs.
AZNRG Innovations offers the only affordable and feasible replacement for 120 million gas and electric home water heaters in the U.S. that’s sustainable and grid- friendly to reduce home Carbon emissions and grid utilization. If all U.S. home water heaters were ZNRG, then ~100b kWh of electric can be avoided annually and ~100M tons off GHG can be removed. Our patent pending AI-driven magnetic immersed induction AI-Driven technology is 120v plug-in ready that’s 50%-85% less cost to install and 50% lower lifecycle cost to own than electric and hybrid heat pump water heaters. Its composite tri-tank fluid dynamics delivers increased performance, 15% more hot water, and 2.5x longer warranty than steel tank heaters. We are the 1st disruptive technology in over 50 years in a $32B global market.
MILESTONE: Develop and launch an integrated marketing strategy that will scale up brand visibility by over 100% by creating a project portal and publishing the EnergyGrid handbook as a flagship knowledge product.
EnergyGrid accelerates clean energy adoption by providing write-offs on legal fees for project developers and innovators in the clean energy ecosystem. We provide this write-offs by linking clean energy projects to partner law firms.
By offering legal write-offs, we increase project bankability, reduce early-stage friction and help ambitious clean energy projects scale. Our goal is to catalyze upto $400k worth of legal fees write-offs, directly unlocking new deals, attracting capital and strengthening the long-term sustainability of Africa’s clean energy market.
MILESTONE: Develop an expansion strategy to the UK
“We are building the “”Robinhood of Clean Energy””
We fix the $4T clean energy finance gap by letting everyday people co-own solar and wind via digital fractional shares.
Problem: 99% of retail investors are locked out of high yield green energy.
Solution: Anyone can invest starting at $100. Our platform allows anyone, anywhere to co-own real power asset.
Impact: We turn consumers into secure, profitable stakeholders in the global energy transition. We align personal wealth while saving the planet
We are blockchain powered renewable fintech platform.”
Learn more about the Milestone Makers program here.
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