No lie: This annual list doesn’t come together easily. Technical.ly has spent more than a decade cataloging early-stage companies across our markets in our annual RealLIST Startups rosters. Since we started doing this for DC back in 2017, we’ve recognized a whopping 120 capital region ventures as honorees or honorable mentions. That’s a lot. But there were so many more to choose from. If you work in DC-area tech, you know it’s uniquely active and varied

The round is led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from existing investors Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, & The Three Cairns Group.

Platform Combines Data, Stakeholder, and Workflow Management Tools, and Largest Network of Intermediaries, Buyers, and SellersFirst-of-its-Kind Ecosystem Empowers Intermediaries to Manage Existing Clients and Reach New Developers and Credit BuyersNEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In advance of Climate Week, Crux, the ecosystem for transferable clean energy tax credits, announced that its platform is being used by developers, tax credit buyers, and intermediaries, with hundreds of millions of dollars in deals in process.On the Crux platform, intermediaries use branded portals to manage syndication of credits to existing clients and connect to new developers and credit buyers. By convening buyers, sellers, and intermediaries around the same powerful software, Crux is building the deepest and most liquid market. Buyers can see all available credits and work directly with trusted advisors, while developers can distribute their projects to the widest cross-section of the market."As we approach Climate Week 2023, sustainable finance is taking off," Crux CEO Alfred Johnson said. "Intermediaries will be critical to scaling the new multi hundred billion dollar market for transferable tax credits. Banks, tax advisors, brokers, and syndicators face a common set of challenges: they need access to the entire market to balance supply and demand and branded workflow tools to manage and streamline syndication