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Top cleantech companies in LA. * Inspire * Enervee * Terbine * EV Connect EV Connect provides a cloud-based charging management platform that helps businesses deploy and operate electric vehicle charging stations. The company's Software+ platform, combined with hardware options and support services, enables organizations ranging from charge point operators to utilities and multifamily properties to manage charging programs at scale. Terbine develops STRATA, a mobility infrastructure platform that uses IoT and AI to provide real-time orchestration and synchronization for intelligent machines including electric vehicles, drones and robots. The platform addresses gaps in charging network management and operations, enabling electric vehicle adoption and helping fleet operators and network providers improve vehicle and equipment coordination. CarbonCapture develops direct air capture (DAC) technology that removes carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and prepares it for permanent underground storage or reuse in products such as sustainable fuels and low-carbon materials. Its modular systems, including its container-sized Leo Series units, are designed for large-scale deployment and can be connected to capture significant volumes of CO2. In addition to manufacturing carbon removal technology, CarbonCapture is developing major carbon removal projects, including Project Bison in Wyoming, as part of its mission to help decarbonize the atmosphere. Enervee is an online marketplace platform that helps utility customers compare and purchase energy-efficient appliances, electronics and HVAC systems. Through partnerships with major utilities across North California, New York and the Pacific Northwest, Enervee integrates instant utility rebates and Eco Financing directly at checkout to reduce upfront costs. It also collects purchase and energy-saving data to assist utilities and regulators in tracking market trends and designing energy efficiency incentive programs. EVgo operates one of the nation's largest public fast-charging networks for electric vehicles, with more than 1,200 charging locations across 47 states. The company builds, owns and manages charging infrastructure for drivers, businesses, automakers and fleet operators, helping expand access to convenient EV charging nationwide. Through its mobile app and network of fast chargers, EVgo enables drivers to locate stations, manage charging sessions and keep their vehicles powered on the go. Inspire offers homeowners 100-percent renewable energy plans with a flat monthly rate, sourced from wind, solar and low-impact hydro facilities. The company operates in multiple U.S. states and allows customers to switch to clean energy in minutes without installations or upfront costs, using Renewable Energy Certificates to match electricity consumption with renewable generation. Valar Atomics is a nuclear energy company that developes modular, high-temperature gas reactors designed to provide reliable, carbon-free power for data centers, industrial facilities and hydrogen production. Rather than building one-off nuclear plants, the company aims to manufacture standardized reactors at scale and deploy them across large energy campuses it calls "gigasites." By combining reactor design, construction and operation under one model, Valar Atomics aims to make nuclear energy more affordable and accessible for industries facing growing energy demands.

Sequoia leads $1 billion investment in Valar Atomics. Valar Atomics, a company developing miniature nuclear reactors, has closed a $1 billion Series B financing led by Sequoia Capital. The financing will help Valar accelerate manufacturing of standardized nuclear power plants to meet the rapidly growing energy demands of artificial intelligence, industry, and national security. Sequoia was joined in this round by Apandion, Atreides Management, Conviction, Dream Ventures, HOF Capital, Point72, Riot Ventures, Snowpoint Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and other both new and longtime investors. In addition to the $1 billion of equity, Valar has also closed a $200 million credit facility led by Erebor Bank, as administrative agent, and J.P. Morgan, alongside Crescent Cove and Hercules Capital. With the investment, Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire is joining Valar's board of directors.

Valar raises $1B - A critical reactor still has to prove it can make power. On August 4, Valar Atomics disclosed that it had closed a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital, alongside a $200 million credit facility. The company's financing announcement said the equity would support a shift from demonstrating one integrated reactor system to manufacturing and operating fleets. In its August 4 newsletter, Axios reported a $6 billion post-money valuation and named Atreides Management, Point72 and Snowpoint Ventures among the participating investors. That valuation prices expectations about repeatable reactor production and commercial energy sales - not merely the nuclear-physics milestone Valar has already reached. The round is confirmed; the valuation remains externally reported. The financing itself now has independent confirmation. TechCrunch reported the $1 billion equity round, Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire's appointment to Valar's board and the $200 million credit line. It also noted that Valar did not disclose its valuation, making the $6 billion figure a reported term rather than a number published by the company. The distinction matters because equity and debt finance different parts of the buildout. The Series B gives Valar risk capital for engineering, manufacturing and deployment, while the credit facility adds borrowing capacity. Neither amount establishes that future reactors can be produced on schedule, operated economically or converted into a dependable revenue-generating fleet. Criticality proved the chain reaction, not a power business. Ward 250 reached a precise and important milestone on June 18 at the San Rafael Energy Lab in Emery County, Utah. The Department of Energy described the test as a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration: the reactor sustained a controlled nuclear chain reaction, a condition that must be achieved before power generation. Zero-power criticality is evidence about the reactor core's neutron behavior. It shows that the fueled system can become self-sustaining and controlled under test conditions. It does not, by itself, demonstrate sustained thermal output, efficient conversion of heat into electricity, reliable operation at a specified capacity or delivery of power under a commercial contract. Ward 250 subsequently moved beyond the zero-power test. During a July 1 demonstration in Utah, the reactor generated what Bloomberg described as a trickle of electricity to run an Nvidia AI computer and temporarily host a website. That result answers the narrow question of whether the system can produce any electrical current, but it does not yet prove sustained or commercially useful generation. The technical gap is now duration, output and integration. The next challenge is not another label for the same experiment. Valar must demonstrate that a reactor and its associated heat-conversion equipment can operate for meaningful periods at a defined output, respond safely to changing conditions and produce usable electricity with repeatable performance. Public reporting on the July demonstration does not provide a sustained electrical-output figure, operating duration, capacity factor or independently validated cost of generation. Those omissions do not invalidate the demonstration; they define its limits. Powering one computer is a visible proof of conversion from fission heat to electricity. Supplying an AI facility requires a complete generating system, including thermal management, electrical equipment, controls, maintenance procedures and an arrangement for delivering dependable power to the customer. The $6 billion bet extends beyond reactor physics. Valar's business thesis depends on manufacturing economics: standardized reactors produced repeatedly rather than one-off plants assembled through bespoke megaprojects. Investors are therefore funding execution across several linked problems - reactor performance, fuel supply, factory production, site preparation, safety authorization, financing and long-term operation. A successful prototype cannot establish the cost or schedule of a fleet. Valar still needs evidence that later units can be built consistently, that qualified components and fuel will be available in volume, and that operating data from Ward 250 can be translated into designs suitable for customers. Each step introduces constraints that a short electricity demonstration was not designed to resolve. Regulatory status is another boundary. Ward 250 operated through the Energy Department's pilot framework at a federal demonstration site; that does not automatically authorize commercial reactors at customer locations. Future projects will require the applicable federal, state and local approvals, as well as site-specific decisions about construction and operation. What the financing changes - and what it does not. The new capital gives Valar substantially more room to address these engineering and deployment tasks. It also raises the standard by which progress will be judged: after a $1 billion equity round at a reported $6 billion valuation, the relevant evidence is no longer criticality alone or a momentary electrical load. As of the August 4 financing disclosure, Ward 250 has sustained a controlled chain reaction and produced a small amount of electricity. What remains unproven publicly is dependable power at a meaningful output, followed by repeatable construction and commercial operation. The financing buys Valar time and capacity to pursue that transition; it does not demonstrate that the transition has already occurred.