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EnKoat featured in the 2020 50 to Watch List

[Tempe] — October 23, 2020 — EnKoat, an advanced materials company that is developing energy efficient building coatings to combat climate change is named in Cleantech Group’s New 50 to Watch List as one of the companies finding solutions to combat the climate crisis. The 2020 50 to Watch is the second annual list of the top early-stage private companies delivering innovative solutions to combat the climate crisis. The entrepreneurs in the list are creating new...

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EnKoat finishes runners-up for the EarthX CleanTech Pitch Competition

[Tempe] — April 24, 2020 — Virtual high fives ran across EnKoat’s office today as the team emerged as runners-up for the EarthX Climate Prize at the 2020 EarthX Virtual E-Capital Summit. After going through three different rounds of intense competition that spanned over four weeks. Over 250 startup teams in cleantech competed for the prize, out of which 20 teams were selected to pitch at the event semi-finals. Finally, 4 finalist teams were selected...

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EnKoat Co-Founders featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 list

[Tempe] — December 3, 2019 — EnKoat’s co-founders Aashay Arora and Matthew Aguayo have been featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 list of honorees in Energy. http://www.forbes.com/profile/enkoat/?list=30under30-energy This year’s Energy category is themed as ‘Fueling a more sustainable future’ and our founders’ commitment and vision to develop technologies for a more energy-efficient infrastructure was recognized by the esteemed panel of judges from the Energy industry – Carol Battershall (retired acting director of the Office of...

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Pioneering Sustainability: EnKoat Sets New Standards in the Built Environment

[Phoenix] — July 3, 2023 — Last month, EnKoat’s CEO Dr. Matthew Aguayo made waves during the Wells Fargo IN2 closeout webinar, hosted by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Among the thirteen IN2 companies showcased, EnKoat stood out as one of the five startups revolutionizing energy efficiency in commercial buildings. EnKoat’s collaboration with NREL yielded impressive results, validating their technology’s performance and optimizing their products using state-of-the-art NREL laboratory facilities. Leveraging Read more…

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EnKoat selected in Upward Labs’ Net-Zero Cohort

[New York, NY] — July 22, 2022 — Earlier this week, EnKoat was named among six startups to get into the first Net-Zero cohort of Upward Labs (Read more here). Upward Labs is an accelerator designed to help startups scale their innovations to meet the challenges and needs of their corporate partners. Upward’s enterprise partners are well known in the Real Estate, Retail, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Healthcare industries. Their current cohort is focused on technologies Read more…

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EnKoat’s CTO Talks About Active Insulation™ Technology At WCS 2021

[Las Vegas, NV] — Oct 20, 2021 — Dr. Aashay Arora, EnKoat’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, presented EnKoat’s innovative Active Insulation™ technology at the recently concluded 35th Biennial Western Coatings Show located at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Convention Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Arora presented EnKoat’s work on temperature regulating coatings in his presentation titled “Developing Temperature-Regulating Coatings – A Novel Approach Using Parametric Energy Modeling”. He discussed the role of Read more…

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EnKoat selected to participate in sixth cohort of Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator

[Tempe] — November 12,  2019 — Today, EnKoat announced it has been selected as one of ten early-stage technology companies to participate in the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). As a program participant, EnKoat will receive $250,000 in non-dilutive funding and hands-on technical assistance for additional technology development and validation. EnKoat Read more…

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EnKoat’s IntelliKoat™ System: Transforming Energy Landscapes at ASU Summit

[Tempe] — Nov 14, 2023 — EnKoat is poised to make a significant impact at the Arizona State University (ASU) Carbon Summit, scheduled for November 15-16, 2023. Positioned within the thematic landscape of “Energy Transitions,” our cutting-edge IntelliKoat™ Thermal Barrier system is set to redefine sustainability standards and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy consumption. This prestigious summit, hosted by ASU’s Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health, provides a Read more…

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Thought Leader Webinar Series invites EnKoat’s CEO to Present

[Phoenix] — June 8, 2022 — Dr. Matthew Aguayo, EnKoat’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, was invited by Onset Corporation to give a talk as part of their HOBO Thought Leader Webinar Series. EnKoat has been working with HOBO data loggers to evaluate the performance of their temperature regulating coatings, and this was a great platform for EnKoat to showcase their technology and how HOBO loggers have helped their efforts. His talk highlighted the need Read more…

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EnKoat discusses innovative Thermal Energy Storage Solutions @ DOE Workshop

[Phoenix] — May 12, 2021 — EnKoat’s Co-Founder and CEO, Dr. Matthew Aguayo, was invited as a panelist by the U.S. Department of Energy to their Buildings Workshop for Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Systems. Dr. Aguayo and other TES world leaders discussed the challenges and goals for advancing TES solutions for buildings. Dr. Aguayo’s presentation focused on novel TES technologies embedded within the building envelope and how to bridge the gap between the fundamental science Read more…

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EnKoat secures Phase I funding from the NSF SBIR Program

[Tempe] — May 26, 2020 — Today, EnKoat announced that they have been selected for the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award. As a Phase-I awardee, EnKoat will receive non-dilutive funding of $225,000 to further the development of their energy efficient coatings. The SBIR Phase I grant process is highly selective with a funding rate of about 15% and the proposals are rigorously vetted by a team of subject matter experts before Read more…

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EnKoat selected among the latest cohort of the Joules Accelerator

[Tempe] — April 7, 2020 — Earlier this week, EnKoat was selected as one of eight cleantech startups to participate in the Joules Accelerator, which provides startups a great platform to deploy their technology in the North Carolina Cleantech Corridor. The accelerator selected the most promising top eight startups from all over the world with focus on ‘net zero’ technologies for their sixth cohort. As part of the accelerator, EnKoat will get access to work Read more…

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