Our impact

E-IPER alum Krish Mehta received support from the TomKat Center and Stanford Ecopreneurship to develop a startup that turns industrial waste from coal into materials for construction, agriculture, and powering AI.

With an Innovation Transfer Grant from the TomKat Center, John Mern and Anthony Corso received early support to develop their startup that is accelerating the underground modeling process for minerals, geothermal energy, and carbon storage.

E-IPER alum Ryo Takanashi received support from programs at Stanford Ecopreneurship and the TomKat Center for his startup working to transform clunky, disparate data into a powerful database of real-time water access information.

With support from the TomKat Center, Emily Tench is building an AI partner for infrastructure developers to de-risk their projects from the earliest stages.

With support from the TomKat Center and the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, scholars are working to scale a fast-acting fertilizer that captures carbon.

Data centers, extreme weather and a lack of federal climate regulation could put major strains on the U.S. power grid. Alice Hill, a former White House senior director for resilience policy, discusses what it will take to protect energy systems in a warming world and why investing before disaster strikes always beats recovering after.