Dynamhex is in the latest cohort of Trailblazer Award winners, an annual award from California sustainability consulting firm Verdical Group. The Kansas City and Baltimore co-headquartered startup has a greenhouse gas data platform connecting governments, residents and businesses with clean-tech vendors through an app that forms a marketplace for carbon reduction decision making.
Dynamhex is presenting this Thursday at the GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis. The company only opened its virtual doors in March 2020 but it fell in with Ameren in St. Louis early on and that opened things up for this six-person startup.
Patrick Hosty, Dynamhex COO
“We have had great success on the East Coast with deployments with utilities and as we make our way West we were fortunate to work with Ameren and that work started us looking further west to California,” COO Patrick Hosty told the 4thEst8. “Any time a small business… from the Midwest… is able to get the word out in a large market like California… the sky’s the limit. We are super excited to have the opportunity to do more pilot deployments in California.”
The startup raised $125,000 total in the form of a grant, a pre-seed round from Exelon Corporation and AcceliCITY and non-equity assistance from AcceliCITY and Creative Destruction Lab according to CrunchBase. (No word on the source of the grant).
Dynamhex leaned into entrepreneur support organizations, pitch competitions, accelerators and incubators – in Missouri and elsewhere. They’ve been part of:
- Ameren Accelerator
- EPRI (the Electric Power Research Institute)
- AWS GovTechStart Accelerator
- Creative Destruction Lab in Calgary
- Plug and Play (energy cohort)
- Launch Alaska
- Microsoft’s Global Entrepreneurs Program
- US Green Building Council – Los Angeles
- Exelon 2c2i program
- Clean Energy Business Network
- DEIC (Dominion Energy Innovation Center)
- New Energy Nexus.
This company sprang out of work done by founder and CEO Sunny Sanwar while getting their Ph.D. at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Sanwar made the Forbes list of 30-under-30.
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9 early stage startups to present at GEOINT Symposium
