Powering the Future of Energy

By Connecting Core Players and Addressing Key Problems

We unlock Texas’s potential to dominate the future of energy by addressing key constraints to innovation and scale.

We Provide:

Connectivity across the ecosystem

Access to early-stage capital

Speed & efficiency of innovation

Energy Innovation Hub is on multi-year journey to make Texas the global leader of the Energy Transition

Building broader energy ecosystem across Central Texas through:

Event space & programming
Co-working & shared services
Physical space for community & connectivity
De-risking founder path to market by:

Industry-led innovation and sourcing
Facilitating Commercial partnerships and GTM opportunities
Unlocking access to early stage capital through:

Pre-seed & seed funding
Founder support and resources
Investor resources and coordination

Texas is the Future of Energy

Texas has dominated energy for more than a century, and it holds all the ingredients to lead energy for the century to come. Business friendly, with highly competitive and deregulated grid, Texas leads the US in renewables deployment by nearly every conceivable metric.

The state has by far the highest concentration of both conventional and new energy companies in the world, and developers and original equipment manufacturers spanning every step in energy supply chains.

Combined with a burgeoning venture and innovation ecosystem, adjacent defense and aerospace industries and leading academic institutions, Texas is the rightful owner of the future of energy.

However, Texas has not scratched its potential to lead the energy transition, due to three major inefficiencies:

Ecosystem Connectivity

Access to established industry players is essential for nearly all new energy start-ups, but there are few forums to build these relationships and limited coordination across industry, investors and others.

Access to Capital

Many investors lack depth and resources to properly evaluate new energy start-ups, due to detailed nature of policy & regulatory diligence, specialized technology considerations, and market complexity.

Efficiency of Innovation

There is no structured feedback loop between industry and innovators, leading to wasted energy and capital going to solutions that do not meet the biggest pain points and priorities within the industry.

Energy Innovation Hub addresses these barriers through a comprehensive approach to system change:

EIH supports connectivity and across the energy ecosystem through regular events, programming, thought-leadership, policy advocacy, coworking spaces and other community resources.

Connected Ecosystem:

EIH works with leading industry players as a shared service innovation arm to understand and specify highest priority innovation needs, then identifying, sourcing or incubating these start-ups. We take a hands-on role bridging innovation to strategic partners throughout initial commercial discussions, validation, pilot and beyond.

Industry-Led Innovation:

EIH gets high value companies funded by providing the sourcing, rigorous diligence and founder support many early stage investors do not have capacity to execute. We facilitate pre-seed and seed checks from broad investor community through Special Purpose Vehicles and will also invest directly through dedicated Seed Fund.