Create & Connect: Energy Industry Night

About This Event

Aurrin Ventures' first industry-themed pitch night, focused on energy startups. Four founders from oil & gas inspection tech, clean fuel logistics, wireline abandonment tools, and portable power pitched to a panel of energy industry leaders. Serenity Power took home the $500 microgrant.

Judges

Shubham Garg

CEO, Prospera Energy

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Siva Sam

USXI Group

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Jana McDonald

DCM Group

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Founders Who Pitched

Funded

Aleisha Cerny

Serenity Power

Portable, modular power solutions enabling easy field deployment for remote and off-grid energy needs.

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Microgrant Winner$500

April 2026 Winner

Luiz Felipe Di Grado

Inspekto AI

Field inspectors snap photos and record audio notes on-site — even offline — and AI automatically generates fully structured, audit-ready inspection reports in minutes. Supports API 570, 510, and 653 standards, making inspections 4x faster and more compliant.

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Todd Luker

Link NRG

Software platform connecting and coordinating clean fuel supply chains — hydrogen, RNG, and CNG — from production to end use. Creates a demand-driven, resilient energy network for heavy industries including trucking, data centers, mining, and rail.

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Joshua Strub

SynthGrid

Battery storage is the backbone of the energy transition, but lenders and government agencies financing these assets have no independent way to verify they're performing as promised. Operators self-report with no third-party standard. SynthGrid is building EnergyPassport — an independent performance certification for battery energy storage systems. They ingest real operating data, run physics-based validation, and produce bankable certification reports that lenders, insurers, and regulators can trust.

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Peter Knight

WACORP Wireline Abandonment and Completion Corp.

KWAT Wireline Abandonment Tool sets and pressure tests wellbore barriers without a test packer, eliminating the need for a service rig or coil tubing unit. Conveyed by wireline, it is 600% faster and significantly cheaper than conventional methods.

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