2025 EPIC Pitch Competitions

Congratulations to the winners of the Spring 2025 EPIC Pitch Competition!

Six finalists were selected to present their innovative energy technologies, market strategy, and business model to a live audience and panel of reviewers at the annual Energy Thought Summit in San Antonio, TX. Three teams were announced as winners and awarded cash prizes by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Commercialization. 

Meet the Winners

First Place, $50,000: Infinion Technology (Palo Alto, CA) – AI-powered, high-frequency magnetic sensing for low-cost, real-time grid asset monitoring, enabling a more resilient, reliable grid. 

Nominating Incubator Award, $25,000: LabStart (Denver, CO)

Second Place, $20,000: Anactisis (Pittsburgh, PA) – Enhancing U.S. energy security by developing polymer-based materials to recover critical minerals from industrial waste streams.

Third Place, $10,000: Dig Energy (Manchester, NH) – Affordable, compact, fast, and thermally efficient drilling tech enabling geothermal heating and cooling to scale.

Read the full announcement on energy.gov.

The EPIC team would like to thank and recognize all of the pitch competition finalists for presenting their groundbreaking technologies that are helping shape America’s energy future! 

The six startups below have been selected as finalists to compete in the Spring 2025 EPIC Pitch Competition taking place at Energy Thought Summit on May 20 in San Antonio! These teams will face off to compete for a cash prize pool of $105,000.  

• Anactisis (Pittsburgh, PA) – Enhancing U.S. energy security by developing polymer-based materials to recover critical minerals from industrial waste streams.
• Dig Energy (Manchester, NH) –  Affordable, compact, fast, and thermally efficient drilling tech enabling geothermal heating and cooling to scale.
• Infinion Technology (Palo Alto, CA) – AI-powered, high-frequency magnetic sensing for low-cost, real-time grid asset monitoring, enabling a more resilient, reliable grid.
• Natrion Inc. (Binghamton, NY) – Revolutionary U.S.-made separators for lithium batteries making cells safer, fast-charging, and more cost efficient.   
• Petra Power (Solon, OH) – Ultra efficient, fuel-flexible power systems converting diesel, natural gas, propane, and more to electricity with 90% greater efficiency.
• Sage Geosystems (Houston, TX) – Commercializing new geothermal technologies to improve the costs and efficiencies of power, heating, and energy storage.

Congratulations, finalists, and thank you to all of the startups who submitted their impressive pitches on groundbreaking energy technologies! 

See the announcement here.

We’re excited to announce the first EPIC Pitch Competition of 2025! Our first competition of the year will take place at the 2025 Energy Thought Summit. ETS25 is the 12th annual event hosted and produced by Zpryme. ETS25 will take place on May 19-22 at Boeing Tech Port Center in San Antonio, Texas!

Accelerators and incubators who are previous EPIC winners will be invited to nominate startups in their networks to compete in the pitch competitions for cash awards! Finalist startups will have the opportunity to pitch their unique energy tech ideas to a panel of DOE and industry professionals.

Stay tuned for more details on the nomination process and competition. We hope to see you in San Antonio!

See more info on 2025 EPIC Pitch Competitions.