Calectra
Electrifying
heavy industry
We provide zero-carbon, low-cost, up to 1600°C process heat.
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Calectra's co-founders join the Activate 2024 Fellowship
July 1, 2024
Activate is a leading US deeptech program that provides founders with the resources, funding, mentoring, and community needed to turn breakthrough research into successful companies.
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Calectra
Oakland, CA
Team
Calectra was founded to electrify industrial heat and to make a dent in tackling the climate crisis. Calectra's co-founders met at the US Department of Energy's Cradle to Commerce program.
Pauliina Meskanen
Co-Founder & CEO
Pauliina Meskanen has extensive experience in technology commercialization and VC. Meskanen built a hard-tech climate innovation consultancy and media company, Survivaltech.club, and has worked as an investor/venture partner in four VC funds. She was the forth employee at Kaiku Health, a VC-backed health tech startup (acquired). Meskanen has degrees in industrial engineering from Aalto University (MSc, BSc).
Nate Weger, PhD
Co-Founder & CTO
Nate Weger specializes in heat transfer, with an emphasis on high-temperature energy systems, and has extensive experience decarbonizing industrial technologies. Calectra's technology is based on his Ph.D. research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Weger has degrees in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley (PhD) and the University of Iowa (BSE).
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Calectra
Oakland, CA
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Problem
Our human societies are dependent on materials like cement, steel, glass, and chemicals. The production of these materials requires heat.Industrial process heat accounts for 25% of the global energy consumption. Today, process heat is fossil-based and produces 10% of the global carbon dioxide emissions.
Our solution - Calectra
Calectra provides zero-carbon, low-cost up to 1600°C process heat for the heavy industry.Our thermal storage technology stores off-peak renewable electricity as heat in our patent-pending bricks. The stored heat is provided to the retrofitted industrial process with up to 1600°C air.We optimize for low-cost, high-temperature heat delivery.Calectra is on a mission to electrify the industry - at low-cost and securely.
Calectra
Oakland, CA
news
Calectra's co-founders selected for the U.S. Department of Energy's LEEP program
July 10, 2024
Dr. Nathaniel Weger and Pauliina Meskanen join Cyclotron Road, the U.S. Department of Energy's Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship (LEEP) program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Calectra's co-founders join the Activate 2024 Fellowship
July 1, 2024
Activate is a leading US deeptech program that provides founders with the resources, funding, mentoring, and community needed to turn breakthrough research into successful companies.
Berkeley Haas' Cleantech to Market program welcomes Calectra
June 14, 2024
As 2024 Cleantech to Market (C2M) project company, an interdisciplinary student group from UC Berkeley will dedicate 800 hours to support Calectra's commercialization efforts.
Calectra chosen as Top 5 finalist in the XTC's Global Deep Tech Startup competition
June 5, 2024
Calectra is top 5 finalist at the
Extreme Tech Challenge's Global Deep Tech Startup competition. The pitch competition finals are held at the Financial Times-backed TNW Conference in Amsterdam.
Venture for Climate Tech cohort 2024 welcomes Calectra
May 29, 2024
Funded by NYSERDA, Venture for Climate Tech is a leading accelerator program for climate tech startups. Startups receive up to $50,000 in non-dilutive funding.
Calectra wins the V4CT's Global Innovation Challenge "Future of Energy" prize
April 18, 2024
Calectra was chosen as the winner of Venture for Climate Tech's Global Innovation Challenge "Future of Energy" category.
Calectra wins the Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition
December 7, 2024
Calectra wins the Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition organized at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Calectra
Oakland, CA