The sixth cohort of the WERCBench Labs Accelerator will present their pitches to a virtual crowd of investors, professionals, educators and community leaders on April 20th. Upon conclusion of the sixteen-week program, the companies will give their pitches and an independent group of judges will rate their presentations and award prizes.

The WERCBench Labs Accelerator has worked with over 45 startups in the last six years. M-WERC and WEDC have invested over $1.5 million dollars in these companies. The startups have gone on to receive over $75 million dollars in investments for the  innovative services and products in the Energy, Power & Controls arena. Several of the graduates have been named to Forbes List of 30 Under 30 and many of the participants have won state and national awards.

 WERCBench Labs Accelerator

Cohort 6 Businesses

Row 1: Gary Ong - Celdayne Technologies; Dave Goebel - EnVerde LLC 

Row 2: Tom Guarr - Jolt Energy Storage Technologies; Sanza Kazadi - Kazadi Enterprises 

Row 3: Calvin Manthey - Manthini; Katie Kollhoff - NUMiX Materials