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Voltus

Voltus is a leading DER technology platform and virtual power plant operator connecting distributed energy resources to electricity markets, delivering less expensive, more reliable, and more sustainable electricity. Our commercial and industrial customers and DER partners generate cash by allowing Voltus to maximize the value of their flexible load, distributed generation, energy storage, energy efficiency, and electric vehicle resources in these markets. To learn more, visit www.voltus.co.

Egoist Machines, Inc. (YC S26)

EGOIST AI Passport is a portable personalisation layer. Users create a living profile of their taste, preferences, interests, and the context they choose to carry with them using one-click connectors across hundreds of apps. This becomes their AI Passport. You can use it across AI tools, so the goals, writing style, preferences, and active projects you have already shared can travel with you instead of being siloed in different apps. This can be used, for example, to create a shared memory between ChatGPT and Claude! But the real magic happens when you use your AI Passport to login to apps and websites. Instead of making a new account and starting from zero every time, you can bring the context that makes the experience more useful from the start. When purchasing online, you can choose to share useful context like your style, budget, favourite brands, and recent purchases. The store can then show a genuinely relevant edit from your first visit, without another long quiz or a generic homepage. Recommendations can be shaped by your actual taste, not just a retailer’s guess. You choose what to share with each app or site. You can keep parts of your context private, approve a specific set of details for a specific use, and change that access later. The goal is a web that feels more personal without forcing you to hand every company a permanent, opaque profile. For companies, AI Passport provides permissioned, high-signal context at login. E-commerce and consumer AI products can reduce cold starts, skip repetitive onboarding, and make recommendations that are useful immediately. AI Passport makes personalisation something people can bring with them, wherever they are.