SynapSense honored for clean tech innovations

September 16, 2011

Folsom-based SynapSense Corp. was chosen among 20 companies statewide to be honored as part of California’s 2011 Clean Tech Innovation “Top 40” on Nov. 2-3 at the Kaiser Center in Oakland.

The second 20 companies will be announced in the coming weeks.

SynapSense was the only company selected from the Sacramento area.

Started in 2006, SynapSense develops software and hardware to monitor temperatures in large data centers. Its patented technology uses wireless mesh sensor networks to allow the rapid deployment of the sensors, which can also be moved as the centers change. The company later added software to manage temperatures in data centers in addition to monitoring. And the company recently added a product that tracks power use in data centers.

The sensors and software are used in major data centers nationwide, and the company recently got an additional $16 million in funding to expand into international markets.

The rest of the companies included:

• Amrys Biotechnologies, Emeryville
• Bloom Energy, Sunnyvale
• BridgeLux, Livermore
• Bright Source Energy, Oakland
• Calera, Los Gatos
• Clear Edge Power, Sunnyvale
• Contour Energy Systems, Azusa
• Energy Recovery, Inc. San Leandro
• EnphaseEnergy, Petaluma
• ESolar, Burbank
• Google, Mountain View
• LS9, Inc., South San Francicso
• Lundberg Family Farms, Richvale
• Nanosys, Palo Alto
• Sapphire Energy, San Diego
• Soladigm, Milpitas
• Solar City, San Mateo
• Solazyme, South San Francisco
• Sungevity, Oakland

 

Article By:
Mark Anderson
Staff Writer - Sacramento Business Journal
Email: manderson@bizjournals.com

Mark Anderson covers banking, finance, accounting, technology, telecom, venture capital, hospitality, tourism and restaurants for the Sacramento Business Journal.