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Six companies just finished raising money from everyday investors, and together they brought in $6,266,480.
Two were community solar projects that filled every dollar they asked for, starting at just $10. The others range from a rotary engine with more than $65 million in defense contracts to a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and a coating that makes fingerprints vanish from your glasses.
Here’s what they raised, how they did it, and what it tells the rest of us.
Total raised: $6,266,480 (as reported on each platform at close)
By the numbers
$6.27 million raised across six campaigns on three platforms.
2 sold out: both community solar projects on Climatize hit their maximums — $500,000 and $201,000.
4 of 6 accepted investments of $100 or less; the two solar projects started at $10.
$544,756 was the median raise; LiquidPiston alone brought in 63% of the total.
3 kinds of security: common equity, SAFEs and debt.
Spotlight: community solar sold out — twice
Both solar projects on Climatize filled every dollar they asked for, raising $701,000 together from investors who could start with $10.
Ready to Rise at Clark Road Solar — $500,000
Portal: Climatize · Developer: CESL Site 1, LLC, founded by David Gerovac
About the project: one of three community solar projects planned for East St. Louis, Illinois, designed to lower energy costs for thousands of households. This raise moves it from late-stage development toward construction, covering permitting, engineering, interconnection, equipment deposits and site readiness.
The raise: debt from $10, hitting its $500,000 maximum.
DC Metro Community Solar — $201,000
Portal: Climatize · Developer: Solar Development Group, founded by Lindsay Latre, Javier Latre and Morgan Browner
About the project: a 929 kW rooftop community solar array on a business in Landover, Maryland. Under Maryland’s community solar program, 51% of the power goes to low- and moderate-income households in Prince George’s County at a 25% discount for 20 years.
The raise: debt from $10, hitting its $201,000 maximum to fund pre-construction development.
Why it worked: a concrete local project, a clear community benefit and a $10 entry point. It’s the same recipe that sold out Balcony Solar for America in last week’s roundup.
The rest of the class
LiquidPiston — $3,940,137
Portal: StartEngine · Founders: Alexander Shkolnik and Nikolay Shkolnik
About the company: LiquidPiston develops rotary internal combustion engines built on its own patented thermodynamic cycle, making them more powerful, efficient and compact than conventional designs. It has more than $65 million in U.S. Department of War contracts and over $50 million in investment.
The raise: common equity from $1,012.50 at a $297.35M valuation, reaching about 79% of its $4.99M maximum. Proceeds fund army program development, new headquarters and labs, and marketing.
Pytheas Energy — $831,992
Portal: StartEngine · Founders: Josh Zuker and Hal Matheson
About the company: Pytheas Energy uses its own AI platform to acquire and revive legacy oil and gas wells in Nevada that larger producers have passed over. It operates 500 wells, holds options on 700 more across 70,000 acres, and showed a fourfold production increase in a 20-well proof of concept.
The raise: common equity from $499.80 at a $64.05M valuation, funding well acquisitions, operations and technology.
Myosana Therapeutics — $589,511
Portal: Wefunder · Founders: Nicholas Whitehead and Stanley Froehner
About the company: Myosana Therapeutics is developing a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other muscle diseases. Its technology uses GLUT4 — a natural “door” on muscle cells — to deliver treatment where it’s needed, and it is one of the few approaches delivering the complete dystrophin protein rather than fragments.
The raise: a SAFE from $100 at a $27.4M valuation, reaching nearly half its $1.24M maximum for research, lab work and IP.
Unsmudgeable — $203,840
Portal: Wefunder · Founder: Swarna Shiv
About the company: Unsmudgeable makes an anti-smudge coating for eyeglasses that makes fingerprints fade away, outperforming current solutions by 140% in visibility. It has filed a non-provisional patent and signed a letter of intent with Bühler Leybold Optics.
The raise: a SAFE from $100 at a $5M valuation, funding executive hires, certification, testing and equipment.
Three lessons from this class
1. Local climate projects keep selling out. Two weeks running, community solar on Climatize has hit its maximum. Investors respond to projects they can picture — a rooftop in Landover, a site in East St. Louis — with a clear benefit to neighbors and a $10 way in.
2. Outside validation moves big money. LiquidPiston’s $65 million in defense contracts and Myosana’s science-heavy team gave investors something to anchor on before they wrote a cheque. Founders: show who has already said yes.
3. Read the security, not just the story. This class mixed common equity, SAFEs and debt. Debt can pay interest along the way; equity and SAFEs bet on a larger outcome later, often with a higher minimum. Know which one you’re buying.
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