Press Release: Antora Named One of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025

Annual awards program honors companies tackling some of the biggest issues facing the world today through innovation

Sunnyvale, Calif. – Fast Company today announced its annual World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025 list, honoring the organizations and businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their game-changing innovations. Antora was recognized as #6 in the Energy category for its commitment to powering American industry with clean and affordable domestic energy.

Antora builds and deploys thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost energy. Factory-built in the United States, Antora’s modular thermal batteries rapidly soak up the cheapest hours of electricity generation to store energy as heat in blocks of solid carbon. Energy is then discharged as electricity and/or heat at the scale and temperatures that large industrial operations demand.

“Antora is leveraging American innovation and manufacturing to unlock abundant, affordable energy for industrial facilities around the world,” said Andrew Ponec, co-founder and CEO of Antora. “It’s an honor to be recognized by Fast Company for this innovation, and I’m incredibly proud that we’re building this cutting-edge energy technology here in the United States.”

The World’s Most Innovative Companies is Fast Company’s hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year. To determine honorees, Fast Company’s editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world.

The full list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies is available online now, and the print issue will be available on newsstands beginning March 25, 2025.

About Antora Energy
Antora builds and deploys thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost energy. Factory-built in the United States, Antora’s thermal batteries rapidly soak up the cheapest hours of electricity generation and store energy as heat in blocks of solid carbon. Energy is discharged as electricity and/or heat at the scale and temperatures that large industrial operations demand, enabling industrial facilities to decarbonize predictably and profitably.

Antora is electrifying global industry while supporting U.S. manufacturing jobs, curbing local air pollution, and accelerating the path to a reliable zero-emission grid. The company is backed by leading investors, including Decarbonization Partners, Trust Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Emerson Collective, The Nature Conservancy, BHP Ventures, Grok Ventures, GS Futures, Overture VC, and a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC.

About Fast Company
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