At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 89 Fuel companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Fuel Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy offers on-site power generation systems that can use a wide variety of inputs to generate electricity.
Founder(s): Charles J. Smiley, KR Sridhar
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: CleanTech, Energy, Fuel Cell, Oil and Gas, Wind Energy
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Orbit Fab
Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets.
Founder(s): Daniel Faber, Jeremy Schiel
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Fuel, Logistics, Space Travel
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Fulcrum BioEnergy
Fulcrum BioEnergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel and diesel.
Founder(s): E. James Macias, Jim McDermott
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Industries: Biofuel, CleanTech, Fuel, Transportation
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Infinium
Infinium offers an electrofuels solution to decarbonize the transportation sector using today’s infrastructure.
Founder(s):
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, Fuel, Transportation
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Ceres
Ceres is a biotechnology company that develops and markets low-carbon, non-food grasses for advanced biofuels and bio power.
Founder(s): linda smith
Location: Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Farming, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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FirstElement Fuel
Low temperature fuel cell and liquid fuel reformer technology
Founder(s): Joel Ewanick
Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Renewable Energy, Retail
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XENDEE Corporation
Xendee’s award-winning software cuts the design costs and time requirements by up to 90 percent for developing and operating microgrids, distributed energy resources, and integrated EV fast charging solutions. In addition to providing more reliable operation of these solutions, the company’s bankable decision-making software helps customers strengthen energy resilience, decarbonize assets, and confidently meet Scope 1 & 2 emissions goals.
Founder(s): Adib Nasle, Michael Stadler, Scott Mitchell
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Clean Energy, Electric Vehicle, Electrical Distribution, Energy, Energy Management, Fuel Cell, Power Grid, Renewable Energy, Software
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Cambium Biomaterials
Cambium develops biomaterials for fields such as defense, space transport, aerospace, and renewable energy.
Founder(s): Simon Waddington, Stephan Herrera
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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True Zero
True Zero is revolutionizing clean, efficient automotive transportation
Founder(s): Joel Ewanick, Tim Brown
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Environmental Consulting, Fuel, Fuel Cell, Renewable Energy
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Pacific Ethanol
The leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the Western United States.
Founder(s):
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy
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Gluon
Platform to connect businesses, consumers, and automobiles using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Founder(s): Hakam Misson, Narinder Bajwa, Sameer Misson, Stuart Hockman
Location: Livermore, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Enterprise Software, Fuel, Internet of Things, Payments, Point of Sale, Software
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Siluria Technologies
Siluria Technologies is a material innovation company developing processes for transforming natural gas into chemicals and fuels.
Founder(s): Alex Tkachenko, Angela Belcher
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Chemical, Fuel, Nanotechnology
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Kiverdi
Kiverdi was founded with a mission to commercialize supply chain solutions that address climate change.
Founder(s): John Reed, Lisa Dyson
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Chemical, Fuel, Logistics
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Edeniq
Edeniq is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber.
Founder(s): Lawrence S. Gross
Location: Visalia, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Fuel
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Propel Fuels
Propel Fuels is a commercial fuel provider that has a mobile application with a list of their locations.
Founder(s): Michael Kudriavtseff, Rob Elam
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Clean Energy, Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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Oorja Fuel Cells
Oorja Fuel Cells is a global energy company that designs, manufactures, and commercializes Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC).
Founder(s): Sanjiv Malhotra
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Manufacturing
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San Joaquin Renewables
San Joaquin Renewables convert unwanted orchard residues into renewable CNG, the cleanest transportation fuels on the market today.
Founder(s):
Location: Mcfarland, California, United States
Industries: Biofuel, Biomass Energy, Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Khepra
Khepra uses proprietary technology and excess renewable electricity to break down plastics and agricultural waste.
Founder(s): Julie Kring, Madeleine Allen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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HyPoint
HyPoint is a provider of a hydrogen fuel cell system for air transportation market.
Founder(s): Alex Ivanenko, Brian C. Benicewicz, John Vogel, Rhonda Staudt, Sergey Nefedkin, Sergey Panov, Sergey Shubenkov
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Air Transportation, Clean Energy, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Cell
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Yoshi
Yoshi fills a vehicle’s tank wherever a driver wanted instead of the owner having to stop at a gas station.
Founder(s): Bryan Frist, Dan Hunter, Nick Alexander
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Fuel, Location Based Services, Oil and Gas
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SAFCell
SAFCell focuses on a group of business, engineering, and scientific professionals commercializing transformative energy technology.
Founder(s): Calum Chisholm
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Fuel Cell, Renewable Energy
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Blume Distillation
Blume Distillation, a biofuel tech firm, provides alcohol fuel production equipment that converts waste into alcohol fuel.
Founder(s): David Blume
Location: Watsonville, California, United States
Industries: Biofuel, Fuel, Transportation
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AiResource Technologies
AiResource Technologies develops, manufactures, and markets state-of-the-art, high-performance air/fuel combustion systems.
Founder(s): Randy Chapman
Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Machinery Manufacturing, Manufacturing
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Caribou Biofuels
Caribou Biofuels manufactures biofuels for the conversion of biomass into fuels.
Founder(s): Blake Simmons, Kieran Mitchell
Location: Modesto, California, United States
Industries: Biofuel, Energy, Fuel
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LAM Aviation
LAM Aviation develops the Lam Aileron, which improves aircraft fuel efficiency, range, useful load, and performance.
Founder(s): Michael Lam
Location: Los Altos Hills, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Computer, Fossil Fuels, Fuel, Manufacturing, Product Design
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Tyler Petroleum Inc
One of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
Founder(s): Sabeer Nelli
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Retail Technology, Software, Travel
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LS9
LS9 is a biotechnology company developing UltraClean™ fuels and sustainable chemicals made with the power of synthetic biology.
Founder(s): Chris Somerville, David Berry, George Church, Noubar Afeyan
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Chemical, Fuel
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Intematix
Intematix Corporation develops and manufactures phosphor products to light and imaging markets.
Founder(s): Yi-Qun Li
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Fuel Cell, Manufacturing, Marketing
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AltAir Fuels
AltAir Fuels develops and operates projects for the production of low carbon fuels and chemicals derived from sustainable feedstocks.
Founder(s): Bryan Sherbacow, Tom Todaro
Location: Paramount, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Biotechnology, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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Altergy Systems
Altergy Systems is offers reliable backup power solutions for telecom and delivers proven fuel cell technology.
Founder(s):
Location: Folsom, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel Cell, Oil and Gas
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FuelerLinx
FuelerLinx is an aviation fuel planning & tankering software system.
Founder(s):
Location: Van Nuys, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Fuel, Information Technology, Software
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Greyrock Energy
Greyrock Energy develops groundbreaking technologies for the direct conversion of natural gas into pump-ready transportation fuels.
Founder(s): Robert Schuetzle
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas, Transportation
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Garden Answers, LLC
Garden Answers offers cutting-edge plant identification technology.
Founder(s): Alex Shah, Angelina Popova
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Clean Energy, Energy Management, Energy Storage, Fuel Cell, Power Grid, Renewable Energy, Software, Solar
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Bio Architecture Lab
Bio Architecture Lab is engaged in the development of low cost, scalable, and sustainable biomass.
Founder(s):
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Chemical, CleanTech, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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Aeros Environmental
Aeros Environmental provides air emissions testing and analytical services to a diverse range of industries.
Founder(s):
Location: Bakersfield, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Service Industry
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Chevron Oronite
Chevron Oronite is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of lubricant and fuel additives and chemicals.
Founder(s):
Location: San Ramon, California, United States
Industries: Chemical, Fuel, Manufacturing
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Superprotonic
Superprotonic develops solid acid-based fuel cells for automotive and portable electronics power markets.
Founder(s): Calum Chisholm
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Electronics, Energy, Fuel
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National Petroleum
National Petroleum provides gasoline products to independent service stations.
Founder(s): Niken Patel, Sanjiv Patel
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Hexagon Agility
Hexagon Agility is manufacturer of clean energy storage, delivery, and conversion systems for commercial vehicle OEMs & fleets.
Founder(s):
Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Manufacturing
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BlueFire Renewables
BlueFire Renewables, Inc’s (“BlueFire”) use of the Arkenol patented process positions it as the only viable, world-wide cellulose
Founder(s):
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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Site Development Group
Site Development Group is a privately owned commodity trading company.
Founder(s): Boy Schook, Carlo Passacantando, Tom Hunter, William Marr
Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Trading Platform
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Amber Resources
Amber Resources is a full service petroleum distributor in Southern California.
Founder(s):
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Vintners Distributors
Vintners is a retailer of fuels throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founder(s):
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Retail
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Kamps Propane
Kamps Propane specializes in the delivery of propane for home energy needs, commercial purposes and cylinder exchange services.
Founder(s):
Location: Manteca, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fossil Fuels, Fuel
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Stillwater Associates
Stillwater Associates has provided transportation fuels consulting services for over 20 years.
Founder(s):
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Energy Management, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Two Trees Products
Two Trees Products, has been in the business of producing quality charcoal and wood fuel products, throughout the United States.
Founder(s):
Location: Sunland, California, United States
Industries: Clean Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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Altex Technologies
Altex Technologies provides fuels processing and fuel cell power systems, low emission burners and thermal management services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Fuel Cell, Product Management, Project Management
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Newport Energy
Newport Energy is an oil and gas exploration and production company.
Founder(s):
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Industrial, Oil and Gas
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TankWallet
TankWallet offers customers ways to lock in fuel prices for future use to avoid fluctuation.
Founder(s): Jiahui Shi
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Fuel, Online Portals, Payments
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Vertimass
Vertimass is a renewables & environment company that specializes in grasses and agricultural and forestry residues.
Founder(s):
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Biomass Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy
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Pinnacle Petroleum
Pinnacle Petroleum provides fuel supply and related products to commercial and industrial markets and municipal agencies.
Founder(s):
Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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American Gas & Technology
American Gas & Technology (AG&T) produces liquid natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel for the transportation industry.
Founder(s):
Location: Lakeport, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Natural Resources
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Hydrogen-XT
HydrogeNXT is a renewable company that fuels cell electric cars with clean hydrogen produced on-site from natural gas and biogas.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy
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Clean Fuel Connection
CFCI is a provider and installer of electric vehicle chargers, natural gas fueling solutions, commercial solar installations.
Founder(s):
Location: Arcadia, California, United States
Industries: Clean Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Newport Zero
Newport Zero provides butane products, butane gas, butane fluid, torches, refillable lighters, cigar accessories and burners.
Founder(s):
Location: Baldwin Park, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Fuel
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Ramos Oil Company
Ramos Oil Company provides bulk and pre-packaged petroleum products and commercial fueling network for all business types.
Founder(s):
Location: Dixon, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Kern Oil & Refining
Kern Oil & Refining is an oil refinery and marketing company that produces transportation fuels.
Founder(s):
Location: Bakersfield, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Marketing, Oil and Gas
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PolyFuel
PolyFuel has develops improved membranes and systems for resolving the power gap.
Founder(s):
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Fossil Fuels, Fuel, Fuel Cell
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ECI Fuel Systems
ECI Fuel Systems manufactures a line of auxiliary fuel systems.
Founder(s):
Location: Upland, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Industrial, Manufacturing
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Delta Liquid Energy
Delta Liquid Energy is a residential, commercial and wholesale propane provider company.
Founder(s): Harry Platz, Iva Platz
Location: Paso Robles, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Green Power Corporation
Green Power, Corp., is a California registered corporation with assembly center located in Southern California.
Founder(s):
Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States
Industries: Chemical, Fuel, Lighting
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Petroleum Wholesale
Petroleum Wholesale is a fuel-based wholesale agency that sells and distributes fuels.
Founder(s):
Location: Woodland, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Sales, Wholesale
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Petromo
SaaS, mobile app, hardware, payment solutions. We offer inventory and back office management solutions using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Founder(s):
Location: Livermore, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Fuel, Hardware, Internet of Things, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments, Point of Sale, Retail, Software
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Boyett Petroleum
Boyett Petroleum is an independent fuel supplier and retailer company.
Founder(s): Carol Boyett, Stan Boyett
Location: Modesto, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Retail
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Channel Islands Aviation
Channel Islands Aviation is an airlines company that offers fuel sales, hangar space, flight training, and aircraft maintenance services.
Founder(s):
Location: Camarillo, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Air Transportation, Fuel, Training
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Economy Propane
Economy Propane is an independent propane retailer based in Lakeport, California.
Founder(s):
Location: Lakeport, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas
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California Fuel Cell Partnership
California Fuel Cell Partnership is a company offering hydrogen powered vehicle technology.
Founder(s):
Location: West Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Fuel Cell, Service Industry
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Renewable Fuel Products
Renewable Fuel Products develops a renewable diesel fuel production technology that produces fuel from renewable sources of vegetable oil.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy
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Capitol City Propane
Capitol City Propane provides residential and commercial propane services.
Founder(s):
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Rci Technologies
Rci Technologies is a premier solutions provider for the fuel industry located in San Dimas.
Founder(s):
Location: San Dimas, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Ventana Ecogreen
Ventana Ecogreen offers technology solutions to convert end-of-life plastic into petroleum.
Founder(s): Amit Tandon
Location: Foster City, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Waste Management
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Continental Controls Corporation
Continental Controls Corporation provideS innovative and reliable systems and components.
Founder(s):
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Industrial, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
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California Fuel Supply
California Fuel Supply is a supplier of fuel in California and neighbouring areas.
Founder(s):
Location: Lafayette, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Retail, Transportation
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Agrobrasilia
Agrobrasilia is a Biomass company that produces renewable products.
Founder(s):
Location: Century City, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Energy, Fuel, Pharmaceutical
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C NRG Fleet
C NRG Fleet renders fleet card program and fueling solutions with online reporting, transaction and cut fuel cost for companies.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Fe Springs, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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The Site Controller
The Site Controller provides software solutions for fuel industry.
Founder(s):
Location: Corona, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Software
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Xtreme Green Inc.
Xtreme Green Inc. is a transportation-based firm providing automotive products (fuel )to increase the reliability of vehicle reducing costs.
Founder(s):
Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Fuel, Transportation
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GB Remanufacturing
GB Remanufacturing produces and distributes gasoline, diesel fuel injectors, diesel electronics and parts to the automotive aftermarket.
Founder(s):
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Fuel, Manufacturing
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C3 Fuels
C3 Fuels is into the development of commercial fueling programs along with the supply of certification fuels and primary reference fuels.
Founder(s):
Location: Compton, California, United States
Industries: Energy Management, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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GAS DELIVERY
Gas delivery is a fuel-on-demand service, they offer Enterprise Gas Delivery as well as Fleet Gas Delivery.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Delivery, Fuel, Oil and Gas, Service Industry
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Viking Propane
Viking Propane provides propane fuel delivery services to residents.
Founder(s):
Location: Madison, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Adolph’s Autohaus
Adolph’s Autohaus is located in San Ramon, CA, United States and is part of the Automotive Repair and Maintenance Industry.
Founder(s):
Location: San Ramon, California, United States
Industries: Air Transportation, Automotive, Fuel
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Custom Distributors
Custom Distributors specializes in the supply of energy conservation products.
Founder(s):
Location: Duarte, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Renewable Energy, Water
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Pacer-Valley Propane
Pacer-Valley Propane engages in distribution of propane gas.
Founder(s):
Location: Imperial, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Fuelizer
Fuelizer is a website where users can track their gas mileage and compare it to those of their friends.
Founder(s): Nathan Renico, Travis Renbell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Fuel, Web Browsers
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Hilltop Supply Co.
Hilltop Supply Co. is a supplier and distributer of fuel, propane gas equipment, petroleum gas, and hardware products.
Founder(s):
Location: Guatay, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas, Retail
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Country Boys Gas
Country Boys Gas is an independent propane company based in Commerce, Ga.
Founder(s):
Location: Commerce, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Lake Propane
Lake Propane engages in the distribution of Liquified Petroleum Gas.
Founder(s):
Location: Nice, California, United States
Industries: Fuel, Oil and Gas
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Pacific Propane Service
Pacific Propane Service is a small organization in the liquefied petroleum gas dealers industry.
Founder(s):
Location: Escondido, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Oil and Gas
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