it's an exciting day for greenstart. it's an exciting day for the companies that are in our program, and it's an exciting day for san francisco. we're super pumped to finally formally introduce greenstart to the world. so thank you for being here. thank you, mayor lee, for being here. we have mentors here. we have our interior designer, one of our interior designers, kimberly ryder, who put this space together in less than seven weeks, which is really astounding. thank you all. there's a lot of people here who have been super supportive and are here to help. we started greenstart because we believe that reducing the use of fossil fuels is the defining problem of our generation. and the answer is innovation. we need to innovate around expanding the use of clean energy. we need to innovate around energy efficiency and where does that innovation come from? over the last hundred years, especially in san francisco, especially in silicon valley, entrepreneurs have proven they're the heros that can make disruptive, powerful cha

[applause] >> thank you, mayor lee, and thank you to the greenstart team. mitch, it's amazing to be here. i'm the chief energy officer of watt. we are bringing democracy and transparency to the energy industry and ending what we call the energy disconnect. we're an early stage company and we love being here. i came all the way from maine, 3,000 miles, to be in this amazing space. i want to say thank you. you can check us out at wa.tt. thank you. >> thank you to everyone. i think now i'd like to turn everyone's attention to the large green ribbon hanging between the two central pillars where we'd like to do an official commencement cutting of the ribbon and following that, we'd invite everyone to walk around the tables up here. we have signage for each of the companies, if you'd like to take a little bit of time to learn about the companies and see the technology that they have. [cheers and applause] a hundreds actively participating in our programming. it doesn't stop here, we're continuing the momentum and continuing to grow. and like those students, we wa