Francesca Anne Bertone

PAX Scientific, Inc. specializes in design services related to handling liquids and gases in industrial equipment. It offers an internationally patented technology that improves fluid handling equipment. The firm an engineering research and product design company, provides solutions for fluid-related industrial problems. The company was founded by Jayden David Harmon and Francesca Bertone in 1997 and is headquartered in San Rafael, CA.

PAX Pure, Inc. provides water treatment solutions that minimize capital, operational and environmental costs. It utilizes temperature and pressure to manipulate the boiling of water without any moving parts or membranes. The firm serves produced water, municipal desalination, agriculture, food and beverage manufacturing, and marine desalination sectors. The company was founded by Kimberly Morris and Philip O’Connor in 2012 and is headquartered in San Rafael, CA.

PAX Streamline is part of the PAX family of companies; each dedicated to developing energy efficient, sustainable solutions for its target market. PAX develops, licenses, and manufactures its technology to a variety of markets. PAX Streamline focuses on HVAC and refrigeration, and power generation. Founding company PAX Scientific focuses on air-handling technologies (fans and blowers) and marine hull design. The company also operates master licensee PaxFan. PAX Water Technologies, a subsidiary of PAX Scientific, markets technologies for water and wastewater management. Subsidiary PAX Mixer develops industrial mixing technologies (other than water or wastewater mixers). Launched in 2007, Streamline was spun off from PAX Scientific early in 2008 with lead funding from Khosla Ventures. Founded by influential venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures' resources come entirely from its own partners, with 100% of profits donated to charitable causes. Khosla Ventures' portfolio of renewable cleantech companies includes firms pursuing energy efficiency improvements as well as those dealing with alternative fuels. The overarching mission of the PAX family of companies, 'to apply nature's core design principles to engineer energy efficient products that enhance and sustain life on Earth,' dovetails with Khosla Ventures' focus on ending U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.