Enexor on Most Fundable Companies List, advances to Startup World Cup

FRANKLIN, Tennessee. (September 24, 2026) - Enexor BioEnergy has been named to Pepperdine Graziadio Business School's 2026 Most Fundable Companies® List and selected to advance to the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in San Francisco this November. Enexor is one of 14 companies chosen from more than 2,100 applicants representing all 50 states.

Most Fundable Companies is Pepperdine's annual program for early stage U.S. companies seeking private investment, now in its ninth year. Investors, venture advisors, and Pepperdine faculty reviewed this year's applicants over four rounds, scoring financial projections, market opportunity, intellectual property, competitive advantage, and management team, and named 14 to the 2026 List.

The 14 companies pitched live at the Most Fundable Companies Showcase at Pepperdine's Villa Graziadio Executive Center in Malibu, California, on September 23. For the first time, the Showcase fully integrated the Startup World Cup Los Angeles Regional competition, hosted by Pegasus Tech Ventures, and the judges selected Enexor to advance to the Grand Finale, where regional winners from around the world present to a global investor audience.

"Being named a Most Fundable Company is a significant achievement because these companies have been evaluated against many of the same fundamentals that professional investors consider when assessing opportunities," said Craig Everett, PhD, executive director of the Most Fundable Companies program and the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project.

"We are grateful to Pepperdine and the judges for taking a hard look at our company," said Lee Jestings, Founder and CEO of Enexor. "We started Enexor to prove that sustainability can pay for itself. Turning waste into clean energy and carbon products on site does that, and we are just getting started."

Enexor energizes waste and creates carbon solutions. Its Bio-CHP is a modular system that transforms the carbon in organic and plastic waste into renewable electricity, clean thermal energy, and high purity biogenic CO₂ at the site where the waste is produced. Customers pay for performance, not equipment. Each system is housed in standard shipping containers and installs in days. Enexor designs and builds its systems in Franklin, Tennessee.

Enexor's investors include BorgWarner, which is also its turbine partner, and Halliburton. The company is an alumnus of Halliburton Labs, the 100+ Accelerator, Plug and Play, and the Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change, and Launch Tennessee supports Enexor through its SBIR/STTR Matching Fund. Enexor works with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Energy.

As a 2026 Most Fundable Company, Enexor is profiled on Entrepreneur.com and will be featured in the November/December print issue of Entrepreneur magazine. Read Pepperdine's announcement, view the full 2026 list, and watch the Showcase replay.

About Enexor BioEnergy

Enexor BioEnergy energizes waste and creates carbon solutions. The company transforms carbon from organic and plastic waste into clean energy and valuable products to help solve the world's waste crisis. Its modular Bio-CHP systems install on site and deliver renewable electricity, clean thermal energy, and high purity biogenic CO₂ with no capital investment from the customer. Enexor designs and builds its systems in Franklin, Tennessee. American made clean energy. Learn more at enexor.com.

About Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies

The Most Fundable Companies® List is an annual program hosted by Pepperdine Graziadio Business School to promote startup business development, provide pathways for funding, and inspire entrepreneurial spirit nationwide. Launched in 2018, the program is a free resource that helps entrepreneurs assess their readiness for private investment through a multi-phase evaluation of financial projections, market opportunity, intellectual property, competitive advantage, and management team. The 2026 Most Fundable Companies® Showcase, presented by the Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship, also incorporated the Startup World Cup Los Angeles Regional through a partnership with Startup World Cup hosted by Pegasus Tech Ventures.

About Startup World Cup

Startup World Cup is the #1 startup pitch competition in the world, hosted by Pegasus Tech Ventures. With 100+ regional pitch competitions across 6 continents, Startup World Cup provides a global platform for startups to showcase their innovations and secure funding.