Emily MorrisFounder

United States - Atlanta, Georgia

Emily Morris is the Founder & CEO of Emrgy Inc., an energy technology company that is disrupting distributed power generation using modular hydropower systems. Since founding Emrgy in 2014, Emily has secured over $7 million in funding to bring Emrgy’s solution to market, and the Company was named Georgia’s Top Startup in 2017.

Within one year of launch, Emily led Emrgy to become the first company inducted into the City of Atlanta’s Innovation Center to demonstrate new technologies on municipal infrastructure as well as the first company to receive equity investment directly from the City of Atlanta. In 2017, she led Emrgy to install the first distributed hydropower array in the United States with the City of Denver and the US Bureau of Reclamation.

Emily is the Principal Investigator on US Department of Energy-sponsored contracts valued over $1.9 million, including a cooperative agreement focused on “Research and Development on Innovative Technologies in Low Impact Hydropower”. She is also named as an inventor on 5 patents pending.

Emily Morris comes to Emrgy from AMT, Inc., where she managed over $10 million in research contracts to build new technologies for energy, military and transportation innovation over 6 years. Emily has been active in a range of entrepreneurial activities and has founded, advised, and/or led multiple startup for-profit and non-profit ventures totaling over $1 million in annual proceeds.

The Atlanta Business Chronicle named Emily “Top 30 Under 30” in 2015, and she has led Emrgy to win 2 VC-backed startup accelerators. Emily graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Human and Organizational Development with a Minor in Corporate Strategy from Vanderbilt University. In her community, Emily serves on the Board of Directors for Blue Skies Ministries, Inc. as well as a Childcare Volunteer Coordinator for the City of Refuge women’s homeless shelter.