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Greentown Labs Names Kevin Knobloch as Chief Executive Officer

Greentown Labs

Industry veteran and former Obama Administration appointee will lead the incubator through its next stage of growth Somerville, Mass. Department of Energy in President Obama’s second term, working with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz from June 2013 through January 2017. Hanna will remain on the incubator’s Board of Directors.

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SteamIQ Tackles Our Big Steam Problem

Greentown Labs

He spun out the company as SteamIQ in October 2017. Owens stumbled onto Greentown Labs shortly after he spun out SteamIQ, when he saw CEO Emily Reichert speak at a National Grid energy efficiency event in 2017. It’s everything I wanted in an incubator.”. And that’s not hyperbole.”. This place is amazing,” Owens says.

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Promethean Power Systems Brings Sustainable Dairy Chilling to Over 60K Dairy Farmers and Has Raised Most of its Series B

Greentown Labs

Promethean was one of the four founding companies of Greentown Labs, which has grown into the largest cleantech incubator in North America. White and his fellow entrepreneurs didn’t intend to found a startup incubator—all they wanted to do was share rent and resources.

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RightHand Robotics Revolutionizes E-commerce Order Fulfillment

Greentown Labs

Today, RHR robots are deployed in North America, Europe, and Japan, and have picked more than 14 million items. RHR joined Greentown in 2015, and graduated in 2017. the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq.

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#Greentown10: 10 Years of Partnerships for Climate Action

Greentown Labs

Now, Saint-Gobain is doing the same for our new Greentown Houston incubator. As Greentown startups move out of their initial warehouse in Cambridge, MA (pictured), Silverman Trykowski Associates designs the new incubator at 337 Summer St. In 2021, we announced that Stanley Black & Decker is founding a new tool shop at Greentown.

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Tagup Transforms Critical Infrastructure Management with Predictive Data

Greentown Labs

So I can pull it up on my iPhone, and you could see the real-time probability of failure for any of thousands of assets around North America and Europe. million pre-seed round in mid-2017. the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq.

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#Greentown10: A Look at Greentown’s Biggest Annual Event Throughout the Years

Greentown Labs

After moving a few miles from Boston’s Seaport District to Somerville’s Union Square—nearly doubling the square footage of its incubator in the process—Greentown hosted its first-ever DEMO Day. The second annual DEMO Day featured company presentations held throughout the 33,000-square-foot Somerville, MA incubator. 2018 May 9, 2018.