Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Seventeen startups joined our community Q2 2023, working on innovations ranging from smart sensors for wind turbines, to energy-efficient air conditioning, to a combo of water desalination and carbon capture. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! to develop two carbon capture units.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Startups in this particular corner of the climate solutions area have not actually been supported in a commercial way. Makes me want to host my own personal blog there.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. A group of experienced startup mentors and industry experts, including from BASF and Magna, provided valuable guidance to the cohort’s founding teams.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. But everyone needs to know about and celebrate the innovation and progress we see every day. The guide can be viewed at www.GoodCarbonGifts.org.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. But everyone needs to know about and celebrate the innovation and progress we see every day. The guide can be viewed at www.GoodCarbonGifts.org.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. But everyone needs to know about and celebrate the innovation and progress we see every day. The guide can be viewed at www.GoodCarbonGifts.org.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 26, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The accelerator program, which specializes in advancing startup-corporate partnerships with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) and the M-Lab Companies, welcomes five startups working on emissions-reducing innovations for industrial supply-chain applications. Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Oct. Somerville, Mass.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 28, 2021

Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program enthusiastically welcome 10 startups to the initiative. Carbfix (Reykjavík, Iceland) provides a natural and permanent carbon storage solution by turning CO 2 into stone underground. is a platform for negative emissions.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. The climate technology innovation ecosystem is ready to play an integral role in providing the solutions that will bring these pledges within reach.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The food and agriculture industry, responsible for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is ripe for climatetech innovations that reduce waste and emissions and restore healthy ecosystems. Clearly, there’s a tremendous opportunity to rethink and improve our entire food system to address both its negative climate and social impacts.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups. But at a total of just $27.2

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

As such, startup business AKUA is set to enhance the sustainability of the snack industry with its product line of kelp-based jerky and pasta. “I Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. Kelp is also appealing because of its nutritional value.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2020

From carbon-negative polyester to dissolvable thread, here’s a handful of surprising startups making waves in the apparel industry. View original here: 5 seriously cool climate innovators in fashion.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 1, 2024

Mars Materials is disrupting this market with a captured-carbon-based acrylonitrile that serves as a drop-in replacement for the traditional chemical. “We And Mars Materials’ process is the only commercially validated, carbon-negative approach for acrylonitrile production.” and fast-growing acrylamide market.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Sicily hydrogen innovation lab. Enel Green Power’s plan to build an industrial-scale innovation laboratory in Sicily has been given a boost with funding from the EU’s IPCEI Hy2Tech hydrogen initiative programme. More Technology Trending news. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. “By

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In addition to being far more sustainable, the MettleWood I-beam is 80 percent lighter and estimated to be about 50 percent cheaper, according to the startup. MettleWood is InventWood’s primary focus currently, and the startup is exploring applications in building cladding, siding, flooring, and decking.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

and Houston, Texas, April 22, 2021 — Exactly one year after releasing its first-ever Climate Action Plan, today the City of Houston is ushering in a new chapter for the energy transition with the official opening of Greentown Labs Houston , the city’s first-ever climatetech startup incubator. Somerville, Mass., Located at 4200 San Jacinto St.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

UK start-up C-Capture has secured £8m investment to further develop its pioneering carbon capture technology from its existing shareholders IP Group, Drax and BP Ventures, as well as additional funding from the British Business Bank's Future Fund, it announced today.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

So what does this mean for climatetech startups and the investors who have the resources to help scale their technologies, and where may the biggest opportunities lie? Carbontech, already a hot topic in recent years, has come to the forefront after the IPCC report emphasized the criticality of large-scale carbon removal. 21— join us !

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant. 

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 4, 2020

Technologies that draw-down carbon represent a massive economic opportunity. The global carbon capture and sequestration market is projected to reach USD 8.05 According to some estimates carbon capture and utilization (CCU)** alone will be a $1 trillion market by 2030. percent from 2016 to 2021. Subscribe in a reader

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company’s key verticals include carbon-negative biomanufacturing, also called carbon capture and utilization (CCU), biomining, and subsurface biomanufacturing. The climate impact? Utilizing one gigaton of CO 2 by 2050, according to Cemvita Factory—about 2.5 percent of global emissions.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?)

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Notably, Decarbon8 is open to everyone, beyond accredited investors or E8 members, anyone can invest in vetted climatetech startups for their potential returns and impact. Xeal innovating EV charging infrastructure, led by team Zander Isaacson and Nikhil Bharadwaj.

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