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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups

Greentown Labs

ACCEL combines startup acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation at Greentown, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGS’s networks of industry experts. The recurring, year-long program welcomes seven startups led by underrepresented founders Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Feb. Sankofa Dynamics (Boston, Mass.)

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Reverse Pitch • 3.9.23

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Who you can expect to be there VertueLab VertueLab is nonprofit fighting climate change by providing funding and holistic entrepreneurial support to climate tech startups. Cultivating innovations and charting the way, they finance patent filings and articulate patent value.

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Reverse Pitch • 10.17.23

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

past pitchers Include: VertueLab VertueLab is nonprofit fighting climate change by providing funding and holistic entrepreneurial support to climate tech startups. Elemental Excelerator Elemental Excelerator is on a mission to redesign the systems at the root of climate change.

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DOE Clean Energy Programs Vital to American Innovation, Competitiveness?—?and Jobs

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

and Jobs Our federal government is failing us in many ways when it comes to addressing climate change and advancing clean energy. have resulted in the formation of 76 new American companies, attracted nearly $3 billion in private-sector investments and produced 346 new patents.

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Reflections on Greentown Houston’s First Year and What’s Next for the City’s Energy Transition

Greentown Labs

Read more about all we are celebrating about the first year of Greentown Labs Houston from Juliana Garaizar, the head of our Houston incubator. To honor this year of growth and achievement, we celebrated our first anniversary with a Texas-sized display of collaboration and innovation that will power Houston’s climate-focused entrepreneurs.

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Building a Cleantech Innovation Community – Together

Greentown Labs

Similarly, Greentown member companies are developing climatetech solutions, which the incubator defines as technologies that mitigate the impact of climate change on both people and the planet and build resilience. For more information visit www.necec.org and follow us on Twitter. About Greentown Labs.

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The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year Two Startup Cohort for Carbontech Accelerator Program

Greentown Labs

has a patented bacteria-based technology that converts organic waste into Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a biopolymer that can be used to replace a wide range of oil-based plastic applications. Founded in 2009, the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering is New York City’s longest running cleantech startup incubator.