Greentown Labs

JUNE 6, 2023

and Houston, Texas, June 6, 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, and Saint-Gobain , a multinational manufacturer and distributor of high-performance materials, are now accepting applications for Greentown Go Build 2023. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. billion in regional economic impact.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 12, 2022

and Houston, Texas, April 12, 2022 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced its new Greentown Go climatetech partnerships accelerator. Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) and BASF will serve as Lead Partners on the inaugural ‘Go Make’ and ‘Go Move’ programs, respectively. Somerville, Mass.,

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CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Cleantech San Diego’s SCEIN incubator is pleased to have been able to provide services and support that has enabled all three of these exceptional companies to accelerate their commercial traction,” said Marty Turock, Executive Director of SCEIN. 76 percent of SCEIN companies have C-Suite diversity.

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Charged

MAY 3, 2023

This tragedy involves a cast of many players—automakers, charger manufacturers, network operators, electric utilities, and often a lot more—and all need to start reading from the same script if there’s to be any hope of a happy ending. I incubated our work in sustainability. Do you recycle it? How are they manufactured?

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

From wind and solar storage to electric vehicles, we need to rely on batteries more than ever as we reorient society toward sustainability. Titan AES’s technology has a broad range of applications, most notably electric vehicles, energy storage, and second life batteries. The Titan AES team. Photo courtesy of Titan AES. O’Day notes.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Next-generation battery recycling. Pecos Wind Power , which builds community-scale wind turbines for on-site, low-cost electricity. Stepwise , which is reducing the infrastructure upgrades costs associated with home-electrification installations and helping homeowners save money on their electricity bills through energy management.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This year-long program combines acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation through a Greentown membership, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGS’s networks of industry experts. The mentors have been great, the community it’s created has been very helpful, and it’s also allowed us access into other communities as well.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Credit: Hertz Hertz Goes Electric Hertz announced they would purchase 100,000 new Tesla model 3s over the next couple of years. 100,000 electric vehicles represents about 20% of Hertz’ total vehicle fleet. Renting a car is an extremely low-commitment way to test out an electric vehicle. Short answer?

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 30, 2020

One of the things that I think we will see is recycling infrastructure. It’s about how to make the business case and get the infrastructure paid for, and how to overcome some of the bottlenecks in materials recycling. Battery technology, electric vehicle charging stations—that’s an ongoing trend.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our unique partnership combines the best incubation services in the U.S. Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, is dedicated to helping startups and corporate partners work together to bring critical climate solutions to market. “We Urban Future Lab.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔋 Renewables + storage turned out to be price competitive against fossil fuels after Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Electricity analysis included intermittency costs for the first time. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. 💪 Climate joined the labor movement.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Skokie’s LanzaTech completed its $72 million Series E round, buoyed by the success of enabling a Virgin Atlantic flight from Orlando to London fueled by recycled carbon. And Denver’s AMP Robotics raised $16 million for its innovative robotic recycling technology. We also witnessed great successes taking place elsewhere in the region.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

In Pittsburgh, artificial intelligence software company RoadRunner Recycling - which automates routing for commercial recycling processes - secured $28.6m The list is gratifyingly long, encompassing advances in carbon capture and sequestration, combined heat and power systems, crop waste recycling, building automation and biofuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The cells run on green hydrogen, supplied by a British startup, and the interior is a model of circularity, including recycled seat frames and covers. The total capacity of the system is 800 kilowatts, split between the fuel cells and the batteries, which can be recharged in a matter of 15 minutes.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Check out the day at Greentown Houston: Greentown Houston’s Climatetech Summit kicked off with opening remarks from InnovationMap Houston Editor Natalie Harms , the event’s emcee, and Greentown Labs’ Head of Houston Incubator + VP of Innovation Juliana Garaizar.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As Elon Musk becomes more and more of a household name, electric vehicle sales continue to rise home and solar panels are lining more roofs. Compost and Food Waste Recycling. The benefits of recycling food waste to enrich the soil have been known for thousands of years. Here are three companies addressing waste issues.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

ABB E-mobility and Zeekr are spin-offs and Northvolt was incubated by Vargas Holding. The Exceptions Growth funding in these mature verticals may have dropped off, but Transportation and Energy still dominate when it comes to megadeals. Of note, many of these giant deals went to companies that took a non-traditional startup development path.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2022

From the lab tech workspace comes the climatetech inventions, such as electric bikes, battery storage, electric cars, and hydropower. This further leads into a beautiful green cityscape of efficient recycling, wind power, solar power, and more, making Houston a clean, green, solutions-oriented, and earth-conscious city.”. “We

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This first cohort of 20 UK -based SMEs includes teams in the fields of intelligent electricity system services, battery management, charging systems, energy storage, fleet optimisation, hydrogen and rail. vehicle, it significantly reduces the lifecycle cost of the electric bus/truck.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Greentown Labs Houston will be the first climatetech-focused incubator in the city, aiming to serve as an on-the-ground catalyst for the energy transition in Houston. Ennuity Holdings is creating a brand new asset class that allows retirees to buy out their electric utility bill.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 15, 2020

This is a business that started with a concept for recyclable carpets. At DSM, we’re looking at ways in which we can make these items truly recyclable—from the fibers, the glues, and everything—by designing out the waste. Fifty percent of our electricity is purchased from renewable sources—it was only 21 percent in 2017.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

In 2019, BASF partnered with us to run the Circularity Challenge , a startup-corporate partnership accelerator program focused on breakthroughs in the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains to advance a circular economy. We expect this to lead to an increased focus on recycling. We’re driving this hard.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

However, this means that other areas of the economy, such as electricity generation, will have to overcompensate - with net negative emissions. CCUS Incubation Area, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax. Biomass wood pellet storage dome and conveyor system, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 22, 2019

Wright Electric (Wichita, KS): $100,000?—? Wright Electric is working towards making aviation more sustainable with a goal of building ultra-efficient single-aisle commercial airliners that enable cleaner travel. After conducting extensive market and legal analysis, Clean Energy Trust will incubate the launch of a $35?—?$45

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Deals include big checks for recycling. Redwood raises another $1B for battery recycling and metal alloy recycling attracts $31M. ♻️ Refiberd , a Cupertino, CA-based textile recycling platform, raised $3M in Seed funding from the H&M Foundation. We’ve updated our NY climate week events tracker !

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

  In deals, $250m for electric buses, planes, and automobiles, $100m for carbon accounting software, and $23m for nuclear waste transmutation.  Less debt = fewer repayments = lower levelized cost of electricity.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet? Lower cost of capital. The need for speed.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

  Deals of the Week (10/30-11/5) Late-Stage / Growth 🚗 Infinitum Electric , an Austin, TX-based air-core motors manufacturer, raised $185M in Growth funding from Just Climate, Ajax Strategies, Chevron Technology Ventures, Cottonwood Technology Fund, Galvanize Climate Solutions, and other investors.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2020

It owes much of its success to the work of other industries, like consumer electronics and electric vehicles, which have scaled up manufacturing and driven down costs. Similarly, storing electricity by compressing air in caverns has been proven to work—yet new developments have stalled. New energy storage chemistries.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Five months after Houston’s climatetech ecosystem gathered to celebrate the Grand Opening of Greentown Houston, it reconvened for a deep dive into empowering the technologies of tomorrow that are being developed right at the incubator. Happening simultaneously at Greentown Houston, Greentown HQ, and via livestream on Nov.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 29, 2024

🚢 Temo , a Nantes, France-based electric propulsion developer, raised $7m in Series A funding from At One Ventures, Bpifrance, and Ecotechnologies Fund. The two projects combined would be able to produce 3,740 MW of electricity.    Princeton and other universities are digging deep for heat. 

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Vogtle 3, one of two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, is now generating ~1,110 megawatts (MW) of energy and delivering it to the grid—that’s enough to power ~500,000 homes and businesses with carbon-free electricity. Source: NYT U.S. TransWest Express Transmission project broke ground this week after 18 years.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

End of era as FPL plans teardown of its last coal-fired electric plant… here. Sephora Elevates BIPOC­ Owned Brands Through Its Incubator Program… here. Volvo says it will make only electric cars by 2030… here. Nestlé joins others to set up first UK-wide coffee pod recycling scheme… here.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Olympic Committee has fulfilled their promise to only use recycled materials. Los Angeles. The Summer Olympics return for their third trip. An easy promise in a city with so much existing Olympic Infrastructure. But will the Olympians be able to breathe?

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