Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2021

The Greentown Labs community continues to grow and we’re excited to introduce you to the 16 climatetech startups that joined our Boston and Houston incubators in the first months of 2021! Meet these startups that are powering the climatetech revolution: Agtech + Water. Electricity. Manufacturing. Platform Solutions.

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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

JULY 12, 2022

Climatetech leaders from Fluor, the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative. Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative Somerville, Mass. Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y., and New York City, N.Y.,

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Greentown Labs

MAY 16, 2023

Michael Fletcher and Kristeen Reynolds are bringing their passion for sneaker culture, circularity, and community engagement to the pavement with DrinKicks —a startup turning food waste and recycled materials into shoes with 89 percent lower carbon emissions than their cow-leather counterparts. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. “We

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 6, 2023

The partnerships-focused accelerator is accepting applications from startups with innovations to extend product life cycles, develop alternative raw materials, and revalorize waste Somerville, Mass. Further details on the specific technology areas of interest can be found in the request for applications.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Sneakers made from food waste. 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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The event featured a speaking program with exceptional climate leaders—including a keynote from Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey —and a startup showcase that offered attendees the chance to network with our incredible Greentown Boston startups.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The initiative’s third cohort included eight carbontech startups that were chosen in a highly competitive selection and deliberation process that saw more than 160 applications from 26 countries. The startup, formerly known as C-Quester, is based in Los Angeles, CA. Detailed results from Year 1 and Year 2 are available.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2023

Greentown Labs opened Greentown Houston in 2021 to expand its impact and help accelerate the energy transition through climatetech and energy entrepreneurship, in partnership with the nation’s fourth largest city and the world-leading energy organizations headquartered there. Hazardous waste management? You heard it here!

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Photo courtesy of Blackburn Energy. Andrew Amigo came up with the idea for Blackburn Energy while sitting in traffic. As he watched a truck’s drive shaft spin, he realized he could harness its lost kinetic energy and convert it into renewable electricity. Everything clicked into place for me,” Amigo says.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

How can startups and corporations work together to power the transition to a more circular economy? . That’s the question that kicked off the Circularity Challenge, a six-month Greentown Launch program designed to accelerate partnerships between startups and corporates to bring innovative technologies to market. At the Feb.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The program is focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Their end of life is extremely limited,” CEO and founder Jeff Gold says of the post-industrial and post-commercial plastic waste that Nexus handles. Keep an eye on our website for profiles on all five program participants!

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Accelerator is seeking applications from startups with carbontech solutions. The program is also supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ). Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y., Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y., into valuable end products or services. Doreen M.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York (CNGNY). Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York (CNGNY). Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Charm Industrial: Turning biomass waste into CO2-dense bio-oil. The startup is on a mission to "return the atmosphere to 280 ppm" through its technology, which it claims is more permanent and cost-effective than traditional nature-based offsets and direct air capture (DAC) methods. . The Charm Industrial team. Courtesy of Heliogen.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2019

If your house could talk to you about your energy usage, what would it say? The creators of Sense think it would say you could reduce your energy usage by at least 20 percent—and tell you how. Sense is a home energy monitor that gives real-time insight into your home’s energy usage. Photo courtesy of Sense.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Plastics Data Challenge is a global innovation challenge that will source, support, and scale innovative technologies, methodologies and working prototypes that help entrepreneurs and others collect, analyse and leverage data to understand and address the leakage of plastic waste into the environment.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here are some of our entrepreneurs’ most impressive moments from the past 12 months: “Form Energy Raises $40M Series B for Super-Long-Duration Grid Storage”. The expert team behind Form Energy raised a whopping $40 million Series B round this year. Cambridge Crops Raises $4M in Funding to Combat Food Waste”.

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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 supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., New York City, N.Y.,

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The company was integral to the opening of Greentown’s headquarters, donating over $1 million worth of products, and has recently become a Founding Partner of our Greentown Houston incubator, which will open in 2021. PAC: We will have to work on our energy mix. Saint-Gobain worked closely with a number of these startups.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. But battery manufacturers are fully focused on scaling up production to meet increasing demands for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, so they need other companies to develop better recycling systems. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Our conversation ranged from Tricoire’s personal passion for clean, accessible energy to why Schneider Electric helps other companies reduce their climate impacts to how Schneider Electric is working to achieve its impressive sustainability goals. Schneider Electric has been an excellent, deeply engaged partner to our startup community.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

economy, more than 200 US startups have cut thousands of jobs. While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

As venture capital funding falls across the startup landscape, the dollars flowing into climate tech companies dropped ~40% in the first half of 2023. 🚗 Vertical: Funding to Transport, Energy, and Food—the “Big Three” verticals—each dropped by ~50% compared to the prior year. TPG Rise Climate.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Greentown Houston’s 2022 Climatetech Summit zeroed in on the city’s role in the energy transition, from the ability to rapidly commercialize climate solutions, to the effectiveness of startup-corporate collaborations, to the region’s potential to be a global hydrogen hub. REAL Executive Director Kay McCall.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

On the last day of VERGE 20, five startups that won lightning-round pitch sessions during the Food, Carbon, Circular, Energy and Transport conference competed for the vote of the viewers. Change:WATER labs’ iThrone creation cuts down on waste logistics by eliminating the waste inside the toilet itself and turning it into pure water.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He got his start in a 90s software startup that was not ultimately related to sustainability, but it’s clear from his ambitious business ventures that human sustainability has been his primary concern since at least his college years. Clean Energy. State mandates and consumer choice have sparked a demand for clean and green energy.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Home to over 8 million people , New York stands as the largest city in the United States making the megalopolis an excellent test hub and incubator for new, innovative green solutions. Urban sustainability in action: New York’s energy efficiency measures. Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency Program.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 4, 2021

In addition to a partnership and investment from Saint-Gobain of $25,000 in non-dilutive grant funding and desk space at Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, the awardees also obtained exclusive access to Saint-Gobain networks and select Saint-Gobain testing capabilities, technical facilities, and expertise.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

At Greentown Labs, we are committed to providing the best place in the world to build a climate-focused startup company. BASF has been a dedicated partner to our cleantech startup community for years. WS: As one example, we were a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2021

We’re proud to have incubated more than 400 startups over the past 10 years, and our network of hundreds of alumni are doing meaningful climate work with the technologies that years ago were developed at Greentown. Learn how Bevi has kept millions of bottles out of the waste stream. “We

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Charm Industrial: Turning biomass waste into CO2-dense bio-oil Charm Industrial is working to reverse the process of crude-oil production — that is, to take the carbon stored in biomass, turn it into CO2-dense biofuel through fast pyrolysis (superheating) and inject it back into the Earth’s crust. The Charm Industrial team.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Charm Industrial: Turning biomass waste into CO2-dense bio-oil Charm Industrial is working to reverse the process of crude-oil production — that is, to take the carbon stored in biomass, turn it into CO2-dense biofuel through fast pyrolysis (superheating) and inject it back into the Earth’s crust. The Charm Industrial team.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Charm Industrial: Turning biomass waste into CO2-dense bio-oil Charm Industrial is working to reverse the process of crude-oil production — that is, to take the carbon stored in biomass, turn it into CO2-dense biofuel through fast pyrolysis (superheating) and inject it back into the Earth’s crust. The Charm Industrial team.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our startup members are the heart of Greentown Labs. 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. All of this is why we’re so excited to welcome our 16 inaugural Greentown Houston startup members.

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