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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed. and Houston, Texas, Jan. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Carbon to Value Initiative Builds Up Carbontech Ecosystem in Year 3

Greentown Labs

Capro-X Technology at a glance: Based in Ithaca, NY, Capro-X deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid building block biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. The startup is also continuing its relationship with Fluor, working with the company via its business incubation program.

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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material

Greentown Labs

The end-product is carbon-negative, González explains, because the microbes upcycle carbon and SpadXTech exclusively plans to use renewable energy for its processes. During ACCEL, González workshopped her pitch with Sophie Wadsworth , a pitch coach who’s been working closely with the cohort.

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

Greentown Labs

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. Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y., Osmoses (Boston, U.S.) About the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

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

Greentown Labs

deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. Global Algae Innovations (San Diego, California, U.S.) “These innovative companies use it as a feedstock, capture the accumulated waste of the past 150 years, and convert it into useful products.

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BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase

Greentown Labs

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. Active Surfaces is working to make these innovations possible.

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Climate Tech VC

🗓 Investing in Innovation : Join CEBN and the Environmental Defense Fund on Aug 15 for a webinar to discuss new and existing programs for energy innovators with a high-level overview of federal resources for climate tech startups, entrepreneurs, incubators, and investors.