Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential development, investment, and commercial partnerships with Saint-Gobain Somerville, Mass. upcycles carbon-negative biowaste for use in reducing the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint in typical plastic products.

Startups 104

Startups Carbon-neutral Incubators Incubators 104

EDF + Business

JULY 11, 2023

In April of last year, the IPCC estimated that we need to invest $48 trillion between 2020-2050 to reach net zero. Corporate Incubators and Venture Capital Instead of developing new solutions that address innovation gaps internally, companies are launching in-house incubators and accelerators.

Innovation 40

Innovation Incubators Incubators Startups 40

AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies.

Incubators 28

Incubators Incubators Resilience Government 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies.

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Incubators Incubators Resilience Government 28

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2020

Jacob Grose, investment manager for BASF Venture Capital, said the words that are magic to startup entrepreneurs’ ears: “Here are the things that accelerate the investment process.”. Grose also explained the group’s dual mandate of considering both strategy and financial targets when considering investments.

Startups 75

Startups North America Incubators Incubators 75

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The program is focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Imagine turning the most difficult-to-recycle plastics into fuel or virgin plastic rather than sending them to landfills. . Shell aims to use 1 million tons of plastic waste annually by 2025, according to a press release.

Plastics 91

Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 91

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. FRAKKTAL Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a synthetic plastic polymer made from fossil fuels, and it forms one of the most common types of plastics.

Startups 120

Startups Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Plastics 120

Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

Startups 52

Startups Packaging Incubators Incubators 52

Greentown Labs

MARCH 18, 2021

Member-partner collaborations run the gamut, from a global commercial agreement between Salient Predictions and BASF , to a pilot project between Raptor Maps and Enel , to a customer deal between SteamIQ and Toray Plastics that also involved National Grid. Now, Saint-Gobain is doing the same for our new Greentown Houston incubator.

Startups 90

Startups Incubators Incubators Innovation 90

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

The company serves as a delivery service where groceries come in reusable containers, then get retrieved, cleaned and reused in future deliveries, cutting out the plastic packaging waste and relieving the customer of doing any work themselves. Salubata Salubata is a Nigerian startup that creates modular shoes from recycled plastic waste.

Startups 36

Startups Recycling Recycling Waste 36

Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

In fact, late-stage and growth investments in climate tech saw a greater dropoff than the market as a whole, potentially exacerbated by the relative capital-intensity of the physical asset climate tech businesses. Quarterly investment totals dropped to $6.6B in Q1’23 and Q2’23, respectively.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Transportation Solar Energy Monitor 52

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 19, 2014

With a biomimicry incubator, of course. The examples she gave of incubator graduates was mind-boggling: An irrigation system based on the structure of a giraffe’s neck, a way to eliminate pharmaceuticals in water, crystal nanotubes that reduce EV charging time to a couple minutes, plastics made from methane. The problem?

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Incubators Incubators Climate change Plastics 40

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. Equinor Ventures Investment Manager Parker Malone.

Innovation 52

Innovation Startups Energy Energy 52

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. WS: As one example, we were a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

Startups 98

Startups Sustainability Plastics Innovation 98

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Trace amounts of man made plastic have been found as deep as the Mariana Trench, and as high and secluded as Mount Everest, and it’s becoming more and more clear to people worldwide that the problem is getting out of hand. Echoing Green focuses primarily on incubating startups in the sustainability space.

Startups 148

Startups Waste Waste Soil 148

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Some technologies allow the captured CO2 to be re-used by converting it into plastics, concrete or biofuel. billion in subsidies for its proposed biomass energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant, which is being trialled in its CCUS “incubation area” in North Yorkshire. Drax is seeking an estimated £31.7

Pollution 114

Pollution Carbon Fossil fuels Politics 114

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. Let us introduce you to: Applied Bioplastics produces affordable polymers with properties that are equal to or better than those of traditional petrochemical plastics.

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Carbon-neutral Startups North America Technology 80

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

With the right policies and investment framework , our pilot projects of today with C-Capture and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) can become tomorrow's world-leading force for CCUS innovation. CCUS Incubation Area, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax. Beyond BECCS.

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Innovation Carbon-negative Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 100

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

How Capital Markets Can Support a More Sustainable Plastics Economy How can the capital markets and major financial institutions help corporates, governments and investors tackle global plastic waste? That means leveraging the capital markets and sophisticated problem-solving to innovate, incubate and scale solutions.

Plastics 40

Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 40

Greentown Labs

JULY 15, 2020

DSM has been a dedicated partner to Greentown since 2015 and has worked extensively with startups in two Greentown Launch partnerships accelerator programs, resulting in four investments and other forms of collaboration. ER: The world has changed a lot since we spoke earlier this year. How do you go about making a large shift like this?

Innovation 52

Innovation Recycling Recycling Sustainability 52

Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have not historically embraced climate investments , but that seems to be changing. Alongside this, PE has shifted at least part of its focus in recent years from high-growth high-risk plays like tech towards steady cash-flow driven investments.

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Investment Startups Innovation Energy 65

Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The deal also features plans to ramp up investment in hydrogen infrastructure, ensure 80 per cent of electricity is sourced from renewables by 2030, and end the sale of internal combustion engine cars and vans by 2035. Enel ramps up €170bn net zero investment plans. Israel and Jordan ink ground-breaking climate agreement.

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Government Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 79

Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief now thinks ESG is a ‘dangerous placebo’… here. We Need Corporate Patriotism To Defeat American Marxism… here [this is a scary one — a US senator is saying that ‘woke’ companies are not patriotic and calls for a crackdown on, essentially, things like ESG investing].

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Climate change Sustainability Carbon-neutral Carbon 167