Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

upcycles carbon-negative biowaste for use in reducing the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint in typical plastic products. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate technologies.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

Recent years have seen an emergence of a parallel “bluetech” category to describe sustainable technologies touching on the ocean economy, which spans industries such as offshore wind, ocean plastics removal, carbon sequestration, aquaculture, marine robotics, data collection technologies, coastal resilience and more. Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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Seafood Startups Sea level rise Incubators 98

Better Ventures

JANUARY 9, 2023

Aja Labs is starting their journey focused on creating an environmentally safe, plastic-free hair extension and will eventually expand their business to creating safe fibers of many kinds. It mimics human hair and is plastic free. Nourie, Aja Labs’ first consumer focused product, is engineered from plant-based biopolymers.

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Startups Plastics Incubators Incubators 103

EDF + Business

JULY 11, 2023

Corporate Incubators and Venture Capital Instead of developing new solutions that address innovation gaps internally, companies are launching in-house incubators and accelerators. Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund , for example, is a venture arm of Amazon focused on investing in sustainable and decarbonizing technologies and services.

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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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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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Greentown Labs

MAY 16, 2023

DrinKicks’s sneakers are made of waste from apples, corn, bamboo, and cotton, along with recycled rubber and 100 percent post-consumer plastic bottles—also known as RPET, a plastic that is completely recyclable and requires a fraction of the manufacturing and processing energy that traditional plastics need.

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Education Startups Recycled materials Recycling 104

Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Multilayer plastics—think bubble wrap, meat packaging, and other pre-sealed food packaging—are difficult to recycle, which means they end up in landfills or incinerators. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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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.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

10, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) as its newest Terawatt Partner—the highest level of engagement with the incubator. Somerville, Mass., Dina Routhier, President of Stanley Ventures, will serve on the Advisory Board for 2021.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Greentown teamed up with BASF and Stanley Black & Decker to find the top startups from across the world that are capable of disrupting the recycling industry and plastics and energy storage value chains. Corumat, based in California, micro-engineers bioplastics to reduce plastic waste. At the Feb. Read more here.

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Startups Plastics Recycling Recycling 72

GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Each of the hundreds of off-the-shelf plastic containers that form the main structure house a self-contained colony of crickets, which can be turned into high-protein flour. Joachim pointed to a shared-bicycle concept being incubated at Terreform —"a super accessible bike-sharing program along with a biodiversity program,” as he described it.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Incubation Network by The Circulate Initiative and SecondMuse is calling for applications for the Plastics Data Challenge -- a global innovation challenge that will source, support, and scale innovative technologies that address the leakage of plastic waste into the environment.

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Plastics Incubators Incubators Waste 10

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Circularity Challenge , run with BASF and supported by Stanley Black & Decker , is a six-month accelerator focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 10, 2020

The company works with a variety of organizations, including universities, but has found the biggest market in customers that use steam in their industrial processes—such as food, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and refineries. It’s everything I wanted in an incubator.”. This place is amazing,” Owens says. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Incubators 81

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.

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Startups Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Plastics 120

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Plastic and paper and fertilizers aren’t going away, and the embodied energy and embodied emissions for that are really significant,” she adds. In the future, the company will address chemicals and plastics. Twelve percent of U.S. energy consumption goes to separating and purifying chemical compounds.”. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 69

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.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Netherlands-based, eight-person company is running pilots in the plastics and textiles industries, and aims to scale in 2020. . There’s a level of quality to your material that you can prove easily,” Sabur says.

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Startups North America Blockchain Incubators 84

Greentown Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

SOMERVILLE, Mass. , LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands , March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs , the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America , today announced Unilever as its newest Terawatt-level Partner—the highest level of engagement with the startup community. Located in Somerville, Mass. ,

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

SOMERVILLE, Mass. , LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands , March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs , the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America , today announced Unilever as its newest Terawatt-level Partner—the highest level of engagement with the startup community. Located in Somerville, Mass. ,

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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.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

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.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Greentown Labs is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq. The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Although the modernist-style factory had been decommissioned in 2000 and sold to a plastics factory, Sonja Bata repurchased the 1,500-acre site in 2008 as part of an ambitious masterplan to transform Batawa into a model of sustainable development. Related: 100-year-old Buda Mill & Grain Co.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2022

As CEO of the nation’s largest climatetech incubator and mentor to female entrepreneurs across the climatetech ecosystem, I am very familiar with the challenges associated with this lack of gender diversity in the climatetech investment community and its impacts on underrepresented founders. round in 2020.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The Circularity Challenge, run with BASF and supported by Stanley Black & Decker, is a six-month accelerator focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq.

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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.

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Startups Recycling Recycling Waste 36

Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Each of the hundreds of off-the-shelf plastic containers that form the main structure house a self-contained colony of crickets, which can be turned into high-protein flour. Essentially, it is housing that also serves as a cricket farm and, hence, a source of food for its human residents.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants? Another one (Made of Air) makes building materials and furniture out of CO2 naturally captured by plants, transforming biomass residues into biochar-based plastics. We encourage everyone to learn more about them here.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants? Another one (Made of Air) makes building materials and furniture out of CO2 naturally captured by plants, transforming biomass residues into biochar-based plastics. We encourage everyone to learn more about them here.

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Startups Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 28

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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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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Innovation Startups Energy Energy 52

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

Each of the hundreds of off-the-shelf plastic containers that form the main structure house a self-contained colony of crickets, which can be turned into high-protein flour. Essentially, it is housing that also serves as a cricket farm and, hence, a source of food for its human residents.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Museum of Plastic is popping up once again, this time at the EDITION Hotel during Art Basel Miami, from Friday, December 6 through Sunday, December 8. Lonely Whale is known for campaigns like the anti-straw Stop Sucking and the anti-single-use plastic water bottle Question How You Hydrate. Answers have been edited for length.

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Plastics Pollution Fashion Incubators 36

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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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Transportation Solar Energy Monitor 52

Greentown Labs

MARCH 22, 2022

Independence Coffee Company ’s 100-percent-compostable coffee pods are made with no plastic. Greentown is proud to partner with Browning the Green Space on its ACCESS contractor accelerator , made possible by a grant from the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator.

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