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

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Tyson Foods is making a two-fold investment in insect protein startup Protix to increase production for animal feed ingredients, aquaculture and pet food. The two companies will also build and operate a facility in the US that will be the “first at-scale facility” of its kind to upcycle manufacturing byproduct into insect protein.

Investment 119

Investment Startups South America Upcycling 119

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.

Startups 52

Startups Carbon Carbon-neutral Incubators 52

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.,

Startups 40

Startups Carbon Innovation Incubators 40

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.

Carbon 52

Carbon Startups Upcycling Innovation 52

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SpadXTech’s microbes eat sugar and channel carbon to spin out cellulose fibers, which the startup can then process into a wide range of materials, including plastic-free, vegan leather. ACCEL gives participating startups a stipend, but all the benefit we’re getting from the program is so much more than that.

Carbon-negative 70

Carbon-negative Plastics Carbon Startups 70

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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.

Startups 120

Startups Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Plastics 120