Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnerships accelerator, the Healthy Buildings Challenge is focused on solutions that optimize for the health of people and the climate and aims to foster collaboration between Saint-Gobain and the participating startups, with support from MassCEC. Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The program, which is designed to support underrepresented founders, welcomes six startups Somerville, Mass., The program, which is designed to support underrepresented founders, welcomes six startups Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Feb. and Houston, Texas, Feb. Active Surfaces (Salem, Mass.) Active Surfaces (Salem, Mass.)

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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. Platform Solutions.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

ACCEL bolsters startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach. The recurring, year-long program is accepting applications from BIPOC entrepreneurs developing solutions to the climate crisis Somerville, Mass.

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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 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.,

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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

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. Can’t wait to get your hands on a pair?

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

Q1 2021: Food waste; the secret of fat; keep it local Jim Giles Fri, 03/05/2021 – 01:00 Want more great analysis of sustainable food systems? To try to stay on top of things, I’ll run quarterly roundups that highlight startups with the potential to move the needle on sustainability. million seed round.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life Holly Secon Mon, 08/31/2020 – 01:00 A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute

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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

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 17, 2020

Corporate partnership accelerator program seeks innovations from startups in alternative proteins, waste plastics recycling, and prevention of food loss and waste. And we know from experience the power of partnerships between innovative startups and the MCHC Group. SOMERVILLE, Mass., SOMERVILLE, Mass.,

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 9, 2023

We were particularly excited to meet the founders of Aja Labs , a startup focused on creating the next generation of safer-for-people and safer-for-the-planet fibers. The result is a brilliant solution that marries crop waste and green chemistry. Co-founder Mary Ellen Moore busy in the lab engineering Aja Labs’ products.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2023

From our experience building a Wet Lab at our Boston Incubator five years ago, we know having a multidisciplinary wet lab on our campus is a gamechanger for our entrepreneurs. One of the key differentiators at Greentown is that we build resources and programming based on the needs of our member community and the startup ecosystem.

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While still some way away from consumer acceptance across the board, some startups are using insects — known to be much more efficient than cattle and other mammals at converting feed into protein — into food products. These insect food startups have an emphasis on sporting consumers with insect bars and snacks that are high in protein.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While still some way away from consumer acceptance across the board, some startups are using insects — known to be much more efficient than cattle and other mammals at converting feed into protein — into food products. These insect food startups have an emphasis on sporting consumers with insect bars and snacks that are high in protein.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Accelerator is seeking applications from startups with carbontech solutions. The C2V Initiative, Fluor—Cohort Champion for year two of the initiative—and NYSERDA are welcoming applications from startups developing carbontech solutions for the second cohort of the accelerator. Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y.,

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants? Carbon to Value Initiative launches business accelerator for carbontech startups. This program is the first of its kind. Read more from the original source:Â .

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants? Go here to read the rest: Carbon to Value Initiative launches business accelerator for carbontech startups. This program is the first of its kind.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. But when pyrolysis (decomposition brought about by high temperatures) was first developed, the market demand wasn’t there: managing plastic waste wasn’t urgent and oil prices were low. .

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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 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. Members of the CLC will create a technology roadmap for the future of the carbontech industry and will have opportunities to engage with the highly selective cohorts of startups chosen for the C2V Initiative.

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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. ER: We’ll dig into startups and how Saint-Gobain works with them in just a moment. PAC: Oh many things.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Cambridge Crops Raises $4M in Funding to Combat Food Waste”. Cambridge Crops ’ natural silk coating extends the life of produce, meat, and seafood, which could have a major impact on food waste. 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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Right there in my car I started taking notes, and started scratching out the idea of using the drive shaft and the wasted energy of the truck to create clean electricity, store it, and then reduce the amount of fossil fuels that the transportation industry has to burn.”. Everything clicked into place for me,” Amigo says.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Greentown Labs is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq. Greentown Labs is home to more than 100 startups and has supported more than 250 since its inception. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Schneider Electric has been an excellent, deeply engaged partner to our startup community. More than 115 startups applied to the program, and we recently announced the four program participants. . The second one is circularity, making sure that all our factories are no-waste to the landfill. For us, it’s very simple.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2019

If you had water leaking in your basement you would know it, but if electricity is being wasted, you don’t know it. It’s some energy wasting thing you didn’t know about, like your treadmill that uses 50 watts when it’s plugged in doing nothing. We call it ‘always on,’ or ‘vampire load,’ where it’s using power when you think it’s off.”.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

economy, more than 200 US startups have cut thousands of jobs. In mid-March, Chicago-based alternative protein startup Nature's Fynd disclosed a healthy infusion of $80m, bringing its total to $113m. To be clear, pitches by climate tech entrepreneurs are subject to the same scrutiny and skepticism as any other startup.

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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. As the new cohort of startups founded in the early days of the climate tech boom begins to reach maturation, expect more growth (in growth) to come to market over the next few years.

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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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