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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — July 2022

Greentown Labs

Cleartrace announced a $20M financing round , from several strategic investors, including Greentown partner EDF Energy North America. SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries.

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Li-Cycle recovers usable battery-grade materials from shredded Li-ion batteries

Charged

We come from the lithium industry,” Kochhar told Charged. “We We used to work for companies that produced lithium chemicals that go into cathodes, cells and, ultimately, battery packs. And we’d be asked as lithium consultants and experts to look into these looming questions: “How environmentally friendly are batteries?

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Ask a Climate Innovator?—?Haley Marie Keith, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at MITO…

Clean Energy Trust

As a reminder, NanoGraf developed a silicon-based anode battery material that enables electric vehicle (EV) batteries to run longer and charge faster than traditional lithium-ion batteries on the market. In the past, mankind moved from wood to metal to plastics, the next evolution is polymers. Francis Wang of NanoGraf Corporation.

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Meet Our Newest Startup Members

Greentown Labs

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! MANUFACTURING. ELECTRICITY.

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Meet Our Inaugural Greentown Houston Members

Greentown Labs

Let us introduce you to: Applied Bioplastics produces affordable polymers with properties that are equal to or better than those of traditional petrochemical plastics. These polymers use significant plant matter, which absorbs CO 2 and avoids the CO 2 emissions of petrochemical plastics.