Clean Energy Ventures

This week, our team celebrated at the opening ceremony of Lithios’s new Pilot & Manufacturing Facility in Massachusetts. Joined by leaders from the state, including ARPA-E Deputy Director for Commercialization Dr. Luis Ortiz, Massachusetts Undersecretary of Economic Development Sarah Stanton, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Emily Reichert, and the City of Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, CEV Managing Partner Daniel Goldman opened the speaking program by highlighting the need for high-impact solutions to decarbonize our grid, and how Lithios’s lithium extraction technology is doing just that. Congrats to Mohammad A. Alkhadra, Martin Bazant, and the entire Lithios team!?

If coffee + climatetech + performers sound up your alley, join us this Thursday in Barcelona with Extantia and KOMPAS VC for our “Coffee at the Circus” networking event while we’re in town for EIT InnoEnergy. ?????? Hosted at Central del Circ, a training and rehearsal space for artists and acrobats in Barcelona, we’re bringing climate tech entrepreneurs and investors to discuss the leaps and bounds the sector is taking to get crucial technologies to market. Registration is limited, so secure your spot soon! https://lu.ma/86d18kk1

While the vast investment in low-carbon hydrogen has been focused on production, the missing piece to commercialization lies in its storage and transportation. In our long search for the best solution to address this challenge, all approaches fell short until we met Natasha Kostenuk, P.Eng and Brandy Kinkead, PhD, founders of Ayrton Energy. Our latest addition to our portfolio, Ayrton has developed a technology that can safely and effectively store and transport hydrogen while using existing infrastructure – eliminating the need for new pipelines, trucks, or storage units. CEV’s Yi Jean Chow and Ariel Hyre, Ph.D. dive into how Ayrton is filling a crucial gap in the hydrogen market in our latest “Why We Invested” piece: https://lnkd.in/gcSD27Ny

We’re excited to announce the latest addition to our portfolio, Lithios, a developer of an innovative electrochemical process to address the looming global lithium shortage by unlocking previously inaccessible sources worldwide. ???? Solving one of the biggest challenges to the growth of the EV market – the availability of critical metals – Lithios’s novel Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE) platform will enable access to 85% of untapped lithium sources. It’s an honor to partner with our incredible bench of co-investors including TechEnergy Ventures, GS Futures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to support Lithios as it continues to scale. A huge congrats to Mohammad A. Alkhadra and the Lithios team, and more on how Lithios’s energy efficient and scalable approach is extracting low-cost, sustainably sourced lithium supplies: https://lnkd.in/e5UAukvu

Such a great time hosting investors, founders, and innovators for discussions about the future of climatetech at our Cocktails in the Clouds event in New York ??????. Thanks to everyone who was able to join us during a packed and memorable #CWNYC, and a huge shoutout to our co-hosts National Grid Partners, MassMutual Ventures, Woven by Toyota, and Mahoney Communications Group for helping us put on the event. Here’s to a great 2024 NY Climate Week — and can’t wait to do it again next year!?

If you’re looking for an opportunity to democratize access to clean hydrogen, our portfolio company Ayrton Energy is hiring for the following roles:?? ??♀?Director of Engineering ????Director of Business Development ????Stack Engineer ????BD Engineer Chemist ????Engineering Intern Learn more about how Ayrton’s technology helps scale access to clean hydrogen from TechCrunch:? https://lnkd.in/dsnbAwgC

Snapshots from the ACT | The Alliance for Climate Transition Green Futures Gala last month with team members Daniel Goldman and Ariel Hyre. ?? We’re grateful to support and?sponsor an event that continues to honor companies driving environmental change across the Northeast.

During NY Climate Week: CEV Managing Partner Daniel Goldman joined a live special edition of Wood Mackenzie's Energy Gang podcast in New York to dive into the role of venture capital funding in the energy transition and how policy is driving the development of innovative new technologies. ? A huge thank you to Ed Crooks and Amy Jaffe for inviting us and CEV portfolio company Carbon Upcycling Technologies CEO Apoorv Sinha to the show. To hear Dan and Apoorv’s thoughts on how startups and investors are collaboration on the biggest transition in energy, check out the episode here: https://lnkd.in/eft_YDtG

Just a few months after our investment in Evari, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Evari $1.7M in funding as part of its latest initiative to deploy high-impact building technologies to decarbonize the grid, improve resilience, and lower energy costs. Congrats to Steve Walker and the entire Evari team! We can’t wait to see their scalable, cost-effective, and energy-efficient compressors for heat pumps power even more industries. More on how Evari is decarbonizing heat pump technology:? https://lnkd.in/ehhpisCG