GigaDAC

The best two days of the year are right around the corner! ?? This year's Climatetech Summit will be our biggest yet—with 40+ of our founders pitching and/or speaking onstage and 106+ of our member companies showcasing their tech. We've also got a great speaking program full of #climatetech insights, including: ?? Keynotes: Kelly Belcher, Head of Climate Tech at J.P. Morgan, and Kara H. Hurst, Chief Sustainability Officer at Amazon Greentown Houston (Tues., Oct. 22): ?? Hot Take: The Essential Role Startups Play in Houston's Hydrogen Innovation Ecosystem with Center for Houston's Future's Brett Perlman, Ambient Fuels' Chris Shugart, Capgemini's Mark Viehman, and our very own Manon Chappat-Alarcón ?? Leveraging Pilot Projects for Startup Success with Mars Materials' Aaron Fitzgerald, Kanin Energy's Janice Tran, Element Resources Inc's Ian Dunderdale, and Cemvita Inc.'s Moji Karimi ?? A firsthand account from Tim Latimer Greentown Boston (Thurs., Oct. 24): ??? Government as a Partner for Climatetech Startup Growth with Stepwise's Jane Chen, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Jeff Marootian, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center's Leslie Nash, ARPA-E's Christian Vandervort, and Elemental Impact's Annelise Dillon ??? What the FOAK: Navigating the Capital Stack in Climatetech with Planeteer Capital's Hannah Friedman, Eden's Paris Smalls, PhD, Spring Lane Capital's Katherine St. James, and V1 Climate Solutions' Deanna Zhang ?? A game-show-style Heated Questions: Founder Edition with Dan McCollister from Rewiring America and Active Surfaces' Shiv Bhakta ?? Tickets are almost sold out—grab yours: https://lnkd.in/ezJsTM-H

Thanks again to Greentown Labs for organizing such an engaged event as part of Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week. Always fun to share the work of our GigaDAC team developing deployable DAC units, lowering the cost of airflow by a factor of 10.

We are less than two weeks out from the inaugural Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week! Capgemini is a proud sponsor of one of the week's anchor events: The Climatetech Innovation Festival taking place at Greentown Labs on Sept 11th. Join leaders from industry, academia, and the public sector to celebrate the journeys and impact of startups and universities in mitigating climate change and building resilient communities. Register Here ?? https://lnkd.in/gAeEEhq6 TEX-E SUPERGirls SHINE Foundation Dsider Mars Materials Halliburton Labs Aeromine Technologies, Inc. Decimetrix? GigaDAC Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) Ion Houston Digital Wildcatters Randall Cozzens Sol Salinas Florent Andrillon Suha Kirani Alyssa Lopez Elfije Lemaitre Natasha Dowling Vincent Charpiot

Greentown’s startups don’t slow down in the summer, and neither do we—we have a host of member news, upcoming events, and startup stories to share with you! This month’s newsletter showcases our members’ outstanding work including major milestones from Sublime Systems, Clean Crop Technologies, Inc., Fervo Energy, GigaDAC, and more! Read below for more member news, upcoming events, and open positions on the #Greentown team:

Today’s direct-air-capture (DAC) technologies move air through a filter, which creates a significant amount of resistance—but GigaDAC has developed a fundamentally different way to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. Instead, the startup uses a spray that binds to CO2 molecules—a system that is six times more efficient, in terms of airflow resistance, than the filter method. The lower resistance means air can pass through faster, meaning the entire system is more efficient and thus more economically viable. “The heart and soul of our innovation is orienting the spray to be effective at capturing CO2, and then secondly removing that spray at right next to 100 percent efficacy, and doing so with low pressure drop,” says founder Harrison Rice. Now, the startup is raising its seed round while building a commercial-scale pilot. Learn more about this Greentown Houston startup: https://lnkd.in/eFbxqVd6