Greentown Labs

Greentown will be all over #ClimateWeekNYC! Check out a list of highlights + what we're attending ?? ?? First off, we're co-hosting a panel with FischTank PR about marketing + brand-building for climatetech startups feat. our SVP of Marketing + Communications Julia Travaglini on Tuesday—learn more: https://lu.ma/ka0mcnmh MONDAY: ?? Climate Night Live with Canary Media Inc. (https://lnkd.in/d24-DQkh) ?? Climate Tech Cocktails' NYCW Kickoff Party (https://lnkd.in/dM9dabyt) TUESDAY: ???? Female Founders and Funders Lunch by Earthshot Ventures and Planeteer Capital (https://lu.ma/31mt4u03) ? Hard Tech Climate Showcase hosted by Activate and many others (https://lu.ma/zns7gi1p) ? The Big Switches for an Electrified Life with Rewiring America and Heatmap News (https://lnkd.in/eFRniz7X) WEDNESDAY: ?? Our SVP of Partnerships Aisling Carlson will be speaking at Capgemini's Business to Planet Connect (https://lnkd.in/dFAHv3Se) ?? Super Climate hosted by McKinsey & Company and Sabanci Holding (https://lnkd.in/eHE6KTXC) THURSDAY: ?? New Climate Futures at Newlab (https://lnkd.in/gNE-3bNt) See you there! #ClimateWeekNY #NYCW Climate Group

#VERGE24 is quickly approaching! Join us and more than 6,000 leaders from throughout the climatetech ecosystem in this three-day conference focused on accelerating the deployment of climate solutions in San Jose, CA—register before October 4 to get $300 off the Final Rate All-Access Pass and use our discount code V24GTL for an additional 10% off: https://buff.ly/3YtWXoJ Trellis Group

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our inaugural Greentown Houston Climate Impact Awards, announced at the culminating event of Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week on Friday night! ?? Climate Impact Startup of the Year: Cemvita Inc. ?? Climate Responsibility Award: Element Resources Inc ?? Rising Star Award: Neuralix.ai Thanks to all of the supporters who joined us at our Climate Impact Awards Dinner—our biggest fundraising event of the year, dedicated to celebrating our incredible community of 75+ Greentown Houston startups. These award winners were nominated and voted on by their fellow member companies based on their experience working alongside each other in the community! Our Houston-based startups are working on technologies to capture and convert GHG emissions, accelerate the deployment of renewable energies, increase the duration and efficacy of energy-storage solutions, and transform the way we use resources in everyday products—and we couldn't be more proud to support them as they develop their prototypes, raise funding, and secure partnerships and pilots! We'd like to extend our gratitude to a number of champions who helped make this event possible: ?? Our event sponsors bp, Truist Securities, Vinson & Elkins, Barbara J. Burger Fund, Halliburton Labs, SCF Partners, and Microsoft ?? Our fabulous Board members who helped champion the event, including event host and Board Chair Dawn James ?? Host Committee members Barbara Burger, Taylor Chapman, Jesse Martinez, Sarah Morgan, and Jane Stricker ?? Our emcee Terell Jones of our member SkyH2O ?? All of the donors and local businesses who donated to our silent auction? ? Our amazing #GreentownHTX team, especially Timmeko Moore Love and Benita M., for working tirelessly to make the event a success! You can support our community with a contribution here: https://lnkd.in/erRXvw_Y

One of the highlights of Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week was watching so many of our members and alumni take the stage to pitch at the annual Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Energy Tech Venture Forum—one of the biggest pitch events for climatetech startups in the country. Nearly 100 startups from 23 states and seven countries pitched, and we're SO proud of our members and alumni who were awarded a spot as one of the top 10 most promising startups: ?? Revterra, a Greentown Houston alum with kinetic battery technology to enable faster and cleaner electric vehicle charging. ?? Elementium Materials, Inc., which recently moved into the wet lab at Greentown Boston to develop its electrolyte battery. ?? Mitico, a #C2VInitiative Year 3 alum, provides services and equipment for carbon capture through its granulated metal carbonate sorption technology. ?? Osmoses, a #C2VInitiative Year 2 alum,?is changing the way molecular gas separations are performed within the chemical, petrochemical, and energy industries. Fun fact: Osmoses has been a member of Greentown Boston since 2021, spending lots of time working hard in our wet lab! ?? Corrolytics, a Greentown Houston member, has a corrosion detection and monitoring technology. It also won the People's Choice award! ?? Ardent, a participant in the just-announced #C2VInitiative Year 4 cohort, has developed a membrane technology for point-source carbon capture. ?? Oxylus Energy?produces an alternative fuel from converting CO2 into green methanol—and is also in this year's #C2VInitiative cohort! Congratulations to all of the innovators who pitched and participated! The #C2VInitiative combines a best-in-class partnership accelerator program with exclusive access to industry leaders shaping the carbontech marketplace of tomorrow. This program is run by the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown, and Fraunhofer USA Inc. We're thrilled to see so much continued success of C2V companies in the ecosystem! Read more from Natalie Harms in InnovationMap: https://lnkd.in/gP9Sj8BM

You're looking at a whole bunch of people who are eager to find their career in climatetech! ?? Thanks to everyone who joined us at Greentown Boston for our annual Climatetech Career Fair to learn about open roles with 23 of our member companies and network with the climatetech ecosystem. From roles in software, marketing, engineering, sales, science, business development, operations, and plenty of internships—there's something for everyone in climate! The climatetech jobs are here—we just need you! Couldn't make it? Explore open roles with all of our member companies and alumni here: bit.ly/ClimatetechCareers Greentown is also #hiring for a Director of Human Resources and a Sales and Customer Relationship Manager! Check out our careers page to learn more. Don't miss our next events at Greentown Boston: the Cleantech Open Northeast / NECEC Regional Finals Awards + Showcase on Oct. 1 and our biggest event of the year, #ClimatetechSummit, on Oct. 24: https://lnkd.in/e3cZ33-t Sign up for our newsletters to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/eTrbhkw

Planning out your #ClimateWeekNYC schedule? Don't miss Building a Climatetech Brand That Gets Noticed, a panel discussion with our very own SVP of Marketing & Communications Julia Travaglini, our member Sublime Systems' Head of Communications Erin Glabets, MUUS Climate Partners Principal Kavita Patel, and FischTank PR Founder Eric Fischgrund (who works with many of our members!) about how lean startups can prioritize the right resources and messaging to get noticed by partners, customers, and investors! Regardless of your company stage, it's important to build a brand—and this panel is all about breaking down exactly how to do so with limited time, team, and capital. With perspectives from a startup, an investor, a startup incubator, and a PR expert, you'll learn exactly what messages and tools to focus on to achieve different business goals, with clear takeaways that can be easily implemented and scaled. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eRhhvNa5

Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week has been chock-full of inspiration from the ecosystem—from hearing from founders to delving into challenges to forging connections with key climate-action leaders, we're feeling more energized than ever ? Thanks to everyone who joined us at our Climatetech Innovation Festival on Wednesday to hear from our members SUPERGirls SHINE Foundation, Dsider, Mars Materials, Aeromine Technologies, Inc., Decimetrix?, Hertha Metals, & GigaDAC and from TEX-E! Big thanks also to Capgemini for sponsoring the event. Stay tuned for more recaps of Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, including how our member community got involved and the winners of our inaugural Climate Impact Awards, which will be announced at tonight's Climate Impact Awards Dinner!

Tonight is Greentown Houston's first-ever Climate Impact Awards Dinner—our inaugural celebration of our 75+ #GreentownHTX members' work to develop and deploy solutions for the renewable energy transition and GHG-emissions-reduction! ?? We're honored to be joined by Distinguished Guest Lisa Lin, LEED AP, the first-ever Director of Sustainability for Harris County, TX, who has led sustainability initiatives for the cities of Houston and San Antonio as well as for Rice University. ?? We'll also announce winners of our first ever Climate Impact Awards in the categories “Climate Responsibility Award”, “Rising Star Award”, and “Climate Impact Startup of the Year”, as voted on by Greentown’s startup community—stay tuned for the results! Thanks to our member Terell Jones of our member SkyH2O for emceeing this evening and to our sponsors bp, Truist Securities, Vinson & Elkins, Halliburton Labs, Microsoft, and SCF Partners for making this event possible! Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week

ANNOUNCING: the nine startups selected for Year 4 of the #C2VInitiative! ?? Ardent is a process technology company that is developing membrane-based solutions for point-source carbon capture and other chemical separations. ?? CarbonBlue develops a chemical process that mineralizes and extracts CO2 from water, which then reabsorbs more atmospheric CO2. ?? MacroCycle Technologies develops a chemical recycling process to turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester-fiber waste into “virgin-grade” plastics. ?? Maple Materials develops an electrolysis process to convert CO2 into graphite and oxygen.? ?? Oxylus Energy develops a direct electrochemical process to convert CO2 into fuels and chemical feedstocks, such as methanol. ?? Phlair develops a renewable-energy-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) system using an electrochemical process for acid and base generation. Secant Fuel develops a one-step electrocatalytic process that converts flue gas into syngas. ?? RenewCO? is developing an electrochemical process to convert CO2 into fuels and chemicals, such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or propylene glycol.? ?? Seabound builds carbon-capture equipment for new and existing ships. Over this six-month accelerator, which is designed to advance the startups’ commercialization efforts and de-risk their #carbontech innovations, the cohort will gain access to the Carbontech Leadership Council and other resources valuable to their growth. You can meet the cohort at the Year 4 Kickoff Event on Sept. 19: https://lnkd.in/edgk9AgP Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/eNbMasak Urban Future Lab Fraunhofer USA Inc.?

Bio-embellishments made without microplastics. Vertical-axis wind turbines. Building materials that forgo toxic chemicals. These are just a few of the innovations being developed by the entrepreneurs in this year's #ACCEL program—and which we were honored to celebrate at the Year 2 Showcase! ?? Too often, structural inequities put critical funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities out of reach for BIPOC founders. A program by Greentown and Browning the Green Space, ACCEL is a year-long intensive for underrepresented climatetech entrepreneurs that combines acceleration, incubation, and extensive mentorship to bolster the businesses. We celebrated this year's cohort of incredible founders at the Year 2 Showcase featuring pitches, a technology exhibition, and networking with key climate action leaders from throughout the climatetech ecosystem. Thank you to all who attended and continue to support these groundbreaking companies! ?? AtmoSpark Technologies Inc. is an atmospheric water generation company with a patented electro-condensation technology, which has a lower energy footprint than that of current water-generation methods, led by Tejus Mane. ?? Aquasaic is harnessing biology to clean water for planetary and human health, led by Shalmalee Pandit and Nikita Patil, PhD. ?? Axis Sky Renewables creates innovative wind solutions, specializing in vertical-axis wind turbines that are less expensive to produce, deploy, and maintain than traditional wind turbines, led by Andre Gafford. ?? Carbon Negative Solutions Inc is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products, led by Keith Crossland. ?? Cellsense develops interactive bio-embellishments that create new possibilities for designers while eliminating microplastics and replacing fossil-fuel-based material at scale, led by Aradhita Parasrampuria. ?? EcoForge is developing affordable, high-performance building materials from local agricultural residues, replacing energy-intensive, fossil-based materials, led by Myung Bender, Rongyu Na, and Alex (Kaixi) Yang. ?? Sankofa Dynamics creates low-cost, eco-friendly solutions for water, air, and energy problems, led by Chauncy Spencer. Thank you to Funders Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Microsoft, Equinor, Ion Houston, Barr Foundation, bp, and Somernova and Curriculum + Resources Partner VentureWell for supporting this program! Learn more about ACCEL and this year's cohort: https://lnkd.in/gYCGMpdw Interested in becoming a Year 3 sponsor? Get in touch: https://lnkd.in/evtj6GqQ