Molg

We’re excited to announce that Molg has received a $5M grant from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | U.S. Department of Energy to advance circularity in consumer electronics! ?? This funding fast-tracks the development of our autonomous robotic systems, allowing us to harvest laptop batteries 50% faster and at half the current cost. ??? We’re also rolling out a Design for Disassembly Toolchain to make circular design a reality — so all products are built with a second (and third!) life in mind, keeping valuable materials in play and out of landfills. A big thank you to our partners at Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business and Rewriting the Code for helping us build a diverse, skilled workforce to lead the circular economy ??, as well as HP and Sims Lifecycle Services for helping bring this project to life. Together, we’re reshaping the future of electronics and strengthening a resilient domestic supply chain for critical materials. ???? Read the full press release here ?? https://lnkd.in/gs5pA6TE #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ElectronicsRecycling #Robotics #Demanufacturing #BatteryRecycling #eWaste

Molg was honored to participate in Amazon’s Delivering the Future event this week, where Amazon Chief Sustainability Officer, Kara H. Hurst, announced the Climate Pledge Fund’s investment in Molg to a global audience of reporters. ???? As Sam LaPierre, Investor at Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, shared in our press release: “Efforts to improve hardware demanufacturing and material recovery, such as those developed by Molg, are promising technologies that can help advance the recycling and material recovery industries at scale. We are excited to support the growth of Molg, a company at the forefront of unlocking circular supply chains for electronics.” ???? During the event, we had the privilege of sitting alongside incredible Climate Pledge Fund portfolio companies — Paebbl, Glacier, Subeca, and 14Trees — for engaging discussions about scaling climate tech and the transformative potential of partnering with Amazon to create lasting impact. ???? A big thank you to Katie Larsen, Nick Ellis, Sam, and the entire Amazon team for your unwavering support on this journey. ???? #CircularEconomy #ClimateTech #Sustainability #AmazonClimatePledge #Innovation

?? Big news! Molg has officially closed our $5.5M seed round to scale circular manufacturing! A huge thank you to our incredible investors: Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, ABB Robotics & Automation Ventures, Overture Climate VC, Elemental Impact, and Techstars. ?? At Molg, we’re tackling the growing e-waste challenge by enabling circular manufacturing with robotics ?? and design. Our robotic microfactories autonomously disassemble complex electronics like laptops and servers, ensuring valuable components and materials are recovered for reuse, remanufacturing, or recycling. ?? This funding empowers us to accelerate production capacity and meet growing customer demand for circularity and automation. Together, we’re reclaiming the future of electronics. ?? ?? Check out the full press release here ?? https://lnkd.in/gwCcBNk3 #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ElectronicsRecycling #Robotics #Demanufacturing #CriticalMinerals #eWaste

After 10 weeks and dozens upon dozens of sketches and prints later, I am finally wrapping up my internship with Molg! It has been an incredible experience to work with them and help contribute to their goal of demanufacturing. During my time there, I was tasked with developing and fabricating a product that was designed with demanufacturability in mind; more specifically, I utilized their library of CAD assembly patterns to create sustainable connections between the different components in a product. The big goal was to create something easy to assemble and disassemble with materials that are sustainable or reusable. With that in mind, I set out to create a rechargeable lamp with simple yet effective patterns to connect the components. The final prototype consisted of only 6 unique parts that came apart with ease. It was a long and slightly stressful project, but I learned a lot about many things about design, manufacturing and even a little bit about circuitry. A massive thanks to the mechanical team there that helped me through fabrication, to Filipe for teaching me how to solder for the first time, and of course to Mark and Rob for giving me the opportunity to learn and grow here. I will be sure to keep the lessons I've learned there and carry them with me as I get ready to go back to Tech!

FIVE YEARS of epic panels, networking, and connecting with so many remarkable companies, panelists, and talented women from the RTC community! ???? We are overwhelmed with gratitude to the entire community, panelists, and sponsors who joined us yesterday to celebrate our fifth annual Virtual Career Summit and make it one of the best to date! We would like to especially thank our sponsors Bank of America, Capital One, Molg, Palantir Technologies, Pure Storage, UBS, Activision Blizzard, American Express, Anduril Industries, Belvedere Trading, LLC, Datadog, Duolingo, eBay, GoDaddy, Goldman Sachs, Google, GSK, HubSpot, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Millennium, Morgan Stanley, Netflix, NVIDIA, Reddit, Inc., Riot Games, Futureforce: Salesforce University Recruiting, Two Sigma, UiPath, UKG, UnitedHealth Group, and Figma, for turning our mission to empower the next generation of tech into a reality. Thank you all for your support of this event and the community.

"In a micro-factory the size of a garden shed, big minds are tackling a tiny problem: How to use the software that built a laptop to carefully dismantle it, robotically harvesting and sorting its components for reuse and recycling. A few years ago, most of these aging consumer workhorses might have ended up on a scrap heap. But innovators at?Molg, with help from Autodesk technology, are efficiently transforming the raw materials of end-of-life products into a more sustainable future. For Autodesk and its customers, this little laptop is a major sign that we’re moving in the right direction."

A few weeks ago we announced our partnership with Molg and Resource Recycling, Inc. has published an article about it and we can't be more excited! Click below ?? to read this article that talks about robotics, SLS, MOLG and the importance of automation on the ITAD industry. https://lnkd.in/gHHUstS2

Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) and Molg are proud to announce a strategic partnership aimed at reshaping the reverse data center supply chain. With complementary strengths and a commitment to excellence, we're poised to accelerate innovation and circular manufacturing.?? Click below to read the full press release ?? https://lnkd.in/ezpBwdRG

Our portfolio company, Molg, was selected as a winner of the ABB Accelerating Circularity Startup Challenge 2023. Molg tackles the growing e-waste problem by making manufacturing circular. The company’s robotic microfactory can autonomously assemble and disassemble complex electronic products like laptop PCs, servers, and industrial electronics. Molg also partners with leading electronics manufacturers to design new products with reuse in mind, ensuring that one product’s end is another’s beginning. Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q02h1TlB0 #circulareconomy #ewaste #criticalminerals #supplychain #innovation

"We are thrilled to have been selected as the winner of the ABB Accelerating Circularity Startup Challenge 2023 for Motion Drive Products and look forward to working with the talented and mission aligned team at ABB as we collectively progress the transition to a more circular?economy," said Rob Lawson-Shanks, CEO and Cofounder of Molg. "The opportunity to bring our Design for Circularity and Molg Microfactory automation technology to leading ABB Motion Drive products is a fantastic?chance to work with a great partner and drive impact at scale." #circulareconomy #robotics