Meet Greentown Labs' 24 Newest Members

Dear Friends of Greentown Labs,

We’re thrilled to introduce the 24 new climatetech startups that joined our community over the past quarter! With technologies to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors and build resilient communities, these startups are at the forefront of climate action. Here’s just some of what these newest members are working on:

• Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and the carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products.?
• Arbor is a home-energy advisor that monitors renters’ and homeowners’ energy markets, getting customers the best electric rates in their areas and recommending relevant home-electrification upgrades.
• Carbon Upcycling Technologies is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries—utilizing low-purity industrial CO2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement.
• Hempitecture manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

Read about all 24 of these world-changing startups here. Want to meet some of them in person? Join Greentown Boston’s next EnergyBar on April 4, which will feature pitches from nine of our new members! If you’re an investor or corporate leader who’d like to learn more about our newest startups, please reach out to our investor program or partnerships program.

As always, thank you for your commitment to climate action!

Warmly,

The Greentown Team

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Member Milestones

What does climate action look like? Climatetech startups receiving funding, winning awards, deploying their tech around the world, and more! Read a roundup of our members’ recent milestones here and check out some highlights below:

• Sublime Systems, which is commercializing low-carbon cement, received an $87M investment from the U.S. Department of Energy’s office of Clean Energy Demonstrations' Industrial Demonstrations Program.
• Haffner Energy, a startup that develops technologies for the next generation of clean fuels and renewable gasses, signed an MOU with Hexas Biomass for the production of renewable energy from biomass.?
• Pecos Wind Power, which builds wind turbines for distributed generation, successfully installed its first turbine.?
• Glimpse announced a $4M seed raise for its tech to visualize battery scans and monitor battery-design features and released its X-ray-powered quality-monitoring platform.
• CalWave Power Technologies was selected as the technology provider for an Indigenous-led wave energy project in?Yuquot, British Columbia?with the?Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN).
• Element Resources, a green-hydrogen developer, signed an MOU with the city of Lancaster, CA to enhance the local hydrogen-economy infrastructure.??
• CeraPhi Energy, which develops technology to de-risk the delivery of geothermal projects, will partner with the town of Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK to assess the viability of a geothermal heat network.?

Startup Spotlights

AgZen’s feedback-optimized spray system, RealCoverage, uses AI to provide insights into how to reduce the amount of chemicals that farmers need to spray to achieve the desired coverage on their plants—saving growers significant money and water while decreasing pesticides’ environmental impact. Read more here.

Capwell captures and destroys methane leaked by old oil and gas wells, which emit an estimated 290 kilotons of methane annually in the United States. Learn more about the startup’s modular, transportable, and affordable technology.

Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events

March 28: Houston Ion District Investor Activation Program Workshop 1 [Greentown Houston] The Houston Ion District Investor Activation Program—a collaboration between Greentown and The Ion to educate and activate the region’s investor community to catalyze climatetech solutions—is hosting its first workshop, in partnership with the Houston Angel Network. Join the Investor Activation Program here!

April 2: Cleantech Open Houston Kickoff Event [Greentown Houston] Join this kickoff to learn about Cleantech Open’s 2024 Accelerator Program, which will run from June through August.

April 4: EnergyBar: New Member Spotlight [Greentown Boston] Meet and hear pitches from some of Greentown Boston’s newest members at our signature networking event!

April 11: Greentown Houston Career Fair [Greentown Houston] Calling all professionals, students, and soon-to-be graduates! Join us for the Greentown Houston Career Fair, which focuses on connecting professionals directly with Greentown Houston’s network of founders, CEOs, and cutting-edge climatetech startups looking for bright and eager talent. This event is sponsored by ITExperience, which will lead a career workshop.

April 19: TEX-E Conference [Ecosystem Event]The inaugural, student-led TEX-E Conference aims to provide a platform for students from top Texas universities and business leaders to come together and share their insights, experiences, and cutting-edge energy innovations.

April 24: Imagining Climate Forward 2050 [Greentown Boston] Join the City of Somerville, MA for the release of its updated community climate action plan: the Climate Forward plan. The event is open to all and is family friendly. The event will include interactive art, light refreshments, and live music.

May 30: Startup Showcase: Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector [Greentown Boston] Join us to celebrate the culmination of Go Build 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program with Saint-Gobain focused on advancing circularity and decarbonization in the built environment.

Recent Happenings

It’s been a busy month of events, visits, and more at Greentown!?

• Hundreds of climate champions gathered in our incubators for events focused on everything from inclusive climatetech investing, to CCUS innovations, to building energy infrastructure, and more.
• Our team and our Houston-based members made valuable connections at CERAWeek, including at a special CERAWeek Transition On Tap event hosted at Greentown Houston.
• We were honored to host the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, Dr. Vanessa Z. Chan, and her Special Advisor Brian E. Kurtz at Greentown Boston for a tour of our incubator, where they learned how we support climatetech startups and met with some of our member companies!
• Our startup community came together for a Women’s History Month panel and discussion hosted by Fidelity Investments' Kristen Craft and HSBC Innovation Banking's Meeta Kapadia, featuring a panel with Greentown's ACCEL Program Manager Sonali Anderson, our Expert-in-Residence Sheri Palazzo of Saplings Consulting, and our member Sublime Systems' Director of Operations Cayman Somerville. Following the conversation, attendees shared their experiences and perspectives as professionals in climatetech.
• The Texas Exchange for Energy and Climate Entrepreneurship (TEX-E), a collaboration among Texas universities that’s powered by Greentown and MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, announced the winners of its second annual TEX-E Prize! Check out the winners of the student-entrepreneurship competition, which was hosted in partnership with the Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship: Solidec, Coflux Purification, and AirMax.

Greentown is Hiring!

• Wet Lab Manager (Somerville, MA)
• Facilities Manager (Houston, TX)

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