Take Action with Climatetech Startups this Earth Month

Dear Friends of Greentown,

Happy Earth Month! As we’ve been celebrating here at Greentown, our team has taken a step back to appreciate the incredible climate action happening at our incubators every day—thanks to the efforts of entrepreneurs, corporate partners, investors, and other leaders to advance climate solutions.

Step into the lab at Greentown Boston and you’ll find?Eden, a startup that breaks rocks with electricity to enhance subsurface permeability for geothermal heat, geologic hydrogen, and more. In the office space upstairs, you’ll find?Carbon Negative Solutions, an?ACCEL?participant creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Down south at Greentown Houston,?Mars Materials?is hard at work on its carbon-capture-based acrylonitrile, a sustainable version of the widely used substance that’s usually made from petrochemicals.?

In our?Greentown Go?programs at both incubators, you’ll find startups working intensively with corporates to create the partnerships that propel climatetech to market.?Go Make 2023?with Shell recently?wrapped up—involving CCUS tech and many pathways for collaborations—and?Go Build 2023?with Saint-Gobain will conclude at a?May 30 final showcase?featuring the cohort.?

As these programs finish up, we’re excited to be accepting applications for?Year 4 of the Carbon to Value Initiative—an accelerator from the Urban Future Lab at?NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown, and Fraunhofer USA designed to catalyze the carbontech ecosystem. Carbontech startups at TRL 4-7 are welcomed to?apply by June 21.

If Earth Month has inspired you to act (even more!) on climate, here’s how you can get involved with Greentown and our startups:

• Climatetech startups: join our community .
• Investors: get connected with our world-changing entrepreneurs.
• Corporates: explore partnering with Greentown and our startups.
• Industry experts: mentor a startup .
• Job seekers: work at one of our startups —there’s a place for you, no matter your background or skill set.
• Other climate champions: donate to support Greentown’s mission of bolstering climatetech startups and attend an event with our community.

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

Warmly,

The Greentown Team

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:

• American Battery Technology Company —a startup with technologies for lithium-ion battery recycling, battery-metal extraction, and primary mineral resource development—was awarded $60M in tax credits to accelerate the construction of its next-generation battery recycling facility.?The company also completed construction of its battery-grade lithium-hydroxide pilot plant in Nevada and began commissioning.
• SWTCH Energy , which provides EV-charging and energy-management solutions for high-density urban settings, raised a $27.2M Series B to bring EV chargers to apartment and condo buildings.?
• Stepwise , a startup working to make home electrification effortless and affordable, announced the launch of its EV Tap product , a device that intelligently manages an EV charger’s power draw and eliminates the need for expensive electric panel upgrades.??Bonus reading: check out our recent spotlight article on Stepwise !
• Element Resources will produce more than 20,000 tons of green hydrogen annually to Chart Industries in Lancaster, CA, making it one of the largest green-hydrogen projects in the state.?
• QuantAQ , which develops durable, low-cost, professional-grade air-quality monitoring sensors, is using sensor data to help create Northeastern University’s iSUPER —one of the world’s most comprehensive air-quality-monitoring networks.?
• Ohmium —a green-hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys advanced proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems—is partnering with H2 Green Mining to develop green-hydrogen projects that will help decarbonize mining operations in Chile.

Latest News from ACCEL

The ACCEL Year 2 cohort participated in a great kickoff event earlier this spring, and the accelerator is underway! The cohort’s begun workshops with our Curriculum + Resources Partner, VentureWell , in addition to attending events with mentors, a pitch coaching session, and more.?

ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown and Browning the Green Space designed to bolster BIPOC-led climatetech startups. Interested in becoming an ACCEL sponsor and helping make this program possible? Reach out to our team!

Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events

May 8: Transition On Tap [Greentown Houston]

Greentown Houston’s next signature networking event, devoted to fostering conversations and connections among the climate and energy transition ecosystem, will take place the week of OTC 2024.

May 9: ELM Earth Night 2024 [Ecosystem Event]

This Environmental League of Massachusetts cocktail event will feature the 2024 Commonwealth Environmental Leadership Awards, presented to Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, U.S. Congressman Richard E. Neal, and former Chief of Commonwealth Development Douglas Foy.

May 15: Innovating Toward a Sustainable Economy [Greentown Boston]

Join Wells Fargo and Greentown for a conversation on how investors, innovation executives, and corporate property managers are deploying sustainable technology solutions to reach their net-zero goals.

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.

June 6: EnergyBar: Pride Month Celebration [Greentown Boston]

In collaboration with Out in Climate , we’re inviting entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, students, and other climate champions to celebrate and support LGBTQIA+ professionals in the climate sector at this networking event.

Greentown is Hiring!

• Vice President of Philanthropy (Somerville, MA or Houston, TX)
• Grant Writer (Somerville, MA or Houston, TX)

Thank You to Our Partners???