Clean Energy Venture Group is an investment group with offices in Boston and New York which provides seed capital and management expertise to early stage clean energy companies. Our focus is in the Northeastern United States, but we occasionally invest in companies located in other areas within North America. Our mission is to invest in and support early stage clean energy companies that have the potential to mitigate climate change and achieve attractive financial returns. We collaborate with entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in an atmosphere of mutual respect, intellectual curiosity and analytical rigor. Visit our website for portfolio news, member bios, or to apply for funding or mentoring if your company’s technology, products and services have the potential to substantially reduce the environmental damage from the production or use of energy.
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Nice project by a Clean Energy Venture Group portfolio company!
A Wednesday toast to #Whiskey 🥃 🥃 and cheers to a sustainable future! Exciting news! Starting tomorrow, we'll begin processing high-strength organic waste from the WhistlePig Whiskey distillery at our Middlebury, VT facility. This waste will be transformed into renewable energy for the surrounding towns⚡ #biogas #electricity #resourcerecovery
Congratulations, Jonathan Strimling and CleanFiber!
Great news this week from the US Department of Energy! The DOE's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains is providing $20M in grants to support CleanFiber's expansion. We plan to utilize these funds to expand production of our high performance cellulose insulation, which is made from recycled cardboard boxes, while supporting local economies and protecting our environment. https://lnkd.in/eZSnMeFh
They made a great choice, Amy Duffuor !
Feeling incredibly grateful to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for honoring me with the 2024 C3E Women in Clean Energy Award in Finance & Investment! It is truly humbling to stand alongside eight remarkable leaders in their respective fields. I extend a heartfelt thank you to my nominator Diane Schrader, my references John Balbach and Renata Aráuz-DeStefano, and my colleagues at Azolla Ventures and Prime Coalition. Our community motivates me to continue striving for a clean energy future that is equitable, accessible, and sustainable. Learn more about the award and awardees here: https://lnkd.in/d-tyh7ek
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🎙️"Until now, there have been no innovations that have effectively addressed the cost issues with green hydrogen. That’s what we do at Advanced Ionics.” 🥇Our CEO, Chad Mason explains our winning technology in an interview with the Wisconsin Innovation Awards team! This year’s Business-to-Business award is a testament to the hard work of our incredibly innovative team. Advanced Ionics’ electrolyzers work with onsite waste and process heat supplies, reducing up to 40% of the typical electricity requirement, the dominant cost driver of green hydrogen production, making it cost-competitive with fossil fuel-derived hydrogen. We're committed to driving the future of green hydrogen, fueling groundbreaking innovations, and building a cleaner, more sustainable world—one powerful step at a time! #InnovationAwards #GreenHydrogen #EnergyTech #Sustainability #CleanEnergy
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Low Carbon Spotlight! Have you heard about Carbon Upcycling Technologies? Oxy invested in Carbon Upcycling as part of our strategy to help accelerate CCUS technologies. Carbon Upcycling has pioneered a technology that captures and utilizes CO2 to create enhanced concrete materials with up to 60% reduction in carbon emissions with improved strength and durability. To date, Carbon Upcycling has deployed more than 3,000 tonnes of low-carbon cement in slabs, roads and foundations. And now, the company is building its first-of-a-kind commercial system at one of Canada's largest cement plants. Photo: Carbon Upcycling's low-carbon cement installation at TELUS Spark in Calgary, Alberta
Kudos to REsurety!
Congratulations to Lee Taylor and REsurety, Inc. on the launch of CleanTrade, an innovative (and much needed) end-to-end transactionplatform to create more transparency for suppliers, consumers and traders of clean energy in a complex and evolving marketplace. As early investors in REsurety, we are pleased to have provided the company with guidance on the Board from its earliest days and are now excited to hand off to new investors S2G Ventures, Citi and Angeleno Group along with existing investors HASI and Launch Capital. We know the company will achieve much success in this extension of its successful existing data analytics and risk management platforms. https://lnkd.in/eeUR48Gv
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We’re excited to announce the latest addition to our portfolio, Lithios, a developer of an innovative electrochemical process to address the looming global lithium shortage by unlocking previously inaccessible sources worldwide. 🔋👏 Solving one of the biggest challenges to the growth of the EV market – the availability of critical metals – Lithios’s novel Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE) platform will enable access to 85% of untapped lithium sources. It’s an honor to partner with our incredible bench of co-investors including TechEnergy Ventures, GS Futures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to support Lithios as it continues to scale. A huge congrats to Mohammad A. Alkhadra and the Lithios team, and more on how Lithios’s energy efficient and scalable approach is extracting low-cost, sustainably sourced lithium supplies: https://lnkd.in/e5UAukvu
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Add another great company to the CEV portfolio! Looking forward to working with Natasha Kostenuk, P.Eng and the whole Ayrton Energy team to help hydrogen get to where it has to go! #vc #climatetech #hydrogen
We’re excited to announce our investment in Ayrton Energy, which is scaling a first-of-a-kind liquid organic hydrogen carrier storage system to democratize energy access worldwide. ⚡ Ayrton is solving the two major bottlenecks currently stunting the growth of the clean hydrogen sector: costly transport and unsustainable storage for long-duration use. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Natasha Kostenuk, P.Eng, Brandy Kinkead, PhD and the team alongside an amazing bench of co-investors including BDC Capital (Canada), Antares Ventures, EPS Ventures, SOSV, The51, and UCeed Investment Funds. Check out how Ayrton is supercharging its technology and team to decarbonize heavy-polluting sectors like shipping, aviation, and more: https://lnkd.in/ex7uWAr4
Clean Energy Venture Group partners first invested in Dimien Inc. and Brian Schultz, PhD in 2022. We're pleased now to join with Pure Lithium Corporation in moving Dimien's lithium vanadium battery technology forward!
Delighted to announce the strategic acquisition of US vanadium cathode company Dimien Inc.’s assets! Welcome Brian Schultz, PhD to our team! https://lnkd.in/erR9ZmMm
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It was fantastic to see the SAF mandate officially passed into law this week, a critical step towards meeting the UK's sustainability goals. Congratulations to all those who have been involved over the years. Alongside the Refuel EU mandates we now have serious SAF targets to hit. Power to Liquid (PtL) SAF will play a crucial role in achieving them, as highlighted in parliament by Greg Smith MP, who referenced OXCCU's contribution to the sector. However, the primary challenge for PtL SAF remains cost. This is what OXCCU TECH LTD is addressing with our unique one-step process. Our OX1 plant is the world’s first demonstration of the direct conversion of CO2 and H2 into deoxygenated long chain hydrocarbons. CO2 and H2 in, liquid fuel out. This low-cost, single-step method makes acheiving these targets possible. Since going live, OX1 has been consistently producing liquid fuel for more than a week and we're now ready to supply our first customers. The results have exceeded expectations, with conversion increasing by over 40% and a significantly higher SAF selectivity than anticipated. We are passionate about developing the world's lowest cost PtL pathway. In May 2023, we committed to delivering OX1, a 1,000 times scale up from the lab, and it’s now operating as planned at Oxford Airport, thanks to the incredible efforts of the OXCCU team. Our next step is OX2 in Saltend, Humber, where we will further scale up this world-leading Oxford University IP, developed in the UK, to further reduce e-fuel costs and help the UK meet its SAF targets. Rapid scale up from demo to commercial scale is possible with this technology and we will demonstrate that. As we continue to innovate, we believe our one-step process and catalyst can deliver substantial cost savings for the whole industry and it is needed as excitement and momentum in the efuels industry continues to grow, as do expectations. The recent $1.1bn funding announcement from Infinium demonstrates this. We at OXCCU will do our bit. We will stay focussed on scaling our patented one step pathway which is the key to reducing the cost of PtL SAF and hitting the SAF mandates. #PtL #SAF #OX1 https://lnkd.in/eYX6Amnn