Yesterday, Reed Sturtevant, General Partner at Engine Ventures, hosted a panel at #EmTechMIT, MIT Technology Review’s flagship event on emerging technologies. The conversation, “Lessons Learned from Tough Tech,” included Nabiha Saklayen CEO & Co-Founder of Cellino, Francesco Maria Benedetti CEO & Co-Founder of Osmoses, and Adam Slavney CEO & Co-Founder of Pascal. Together, the group discussed the ideation process that brings long-term Tough Tech ventures to market as economically and efficiently as possible.
Engine Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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A venture firm that invests in early stage Tough Tech founders solving our most critical global challenges.
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A venture firm that invests in early stage Tough Tech founders solving our most critical global challenges.
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Sublime Systems announced a $75M investment from two of the biggest cement producers, Holcim and CRH. The investment includes the purchase of green cement from Sublime’s pilot facilities and an agreement to work with the company on additional plant sites. These investments, in addition to the $87M investment from the DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations announced earlier this year, show the building momentum for Sublime's technology as a drop-in replacement for ordinary portland cement. Congratulations to the team! https://lnkd.in/ejqenpcT
We are proud to officially announce a second partnership with a global cement major, CRH! This combined $75M investment and pre-paid offtake of Sublime Cement™ from Holcim and CRH doubles Sublime's reach. In the near-term it shores up development of our first commercial plant in Holyoke, while simultaneously laying the foundation (pun intended!) for future development together of Sublime megaton plants in multiple regions once Holyoke is complete. Cement is an industry considered hard to abate because of legacy fossil-fueled processes that have scaled across the globe for decades. By pairing our expertise in electrochemical technology and innovation with CRH's and Holcim’s well-oiled machines in cement operations and distribution, we have the best possible shot at advancing our breakthrough technology with the scale and urgency both the massive global construction industry and the climate crisis demand. It is a thrill to be working with these incredible partners, and we could not be more excited to #KeepBuilding, together! #investment #cement #lowcarboncement #NYCW #stratgicpartnerships #climateinnovation #sustainablebuilding
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Congratulations to HyperLight on its $37M series B. With evolving communication demands, there is an increasing need to develop smaller, more accessible modulators that can democratize the capabilities of lithium niobate, making it available beyond major telecommunications installations. HyperLight has done just that. https://lnkd.in/em-xaDWT
We are thrilled to announce HyperLight’s $37M Series B funding led by Summit Partners, with support from Xora Innovation and Foothill Ventures! This investment will help us revolutionize photonics, enhancing AI/data center infrastructure, telecommunications optical networks, and high-performance computing. A huge thank you to our incredible team for their dedication in bringing this vision to life! For more details, you can read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eTrbhB5b #TFLN #AI #Data #ECOC24 #Photonics #Optics #Telecommunications #Telecom #Computing #integratedphotonics #AIinfrastructure #datacenter #opticalnetworking #photonicintegratedcircuits #siliconphotonics
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This week, Forbes released its inaugural Sustainability Leaders List, including Boston Metal’s Tadeu Carneiro and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Yet-Ming Chiang. Congratulations. Forbes sat down with Chiang, discussing his impressive career as a professor, researcher and entrepreneur, co-founding 10 startups including Form Energy, Sublime Systems, and others. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g6qcm8AA
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Engine Ventures’ Lisa Hansmann and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Brian Deese propose a bold national framework that harnesses AI’s growing energy demand to accelerate the scaling of clean energy. As demand for AI proliferates, its energy consumption is crashing headlong into existing energy infrastructure. An AI additionality requirement for new clean energy capacity to meet new computing demand, paired with a fast-tracked approval process for those clean energy projects, ensures the expansion of AI and clean energy go hand in hand. Read Hansmann and Deese’s article in Heatmap News outlining how a national framework can ensure that we scale innovation in AI and clean energy in tandem to build U.S. strength in the sectors critical to winning the 21st century. https://lnkd.in/eXm6tcux
America Needs an Energy Policy for AI
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This week, Silicon Valley Bank and Congruent Ventures released their 50 by 2050: Pioneers in Carbon Reduction list. The list - including Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Form Energy, VEIR, Boston Metal, and AtmosZero - features climate tech companies creating carbon reduction solutions to enable a net zero future. Congratulations.
Thrilled to unveil the new 50 by 2050 list we co-authored with Congruent Ventures. The list highlights the climate tech companies that are pioneering the carbon reduction solutions that will enable a net zero future. While climate change is daunting, we are encouraged by the entrepreneurial energy that is rising to meet the challenge. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gAtbcZpt #climatetech #innovation
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Today marks an incredible milestone for the Cellino team. Cellino has been awarded $25M in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The first project to be funded by the Scalable Solutions Mission Office under the ARPA-H Open Broad Agency Announcement, this capital will drive the development of Cellino’s ultra-scalable, autonomous, cassette-based advanced biomanufacturing technology for personalized regenerative medicine. Congratulations to the team!
🚀 Today marks an extraordinary milestone at Cellino! We are thrilled to announce that our team has been awarded up to $25M in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This funding will drive the development of our ultra-scalable, autonomous, cassette-based advanced biomanufacturing technology for personalized regenerative medicine. Cellino’s NEBULA (NExt-generation Biomanufacturing ULtra-scalable Approach) project is the first project funded by the Scalable Solutions Mission Office under the ARPA-H Open Broad Agency Announcement. With ARPA-H’s support, Cellino will build a cassette-based biomanufacturing technology capable of scaling the production of personalized induced pluripotent stem cells at hospitals nationwide to develop curative medicines for a range of chronic conditions for an increasingly diverse and aging U.S. patient population. We are excited to move closer to making “Your Cells, Your Cure™” a reality for millions of patients. We are thrilled about this opportunity to advance our goal of making patient-specific stem cell-derived therapies available for broad patient audiences. 📄 Read the full release: https://bwnews.pr/4gfrjlb #ARPAH #Biotech #AI #MachineLearning #PersonalizedMedicine #Collaboration #Innovation #RegenerativeMedicine #BiotechBreakthroughs #CellinoBio #YourCellsYourCure #Biomanufacturing
Cellino Awarded $25M in Funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
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Congratulations Mantel on the $30 million Series A! With backing from leaders in the energy industry, the company is scaling its molten borate carbon capture technology, which could cut costs by more than 50%. Spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemical Engineering, Mantel is reinventing carbon capture with a new material: molten salts designed to operate best at the high temperatures found inside boilers, kilns, and furnaces. Mantel’s approach recaptures high-quality heat, dramatically reducing the net energy needed for the absorption of CO2 from exhaust and its subsequent desorption to pure CO2. This new funding will be used to launch a demonstration project at an industrial site, setting the stage for the full-scale commercial deployment of Mantel’s high-temperature carbon capture systems. https://lnkd.in/e3H_aQGy
Climate tech startup Mantel to use molten salt to capture factory flue CO2 with $30 million funding from Shell, VCs
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One of my favorite things is to have a conversation with builders & founders about the personal experience and complexity of working to bring new deep tech to the point where it makes a real difference in our world. So looking forward to this!
🚀 We’re honored for our CEO & Co-Founder, Nabiha Saklayen to speak at #EmTech MIT Technology Review, happening from Sept. 30 - Oct. 1! Nabiha will join Reed Sturtevant, General Partner at Engine Ventures, in the session "Lessons Learned from Tough Tech" at 3:45 PM EDT on Day 1 (Sept. 30). They will explore how transformative “tough tech” can solve the world’s most pressing challenges by merging breakthrough #science, #engineering, and #leadership. Topics covered will include the ideation process that brings long-term tough tech projects to market in the most economical and efficient way possible. 🌟 Register to join us at MIT Campus in #Cambridge, MA, or online at https://bit.ly/3Tfzy6T Massachusetts Institute of Technology #RegenerativeMedicines #DeepTech #Biotech #Innovation #Biomanufacturing #AI #MachineLearning #PersonalizedMedicine #YourCellsYourCure #CellinoBio
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As batteries are increasingly adapted and deployed on a massive scale for electric vehicle fleets, the demand for lithium is expected to grow exponentially. Lilac Solutions is commercializing an Ion Exchange (IX) Direct Lithium Extraction Technology for brine resources that is significantly faster, cheaper, and more scalable than existing technologies. Bloomberg spoke with Lilac CEO Raef Sully who discusses the importance of investing in directly lithium companies now: https://lnkd.in/gHRQA4nC
Lithium Startups Bet on High Demand in Battery-Powered Future
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