Greentown Labs

Who is coming to #CampCleantech in August? We'll be hosting a workshop about best practices for working with corporates, with lessons learned from running 17+ successful #GreentownGo accelerator programs and incubating 500+ startups, covering pitching, corporate motivations, collaboration strategies, and frameworks. Led by our Program Manager Dominick Protomastro and Membership Coordinator Kayla Goodale, this workshop will address startup challenges, offering practical insights into navigating corporate landscapes, aiming to empower participants to transform ecosystem connections into lasting partnerships. Startups will receive hands-on, practical advice and frameworks learned from our flagship startup-corporate partnerships accelerator, Greentown Go, which has facilitated successful collaborations with 35+ corporate partners in the last eight years. Hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Wells Fargo from August 12-14 at CSU Spur in #Denver, Colorado, #CampCleantech is a hands-on experience for cleantech and climate tech startups to gain strength and knowledge from the ecosystem's leading experts in entrepreneurial support specialized in climate tech. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/e9iBeeXQ #startups

We're proud to announce that we are officially a 1% for the Planet Environmental Partner! 1% for the Planet is dedicated to increasing environmental philanthropy through its network of member businesses, which commit at least 1% of their annual sales to certified environmental partners. Started in 2002, 1% for the Planet's business members have given hundreds of millions of dollars to our approved environmental partners to date. Today, 1% for the Planet’s global network consists of thousands of businesses and environmental partners working toward a better future for all. Learn more about how your everyday purchases can support Greentown and other environmental nonprofits: https://lnkd.in/gpMKDuc Donate to Greentown here: https://lnkd.in/erRXvw_Y

Congratulations to #GreentownBOS alum ZwitterCo for raising a $58.4M Series B! This fundraising milestone will enable ZwitterCo to strategically invest in international expansion and the advancement of its water treatment technology, with the mission of meeting the global demand for clean water. 💧 Its novel membrane technology harnesses zwitterionic chemistries to address organic separation challenges while paving the way for a more efficient and sustainable future in wastewater treatment. This funding round will enable ZwitterCo to continue developing and commercializing its technology to treat alternative water sources and aid in increasing the clean water supply. Sending our congratulations to Alex Rappaport and the entire ZwitterCo team!

Our #ACCEL Year 2 startup Aquasaic is harnessing biology to provide clean water access for human and planetary health! Co-founders Shalmalee Pandit and Nikita Patil, PhD developed a genetically engineered yeast to capture heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and zinc from various water sources. Watch Nikita’s pitch: https://lnkd.in/eiUX2_-q

We’re thrilled to announce that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has joined us as a Terawatt Partner! This partnership builds on BCG’s track record of supporting cutting-edge emerging climate technology solutions, and we’re thrilled to welcome Managing Director and Partner David Potere to our Industry Leadership Council. Earlier this year, with BCG’s help, Greentown embarked on an effort to refresh its mission, vision, and strategy. “Greentown’s sharpened mission—to accelerate climatetech innovation and commercialization by empowering entrepreneurs and enabling collaboration—emphasizes our commitment to providing best-in-class support to our member companies as they work to scale their technologies and teams,” said Greentown Labs Interim CEO Kevin Dutt.

Today’s direct-air-capture (DAC) technologies move air through a filter, which creates a significant amount of resistance—but GigaDAC has developed a fundamentally different way to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. Instead, the startup uses a spray that binds to CO2 molecules—a system that is six times more efficient, in terms of airflow resistance, than the filter method. The lower resistance means air can pass through faster, meaning the entire system is more efficient and thus more economically viable. “The heart and soul of our innovation is orienting the spray to be effective at capturing CO2, and then secondly removing that spray at right next to 100 percent efficacy, and doing so with low pressure drop,” says founder Harrison Rice. Now, the startup is raising its seed round while building a commercial-scale pilot. Learn more about this Greentown Houston startup: https://lnkd.in/eFbxqVd6

Are you passionate about cultivating relationships and collaborations between innovative startups and industry-leading corporates? We’re #hiring a Senior Manager of Partnerships to join our team in Somerville, MA! This role will lead the execution of partnership engagements and focus on the administrative and strategic aspects of corporate collaboration. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4c1rSw1

We're incredibly proud of Ryan DuChanois and Yang Xia of our Houston member Solidec and Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko of our Boston member rStream for being selected for Activate's 2024 cohort! The two-year Activate Fellowship supports scientist-entrepreneurs as they transform their breakthroughs into high-impact climatetech startups. The 62 fellows in this cohort were selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants. Ryan DuChanois (CEO) and Yang Xia (CTO) co-founded Solidec in 2023, developing technology that extracts molecular building blocks from water and air, then upgrades them into pure chemicals and fuels without carbon emissions. Solidec won the 2024 TEX-E Prize just after joining the Greentown Houston community in February. They are part of Activate's Houston's first-ever cohort! Ian Goodine (CEO) and Ethan Walko (CTO) co-founded rStream in 2020 while completing their master’s degrees at UMass Amherst. Using robotics and AI, rStream sorts waste from a single input into recycling, compost, and trash containers with 90 percent accuracy. rStream has been developing its tech in Greentown Boston's prototyping lab since 2022, growing its lab footprint and team while collecting awards and launching pilots. Join us in congratulating these four innovators on this prestigious accomplishment—we look forward to seeing their progress throughout the program! https://lnkd.in/eyQeYRz5

Greentown had an electric June as we celebrated Pride Month🏳️🌈 with our tight-knit community. Check out all of our events from the past month: ⚡ An exciting EnergyBar in celebration of Pride Month with Out in Climate featuring panelists Deanna Kenyon of EIT InnoEnergy and Kayla Goodale of Greentown Labs 📈 The third workshop of the Houston Ion District Investor Activation Program, Climatetech Angel Investing: From Pitch Deck to Deal Memo with Nisha Desai, Founder and CEO of Intention, and Somesh Singh, angel investor and President-Elect of TiE Houston 👭 A Women of Greentown Networking Lunch to connect and convene a gender-inclusive community at Greentown Boston 🤝 A members-only Town Hall featuring insights into Greentown’s latest updates and future plans 🏗 A Manufacturing Meetup with FORGE   🎉 Networking at Community Coffee and Donuts, Taco Tuesday, and at Aeronaut Brewing Company and Holman Draft Hall 🍽 Lunch at Greentown Houston to celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States  🗣 A CTO and Technical Lead Roundtable led by Expert-in-Residence Sheri Palazzo  🥞 An Intern and Co-op Breakfast to bring together students from across the Greentown community  🔧 A workshop on “How to Create Your Personal Story” led by Mike Farber, a Greentown Advisor and co-founder of GreenStory  ☣ A training on the lock-out-tag-out (LOTO) process, the OSHA standard on the control of hazardous energy  📝 Crisis Communication 101 workshop with Eric Fischgrund, founder of FischTank PR 👥 People Ops Roundtable Kickoff Meeting led by Greentown EIR Nupur Amin  🥗 A CEO and Co-founder Roundtable Lunch   👩🔬 The monthly meeting of safety representatives from every member with lab space  💰 Fundraising Forums where Greentown members shared peer-driven feedback to support business development 📖 The quarterly convening of our Industry Leadership Council and Houston Advisory Board  🕛 Office hours with our Partnerships team As always, we are incredibly grateful to our resource providers and startup experts who help keep Greentown thriving. We are so proud of our amazing startups and can’t wait to see what they accomplish next! If you’re interested in joining the Greentown community, learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eUnbGQTT

Incredibly proud that our alum Sense is partnering with New England's foremost electric, water, and gas utility Eversource Energy to empower its 4M+ customers to optimize their homes' energy usage. Sense's home energy monitor uses machine learning and electrical signals to pull real-time data from homes' energy systems, offering insights into which appliances are using the most energy and when—enabling homeowners to optimize their usage according to when rates are lower and the grid has more capacity. ⚡ This is a fantastic example of how corporates like Eversource can utilize novel technologies like Sense's for a win-win result: improving resiliency and lowering emissions throughout the power grid while simultaneously saving consumers money. The support systems for climatetech throughout Massachusetts lend themselves to first-of-a-kind ecosystem that encourages these bold partnerships for #climateaction—and we're honored to support the startups that are at the center of it! Congratulations to Mike Phillips on this great collaboration and thanks for the shoutout in Newsweek! 🏡 https://lnkd.in/dEwhQWbC