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BOSTON-BASED STARTUPS: Apply by this Wednesday, March 26 to showcase your technology at this year's Climate Tech on The Plaza! This event is a fantastic opportunity to share your solution with the City of Boston's wide audience, including industry professionals, researchers, students, residents, and fellow entrepreneurs. Selected participants will have the opportunity to present their technology through live demonstrations, pitches, or poster sessions. Many of our member companies exhibited at last year's event and will be showcasing this year, too—it's sure to be a great event! The deadline to apply is this Wednesday, March 26—learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/d_Qeur_7

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Climatetech Summit 2025 will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at Greentown Houston and Thursday, Nov. 6 at Greentown Boston! The world is at an inflection point: there’s an unprecedented demand for energy globally, emissions must be drastically reduced, and resilience has never been more critical. Meeting this growing demand requires audacious entrepreneurial innovation at the nexus of energy generation and decarbonization, coupled with corporate leadership, philanthropic action, and community engagement. We’ll dive into these challenges and opportunities together at Climatetech Summit, and emerge with tangible actions to foster more collaboration. Get your tickets for our biggest event of the year here: https://lnkd.in/edjBD8D9

So great to see so many of our members and alumni at this year's ARPA-E Innovation Summit in DC, plus get to meet many new startups developing incredible novel energy innovations! We were especially proud to see Elise Strobach of AeroShield Materials on a panel on the main stage 👏 Shoutout to our member companies and alumni AeroShield Materials, Eden, Electra, Form Energy, Giner, Inc., InventWood, Phoenix Tailings, SiTration, Inc., Sublime Systems, Syzygy Plasmonics, Verne, and Via Separations that exhibited at the showcase, plus partners like Asahi Kasei, BASF, Chevron Technology Ventures, GE Vernova, and Rio Tinto and friends like Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Boundless Impact Research & Analytics, EPRI, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NYSERDA, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and many of the academic institutions and universities that are often the birthplaces of groundbreaking innovation. It's clear from the summit that energy and climate innovation isn't going anywhere, and we are eager to support more of these innovators as they develop and scale their groundbreaking technologies. Thank you to the wonderful folks at ARPA-E for supporting the climatetech innovation ecosystem, including so many of our member companies!

We don’t have enough fresh water. The solution? Desalinate water from the ocean. But today’s desalination methods—distillation and membrane filtration—are incredibly energy intensive, requiring either high temperatures or high-pressure pumps. That’s what NONA Technologies is changing. The startup’s electro-membrane technology works at room temperature and requires just a fraction of the pressure. “Instead of using heat or a filter, we use an electrical field to pull impurities out of the water,” says Bruce Crawford, the startup’s CEO and co-founder. The company’s first product is a compact, portable unit that can serve as a climate-adaptation device for disaster relief and sailors. But it’s also developing solutions for cleaning industrial wastewater for reuse, and for reusing water in AI-server cooling towers. Read more about this Boston-based startup in our full feature article: https://lnkd.in/eG26dMpm

Calling all Texas students! TEX-E paid internships with Greentown Houston startups are a fantastic way to kickstart your career in #climatetech—check out the open positions with Capwell, Mars Materials, Solidec, and SUPERGirls SHINE Foundation and apply below 👇 #paidinternships #internships #energytransition #students

Next Rung Technology is hosting the Boston meeting for the AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Greentown next week on March 27! This event—complete with dinner, networking, presentations, and a panel discussion—will focus on scaling first-of-a-kind technologies for carbon capture and industrial wastewater cleanup. Next Rung will be joined by local partner companies Verdox and Elateq, who will share their commercialization stories building on unique process technology to develop commercial-scale systems. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/e6UnS78j

The #C2VInitiative Year 4 final showcase is just over the horizon! Join us in #NYC on April 3 to celebrate the commercialization progress made by the nine startups in this year's cohort: 🔸 Ardent is a process technology company that is developing membrane-based solutions for point-source carbon capture and other chemical separations. 🔸 CarbonBlue develops a chemical process that mineralizes and extracts CO₂ from water, which then reabsorbs more atmospheric CO₂. 🔸 MacroCycle Technologies develops a chemical recycling process to turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester-fiber waste into “virgin-grade” plastics. 🔸 Maple Materials develops an electrolysis process to convert CO₂ into graphite and oxygen. 🔸 Oxylus Energy develops a direct electrochemical process to convert CO₂ into fuels and chemical feedstocks, such as methanol. 🔸 Phlair develops a renewable-energy-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) system using an electrochemical process for acid and base generation. 🔸 RenewCO₂ is developing an electrochemical process to convert CO₂ into fuels and chemicals, such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or propylene glycol. 🔸 Seabound builds carbon-capture equipment for new and existing ships. 🔸 Secant Fuel develops a one-step electrocatalytic process that converts flue gas into syngas. Learn more and register for the April 3 event here: https://lnkd.in/e2eTcPBv

Extending our deepest gratitude to friends new and old who came out to our #CERAWeek Transition on Tap last night to meet our members, celebrate energy-transition and climatetech innovations, and hear from our Board member Jane Stricker of the Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) and our CEO Georgina Campbell Flatter! It was a treat to convene our Houston energy-transition ecosystem to share insights and forge new connections at the culmination of CERAWeek, the biggest week in #energy with so many of our members showcasing their solutions to the biggest and brightest in the industry. Sending a huge thank you to Trade & Invest British Columbia for sponsoring the event! Our next #TransitionOnTap will celebrate the fourth anniversary of Greentown Houston's opening on Earth Day in 2021—join us on April 29: https://lnkd.in/eM_bARJB Photo credit: Dee Zunker

It was an honor to host Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek and her team along with the leadership of Calgary Economic Development at Greentown Houston this week! What a joy to celebrate the many similarities and strengths of our cities, opportunities for collaboration, and pathways for our entrepreneurs to thrive in both locations! Thank you for your time and leadership Mayor Gondek, and we can't wait to visit you in Calgary!

We've been so energized ( 😉 ) at #CERAWeek this year to see dozens of our members showcasing their technologies, pitching onstage, and connecting with energy-industry leaders! Our team has been enjoying events including the Climate & Energy Ventures/MIT Climate and Energy Prize reception; a 5k run with Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI), Fervo Energy, and New Climate Ventures; panels feat. our CEO Georgina Campbell Flatter and Board Chair Bobby Tudor; and of course, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship/HETI/TEX-E Energy Venture Day Pitch Competition—congratulations to the startup winners! It's also been wonderful to connect with many of our partners at opportunities throughout the week. Not to mention: our 40+ members and alumni showcasing at the Innovation Agora: Advanced Ionics, Amplified Industries, Inc., Ardent, Axis Sky Renewables, Blueshift, Carbon Negative Solutions Inc, Carbon Upcycling Technologies, CarbonQuest, Corrolytics, Dioxycle, ElectricFish, Elemental Advanced Materials, Inc, Elementium Materials, Inc., Fervo Energy, Fleet Robotics, GeoFuels, GigaDAC Hertha Metals Inc., Innovator Energy, LineVision, PolyJoule, Inc., Kanin Energy, Mars Materials, Osmoses, Oxylus Energy, Solidec, TerraFixing, Thiozen Inc., Transaera, Inc., Decimetrix®, Kauel, Universal Matter Inc., Via Separations, and more! This evening at 5:30pm, come on out to Greentown Houston to meet our CEO Georgina Campbell Flatter—thank you to Trade & Invest British Columbia for sponsoring! Details: https://lnkd.in/ekqhf6Ba #CWAgora #Houston #energy #climatetech #energytransition #innovation #startups