Carbon to Value Initiative Year 5 Kickoff
December 4, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm ET
Meet the startups shaping the future of carbontech and kick off Year 5 of the Carbon to Value Initiative!
Attendees will meet the startups that were selected for this year’s cohort as well as members of C2V’s Carbontech Leadership Council members. As the C2V Initiative enters its fifth year, our recent call for applications paints a compelling picture of where the industry is headed. With 165 applications spanning 33 countries across six continents (a record for us!) – the global momentum behind using carbon as a feedstock remains strong.
Agenda
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5:30 to 6:00 pm – Arrival and Check-in
6:00 to 7:00 pm – Speaking program / Startup presentations
7:00 to 8:00 pm – Networking
About Carbon to Value Initiative
The Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative is a unique partnership among Urban Future Lab at New York University-Tandon, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA, to unlock a new carbontech economy, bring innovative solutions to scale as rapidly as possible through the creation of a robust, powerful, and collaborative new ecosystem.
Building on its first four successful years supported by NYSERDA, which saw over 500 applications and supported 35 selected startups (Cohorts 1-4) that have raised over $580M in follow-on funding, leading to partnership engagements and 600+ business relationships, technology advancement, and industry growth, Year 5 of the C2V Initiative returns with an in-depth corporate advisor program and new pivotal CLC members spanning a wide breadth of the carbontech ecosystem.
Startups selected to participate in the program will have the opportunity to engage with the Carbontech Leadership Council, an invitation-only group of executive leaders across diverse industry sectors driving the future of carbontech. Startups will gain market insights and explore collaboration opportunities with CLC members to unlock this trillion-dollar market. Specifically, startups will have the opportunity to hear firsthand from CLC members about their carbontech strategies, to present to them directly, and to access experts and industry knowledge from within the participating corporations. Cohort startups will also gain access to the C2V Initiative’s extended network of startup alumni, investors, government funders and ecosystem supporters, allowing them to overcome their specific barriers and significantly raise their visibility profile in the carbon management industry.
C2V Partners
The Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is an incubator for best-in-class climatetech startups with a focus on clean energy and sustainable urban infrastructure solutions. A cornerstone of NYU Tandon’s Sustainable Engineering Initiative (SEI), the UFL advances SEI’s mission to develop new engineering strategies to avoid, mitigate, and remediate emissions. Since 2009, UFL has supported 170+ startups with an industry-leading 88% company survival rate, raised $2.5B+ in venture capital, project finance, and grants, created 4,100+ jobs, and facilitated 100+ events with 2,000+ attendees per year.
For more information, visit ufl.nyc, LinkedIn, Instagram, and sign up to our newsletter. For more information about NYU Tandon, visit engineering.nyu.edu.
Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit accelerating climatetech innovation and commercialization by empowering entrepreneurs and enabling collaboration. As the largest climatetech and energy startup incubator in the world—with locations in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas—Greentown convenes the climatetech ecosystem to provide entrepreneurs the community, connections, labs, and resources they need to thrive.
For more information, visit www.greentownlabs.com or follow Greentown on LinkedIn.
Fraunhofer USA
Fraunhofer USA, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of applied research. Founded in 1994, Fraunhofer USA conducts applied R&D for customers from industry, state governments, and the federal government in the United States. Fraunhofer USA develops and validates scientific applications and technologies for industrial innovation in the U.S.. Collaborating closely with the Fraunhofer institutes of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany, Fraunhofer USA leverages the global Fraunhofer Network, recognized as the largest applied R&D organization in the world, annually undertaking more than $3 billion in applied R&D projects with activities in 80 countries. This collaboration provides the most versatile cutting-edge technologies to a global market, offering unique transatlantic business opportunities to close the innovation gap from the lab to the real market. Fraunhofer USA’s research centers pursue strategic alliances with one or more of the numerous Fraunhofer institutes of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany and with major research universities in the United States.
For more information please please visit www.fraunhofer.org or LinkedIn and Twitter.
The Carbontech Leadership Council
The Carbontech Leadership Council (CLC) of the C2V Initiative is an invitation-only group of corporate, nonprofit, and government thought leaders who foster commercialization opportunities and identify avenues for technology validation, testing, and demonstration. Members consist of senior executives representing diverse industries that have made formal commitments to reducing carbon emissions in their core businesses and beyond. Current CLC members include Carbon180, Caterpillar Inc., CO2 Value Europe, Energy Impact Partners, Evonik, Fluor, Johnson Matthey, L’Oréal, Shell, TotalEnergies, Veolia, W.L. Gore & Associates, and XPRIZE.
For more details, visit www.c2vinitiative.com/clc.
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Venue Information
Parking is incredibly limited at Greentown Labs and we encourage attendees to consider taking advantage of public transportation. We’re a short walk from the newly opened Union Square station, as well as 1 mile away from the Harvard and Porter MBTA stations. Union Square in Somerville is also easily accessible via the #86 and #91 MBTA buses. We offer bike parking on-site and the closest Bluebikes stations are at Dane St., Conway Park and Union Square.