Go Make

Let’s redesign how we make everything.

Manufacturing contributes 31 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions; to decarbonize the sector, we need solutions that transform how goods are sourced, produced, and managed at end-of-life. 

In this program track, we bring startups and corporates together to accelerate the commercialization of technologies to revolutionize supply chains for everything from plastics, to batteries, and beyond. How do you want to shape the future of manufacturing?

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Go Make 2023

Advancing solutions for carbon utilization, storage, and traceability

Go Make 2023 with Shell is enabling a circular, net-zero-carbon economy by accelerating the adoption of biogenic and nature-based solutions, alternatives for carbon-intensive commodities, and more.

Participating Startups

  • Caravel Bio (Portland, Ore., U.S.) is developing a novel synthetic biology platform that uses microbial spores and enzymes to create catalysts that are long-lasting and can withstand extreme conditions and environments.
  • Circularise (Den Haag, Netherlands) develops a blockchain platform that provides digital product passports for end-to-end traceability and secure data exchange for industrial supply chains.
  • Corumat (Yakima, Wash. U.S.) converts organic waste into high-performance, insulating, greaseproof, and biodegradable packaging materials.
  • Lydian (Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) develops a fully electrified reactor that can convert a variety of gaseous, non-fossil feedstocks into pure syngas with high efficiency.
  • Maple Materials (Richmond, Calif., U.S.) develops a low-cost electrolysis process to split carbon dioxide into graphite and oxygen.
  • Universal Matter (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) develops a proprietary Flash Joule Heating process that converts carbon waste into high-value and high-performance graphene materials to efficiently create sustainable circular economies.
Sept. 27, 2023
Kickoff Event
Oct. 2023-Feb. 2024
Program Workshops
March 27, 2024
Final Showcase

Past Go Make Programs

Go Make 2022

Supply chain decarbonization, from production through packaging and distribution

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BASF and Stanley Black & Decker

Go Make 2019

Circularity Challenge: Plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains

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Go Make 2015

PROPEL: Industrial IoT + sensors

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Go Make Alumni

“​​Nothing spurs actual action more quickly than doing a challenge. We have a lot of great things to say about how much the facilitation provided by Greentown Labs and the program makes it easier for us to plug-and-play into a startup ecosystem, in a way that we might not otherwise have the infrastructure to do. This is a great example of a multi-stakeholder approach.”

Mitchell Toomey

Director of Sustainability at BASF

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