Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Funding

• Sublime Systems—developer of a fossil-fuel-free, scalable, drop-in replacement for traditional cement in concrete—received $6.69M in funding from the Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office.
• AeroShield won a $610k Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative grant to support manufacturing of its super-insulating, porous glass for energy-efficient windows.
• Imperium Technologies, whose electrochemical solution reduces industrial heating’s GHG emissions by addressing steam systems’ failures, received an SBIR Phase I award.
• Browning the Green Space, a nonprofit dedicated to making clean energy and other climate-related fields more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, received a $75k grant from the SouthCoast Wind Fund.
• Several Greentown members and alumni received vouchers from the Department of Energy, including AeroShield, Air Company, Capwell, e-Zinc, Ebb Carbon, Lydian, Optigon, Syzygy Plasmonics, and Verne.
• SeaDeep recently won an InnovateMass grant to support its AI, hyper-spectral imaging for real-time, in-depth ocean analysis.
• Greentown alum C16 Biosciences, maker of a platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives, received a $3.5M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a $1M investment from Elemental Excelerator.
• Greentown alum Advent Technologies, whose HT-PEM fuel cells convert hydrogen and other renewable fuels to electricity, secured funding from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program for an R&D project.

Partnerships + Deployments

• Sublime Systems selected Holyoke, MA for its first commercial, kiloton-scale manufacturing site.
• Sol Clarity successfully installed solar panels with its electrodynamic screen technology at a Nexamp site in Massachusetts, in its largest-scale field trial to date.
• Boxes is partnering with IBM to integrate the IBM watsonx Assistant into Boxes’s devices, which combine physical and digital technology to democratize convenient, space-efficient, affordable, and sustainable retail.
• Circularise, a Go Make 2023 participant, successfully completed its traceability project for recycling with the Japan Circular Economy Partnership, AMITA Corporation, and Marubeni Corporation.
• Syzygy Plasmonics announced that its light-powered reactor cell for industrial chemical reactions has met initial performance targets and is now available for order.
• Greentown alum Verne announced an MOU with ZeroAvia to explore using cryo-compressed hydrogen (CcH2) for aircraft. The startup also collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the first successful demonstration of a CcH2 system “large enough to meet the energy storage needs of semi-trucks.”
• Capture6, a Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative Year 3 participant that removes carbon from the atmosphere while producing clean water and other industrial products from saltwater inputs, is partnering with K-water and BKT on a pilot project at K-water’s desalination facility.
• Greentown alum Amogy entered an MOU with Infinium to explore integrating the two companies’ green ammonia and eFuels solutions.
• Greentown alum Advent Technologies signed a $13M joint-benchmarking project with Airbus.

Awards + Recognition

• Verde Technologies took home the grand prize in the American-Made Challenges: Perovskite Startup Prize’s Liftoff Contest, winning $500k in cash and a $100k technical-support voucher.
• Monadnock Energy won $50k from Phase 1 of the American-Made Community Power Accelerator Prize and will advance to Phase 2 of the solar-focused competition.
• Greentown member Cemvita Factory, alum Verne, and C2V Initiative Year 1 participant Air Company were named winners of the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Aviation Challenge.
• Nth Cycle won a 2024 Global Cleantech 100 Rising Star of the Year award and its CEO Megan O’Connor was named an Automotive News All Star.
• Greentown members and alumni Amogy, Carbon Upcycling Technologies, Dandelion Energy, Energy Dome, e-Zinc, Fervo Energy, Nth Cycle, Raptor Maps, Sublime Systems, and WeaveGrid were named to Cleantech Group’s Global Cleantech 100 report.
• EarthEn won the 2024 Deep Tech Climate Startup Challenge at CES 2024.
• Elemental Recycling received coverage of its appointment of David Hudson as its CEO, who joins the startup with more than 20 years of “proven expertise in driving strategic growth and profitability across the recycling, waste management, sustainability, and decarbonization sectors.” 
• Karen Panetta, a co-founder of Go Energize 2023 participant SeaDeep, was named one of the top five people in artificial-intelligence sustainability by Business Insider.