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 

• M2X Energy, which develops a modular, transportable gas-to-liquids system to economically produce low-carbon methanol, raised a $40M Series B to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of its system.
• AeroShield Materials received a $14.5M ARPA-E SCALEUP award to scale the manufacturing of its aerogel materials for energy-efficient windows. 
• SiTration raised an oversubscribed $11.8M seed round to scale the recovery of critical metals from lithium-ion battery recycling to mining and deploy its pilot systems.  
• Tender Food, a startup that produces plant-based meats using natural proteins, raised an $11M Series A to deploy and further develop its product. 
• ecoLocked received €4M to continue its efforts in decarbonizing the construction industry using its carbon-negative building materials. 
• Optigon, which is developing tools to accelerate advancements in the photovoltaic industry, received a $1.3M fast-track SBIR from the Department of Energy for developing “rapid multi-modal characterization tools for PV manufacturing.” 
• Corrolytics, which is digitizing corrosion-detection and asset-integrity monitoring in industrial infrastructure, received a $200k Phase I Award from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s SBIR program. 
• Greentown alum Verne received funding through the U.S. Army Energy Demand Reduction and Clean Energy Tech SBIR program to research cryo-compressed hydrogen vehicles for the U.S. Army. 

Partnerships + Deployments 

• Haffner Energy, a startup developing technology for the next generation of clean fuels and renewable gasses, is partnering with LanzaJet to develop the “Paris-Vatry SAF” sustainable aviation fuel production plant at the Paris-Vatry airport. 
• AgZen, which uses AI to reduce the amount of chemicals needed to spray plants with pesticides, partnered with WHIN to revolutionize crop-spraying for growers in Indiana. 
• Matterworks—whose technology enables faster and broader metabolomics assays—launched Pyxis, a new AI-powered platform for identification and absolute quantitation from mass spectrometry data. 
• GPR, a startup that enables all-condition autonomous vehicle lane-keeping, partnered with Rheinmetall Provectus to integrate its WaveSense system into Rheinmetall Provectus’ autonomous navigation solutions. 
• Go Build 2023 participant Z2S Technologies, which develops magnesium-based advanced building products that can store up to one-fifth of their weight in CO2 via a proprietary carbon-capture technology, partnered with SEED Homes to deliver affordable housing with advanced materials. 
• Greentown alum ElectricFish, a startup that provides microgrid solutions for fast EV-charging and backup-energy resources, opened its first intelligent-grid EV infrastructure manufacturing facility in California. 
• Greentown alum Fervo Energy, which is working to deliver next-generation, carbon-free geothermal energy, announced a partnership with Google, where Google will run data centers using electricity generated by the geothermal energy startup’s Nevada plant.
• Greentown alum Skytree signed multi-year development and supply agreements with Purolite to jointly develop energy-efficient and cost-effective CO2 capture material for use in direct air capture utilization and storage initiatives. 
• Greentown alum FibreCoat, which produces thermoplastic-coated glass fibers, signed a commercial deal with Greentown partner Saint-Gobain to increase production.  
• Carbon to Value Initiative alum Capture6 announced a global partnership with Greentown partner Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions, where the startup’s carbon-removal technology will be deployed into Veolia’s integrated water-management systems.

Awards + Recognitions 

• Hertha Metals, a startup developing technology to cost-effectively produce steel from low-grade iron ores, won first place and $100k in the Summer 2024 EPIC Pitch Competition.  
• Greentown member Osmoses—a startup commercializing membrane technology to purify gas molecules, and Carbon to Value Initiative Year 3 participant Mitico—whose carbon-capture solution uses dry granular metal carbonate (GMC) purification technology—won about $600k and $768k, respectively, as finalists in the NGIF Accelerator’s Global Cleantech Challenge.   
• Spare-it, a startup that is developing technology to help organizations measure their in-building waste, won an award at the Commercial Real Estate Development Association (NAIOP) NYC’s Proptech competition.
• Capwell, Corrolytics, and Greentown alum Mitico were accepted to the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator Cohort 4. 
• Aeroshield Materials, which manufactures super-insulated, porous glass for energy-efficient windows, won the ClimaTech Live Great Global Innovation Challenge.  
• Solidec, a startup that upgrades molecular building blocks into pure chemicals and fuels without fossil-fuel emissions, was named to the Rice Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summer Venture Studio Accelerator. 
• Climative and ACCEL Year 2 participant EcoForge were chosen for the Cleantech Open Northeast 2024 Cohort. 
• Ebb Carbon—whose electrochemical system removes atmospheric CO2 and reduces ocean acidification—was selected for the Black & Veatch IgniteX Carbon Dioxide Removal Accelerator program. 
• Carbon Upcycling Technologies and Nth Cycle were chosen to be two of the 100 new members of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers Community.  
• H2Ok Innovations, which is developing an IoT platform for optimizing industrial liquid and fluid systems, was selected as a participating startup in the Nestlé Regeneración program, where it’ll partner with Nestlé facilities. 
• Carbon Negative Solutions, which uses AI to create carbon-negative concrete and concrete products, won the 2024 Front End Innovation Startup Competition for $25k.