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, a startup developing technology to decarbonize cement-making, has received an $87M investment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Industrial Demonstrations Program as part of a $6B effort to decarbonize heavy industries. 
• Cyvl.ai raised $6M in funding to support its mission of revolutionizing transportation infrastructure with AI-driven solutions.
• Glimpse, which provides a scalable solution to visualize battery scans and monitor battery-design features, announced a $4M seed raise and the release of its X-ray-powered quality-monitoring platform.  
• Allium Engineering, which creates non-degradable building materials, closed a $3.25M seed round to begin producing its steel rebar.   
• Sublime Systems, StepWise, and Active Surfaces were selected to receive $2.5M in funding from MassCEC’s Catalyst, Diversity in Cleantech – Early Stage, and InnovateMass programs in support of clean energy and climatetech innovators.
• Carbonova, a Go Move 2022 participant that aims to turn GHG emissions into carbon materials, raised a $6M SAFE round to advance toward building the first commercial demonstration carbon nanofibers unit in Canada. 
• Endeavor Composites, which repurposes landfill-destined technical fibers into nonwoven reinforcement, was awarded a $1.1M+ Phase II SBIR contract by AFWERX focused on hypersonic heat shields. 

Partnerships + Deployments 

• CalWave Power Technologies was selected as the technology provider for an Indigenous-led wave energy project in Yuquot, British Columbia with the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN).
• EOS Loan, a finance marketplace, partnered with Nada to make solar and home improvement financing more accessible. 
• Haffner Energy, a startup that develops technologies for the next generation of clean fuels and renewable gasses, signed an MOU with Hexas Biomass for the production of renewable energy from biomass. 
• Pecos Wind Power, which builds wind turbines for distributed generation, successfully installed its first turbine. 
• Element Resources, a green-hydrogen developer, signed an MOU with the city of Lancaster, CA to enhance the local hydrogen-economy infrastructure.  
• Raptor Maps, which offers advanced analytics, insights, and productivity software for the entire solar lifecycle, announced Luminance is deploying its AI-driven Instant Inspection software.   
• CeraPhi Energy, which develops technology to de-risk the delivery of geothermal projects, will partner with the town of Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK to assess the viability of a geothermal heat network. 
• Greentown alum Advent Technologies, which makes HT-PEM fuel cells that convert hydrogen to electricity, received approval for funding for its development project, RiverCell 3, focused on developing a maritime fuel-cell system. 
• ​​GPR, which enables all-condition autonomous vehicle lane-keeping using radar fingerprints of the roadbed, announced the launch of its new product, WaveSense, which will redefine the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles.  
• ALLY Energy partnered with Ramboll to accelerate connections, careers, and skills for an equitable energy transition.
• Electra, a startup developing a low-temperature, electrochemical-hydrometallurgical process that utilizes low-grade ores and is powered by renewable energy, launched a pilot plant in Boulder, CO for low-carbon iron production. 
• Greentown alum Capture6, which works to remove carbon from the atmosphere using renewable energy, announced the initiation of a direct air capture pilot in New Zealand which may catalyze the advancement of projects for Aotearoa New Zealand’s decarbonization efforts and climate commitments. 
• Greentown alum Heila Technologies, which develops microgrids with a flexible design that allows distributed energy resources to operate reliably and was acquired by Kohler in 2022, will deploy its microgrid technology at a Kohler manufacturing site in Arizona. Kohler is in award negotiations with the DOE for up to $51.2M to support the facility.  

Awards + Recognition 

• Solidec, a startup that upgrades molecular building blocks into pure chemicals and fuels without fossil-fuel emissions, won the $25,000, first-place TEX-E Prize. 
• Greentown members and alumni were named to Time Magazine’s list of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024: Ohmium, Fervo Energy, Amogy, Air Company, Eden, Nth Cycle, Ebb Carbon, WeaveGrid, Via Separations, Sublime Systems, SparkCharge, Syzygy Plasmonics, Blackburn Energy, Advanced Ionics, Cleartrace, Renewell Energy, ​​ElectricFish, LineVision, Clean Crop Technologies, ​​Form Energy, and INOVUES.  
• ZS2 Technologies, a Go Build 2023 participant that creates magnesium-based advanced building products that can store up to one-fifth of their weight in CO2 via a proprietary carbon-capture technology, received its first patent. 
• Katie Mehnert, CEO and founder of ALLY Energy, a SaaS-based talent and culture platform, was named one of Hart Energy’s 2024 Influential Women in Energy. 
• Madison Savilow, Chief of Staff of Carbon Upcycling Technologies—a waste- and carbon-utilization company—received a 2023 Young Women in Energy award.
• Fervo Energy, which is working to deliver next-generation, carbon-free geothermal energy, and Syzygy Plasmonics, which is developing a new type of photocatalytic chemical reactor, were named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Energy for 2024.  
• Phytoform Labs, a startup working to restructure the crop breeding cycle, received Amazon Web Services’ Compute for Climate Fellowship, which funds proofs of concept for novel innovations.   
• Spare-it, which is pioneering how organizations measure and reduce their in-building waste, won the silver award for Proptech Solution of the Year at the Proptech Excellence Awards 2024.
• Greentown members and alumni were selected to join Scale for ClimateTech’s fifth cohort, including Celadyne Technologies, AeroShield Materials, MicroEra Power, Carbon to Stone, Mitico, Clean Crop Technologies, and GenH.