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 

• Aeromine Technologies raised a $9M Series A for its bladeless wind turbine system, which captures wind traveling up and over a building’s roof and converts it into renewable energy.
• Active Surfaces, a Go Build 2023 participant and ACCEL Year 1 alum that’s commercializing ultra-thin-film solar technology, raised a $5.6M oversubscribed pre-seed funding round.
• 7Analytics raised a €4M seed round for its AI-led, high-precision flood and landslide prediction models to help insurers manage flood risk. 
• CalWave Power Technologies, which is working to harness carbon-free power from ocean waves, was chosen by the U.S. Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research program as one of 11 projects to receive over $1.1M to advance the prototype-validation stage of its xWave system.  
• Form Energy, which is developing low-cost, long-duration energy storage systems, is adapting its iron-air-battery technology to make low-carbon iron with the help of $1M in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
• Nfinite Nanotech, a Go Make 2022 participant, closed a $6.5M seed round to revolutionize flexible food packaging with nanotechnology.
• TerraFixing, a Carbon to Value Initiative Year 3 alum that’s developing a direct air capture process for capturing CO2 in cold climates, signed a $7.3M agreement with Tugliq Énergie Co. to develop two carbon capture units.
• Heartland Industries, a Go Move 2022 with BASF participant that produces natural fiber plastic alternatives, received investment from Greentown partner BASF’s incubation arm, Chemovator. 

Partnerships + Deployments 

• Sublime Systems, a startup decarbonizing the cement-making process, deployed its cement in its first commercial construction project, which will be Boston’s largest net-zero-carbon office building. 
• Element Resources and Greentown partner Rio Tinto signed a surface lease agreement for the development of a green-hydrogen production facility, powered by an off-grid-solar electricity-generation facility. 
• Raptor Maps, a startup building AI software to increase solar farm power production, signed an agreement with Greentown partner ENGIE to digitize and maintain ENGIE’s global solar asset base with its software. 
• Moonshot Compost, which collects food waste with a focus on data management, surpassed 1 million pounds of food waste diverted from landfills in its composting project with Rice University. 
• REON Technology, which uses new and second-life EV batteries to provide affordable energy storage solutions, successfully powered eight hours of off-grid clean energy for Boston’s AANHPI festival.  
• QuantAQ is deploying a network of air-quality monitors in Bedford, MA, in an initiative funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• MoveEV, an EV-charging company working to convert fleet and employee-owned gas vehicles to electric, announced an add-in for the MyGeotab® Product to provide easy monitoring and reimbursement of EV home-charging costs. 
• American Battery Technology Company, a lithium resource exploration and development company, surpassed capacity at its commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility. 
• Haffner Energy, a startup developing technology for the next generation of clean fuels and renewable gasses, announced its new Sustainable Aviation Fuel project, Paris-Vatry SAF, which aims to decarbonize air transport. 
• Boxes, which is building a retail platform that sustainably provides people access to essential products, partnered with Unilever to launch its in-store devices.
• Greentown alum Circe Bioscience, which engineers microbes to make various fats through a carbon-negative fermentation process, signed a licensing agreement to commercialize its technology.  
• Go Move 2022 participant MITO Material Solutions, which uses its technology to functionalize substances like graphene oxide and biomaterials, entered into distributor agreements with Eumate International Corp. and TRiiSO to expand its E-Go graphene additive into new applications. 
• Greentown alum Syzygy Plasmonics announced a successful demonstration of its all-electric CO2-to-fuel production pathway in its project with RTI International, sponsored by Greentown partners Equinor Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas. 
• Greentown alum Cemvita, which engineers microbes to produce carbon-negative industrial chemicals, announced a breakthrough enabling the production of large quantities of sustainable oil from waste carbon.   

Awards + Recognitions 

• Clean Crop Technologies, which uses its Clean Current technology to remove contaminants from seed and food surfaces, won the agriculture category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards. 
• Solidec—whose electrolyzer platform captures carbon and manufactures chemicals using only air, water, and renewable electricity—won the Outstanding Achievement in Climate Solutions Prize from the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge, hosted by Rice University. Solidec also won the Flathead Forge Services Prize at the 2024 Texas A&M New Venture Competition.
• MicroAvionics, which is developing levitation technology to enable flight in the mesosphere, won an Ingenuity Award at the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, which recognizes entrepreneurs and innovators from Harvard’s 13 schools. 
• Celine King, founder and CEO at GreenIRR; Chidalu Onyenso, founder and CEO at ACCEL Year 1 participant EarthBond; and Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, co-founder and VP of engineering at Osmoses won grants from the Women of Color Collective in Sustainability. 
• Optigon, which is developing tools to accelerate advancements in the photovoltaic industry, was accepted into the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites (US-MAP) Consortium.  
• Sublime Systems’ CEO Leah Ellis and Chief Scientist Yet-Ming Chiang were named to the Boston Globe’s 2024 Tech Power Players 50 list. 
• Spare-it, a startup that is developing technology to help organizations measure their in-building waste, won the Sustainability French-American Business Award from the French-American Chamber of Commerce.