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

• Transaera, a startup pioneering a novel, energy-efficient approach to cooling and dehumidification, raised an $8.2M Seed-2 round led by Greentown partner Clean Energy Ventures, augmented by $2.3M in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
• Helix Earth Technologies, which is revolutionizing air conditioning and carbon capture and sequestration with cutting-edge tech developed at NASA, closed a $5.6M seed round. 
• Advanced Ionics announced an investment from Lummus Technology that involves a partnership to advance the startup’s green-hydrogen platform.
• Elementium Materials, which makes more powerful, longer-lasting batteries with its novelty electrolyte technology, received a DOE voucher to work with the Center for Automotive Research at Ohio State University.
• Greentown alum Embr Labs raised $3M in funding for its wearable thermal technology.

Partnerships + Deployments

• Phytoform Labs announced a new tomato variety optimized for vertical farms that’s one-sixth the size of a traditional tomato plant and yields five times the amount of produce.
• Haffner Energy launched its hydrogen production, testing, and training center in Champagne, France.
• Greentown alum Ebb Carbon signed a marine-CO₂-removal deal with Microsoft that commissions the removal of 350,000 tonnes of CO₂ over 10 years.
• Greentown alum Skytree will deploy its carbon-removal technology at the world’s first fully wind-powered direct air capture (DAC) hub in Tom Green County, Texas.
• Greentown Go alum Open Ocean Robotics completed a year-long project with a government agency to showcase the capabilities of its USV (uncrewed surface vessel) DataXplorer, which involved 28 deployments of its tech.
• Greentown alum FluxWorks, which creates frictionless magnetic gears, opened a 9,000-square-foot facility in Conroe, TX.

Awards + Recognition

• Greentown members and alumni De-Ice, Fervo Energy, and Electra were featured in TIME’s list of the Best Inventions of 2024. 
• The CEOs of Greentown members and alumni Nth Cycle, Fervo Energy, and Electra were selected for the TIME100 Climate list of influential climate business leaders. 
• Transaera was chosen for the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator’s 14th cohort, which includes $250k in non-dilutive funding.
• Stepwise won the 2024 Energy Innovation Award from Northeast Energy & Commerce Association.
• Corrolytics won the Minority-Owned Business Award and People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Houston Innovation Awards. 
• REON was named the Small Business Innovator of the Year at Mass Clean Energy Week.
• Greentown alum Fervo Energy won the Geothermal Special Achievement Award at the Geothermal Rising Conference.