Our 180+ 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

• American Battery Technology Company closed a $39.1M funding round. 
• Cemvita Factory has received investments from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a Greentown Houston Grand Opening Partner, and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, a Greentown partner.
• Via Separations, a Greentown alum, raised a $38M Series B. 
• Biobot Analytics, another Greentown alum, closed a $20M Series A.
• Patch, a Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative participant, also raised a $20M Series A.
• Made of Air, another C2V Initiative participant, closed a $5.8M seed round. 

Deployments + Partnerships

• LineVision announced a partnership with Marubeni Corporation, which will kick off with an installation of LineVision’s sensor and software solutions on a power line originating from the Mibugawa Hydro plant in Ina City, Nagano, Japan.
• SWTCH Energy is partnering with IBI Group and Slate Asset Management to launch an EV-to-building pilot in Canada.
• C2V Initiative participant Carbfix is partnering with Rio Tinto to implement a technology for capturing carbon and permanently storing it underground at the ISAL aluminum smelter in Iceland.
• CalWave Power Technologies successfully commissioned a pilot of its wave energy device. 
• Heila Technologies deployed its modular energy platform at Auto Mercado, a top Costa Rican supermarket chain.
• Advent Technologies successfully completed the first installation of its HG 5000 fuel cell systems across the Philippines. 
• CeraPhi Energy reached an agreement to repurpose oil and gas wells in UK energy company IGas Energy’s portfolio for geothermal energy use.
• Topl is partnering with Fueltrax to create a full, complete, and verifiable digital record of energy trading operations, and is partnering with Data Gumbo to create a way for corporations to track and report their ESG metrics.
• Packetized Energy is working with Orange and Rockland Utilities on an innovative new grid edge flexibility project in New York.
• Solarflux released a new tool called CASPER that compares the energy collection and conversion efficiency of concentrating solar power technologies, such as their FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator.
• OhmConnect teamed up with the California State Parks Foundation to help Californians reduce energy consumption and prevent blackouts.
• Energy Toolbase integrated with Socomec to enable solar and energy storage developers to seamlessly model, control, and monitor energy storage projects.
• C2V Initiative participant Made of Air unveiled Air Eau de Parfum—the “world’s first fragrance made from air.”

Acquisitions

• Advent Technologies, a Greentown member, acquired Serenergy A/S and fischer eco solutions GmbH, and with these acquisitions has now more than doubled its global team.

Awards + Recognition

• COI Energy is a recipient of Google’s second Black Founders Fund. The startup was also featured by SAP.iO as an innovator in utilities.
• Cemvita Factory and Syzygy Plasmonics have been selected to compete live from Glasgow at COP26 through Net Zero Technology Centre’s COP26 Pitch Battle.
• BOxES COO Natalia Machin was featured in Forbes as one of “50 Latinas Who Are Innovating to Sustainably, and Deliciously, Feed The World.”
• ALLY Energy CEO Katie Mehnert was recognized as one of Houston’s Global Leaders of Influence by the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston.
• Nth Cycle was named the #2 startup in TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield and was selected for Elemental Excelerator’s Cohort X.
• SparkCharge is a winner of LG’s Proto Challenge in the “Energizing Mobility” category.
• Quantum New Energy has been recognized as one of the 20 most innovative companies by the Houston Business Journal.
• SeebeckCell Technologies CTO Ali Farzbod was selected as one of North Texas Inno’s Top Innovators to Watch.
• Solarflux has been named one of the top 10 energy tech startups of 2021 by Energy Tech Review.
• Ennuity Holdings CEO Nisha Desai is joining the third On Deck Climate Tech Cohort.
• Katz Water Technologies was issued its ninth patent.
• Flux Marine’s electric outboard engine won the Best New Boating Operation, Maintenance or Safety Product category at the Newport International Boat Show.
• Blue Sky Analytics and C2V Initiative participant Patch were both featured in a Forbes list of “AI climate change solutions for zero carbon.” 
• Blue Line Battery Co-founder and Marketing Director Kristen Holtan was featured in WisconsinInno’s Inno Under 25. 
• Osmoses was named winner of the 2021 NECEC Cleantech Open, and fellow Greentown member Julius Education was a runner-up. 
• Our members and alums LineVision, Altaeros, Tank Utility, Sunwealth, Blackburn Energy, Verdox, Singularity Energy, Littoral Power Systems, and Sistine Solar were all named on Futurology’s list of the 56 Most Innovative Massachusetts-based Clean Energy Companies & Startups. 
• C2V Initiative participant Planetary Hydrogen took the $200K top prize from the Ocean Startup Project.
• Verne and Greentown alum Celadyne Technologies are part of the inaugural cohort of Breakthrough Energy’s new Breakthrough Energy Fellows Program. 
• LineVision’s paper on dynamic line ratings won CIGRE’s Grid of the Future Next Generation Network paper competition.
• VC Fuel Founder and CEO Ahmad Atwan was named an “Innovator to Know” by InnovationMap.
• Our longtime members AeroShield Materials and Alkemy Environmental were selected for the Healthy Buildings Challenge, a Greentown Launch program with Saint-Gobain and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, alongside three other building tech startups—Enerbrain, InventWood, and Zero.