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

• Form Energy, developer of cost-effective, multi-day energy-storage systems, closed a $405M Series F from investors including Greentown partner GE Vernova.
• rStream received a nearly $1M SBIR Phase II award from the National Science Foundation to advance its autonomous waste-sorting system.
• Greentown alum Moment Energy was awarded $20.3M by the U.S. Department of Energy to open the country’s first UL1974-certified manufacturing facility dedicated to repurposing EV batteries.
• Greentown alum Planetary Technologies raised an $11.35M Series A for its carbon-removal tech that focuses on enhancing ocean alkalinity.
• Greentown alum Circe Bioscience, a carbon-negative manufacturing company, raised a $5M seed round and announced its pilot-plant installation.
• Greentown Go alum Open Ocean Robotics, a maritime robotics and AI company dedicated to transforming ocean monitoring through advanced uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) technology, closed a $2.8M pre-Series A round.
• Greentown alum Malta, which is pioneering electrothermal, long-duration energy-storage solutions, announced an investment from Cox Group.
• EarthBond, an ACCEL alum, received a $200k investment from Madica.

Partnerships + Deployments

• Sublime Systems—a startup decarbonizing cement-making with a carbon-free electrochemical system—hosted a ribbon cutting for the first commercial application of its cement in what will be Boston’s largest net-zero-carbon office building. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and representatives from the Biden-Harris administration were in attendance.
• Fresh Inset signed an exclusive partnership with Janssen PMP to commercialize VIDRE+™, the startup’s technology that improves the shelf-life, appearance, and quality of fresh produce.
• Revvit held a ribbon cutting for one of its Level 1 EV charging pilot sites, hosted by Foxfire Property Management in a workplace parking lot in downtown Concord, NH.
• Glimpse, which develops X-ray-powered, quality-management solutions for batteries, is partnering with VisiConsult to launch VisiConsult’s VCB2, “the world’s highest throughput CT scanner.”
• Boxes is deploying its innovative retail devices with Beiersdorf.
• Allium Engineering, whose innovative manufacturing method introduces a thin shell of stainless steel to existing building materials, such as steel rebar, cut the ribbon on its advanced manufacturing facility in Billerica, MA.
• REON Technology, which provides intelligent, reliable, and accessible energy-storage and microgrid solutions that accelerate the global adoption of renewable energy, completed a shipment to the Footprint Project in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
• Greentown alum Verne announced the completion of its cryo-compressed-hydrogen, heavy-duty truck—the first of its kind in the world.

Awards + Recognition

• Greentown members and alumni Atacama Biomaterials, CalWave, Capture6, and TerraFixing were featured on Cleantech Group’s 2024 “Cleantech 50 to Watch” list.
• Helix Earth Technologies won the Future Solutions Prize at the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (UFL)’s Urban Future Summit, which includes $50k and admittance into UFL’s ACRE Incubator.
• Form Energy and Sublime Systems were named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch.
• Leaders from Greentown members Active Surfaces, Carbon Negative Solutions, EcoForge, and Monaire were selected for IMPEL’s 2025 cohort.
• SpadXTech Co-founder Lina M. González was chosen as an inaugural member of MassVentures’ Founders School.
• Climative CEO Winston Morton was selected for Canada’s Clean50 and Clean16 by Delta Management Group.
• Stepwise won the Best Tech Culture Award at InfoTechWNY’s 2024 BETAS.
• Advanced Ionics was named the “Business-to-Business” winner at the 2024 Wisconsin Innovation Awards.
• Atacama Biomaterials won the Circular Packaging Design category at the 2024 Chile Diseño Awards.
• ZS2 Technologies won TELUS Business’ Stand with Owners award.
• Haffner Energy was recognized as one of this year’s 50 Hottest Companies in Bioeconomy by ABLC Next.
• Greentown member Cemvita and alum Syzygy Plasmonics were named winners in ALLY Energy’s 2024 GRIT Awards and Best Energy Workplaces.
• Greentown alum C16 Biosciences‘ CEO Shara Ticku received Emerson Collective’s Dial Fellowship.