Over the past year, Greentown is proud to have welcomed 10 new corporate partners, all of which are committed to engaging deeply with our climatetech startups.
Large, established private sector players—corporates—have a critical role to play in climatetech innovation. Through their domain expertise and financial scale, corporates can contribute specialized resources and capital to accelerate technology development. Their position as incumbents in a largely B2B space also means corporates can unlock key commercialization pathways for innovation. And when it comes to achieving worldwide deployment, corporations’ global footprints can serve as springboards for climatetech innovation to jump borders for sweeping transformation.
Our Incubator Partnerships Program engages 80+ corporates in industries from energy to consumer packaged goods and invites them into dialogue with our community of climatetech startups through private pitch events, topic roundtables, industry deep dives, and more. These partners become advisors, mentors, investors, and pilot customers for our startups, and our startups, in turn, help them to advance their own innovation and sustainability priorities.
Let us introduce you to our newest partners!
Terawatt Partners
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963; today, it works closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. As part of the partnership, BCG guided Greentown through a mission, vision, and strategy refresh aimed at maximizing the nonprofit incubator’s impact over the next several years.
Ecopetrol, a leading integrated energy group with a majority ownership stake held by the Colombian government, is the country’s largest company and also conducts operations in several other locales throughout South and North America. Ecopetrol’s TESG (Technology, Environmental, Social, and Governance) framework is one of the four key pillars of its corporate strategy and involves leading several initiatives for diversification and decarbonization through renewables, electrification, natural climate solutions, hydrogen, and more.
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes power, wind, and electrification businesses. Its mission is to continue electrifying the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. The company is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping its customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. In 2023, GE Vernova—the installed base of which helps generate approximately 30 percent of the world’s electricity—opened its global headquarters in Cambridge, MA, just two miles from Greentown’s Boston incubator.
Holcim, a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, partners with customers, architects, engineers, public authorities, and cities around the world. Leveraging its formulation expertise and open innovation ecosystem, Holcim’s products and solutions enable the construction industry to build better with less. Holcim offers the world’s broadest ranges of low-carbon cement and low-carbon concrete and is recycling construction-demolition materials into new building solutions to drive circular construction.
TotalEnergies, a global multi-energy company and the world’s largest utility-scale solar developer, is active in more than 30 U.S. states with 25 GW of solar, storage, and wind projects at various stages of development. The company’s more than 100,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, cleaner, more reliable, and accessible to as many people as possible. Working in nearly 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.
Gigawatt Partners
Cell Signaling Technology is a different kind of life science company—one founded, owned, and led by active research scientists, with the highest standards of product and service quality, technological innovation, and scientific rigor for over 20 years. It consistently provides fellow scientists around the globe with best-in-class products and services to fuel their quests for discovery.
SLB is a global technology company that drives energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries, SLB works each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition.
Megawatt Partners
Embraer-X is the disruptive innovation company of Embraer, the world’s third-largest aircraft manufacturer. Acting as a market accelerator, Embraer-X is committed to sustainability principles and has the objective of fostering and structuring new business opportunities alongside with the innovation ecosystem players willing to forge new paths that positively impact our world.
Koppers is an integrated global provider of treated-wood products, wood-treatment chemicals, and carbon compounds. Its products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end markets, including the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber, and construction industries.
Re:Build Manufacturing is a family of design, engineering, and manufacturing businesses across the United States whose combined experience creates an industrial powerhouse greater than the sum of its parts. Its expertise in technology development, product engineering, operations management, component and complex systems manufacturing, and product life-cycle management is changing the way the industrial U.S. does business.
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