Founded 2022
Industry
Electricity, Manufacturing
Richard Swartwout
Founder/CTO
Shiv Bhakta
Founder/Business Development
Articles
- Award-Winning Cleantech Startup Joins Cummings Properties’ Woburn, MA Innovation Cluster
- Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
- Annual student startup competition in Houston names teams for 2023
- U.S. Department of Energy Awards $47,500 in Support of Commercializing National Lab Innovations
- Active Surfaces Secures $5.6M in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Solar Technology
- How the façade of this “smog-eating” building in Milan gobbles up pollutants
About the Company
Active Surfaces is commercializing an ultra thin-film solar technology based on decades of MIT research. Its technology can unlock terawatts of dual land-use, next-generation deployment.
About the Solution
Active Surfaces envisions a future where any surface can be solar. Its proprietary, MIT-patented technology makes it possible to apply flexible, lightweight solar panels to any surface. Its technology is 10x lighter, has comparable efficiency and stability, and is competitive on an LCOE-basis.