We like to say that Greentown’s wet lab is a special place. Where else can you find entrepreneurs at neighboring benches working on innovations as diverse as filtration, energy storage, building materials, alternative proteins, and battery metal recycling?
“What I find most exciting is the variety of work being done in the wet lab,” says our Sr. Director of Wet Lab Operations Carey Ann Comeau. “Now more than ever, all the startups are taking a bite out of greenhouse gas emissions, but from totally different sectors.”
The 1,800-square-foot, BSL-2 lab is located next to Greentown’s prototyping lab, allowing for climatetech innovations both inside and outside the wet lab—which is crucial for startups that need to transport materials between both spaces in order to build and test their prototypes. We provide equipment, manage the lab, handle all waste streams, and encourage our entrepreneurs to share ideas and knowledge.
We couldn’t be more proud of the group of climatetech startups we have in the wet lab and their incredible progress. Recent wet lab member milestones include American Battery Technology Company closing a $39.1M funding round; Advent Technologies’ acquisition of Serenergy A/S and fischer eco solutions GmbH; and Sublime Systems CEO Leah Ellis being named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35—just to name a few!
Read about our 11 wet lab startups below:
Agriculture
Boston Meats has developed technologies that use natural proteins to create real texture in alternative meats through a sustainable and scalable process.
DxLab consists of engineers, physicists, biologists, and chemists working together to provide rapid and affordable detection of diseases with new diagnostic platforms that can be used where they are needed the most.
Electricity
Advent Technologies makes high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT PEM) fuel cells that convert hydrogen and other renewable fuels to electricity.
American Battery Technology Company is uniquely positioned to supply low-cost, low-environmental-impact, and domestically sourced battery metals through its three divisions: lithium-ion battery recycling, primary battery metal extraction technologies, and primary resources development.
Manufacturing
Desktop Health’s team at Greentown Labs is creating novel regenerative and biomimetic tissue grafts using biodegradable materials and additive manufacturing technologies.
Lydian Labs aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the chemical industry by electrifying the chemical production process through its printed catalyst technology.
Osmoses has developed membrane materials for chemical separations that have exceptional permeability and unprecedented stability and can be deployed in the energy, chemical, and petrochemical sectors to meet customers’ needs for energy savings and gas-product recovery.
Sublime Systems is developing technology to decarbonize cement-making, which is currently responsible for eight percent of global CO2 emissions.
Resiliency + Adaptation
Biko Biolabs transforms plastic waste into an organic soil carbon amendment and fermentation feedstock, converting the environmental menace of plastic pollution into a rich opportunity to grow local regenerative agriculture and the burgeoning bioeconomy.
Matterworks’ technology enables metabolomics assays that are faster, broader, and can characterize diverse chemical classes within a single setup.
Meter is a developing next-generation volumetric imaging technology—a machine that can see inside of anything and cloud-based software for processing the complex, volumetric data that the machine produces.
Interested in becoming a member or partner of Greentown’s wet lab? Learn more about the wet lab here and get in touch!