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Dear Friends of Greentown,

It was delightful to see so many of you in our incubators earlier this month for our annual Climatetech Summit—an event where we not only dig into the biggest topics in climatetech entrepreneurship and deployment, but open our labs and showcase the incredible technologies our 200+ members are developing.

Missed the summit, or want to rewatch a startup’s pitch? You can check out recaps of our Boston and Houston events, complete with session recordings and photo galleries, and read the Boston Globe’s take on what makes the Climatetech Summit so special.

At the summit, we shared that Greentown and Browning the Green Space (BGS) were getting ready to launch Year 2 of the Advancing Climatetech and Clean Energy Leaders Program (ACCEL)—our accelerator for BIPOC-led climatetech startups. Applications went live this week and run through Jan. 5, 2024!

Greentown and BGS are seeking applications from startups at TRL 1-4 that are developing climate solutions for the electricity, transportation, buildings, manufacturing, agriculture, and resiliency + adaptation sectors.
We’re eager to support another cohort of startups in this exciting accelerator; check out the Year 1 participants and learn how ACCEL supported their growth.
More details can be found in English here and Spanish here.

In another piece of news about our efforts to make the climatetech industry more diverse, inclusive, and equitable, we’re excited to announce that our Houston incubator received a grant from the Economic Development Administration that will allow us to expand our Investor Program’s EDIJ efforts, in partnership with the Ion. We’ll share more about this important work in the coming months!

Grant funding like this and generous donations from folks across the climatetech ecosystem allow us to carry out our mission of supporting founders and catalyzing climate solutions through entrepreneurship, partnership, and collaboration.

As Giving Tuesday approaches, we’re asking for your partnership in helping get climatetech startups’ crucial solutions out into the world. Your donation can help us provide mentorship and learning opportunities for founders, support their prototyping needs, connect them with crucial software and business resources, and more.

As always, we thank you for your commitment to climate action and support of climatetech solutions!

Warmly,
The Greentown Labs Team

Member Milestones

What does climate action look like? Climatetech startups receiving funding, winning awards, deploying their tech around the world, and more! Read a roundup of our members’ recent milestones here and check out some highlights below:

AmpUp will partner with Leviton to integrate its charging-management software into Leviton’s new EV-charging stations.
Sublime Systems won the Emerging Company of the Year award at the Northeast Clean Energy Council’s 14th annual Green Future Gala. The startup also received a life-cycle assessment from Climate Earth, an assessor of environmental product declarations in the concrete industry, validating that its cement-manufacturing process enables a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Aeromine received a $1.1M grant from the Danish Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program to test its bladeless wind-harvesting tech.
ALLY Energy, Fervo Energy, and Syzygy Plasmonics were all named winners of the 2023 Houston Innovation Awards.
rStream received a $1.25M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue its work developing an artificial-intelligence program to sort discarded materials.
Active Surfaces was named a U.S. National Runner-up for Cleantech Open 2023 and also won the National People's Choice Award.

Read Up on Partnerships for Climate Action

Greentown’s Senior Vice President of Partnerships Aisling Carlson offers insights on why startup-corporate partnerships are critical to developing, deploying, and scaling climatetech solutions.

Earlier this month, we were thrilled to announce our newest partner, GE Vernova! Check out how the corporate plans to work with Greentown startups to accelerate the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.

Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events

Nov. 16: The Future of Offshore Wind: Innovation + Startup Showcase [Greentown Boston]
Join us tonight for the culmination of Go Energize 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program focused on innovations for responsible offshore-wind development, in partnership with Vineyard Wind and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. You’ll hear the Go Energize 2023 startup cohort present their technologies and how they’re enabling a sustainable, economically feasible offshore-wind industry.

Nov. 30: Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector [Greentown Boston]
We’re kicking off Go Build 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program with Saint-Gobain that’s advancing circularity and decarbonization in the built environment. Attendees will see lightning pitches from the startup finalists on innovations that extend product life cycles, further develop raw materials, revalorize waste, or act as other enabling technologies.

Nov. 30: Carbon to Value Initiative Year 3 Final Showcase [New York]
Join us in New York City or via livestream to celebrate the culmination of the third year of the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative! Hear from the eight Year 3 Cohort startups shaping the future of the carbontech industry as they each present their unique solutions, the progress they’ve made throughout the past six months of the C2V Initiative, and where they are headed next.

Dec. 7: Investor Speaker Series: Both Sides of the Coin [Greentown Houston]
Our next Investor Speaker Series installment will feature a sit-down with a Greentown startup founder and one of their investors as they talk about their experiences working together before, during, and after an equity investment was made in the company. Stay with us afterward for an end-of-year happy hour, sponsored by Activate, celebrating what the Houston energy innovation ecosystem has done together in 2023 and raise a toast—from the event’s spiked hot chocolate bar—to an impactful year of climate action ahead!

Greentown is Hiring!

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