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Dear Friends of Greentown,

Last week we—along with 112 of our startups and more than 1,800 of you—got to enjoy our two favorite days of the year at Greentown: Climatetech Summit at each of our incubators!

The heart of Climatetech Summit is our community of entrepreneurs, who work side-by-side in the labs and offices to create the solutions that will power a decarbonized, resilient future. For this event only, we open the doors to those prototyping labs, letting leaders from across the climatetech industry see our members’ technologies in action.

The role of ecosystem-wide collaboration in scaling novel climatetech was a key theme in both summits, from the lab showcases, to networking sessions, to the events’ speaking programs. We were thrilled to welcome Amazon’s Chief Sustainability Officer Kara Hurst and J.P. Morgan’s Head of Climate Tech Kelly Belcher as our keynote speakers for each location, along with nearly 70 other fantastic speakers. You can find recaps of Houston’s summit here and Boston’s here, complete with session recordings, photos, and details on the startups that pitched.

We’d like to share a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us at the event, the summit sponsors—especially Climatetech Summit Champion GE Vernova and Climatetech Summit Builders Schneider Electric and Wells Fargo—the Greentown team for their hard work, and of course our wonderful community of entrepreneurs.

Now, help us keep the momentum going by engaging with Greentown startups to get crucial climate solutions to market:

Startups: join our community.
Investors: get connected with our world-changing entrepreneurs.
Corporates: explore partnering with Greentown and our startups.
Job seekers: work at one of our startups—there’s a place for you, no matter your background or skill set.
Other climate champions: donate today to power Greentown’s critical work of supporting climatetech entrepreneurs and join us at a future event.

As always, thank you for your commitment to climate action!

Warmly,
The Greentown 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:

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.
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.
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.

Recent Reads

Most battery innovations focus on the electrode materials—think silicon anodes, cobalt-free cathodes, or manganese-rich cathodes. But Greentown member Elementium Materials is taking a different approach: introducing a novel electrolyte that builds higher-energy-density, faster-charging, lower-cost, and longer-lasting batteries. Read more.

The seven ACCEL Year 2 participating startups are working on everything from yeast-centered water treatment, to vertical-axis offshore wind turbines, to algae- and cellulose-based fashion beads. And in the first half of the program, they’ve been hard at work on tech and business development—check out their progress, including pilots, prize wins, and planned fundraises.

Greentown is proud to have welcomed more than 70 startups to our incubators in the first three quarters of 2024! Learn about these groundbreaking climatetech startups.

Decarbonizing the buildings sector will require collaboration across the climatetech ecosystem, with corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, and others working in concert with technology entrepreneurs to scale solutions. That’s why our fall 2024 Sector Pitch Day, co-hosted with IMPEL, explored groundbreaking building tech innovations and the partnerships necessary to help them scale. Read about the startups that pitched!

Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events

Nov. 19: Energy-sector Networking [Greentown Houston]
Join us for an evening of networking with Greentown startups developing game-changing climate technologies in the energy and electricity sector.

Nov. 19: Keeping Services Running: Climatetech Solutions for Continuity of Operations
[Greentown Boston]
This event, led by the Alliance for Climate Transition (ACT), will bring together municipal leaders and climatetech startups to explore how they can collaborate to keep municipalities’ communities safe and resilient in the face of climate change.

Nov. 19: Massachusetts Climatetech Studio Showcase [Greentown Boston]
Join the Massachusetts Climatetech Studio, powered by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and FedTech, to see the studio’s cohort pitch their go-to-market strategies for innovative climate solutions.

Dec. 5: EnergyBar: Celebrating a Year of Climate Action [Greentown Boston]
Greentown Boston’s final EnergyBar of 2024 will celebrate a fantastic year of climate action! In partnership with Siemens, we’re inviting entrepreneurs, investors, students, and friends of climatetech for a night of impactful networking. Let’s look back at the progress we’ve made together over the past year and inspire continued action for a decarbonized future in 2025.

Greentown is Hiring!

Sales and Customer Relationship Manager (Somerville, MA)

Thank You to Our Climatetech Summit Sponsors

Thank You to Our Partners

Climatetech Summit Reflections, Recaps, + Recordings