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Dear Friends of Greentown Houston,

It’s been an exciting month for our members here at Greentown Houston—from fundraises, to partnerships, to awards!

FUNDING

Helix Earth Technologies, which is revolutionizing air conditioning and carbon capture and sequestration with cutting-edge tech developed at NASA, closed a $5.6M seed round. It also 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.

PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS

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.
Boxes is deploying its innovative retail devices with Beiersdorf.
Greentown alum Ebb Carbon signed a marine-CO2-removal deal with Microsoft, a Greentown Houston Founding Partner, that commissions the removal of 350,000 tonnes of CO2 over 10 years.
Greentown alum FluxWorks, which creates frictionless magnetic gears, opened a 9,000-square-foot facility in Conroe, Texas.

AWARDS + RECOGNITION

Greentown alum Fervo Energy was featured in TIME's list of the Best Inventions of 2024, in addition to Greentown Boston member De-Ice and alum Electra. Fervo Energy and Electra’s CEOs, alongside the CEO of Greentown Boston member Nth Cycle, were also selected for the TIME100 Climate list of influential climate business leaders.
Corrolytics won the Minority-Owned Business Award and People's Choice Award at the 2024 Houston Innovation Awards.
Haffner Energy was recognized as one of this year’s 50 Hottest Companies in Bioeconomy by ABLC Next.
Greentown member Cemvita and alum Syzygy Plasmonics were named winners in ALLY Energy’s 2024 GRIT Awards and Best Energy Workplaces.

Please join us in congratulating these startups on their exciting milestones! And if you’re interested in collaborating with Greentown members, you can find many ways to engage with them here.

Warmly,
The Greentown Team

Join Us Today for Greentown Houston's Last Event of 2024

Today’s your last chance of the year to network at Greentown Houston! Join us at 5 p.m. for Energy-sector Networking to meet our startups innovating in energy and electricity. Showcasing companies include Alma Energy, CLS Wind, Dsider, Element Resources, REON, and SeaDeep.

Applications are Open for Year 3 of ACCEL

Today, we opened applications for Year 3 of ACCEL, an accelerator from Greentown and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that bolsters BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach.

For this year’s accelerator, we’re seeking applications from innovative startups at TRL 2-4 that are developing climate solutions for the agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, resiliency + adaptation, and transportation sectors. Selected startups will receive non-dilutive grant funding up to $25k, participate in trainings led by Curriculum + Resources Partner VentureWell, gain valuable mentorship and fundraising and investment support, receive Greentown and BGS membership, and more.

Learn more and apply by Jan. 7, 2025!

ICYMI: Climatetech Summit Recap, Recordings Available

Thank you to everyone who joined us last month for Greentown Houston’s 2024 Climatetech Summit! If you couldn’t make the event or want to look back on a startup pitch or panel, you can find a recap and recordings of the summit here.

Ecosystem Events + Resources

Canary Media is bringing its live event series to Greentown Houston on Jan. 30, 2025! Join us at Canary Live Houston for an exploration of Texas’s clean-hydrogen economy and how the state became the United States’s largest clean-energy market.

Climatetech Summit Supporter Fidelity’s Fidelity Private Shares™ supports climatetech startups with an all-in-one equity management platform with features like an automated cap table and data room, fast and accurate 409A valuations, sophisticated scenario modeling, and access to top-notch support (always included). Book a demo to see Fidelity Private Shares in action, and mention Greentown’s newsletter for 20% off your first-year subscription!

Greentown Labs and Fidelity are not affiliated.

Thank You to Our Founding + Grand Opening Partners 🌎

Startup News, Energy-sector Networking, + Climatetech Summit Recordings