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Dear Friends of Greentown Houston,

What an incredible inaugural Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week! Thank you to everyone who joined Greentown and our partnering organizations last week to celebrate cutting-edge climatetech startups, make valuable connections throughout the ecosystem, and chart our collective path forward in the energy transition.

Our two events channeled the theme of celebration to highlight the awe-inspiring climatetech solutions being developed, deployed, and commercialized in Houston—a city unlike any other that's uniquely positioned to be the energy-transition capital of the world. The midweek Climatetech Innovation Festival showcased our founders’ technologies and stories and TEX-E’s work with local universities, and our Climate Impact Awards Dinner closed out the week with a celebration of Greentown Houston’s groundbreaking community of 75+ startups.

At the awards dinner, we were proud to honor Greentown startups in three categories, as voted on by their fellow members:

🏆 Climate Impact Startup of the Year: Cemvita
Cemvita utilizes carbon to biomanufacture sustainable oil for the production of sustainable aviation fuel, environmentally friendly palm oil alternatives, and other high-value feedstock oils.

🌍 Climate Responsibility Award: Element Resources
Element Resources is a project-development company focused on the production of 100 percent green hydrogen.

🌟 Rising Star Award: Neuralix
Neuralix offers a complete suite of rapid, customizable templates for data lifecycle with an AI-driven framework designed for the energy and manufacturing sectors.

We were also thrilled to have Lisa Lin, director of sustainability for Harris County, speak at the event as our distinguished guest. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the awards dinner, to our event sponsors—bp, Truist Securities, Vinson & Elkins, the Barbara J. Burger Fund, Halliburton Labs, SCF Partners, and Microsoft—and of course to our wonderful startup community!

Want to keep the momentum for the energy transition going? Here’s how you can engage with Greentown members!

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: attend an event to network with our member companies and the climatetech ecosystem.

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

Warmly,
The Greentown Team

Member Milestones

Haffner Energy signed an agreement with IðunnH2 to integrate its biomass-to-clean-fuels tech in the 65,000 metric tons/year electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) facility under development by IðunnH2.
Neuralix won first place at the Shell Global Hackathon for Sustainable and Affordable Energy.
Helix Earth Technologies won the $20k second-place prize in the RE+ EPIC Prize Pitch Competition.
Terralytiq was accepted to Techstars Washington D.C.
Greentown alum Fervo Energy achieved record-breaking commercial flow rates at its Cape Station project's first well test—making it the most productive enhanced geothermal system in history—and secured a $100M construction loan to accelerate its operations.
Greentown members and alumni were accepted to multiple accelerators and received several major honors:
- Moment Energy, PolyJoule, Salient, and Syzygy Plasmonics were chosen for Amazon Web Services’ Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 cohort, and Dsider and SeaDeep were selected for Amazon Web Services’ Generative AI Energy Lab.
- Ardent, Corrolytics, Elementium Materials, Mitico, Osmoses, Oxylus Energy, and Revterra were named among the 10 most-promising energy tech startups at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship's annual Energy Tech Venture Forum.
- AeroShield, Applied Bioplastics, Kanin Energy, Mitico, Oxylus Energy, Reverse Energy Solutions, and Upstream Tech were named to Trellis (formerly GreenBiz)'s 25 Climate Tech Startups to Watch list.
- Fervo Energy, Form Energy, Lydian, Electra, and WeaveGrid were selected by Congruent Ventures and SBV for a list of "50 companies that have strong potential to drive carbon reduction over the next 25 years."

Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events

Sept. 19: Carbon to Value Initiative Year 4 Kickoff [Greentown Houston]
Year 4 of the Carbon to Value Initiative is kicking off tonight! Join us to meet the startups that were selected for this year’s cohort, hear from industry experts, and network with the carbontech ecosystem.

Oct. 22 and 24: Climatetech Summit [Greentown Houston + Greentown Boston]
Join us on Oct. 22 at Greentown Houston, Oct. 24 at Greentown Boston, and both days via livestream for the ultimate celebration of climate-focused entrepreneurship and innovation, replete with startup pitches, networking opportunities, and industry insights. This event sells out every year, so get your ticket now!

Looking to get more involved in our biggest event of the year? We have several sponsorship opportunities available! If you’re interested in learning more, please get in touch.

Oct. 29-31: VERGE 2024 [Ecosystem Event]
Join 6,000+ climatetech ecosystem leaders at VERGE 2024, an unmissable event for professionals catalyzing transformative, profitable change through deploying climatetech at scale. Register before Oct. 4 to get $300 off the Final Rate All-Access Pass and use Greentown’s code V24GTL for an additional 10 percent off.

Greentown is Hiring!

Director of Human Resources (Houston, TX or Somerville, MA)

Thank You to Our Founding + Grand Opening Partners 🌎

Reflections on the First Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week