TechCrunch: Climate

APRIL 15, 2024

Kode's platform allows customers to do everything from control HVAC and lighting, monitor energy use, track carbon emissions, and keep an eye on water consumption. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. The startup also secured up to $50M in debt financing.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

million in seed capital that will go towards accelerating the manufacturing and deployment of technologies that improve the economics of all-electric geothermal HVAC systems, thus helping real estate properties achieve Net Zero operations. Texas-based Bedrock Energy has announced the raising of USD 8.5

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

Similar startups ran out of cash and fell by the wayside, but Eos has survived, and now plans to leave venture capital behind and enter public markets via merger with a shell company. II will merge with Eos in the fourth quarter of 2020, at which point the startup will become publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Michael Grossman

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It pains me to see promising climate tech startups with novel ideas fall into old constructs to sell their solutions where no white space exists. Apple talks about the number of pixels in their iPhone cameras, but it’s within the context of how those digital dots add color and excitement into the lives of their users.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Through our partnership, this year 10 early-stage companies supported by IMPEL will gain access to Greentown’s startup programming and several other resources. Meet the 10 building tech startups that pitched below, and check out the event program here !

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2024

Twenty startups joined our community in Q2 2024, working on innovations ranging from refrigerant-free heat and AC, to solar-panel recycling, to electrochemical seawater desalination. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 9, 2024

The startup's core technology is a proprietary material that absorbs moisture from the air, allowing air conditioning to cool buildings more efficiently. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

San Francisco-based startup Leap has raised $8.2 “That’s something that is not fun to do with equity,” but as a startup with no track record, it was necessary in Leap’s early days, he said.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

For example, facility managers could reduce the run time of HVAC systems (responsible for about 40 percent of energy consumption), turn off lights in unoccupied spaces (lighting is responsible for 20 percent of energy use) or unplug appliances that aren’t needed (which account for about 33 percent of buildings’ energy use). "Not

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The company’s software allows anything that stores energy in some form—think hot water heaters, electric vehicle chargers, and HVAC systems—to pull energy from the grid at an optimal time, then provide energy to the customer when it’s needed. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the latest example , Emerson, one of the country’s biggest industrial, commercial and residential automation and HVAC systems providers, is acquiring OSI Inc. It’s also a long-time player in grid-enabled devices such as smart thermostats and remote-controllable water heaters.

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TechCrunch: Climate

MAY 15, 2024

The heat pump startup unveiled its first products and revealed details about performance, pricing and availability. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

These firms tend to be smaller startups with fast growth. Their differences can be summarized across three considerations: Range of energy measures : While most firms aspire to provide a broad range of energy conservation measures, some focus on a specific type, which can include LED retrofits or HVAC upgrades.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It is more cost effective to add solar and storage than to improve the efficiency of the building shell, or to replace existing HVAC equipment prior to its end of life with new high efficiency equipment. In operation this high efficiency inverter-based HVAC system was almost impossible to hear. Time to burn that bridge to natural gas.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

At Clean Energy Trust , we have seen some truly impressive startups grow into successful businesses and are proud to have invested in some of the most promising ones. Many cleantech startups have strong organizational alignment on environmental impact. Seek mentorship and support Leadership should never have to be lonely.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

Itron announced last week that it’s partnering with Silicon Valley startup Bidgely to provide pre-integrated access to historical data from its entire fleet of nearly 40 million installed electric and gas meters. “We can see the HVAC breaking down, because we have this super-detailed view of power,” he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Even in the old normal, the healthy $100m investment disclosed this week by agtech startup Pivot Bio - which hopes to disrupt the $65bn global market for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer - would be impressive. Given the current economic climate, it's another sign that interest in climate tech is prevailing during the coronavirus crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Capital-intensive infrastructure deployment can be tricky for venture-backed startups, but Ice Energy lined up financing partners to own the portfolios of installed assets. Even when utility contracts pay for the system, finding customers takes time and money, as does convincing them to insert a new device into their HVAC system.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 18, 2021

In Greentown Labs’ earliest days , when a ragtag group of startups had banded together to split the costs of rent and resources, the entrepreneurs faced a roadblock: they really, really needed Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS software to design and build their climate technologies, and this critical tool was outside of their financial reach.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2020

Brooklyn startup David Energy on Wednesday announced a $1.5 That’s a pretty good return on an upfront investment of perhaps $5,000 to install technology to track HVAC, lighting and other major building loads, and a $1,500-per-month subscription to the company's software to manage those loads for savings and revenue.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

74 startups. That’s Greentown Boston’s 2024 Climatetech Summit by the numbers, but the event was about the people: the startup founders with their groundbreaking solutions, and the ecosystem players who can help them succeed at scale. When we move with our speed and size and scale, we really can effect change.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

The Bay Area startup launched in 2014 with the thesis that lithium-ion batteries made little sense for businesses with high thermal loads, like grocery stores, and that thermal storage could optimize cooling and slash bills for considerably less upfront investment.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

How will it change the HVAC units and window ACs we’ve grown to rely on? Spencer Platt / Getty Images “There’s this kind of idea that HVAC products are boring and not exciting and ugly and hard to use,” Romanin says. This week, we start with the tech side. What will that future-friendly AC look like?

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Charged

MAY 16, 2022

It powers smaller auxiliary loads from the drive belt such as the power steering pump, air compressor for brakes and suspension, HVAC compressor, and coolant pump. Startup Tools and Support. Traditionally, a combustion engine provides more than just traction power to the wheels for commercial vehicles.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Zero Energy Ready certification means steps were taken to achieve extreme energy efficiency through quality HVAC and thermal protection systems. Read the original: Eco-friendly housing startup Module breaks ground in Pittsburgh. The location allows easy access to the homes via public transportation, bike, or foot.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

The workers - three of them trainees in a climate-focused workforce development program run by the Brooklyn, NY-based startup - have come to the site to perform a practice energy audit. To date, BlocPower and its contractor partners - which include Augmented Construction , Urban Energy , VRF Solutions , Super Cool HVAC and Ch!

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 2, 2024

This becomes a major problem for the energy transition, as bringing electric stoves, HVAC systems, vehicle chargers, and more into a home can demand costly electrical panel upgrades. Stepwise , a Greentown Labs startup, is changing this dynamic by optimizing electric panels to tap into their full capacity.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

AI-powered systems can automatically adjust energy-consuming devices, such as lighting and HVAC systems, to minimize wastage. Smart sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) devices enable real-time monitoring of energy usage, facilitating proactive energy management and identifying energy-saving opportunities.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

By then, builders will be able to choose the energy storage system line they want to work with, and the whole process will look almost exactly like it does for home mechanical appliances like water heaters and HVAC systems. The only question will be whether the ESS is packaged with solar panels or kept separate. Standards will evolve.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

His company has built a technology platform to manage the open, transparent and secure exchange of energy data, and this week the California-based based startup announced a pilot project with Silicon Valley Clean Energy to test it out. Devin Hampton, CEO of UtilityAPI, wants to make this vision a reality.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Clean Energy Trust , a nonprofit that supports early-stage cleantech startups and entrepreneurs, announced changes to its Board of Directors today. Clean Energy Trust Announces Changes to Its Board As It Celebrates 10 Years CHICAGO?—?October October 19, 2020?—?

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The startup’s focusing on the commercial HVAC market, offering an add-on to existing systems that pays for itself in about three years through energy consumption savings. Helix Earth Technologies’ multipurpose tech is attracting significant attention.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Weaker residential construction activity cooled the HVAC sector, and heat pump sales bore the brunt at a 16% decline compared to 2022.  Zero emission vehicles (ZEV) led the charge, as YoY sales volume increased 52% to 1.4M vehicles, but price decreases tamped down overall investment growth to 30%.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Active Energy Systems (AES) is a technology startup at the technological forefront of thermal energy storage within the HVAC sector. Design and Prototyping Engineer | Active Energy Systems | Knoxville, TN. Company Summary: .

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

But the costs, implementation timelines, and space requirements have relegated this type of HVAC system to very large and fancy properties (think military bases, presidential libraries, and museums).   Are there specific challenges that come with being both a hardware and a software startup?

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