Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

ACCEL combines startup acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation at Greentown, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGSs networks of industry experts. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North Americawith locations in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Feb. Tato Labs (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Corporate partnership accelerator program seeks innovations from startups in alternative proteins, waste plastics recycling, and prevention of food loss and waste. MCHC’s businesses include bioplastics, plastic films and sheets, food ingredients, and healthcare, among many others. SOMERVILLE, Mass., SOMERVILLE, Mass.,

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

Recent years have seen an emergence of a parallel “bluetech” category to describe sustainable technologies touching on the ocean economy, which spans industries such as offshore wind, ocean plastics removal, carbon sequestration, aquaculture, marine robotics, data collection technologies, coastal resilience and more. Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The program is focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Imagine turning the most difficult-to-recycle plastics into fuel or virgin plastic rather than sending them to landfills. . Shell aims to use 1 million tons of plastic waste annually by 2025, according to a press release.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

10, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) as its newest Terawatt Partner—the highest level of engagement with the incubator. Somerville, Mass., Dina Routhier, President of Stanley Ventures, will serve on the Advisory Board for 2021.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 9, 2023

Aja Labs is starting their journey focused on creating an environmentally safe, plastic-free hair extension and will eventually expand their business to creating safe fibers of many kinds. It mimics human hair and is plastic free. Nourie, Aja Labs’ first consumer focused product, is engineered from plant-based biopolymers.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 16, 2023

DrinKicks’s sneakers are made of waste from apples, corn, bamboo, and cotton, along with recycled rubber and 100 percent post-consumer plastic bottles—also known as RPET, a plastic that is completely recyclable and requires a fraction of the manufacturing and processing energy that traditional plastics need.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

upcycles carbon-negative biowaste for use in reducing the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint in typical plastic products. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate technologies.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Greentown teamed up with BASF and Stanley Black & Decker to find the top startups from across the world that are capable of disrupting the recycling industry and plastics and energy storage value chains. Corumat, based in California, micro-engineers bioplastics to reduce plastic waste. At the Feb. Read more here.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Museum of Plastic is popping up once again, this time at the EDITION Hotel during Art Basel Miami, from Friday, December 6 through Sunday, December 8. Lonely Whale is known for campaigns like the anti-straw Stop Sucking and the anti-single-use plastic water bottle Question How You Hydrate. Answers have been edited for length.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 10, 2020

The company works with a variety of organizations, including universities, but has found the biggest market in customers that use steam in their industrial processes—such as food, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and refineries. It’s everything I wanted in an incubator.”. This place is amazing,” Owens says. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Buying a single-use, plastic bottle of water, it’s not an economic decision,” explains Bevi Co-founder Sean Grundy. The Bevi team joined Greentown Labs before officially incorporating, and put one of their first machines in the incubator. That knowledge gave us a lot of confidence. We knew we had economics on our side.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Circularity Challenge , run with BASF and supported by Stanley Black & Decker , is a six-month accelerator focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Netherlands-based, eight-person company is running pilots in the plastics and textiles industries, and aims to scale in 2020. . There’s a level of quality to your material that you can prove easily,” Sabur says.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Plastic and paper and fertilizers aren’t going away, and the embodied energy and embodied emissions for that are really significant,” she adds. In the future, the company will address chemicals and plastics. Twelve percent of U.S. energy consumption goes to separating and purifying chemical compounds.”. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Greentown Labs is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq. The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Trace amounts of man made plastic have been found as deep as the Mariana Trench, and as high and secluded as Mount Everest, and it’s becoming more and more clear to people worldwide that the problem is getting out of hand. Echoing Green focuses primarily on incubating startups in the sustainability space.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This year-long program combines acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation through a Greentown membership, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGS’s networks of industry experts. FRAKKTAL Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a synthetic plastic polymer made from fossil fuels, and it forms one of the most common types of plastics.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 22, 2022

Independence Coffee Company ’s 100-percent-compostable coffee pods are made with no plastic. Greentown is proud to partner with Browning the Green Space on its ACCESS contractor accelerator , made possible by a grant from the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 18, 2021

Member-partner collaborations run the gamut, from a global commercial agreement between Salient Predictions and BASF , to a pilot project between Raptor Maps and Enel , to a customer deal between SteamIQ and Toray Plastics that also involved National Grid. Now, Saint-Gobain is doing the same for our new Greentown Houston incubator.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Plastics Data Challenge is a global innovation challenge that will source, support, and scale innovative technologies, methodologies and working prototypes that help entrepreneurs and others collect, analyse and leverage data to understand and address the leakage of plastic waste into the environment.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Some technologies allow the captured CO2 to be re-used by converting it into plastics, concrete or biofuel. billion in subsidies for its proposed biomass energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant, which is being trialled in its CCUS “incubation area” in North Yorkshire. Drax is seeking an estimated £31.7

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

In 2019, BASF partnered with us to run the Circularity Challenge , a startup-corporate partnership accelerator program focused on breakthroughs in the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains to advance a circular economy. WS: As one example, we were a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

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EDF + Business

JULY 11, 2023

Corporate Incubators and Venture Capital Instead of developing new solutions that address innovation gaps internally, companies are launching in-house incubators and accelerators. Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund , for example, is a venture arm of Amazon focused on investing in sustainable and decarbonizing technologies and services.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

develops a chemical recycling process to turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester-fiber waste into “virgin-grade” plastics. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America—with locations in Somerville, Mass. MacroCycle (Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.) Maple Materials (Richmond, California, U.S.)

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

SOMERVILLE, Mass. , LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands , March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs , the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America , today announced Unilever as its newest Terawatt-level Partner—the highest level of engagement with the startup community. Located in Somerville, Mass. ,

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

SOMERVILLE, Mass. , LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands , March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs , the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America , today announced Unilever as its newest Terawatt-level Partner—the highest level of engagement with the startup community. Located in Somerville, Mass. ,

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Greentown Labs Houston will be the first climatetech-focused incubator in the city, aiming to serve as an on-the-ground catalyst for the energy transition in Houston. Let us introduce you to: Applied Bioplastics produces affordable polymers with properties that are equal to or better than those of traditional petrochemical plastics.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Check out the day at Greentown Houston: Greentown Houston’s Climatetech Summit kicked off with opening remarks from InnovationMap Houston Editor Natalie Harms , the event’s emcee, and Greentown Labs’ Head of Houston Incubator + VP of Innovation Juliana Garaizar.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 23, 2024

Puro Renewables Technology at a glance: Puro Renewables (Miami Beach, FL) upcycles carbon-negative biowaste for use in reducing the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint in typical plastic products.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Another cleantech partnership explores the potential for using captured CO2 to displace oil in the production of plastic products, using Econic's pioneering catalyst technology. CCUS Incubation Area, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2022

As CEO of the nation’s largest climatetech incubator and mentor to female entrepreneurs across the climatetech ecosystem, I am very familiar with the challenges associated with this lack of gender diversity in the climatetech investment community and its impacts on underrepresented founders. round in 2020.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The Circularity Challenge, run with BASF and supported by Stanley Black & Decker, is a six-month accelerator focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Each of the hundreds of off-the-shelf plastic containers that form the main structure house a self-contained colony of crickets, which can be turned into high-protein flour. Essentially, it is housing that also serves as a cricket farm and, hence, a source of food for its human residents.

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