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Go Build 2023 Startups and Saint-Gobain Partner on Integration Testing, Pilot Studies, Market Exploration, and More

Greentown Labs

The six participating startups— Active Surfaces , Carbon Upcycling Technologies , Endeavor Composites , Hempitecture , Puro Renewables , and ZS2 Technologies —were chosen in a highly competitive selection process that saw more than 100 applications.

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Brief: Tyson bets on insect protein with strategic investment in Protix

AFN Sustainable Protein

The two companies will also build and operate a facility in the US that will be the “first at-scale facility” of its kind to upcycle manufacturing byproduct into insect protein. All aspects of production, from breeding to incubating to hatching of larvae, will take place in the new facility.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Jan. Hempitecture (Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.) billion in funding.

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Teens fight food deserts as Urban Chicken Whisperers

Greenability Magazine

The most popular part of the displays were the incubators with live, hatching chicks that they placed at two libraries and a YMCA in Kansas City, KS. From there they applied for, and won, a $1,000 Community Action Plan Grant to start building their first upcycled chicken coop. Phase two was all about building the coops.

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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material

Greentown Labs

The end-product is carbon-negative, González explains, because the microbes upcycle carbon and SpadXTech exclusively plans to use renewable energy for its processes. During ACCEL, González workshopped her pitch with Sophie Wadsworth , a pitch coach who’s been working closely with the cohort.

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BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase

Greentown Labs

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. The end material is carbon-negative, Gonzaléz explains, because the microbes upcycle carbon and SpadXTech uses renewable energy for its processes.

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Carbon to Value Initiative Builds Up Carbontech Ecosystem in Year 3

Greentown Labs

Capro-X Technology at a glance: Based in Ithaca, NY, Capro-X deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid building block biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. The startup is also continuing its relationship with Fluor, working with the company via its business incubation program.

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