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Wireless charging provider WiTricity raises $34 million in venture capital

Charged

WiTricity has declared over 200 patents as “standards-essential” to systems implementing these standards. WiTricity’s wireless charging is essential for realizing next-generation urban city and infrastructure services that capture the shift to EV/autonomous driving,” said Mitsubishi Executive VP Mitsumasa Icho. “We

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HBKU and Iberdrola collaborate on smart grid cybersecurity

Smart Energy International

Roberto Di Pietro, professor of cybersecurity at CSE, will extend his expertise to the joint project team of research scientists and smart grid engineers. Expected outcomes include peer reviewed scientific publications, jointly owned patent applications and, ideally, subsequent commercialization. Official signing ceremony.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

DirtSat is building an IoT-enabled network of urban rooftop farms, empowering smart cities to accelerate food security and climate resilience goals through geospatial intelligence, IoT, and data analytics. Elemental Recycling takes all plastics—even when contaminated—and tires as feedstock to generate high-purity graphite and hydrogen.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Resiliency + Adaptation AtmoSpark Technologies is an atmospheric-water-generation company with a patented electro-condensation technology, which has a lower energy footprint than that of current water-generation methods.

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Reverse Pitch • 3.9.23

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Ideaship Ideaship is a patent capital fund providing in-house patent department services, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support for early stage startups. Cultivating innovations and charting the way, they finance patent filings and articulate patent value.

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Reverse Pitch • 10.17.23

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Ideaship Ideaship is a patent capital fund providing in-house patent department services, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support for early stage startups. The Urban Future Lab (UFL) The Urban Future Lab (UFL) is New York City’s hub for smart cities, smart grid and clean energy.

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How ‘15-minute cities’ could save time, reduce emissions, and build community

Grist

Just after the emergence of the internet, in the 2000s, I had a lot of requests from mayors for transforming lampposts, lights, doors, windows into smart equipment. I became one of the European leaders of the smart city. I proposed this term “the human smart city” in 2012. None of that interests me.