Icelandic startups tackle energy resilience under extreme conditions
GreenBiz
JUNE 16, 2022
Iceland, the land of fire and ice and ambitious clean energy goals, is a land well-suited to troubleshoot energy resilience.
Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2020
Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million. While overall startup funding is down this quarter because of the economic disruption brought on by COVID-19, entrepreneurs focused on solving climate-related problems have been bucking the trend. Heather Clancy. Tue, 05/26/2020 - 06:01.
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How this startup uses data to facilitate resilience in the face of deep climate uncertainty
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
A Q&A with Geospiza cofounder Sarah Tuneberg about the innovative risk assessment platform and its commitment to driving resilience for communities, enterprises and the globe.
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Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk. The hope is that companies can use this data not just for disclosure but to take real action to shore up their resilience and physical integrity over time, Bassi said. Heather Clancy. Thu, 06/03/2021 - 01:30.
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Social Distancing Is Rewriting the Cleantech Startup Survival Guide
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 11, 2020
According to a New York Times analysis , 6,000 people at 50 startups have lost their jobs since the middle of March. Startups in travel, consumer goods, or fintech are the hardest hit by the current economic freeze. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents.
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Home batteries are more than just a backup
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
A rapidly growing startup sees them as a path to virtual power plants, and a key to making the grid more sustainable and resilient.
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Post-pivot, African tech startups are peddling pandemic resilience
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
ImpactAlpha, November 4 – As Africa’s economies restart from COVID lockdowns, the businesses on the fastest path to recovery are tech startups helping improve the resilience of the continent’s small business sector. The post Post-pivot, African tech startups are peddling pandemic resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. In response, a vibrant ecosystem of sustainability-oriented startups, investors and incubators is taking shape in India today.
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AI startup speeds up the creation of climate-resilient crops
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The Durham, North Carolina–based startup, which pitched onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield […] Creating crops that’ll endure climate change — think worse droughts, heat waves and pests — is a time-consuming and costly feat.
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Diageo launches climate solutions fund for African smallholder farms
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Startups aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate and biodiversity impacts can apply for funding.
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The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers
Impact Alpha
APRIL 15, 2024
In today’s Brief: Featured: Adaptation Finance For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation. The post The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings Agents of Impact!
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NONA Technologies Electrifies Water Desalination, with Industrial and Resiliency Applications
Greentown Labs
MARCH 19, 2025
We have an electro-membrane approach, explains Bruce Crawford , the startups CEO and co-founder. The startups tech can remove sediments that build up in the cooled water, recycling 99 percent of it and drastically reducing the amount of new water facilities need to draw in. The people are the biggest thing for us here.
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Seven blue economy startups secure seed funding to enhance climate resilience in Africa
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The post Seven blue economy startups secure seed funding to enhance climate resilience in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Restocking local fish supplies. A marketplace for seaweed farmers. Triggering Exponential Climate Action, or TECA, invested.
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The Brief: Resilient microgrids, energy access relief, assisted e-commerce in rural India, Australia’s impact startups, microfinance in Bolivia, care economy
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Featured: Microgrids Outages in Louisiana make ‘resilience’ the watchword as electricity grids are rebuilt. The post The Brief: Resilient microgrids, energy access relief, assisted e-commerce in rural India, Australia’s impact startups, microfinance in Bolivia, care economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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The Brief: Net-zero water, principled voting, end of Indie.vc, southern resilience, vegan startups, Kenyan artisans, rolling impact tech fund
Impact Alpha
MARCH 3, 2021
The post The Brief: Net-zero water, principled voting, end of Indie.vc, southern resilience, vegan startups, Kenyan artisans, rolling impact tech fund appeared first on Impact Alpha. Featured: Net-zero means water, too, for corporations serious about climate risk.
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Verizon's Dylan Siegler on their new Climate Resilience Prize
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Sherrie Totoki, Director of Startup Programs at GreenBiz, interviewed Dylan Siegler, Corporate Social Responsibility Strategist at Verizon, during VERGE 21 (October 25-28, 2021). This video is sponsored by Verizon. View archived videos from the conference here: [link]
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The Brief: Election takes, resilient tech startups in Africa, Virginia’s Opportunity Zones, crowdfunding for clean energy, consumer lending through the crisis
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The post The Brief: Election takes, resilient tech startups in Africa, Virginia’s Opportunity Zones, crowdfunding for clean energy, consumer lending through the crisis appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Whatever the final results of yesterday’s U.S. ImpactAlpha is looking to Agents of Impact to chart the new narrative.
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Ten African innovators land $55,000 each to scale their solutions for climate resilience
Impact Alpha
JULY 3, 2024
Homegrown climate tech startups are key to Africa’s green transition. The post Ten African innovators land $55,000 each to scale their solutions for climate resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Ten companies working on plastics recycling, sustainable stormwater drainage, and other climate solutions.
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Modular Microgrid Startup Raises $300 Million
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 28, 2020
Startup Scale Microgrid Solutions won a $300 million commitment from investment firm Warburg Pincus this week, an unusually robust vote of confidence in the tricky microgrid market. The everyday bill savings pay down the cost of resilience. SMS sells modular microgrid products to commercial and industrial customers.
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Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers Poised to Transform AI Infrastructure
Hydrogen Fuel News
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Enter ECL, a California-based startup led by Yuval Bachar, which is charting an innovative path with hydrogen-powered data centers. This process, paired with hydrogen storage and pipelines, could provide a resilient, low-carbon energy source for data centers. Hydrogen offers a clear advantage for its flexibility.
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Q1 2021: Food waste; the secret of fat; keep it local
GreenBiz
MARCH 5, 2021
To try to stay on top of things, I’ll run quarterly roundups that highlight startups with the potential to move the needle on sustainability. Local food supply is increasingly seen as adding resilience to food systems, and it’ll be fascinating to see what the rest of the world can learn from Singapore’s progress. Food System Startups.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2023
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Sixteen startups joined our climatetech community during some of the hottest days of the summer in Q3 2023, working on breakthroughs such as reliable energy storage , detection of green-hydrogen gas leaks , and carbon-footprint reductions in the trucking industry.
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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design
GreenBiz
MAY 24, 2021
When most people think about good design, they do not think about the speed of a sailfish, the strategy of serotinous pine cones or the resilience of a Joshua tree in the desert. The London-based startup also manufactures a biodegradable alternative to wood-based sheet materials using byproducts from food production. . New Iridium.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024
Greentown Labs
MARCH 26, 2024
Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup is participating in Go Build 2023.
Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2023
Greentown Labs
JUNE 21, 2023
Seventeen startups joined our community Q2 2023, working on innovations ranging from smart sensors for wind turbines, to energy-efficient air conditioning, to a combo of water desalination and carbon capture. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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Greentown Labs’ Startups Milestone: $1 Billion Raised
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
We’ve also seen new nonprofit and startup support organizations invest philanthropic capital into climatetech startups, including VertueLab , Clean Energy Trust , and Prime Coalition. And if you’re an investor interested in engaging with our startups, please let us know here !
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Navigating Situations Outside Your Startup’s Control: Altaeros’ Story of Resilience
Greentown Labs
APRIL 22, 2020
The startup, which was one of the founding members of Greentown , began by using its aerial platform as an airborne wind turbine. While there’s no easy time for a startup to pivot, Altaeros was in a particularly tight spot—they’d just raised a round of funding. Glass offered two pieces of advice for fellow startups.
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Greentown Labs Startup News Roundup — March 2025
Greentown Labs
MARCH 26, 2025
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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Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience
Greentown Labs
AUGUST 17, 2022
That’s why we convene our startups, partners, and investor network four times a year for our Sector Pitch Day series, each time exploring innovation areas and opportunities present in a particular sector. Check out all of our startups that are developing agricultural solutions here ! Interested in attending?
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2022
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Resiliency + Adaptation.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2022
Greentown Labs
MARCH 22, 2022
Nineteen startups joined our community in the first quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as green hydrogen development, cow-manure combustion pellets, and motionless wind turbines for buildings. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Resiliency + Adaptation.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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5 Startups Working to End Utility-Caused Wildfires
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 10, 2020
“With over 4 million acres burned and more than 10,000 structures destroyed or damaged this season alone, advances in both wildfire science and technologies that can increase resilience or help harden the grid against the impacts of climate change are becoming even more critical for the health and safety of all Californians.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2021
Greentown Labs
MARCH 24, 2021
The Greentown Labs community continues to grow and we’re excited to introduce you to the 16 climatetech startups that joined our Boston and Houston incubators in the first months of 2021! Meet these startups that are powering the climatetech revolution: Agtech + Water. Electricity. Want to engage with the Greentown community?
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Meet Our Newest Startup Members
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 11, 2021
Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! MANUFACTURING.
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AI Startups Raise Funding to Help Utilities De-Risk Dangers of Climate Change
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
But utilities around the world are facing similar risks as they seek to decarbonize their generation fleets and make their grids more resilient to extreme weather events that are becoming more extreme and more common. Myst AI: Smarter energy forecasting from "non-stationary" data.
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Greentown Startups Share Insights on the Buildings Sector?
Greentown Labs
MARCH 7, 2022
Greentown Labs supports startups that are decarbonizing the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and building resilient communities. There’s an opportunity for many startups to take advantage of, because the desire is there.”. government ( IncentiFind ).
Greentown Houston Is Here—Meet Our 25+ Inaugural Startups
Greentown Labs
APRIL 14, 2021
Ten years ago, Greentown began when four startups decided to split the cost of rent and resources. Please join us in welcoming, celebrating, and supporting these incredible startups! The post Greentown Houston Is Here—Meet Our 25+ Inaugural Startups appeared first on Greentown Labs. Agtech + Water. Electricity.
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Beyond Aero’s Hydrogen Jet Promises Zero Carbon Flights by 2030
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 20, 2025
The French aerospace startup has introduced a refined concept of its groundbreaking hydrogen-powered jet, the BYA-1. This redundancy significantly improves resilience, ensuring the system exceeds established safety norms. At its heart lies a battery-free hydrogen fuel cell system. With a power output of 2.4
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California Energy Commission Grants Cleantech San Diego Follow-On Funding to Continue Momentum of Energy Startup Accelerator
CleanTech San Diego
JUNE 14, 2021
SCEIN is an accelerator program for clean energy startups based in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties that are developing technologies to help California meet its clean energy goals. Cleantech San Diego launched the program in 2016. Share this.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2022
Greentown Labs
JUNE 21, 2022
Twenty startups joined our community in the second quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a solution to enhance oceans’ natural ability to capture CO 2 , biotechnologies to produce wood products without cutting down trees, and a turnkey development approach to waste-heat-to-power projects. Resiliency + Adaptation.
Our Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments This Year
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 15, 2020
We couldn’t be more proud of our members’ resilience and accomplishments throughout 2020. The post Our Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments This Year appeared first on Greentown Labs. Send our members a virtual high-five by sharing this #goodnews piece on your channels!
An Open Letter: Startup Founders Commitment in Response to a Recent Investor Letter
Greentown Labs
APRIL 29, 2020
Our resilience is strong. As our industry’s leaders, we’re asking you to help amplify a clear and coordinated message to policy makers: the cleantech and climate sectors can play a dramatic role in helping our country achieve bold carbon-reduction goals and underscore our country’s commitment to a resilient future.
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