Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

As analysts, investors, journalists, and other experts offer up their predictions for this year’s climatetech areas to watch, Greentown’s featuring just a sampling of our startup members innovating in these key categories. Want to engage with these startups and other Greentown members? Industry experts: mentor a startup.

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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. Manufacturing.

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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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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The post How To Make Your Startup More Eco-Friendly appeared first on Green Living Guy. All over the world, the business community is pitching in with innovative solutions that won’t break the bank. Here are a few tips for […].

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Charged

JUNE 11, 2021

UK-based Lunaz upcycles and converts legacy vehicles to EVs, using a proprietary electric powertrain. His investment company has successfully backed a number of startups in the eSports and athletic recovery sectors. Beckham’s expertise extends to more than just bending it on the football pitch. Source: Lunaz.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 24, 2022

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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 30, 2023

Entocycle , a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a pool of climate-positive institutional investors and athletes as angel investors. One comprises insect farming companies and waste upcycling companies that want to increase their efficiencies.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Sneakers made from food waste. ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The seven ACCEL Year 2 participating startups are working on everything from yeast-centered water treatment, to vertical-axis offshore wind turbines, to algae- and cellulose-based fashion beads. In addition to conducting this pilot, next priorities for the startup include locking down industrial pilot projects. “We

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply. When Anderson first began reporting the story, “as someone who drinks coffee and is attached to coffee,” she was highly skeptical of what these startups were offering.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2024

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 Labs

FEBRUARY 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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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

In mid-April, two climate-tech startups focused on decarbonizing the world's most widely used construction material, CarbonCure Technologies and UCLA CarbonBuilt , split the top prize in the $20m NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition. Both startups address CO2 at the manufacturing site. Each will receive $7.5m

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

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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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The startup began selling its spirits this month to bars and restaurants around New York City, after years of development in the lab. Its CO2 supply comes primarily from beverage manufacturing plants, which produce waste gases during fermentation. The potential worldwide market for waste-CO2 products could be $5.9

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. Read the original here: This collapsible cooler is insulated with upcycled coconut fiber.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The initiative’s third cohort included eight carbontech startups that were chosen in a highly competitive selection and deliberation process that saw more than 160 applications from 26 countries. The startup, formerly known as C-Quester, is based in Los Angeles, CA. Detailed results from Year 1 and Year 2 are available.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 25, 2024

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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup Jim Giles Fri, 06/04/2021 – 02:30 Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup Jim Giles Fri, 06/04/2021 – 02:30 Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 23, 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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. The 6 types of retail packaging waste. That is, 17.6

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

According to research published in the journal Green Chemistry , genetically engineered E-Coli bacteria has been used to convert terephthalic acid (TA) from plastic waste into vanillin. View original here: Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into vanilla flavoring.

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Green Tech Challenge

MARCH 1, 2019

THE APPLE GIRL and ECOPLASO have provided a feasible solution, to tackle the problem by up-cycling food waste at the same time. It does not only help reduce resource waste and lower the carbon footprint from animal leather production but also provides biodegradable products in the long run.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. He served as corporate counsel on policy at Greenspot Smart Mobility, an EV charging startup, after clerking at various organizations, including the U.S. Circular outdoor gear. Decarbonized buildings. Heather Clancy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The startup works with farmers to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere and enhance crop yields by spreading basalt dust - waste created when quarries crush basalt rock for other uses - onto farmlands. I recently spoke to Yap about her young startup, life as an entrepreneur, the path she took to get there, and what inspires her.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

💨 Avnos , a Los Angeles, CA-based direct air capture startup using a CO2 adsorbent, raised $80M from ConocoPhillips, JetBlue Ventures, and Shell Ventures. ♻️ Re-Fresh Global, a Berlin, Germany-based textile upcycling company, raised $1M in Pre-seed funding from Earlybird and Serpentine Ventures.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 2, 2020

Over the past three editions Future Food Asia has empowered 38 early stage startups from Asia Pacific by providing them the stage to present their cutting-edge innovations and distributed US$ 1 million in awards.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Climatetech leaders from Fluor, the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative. Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative Somerville, Mass. Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y., and New York City, N.Y.,

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Startups are at an advantage in that they are early in their business’ lifecycle and can focus on equity both in their workforces (equity in) and in how they deploy their products or services (equity out) and scale those practices as they grow,” says Sara Chandler, our Managing Director of Equity and Access.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. He served as corporate counsel on policy at Greenspot Smart Mobility, an EV charging startup, after clerking at various organizations, including the U.S. Circular outdoor gear. Decarbonized buildings.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion.

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Friends, applications are open for our next cohort of ambitious startups that are addressing the world’s most urgent environmental and infrastructure issues. Waste to value ideas. Waste reduction and upcycling. Does your company — or a company you know — belong in our 8th cohort? Carbon market innovations.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

🍎 Koa , a Zürich, Switzerland-based upcycled cocoa fruit products developer, raised $15M in Series B funding from Mirova, Zebra Impact, Mirabaud, and others. Vanagon Ventures, a Milan, Italy-based firm raised €30M ($32.3M) for its first fund, focused on early-stage B2B startups in digital green transformation. 

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