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Dear Friends of Greentown,

It’s almost September, and fall at Greentown means events season! We’re looking forward to everything from Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, to Climate Week NYC, to a career fair at Greentown Boston, to our annual Climatetech Summit.

Let’s dive into these events without further ado—we hope to see you at these ecosystem events and at our incubators soon!

Warmly,
The Greentown Team

Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week

The Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week—of which Greentown is a lead partner—is coming up Sept. 15-19! We’re excited to host two events during the week:

Sept. 17: From Local to Global: Helping Climatetech Startups Succeed Internationally
Expanding across borders can bring big growth for startups, but it comes with regulatory, cultural, and operational challenges. Join us for perspectives from a U.S.-born climatetech startup that successfully expanded abroad, a startup incubator supporting Nordic ventures, and a representative from Australia offering governmental insight into international support frameworks.

Sept. 18: ACCEL Year 3 Showcase
Robots that bring EV charging to your car. A metal-air battery designed for microgrids. Bioplastics made from potato starch. These are just a few of the innovations being developed through ACCEL, our accelerator with Browning the Green Space for BIPOC and other underrepresented founders. Meet them at this year's showcase, made possible by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati!

See You at Climate Week NYC?

Are you heading to Climate Week NYC in September? We are, too! Here’s where to find the Greentown team and our startups:

Sept. 22: The launch of this year’s Net Zero Insights’s U.S. Clean Energy & Industrial Innovation Report—which we proudly collaborated on—featuring our SVP of Partnerships and Investor Programs Aisling Carlson.
Sept. 23: The Greentown Labs Startup Showcase is your chance to meet the entrepreneurs shaping the climate and energy solutions of the future at the SOSV Biome!
Sept. 23: Our CEO Georgina Campbell Flatter will be facilitating a discussion group at Climate Salon about how startups can pilot their technologies in urban environments.
Sept. 24: Together with FischTank PR, we’re diving into the communications strategies for startups and beyond to resonate with target audiences in today’s landscape.

Climatetech Summit 2025: Agendas and Speakers

The agendas for our Houston and Boston Climatetech Summits are now live! Join Greentown on Nov. 4 + 6 for a dive into how the shale revolution can serve as a roadmap for the energy transition, dozens of startup pitches, a live Open Circuit podcast recording, startup showcases, and more.

We’re also excited to start announcing speakers—here’s just a sampling:

Jigar Shah, Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute
Priya Donti, Co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI
Denka Wangdi, Vice President of Strategic Accounts & Partnerships at Emerson
Kyle Judah, Executive Director of Rice University's Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Sameer Bandhu, Managing Director, Ventures and Licensing at GE Vernova
Bobby Tudor, Greentown Labs Board Chair; CEO of Artemis Energy Partners; and Chairman of the Houston Energy Transition Initiative at the Greater Houston Partnership
Monica Krishnan, Business Fellow at Breakthrough Energy
Tod Hynes, Senior Lecturer at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Even More Events

Sept. 3: Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week 2025 Preview Happy Hour [Ecosystem Event - Houston]
Can’t wait for the Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week to arrive? Get an early taste at this preview happy hour at the Ion with Greentown, Halliburton Labs, the Houston Energy Transition Initiative, and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Sept. 9-11: Decarb Connect TechInvest North America [Ecosystem Event - Boston]
Decarb Connect TechInvest is where Series B+ tech meets the full capital stack to drive commercial-scale deployment. At the event, you'll meet founders, VCs, private equity, industrials, and policy leaders all focussed on accelerating the scale-up of hardware technologies to reduce emissions and protect margins in hard-to-abate sectors.

Sept. 11: Climatetech Career Fair [Greentown Boston]
The climatetech workforce is hiring! Learn about career opportunities with our community of world-changing climatetech startups.

Oct. 28-30: VERGE at Trellis Impact 25 [Ecosystem Event - San Jose, CA]
We’re thrilled to be a Startup Pavilion partner at VERGE—the premier event for professionals decarbonizing their organizations and supply chains. As part of Trellis Impact 25, you’ll also gain access to GreenFin and Bloom. Use Greentown’s partner code TI25GTL for 20 percent off.

Oct. 31: Climatetech Founders Networking Breakfast [Greentown Boston]
Wrap up Tough Tech Week with a networking event for climatetech entrepreneurs, subject-matter experts, former founders, and other industry leaders interested in sharing their expertise.

Startup News

What does climate action look like? Climatetech startups receiving funding, winning awards, deploying their tech around the world, and more! Read a roundup of our startups’ recent milestones here and check out some highlights below:

Reframe Systems raised a $20M Series A to continue building sustainable homes quickly and more predictably using robotics, algorithms, and local microfactories.
Kanin Energy secured a credit facility to advance the development of its waste-heat-to-power projects across North America.
Cemvita signed an agreement with the government of Rio Grande do Sul to deploy its bio-stimulation technologies at a new industrial plant in southern Brazil that will produce carbon-negative industrial chemical byproducts, such as sustainable aviation fuel and innovative biofertilizers.
Sublime Systems partnered with STACK Infrastructure to use its clean cement-production technology in a new data center.
QEA Tech launched its operations in Japan, beginning with a precise, data-driven building envelope audit for the Tokyo National Museum.

Recent Reads

Greentown’s Ecosystem Exchange fosters meaningful startup-corporate connections across geographies. As we prepare to welcome Australian and Norwegian startups to the Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week in collaboration with Woodside Energy and Equinor, take a look at how these programs advance climatetech commercialization.

This month, we appointed our first-ever Head of Philanthropy! Here’s how this role will expand our capacity to activate philanthropic capital, strengthen local economies, and accelerate the global energy transition.

Greentown has partnered with the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) to fast-track collaborations between climatetech startups and corporates! Read more from MoveTheNeedle.

Open Applications: The Carbon to Value Initiative

Last chance! The Carbon to Value Initiative—a unique collaboration among the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown, and Fraunhofer USA—is accepting applications for our fifth accelerator cohort through Aug. 29.

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Events Season is Here