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Dear Friends of Greentown,

We are just over a week away from Labor Day—the unofficial beginning of fall and the start of Greentown’s busiest events season. On top of our marquee Climatetech Summit, our upcoming events lineup includes the Year 4 kickoff of the Carbon to Value Initiative, the Year 2 showcase of ACCEL, an impact-investing workshop, a career fair, the first-ever Climate Impact Awards Dinner, and much more.

What does this mean for you? Incredible opportunities to meet, network, and explore collaborations with Greentown’s community of 200+ cutting-edge climatetech startups. They'll be pitching and showcasing their technologies in the coming weeks, eager to meet with prospective strategic partners, investors, jobseekers, and other climate champions. We just need you to join them!

Read on for details on upcoming events, recent member news, and more. As always, thank you for your commitment to climate action, and we hope to see you at an event soon!

Warmly,
The Greentown Team

Member Milestones

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 members’ recent milestones here and check out some highlights below:

Form Energy was chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to deploy an 85 MW/8500 MWh multi-day battery system in Maine, which is the “largest energy-storage project by energy capacity announced yet in the world."
Cala Systems, previously known as Altus Thermal, closed a $5.6M seed round to power the development of its advanced heat pump. The round was led by Greentown partners Clean Energy Venture Group and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Boxes is deploying its innovative retail devices at the University of Arkansas, in partnership with SC Johnson.
Greentown members and alumni Moment Energy, PolyJoule, Salient, and Syzygy Plasmonics were chosen for Amazon Web Services’ Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 cohort, and Dsider and SeaDeep were selected for Amazon Web Services' Generative AI Energy Lab. Greentown is proud to have Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund as a Terawatt Partner!

Read + Watch

ACCEL Year 2 participant Axis Sky Renewables has developed a wind turbine with a vertical axis and low mass that allows for lower costs of production, materials, transportation, and installation. Watch CEO and founder Andre Gafford’s pitch to learn more about this wind-power innovation.

Over the past year, Greentown is proud to have welcomed 10 new corporate partners—Boston Consulting Group, Ecopetrol, GE Vernova, Holcim, TotalEnergies, Cell Signaling Technology, SLB, Embraer-X, Koppers, and Re:Build Manufacturing! Read about them here.

EcoForge is developing a line of sustainable alternatives to toxic, fossil-fuel-based building materials. The ACCEL Year 2 startup makes composites that cut building emissions, are made of naturally occurring salts and polymers, and replace petroleum-based components used in most of today’s building materials. Check out its co-founder Rongyu Na’s pitch!

What if insurance companies played a bigger role in scaling climatetech solutions? “We need insurance to step out of the shadows as a behind-the-scenes economic engine, rise to the occasion, and adapt to the accelerating pressures that the market is imposing on climate technologies,” Greentown’s SVP of Partnerships Aisling Carlson writes.

Mark Your Calendar for These Greentown Events

Aug. 22: Transition On Tap [Greentown Houston]
Join us tonight for our summer Transition On Tap, Greentown Houston’s signature networking event devoted to fostering conversations and connections among the climate and energy transition ecosystem, in Houston and beyond. At this event, we'll also highlight what's in store for the first-ever Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week (Sept. 9-13).

Aug. 27: Investor Education Workshop: Impact Investing [Greentown Houston]
Later this month is the final 2024 workshop of the Houston Ion District Investor Activation Program! This insightful panel discussion will delve into impact investing, exploring how both seasoned and aspiring early-stage venture investors in Houston can define and measure impact.

Sept. 5: ACCEL Year 2 Showcase [Greentown Houston]
Celebrate the second year of ACCEL, an accelerator program for BIPOC-led startups from Greentown and Browning the Green Space! This event will feature the seven participating startups’ technologies, what they’ve accomplished in the first six months of the program, and where they’re headed next.

Sept. 11: C limatetech Innovation Celebration: Stories from Startups and Cutting-edge Researchers [Greentown Houston]
As part of the inaugural Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, join Greentown to recognize and celebrate the impact of startups and universities in mitigating climate change and building resilient communities.

Sept. 12: Climatetech Career Fair [Greentown Boston]
The Greentown Boston 2024 Career Fair, put on in partnership with Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN²), will help jobseekers learn about career opportunities with our community of world-changing climatetech startups.

Sept. 13: Climate Impact Awards Dinner [Outpost at POST Houston]
Join Greentown Houston’s first-ever Climate Impact Awards Dinner, a semi-formal fundraising event featuring a cocktail hour and sit-down dinner, a distinguished speaker, music and dancing, a silent auction, and startup awards. Thank you to our sponsors Halliburton Labs, Microsoft, and SCF Partners!
Interested in becoming a Climate Impact Awards Dinner sponsor or donating an item to the silent auction? Get in touch!

Sept. 19: Carbon to Value Initiative Year 4 Kickoff [Greentown Houston]
Year 4 of the Carbon to Value Initiative is kicking off this September! Join us to meet the startups that were selected for this year’s cohort, hear from industry experts, and network with the carbontech ecosystem.

Oct. 11: Climatetech Founder + Funder Breakfast [Greentown Boston]
Wrap up the inaugural Tough Tech Week—run by The Engine with participation from ecosystem collaborators throughout Boston—at Greentown over breakfast, coffee, and great conversation with fellow climatetech founders and funders. Attendees will also have an opportunity to tour Greentown’s 100,000-sq.-ft. incubator!

Oct. 22 and 24: Climatetech Summit [Greentown Houston + Greentown Boston]
Join us on Oct. 22 at Greentown Houston, Oct. 24 at Greentown Boston, and both days via livestream for the ultimate celebration of climate-focused entrepreneurship and innovation, replete with startup pitches, networking opportunities, and industry insights. This event sells out every year, so get your ticket now!
Looking to get more involved in our biggest event of the year? We have several sponsorship opportunities! If you’re interested in learning more, please get in touch.

Upcoming Ecosystem Events

Sept. 18: 2024 Transatlantic Cleantech Summit [Cambridge, MA]
We're excited to collaborate on this event from Greentown partner EIT InnoEnergy, which will convene industry leaders, climatetech investors, innovators, and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic to explore success stories and roadblocks in scaling cleantech.

Sept. 19: 2024 NECEC Green Future Gala [Boston, MA]

The Northeast Clean Energy Council's 2024 Green Future Gala will celebrate the transformative power of civic engagement and its crucial role in shaping our clean-energy future. Greentown is proud to sponsor this event!

Sept. 24: Building a Climate Tech Brand That Gets Noticed [New York, NY]
Join FischTank PR, Greentown, Greentown alum Sublime Systems, and MUUS Climate Partners at NYC Climate Week for an exploration of how climatetech companies can raise their brands’ profiles. We are thrilled to have our SVP of Marketing + Communications Julia Travaglini speak!

Oct. 29-31: VERGE 2024 [San Jose, CA]
Join 6,000+ climatetech ecosystem leaders at VERGE 2024, an unmissable event for professionals catalyzing transformative, profitable change through deploying climatetech at scale. Register before Oct. 4 to get $300 off the Final Rate All-Access Pass and use Greentown’s code V24GTL for an additional 10 percent off.

Greentown is Hiring!

Director of Human Resources (Somerville, MA or Houston, TX)
Director, Investor Program (Somerville, MA)
Membership Manager (Houston, TX
Partnerships Coordinator (Houston, TX)

Thank You to Our Partners 🌍

Fall is Events Season at Greentown Labs

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Fall is Events Season at Greentown Labs