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Dear Friends of Greentown,

Hello from Climate Week NYC! Our team is feeling energized by the many fantastic events—check out where we’ve been and where you can find us the rest of the week here.

It’s the second time this month that we’ve gotten to see an ecosystem come together around climatetech innovation, following the first-ever Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, of which Greentown was a lead partner!

Our two events channeled the theme of celebration to highlight the awe-inspiring climatetech solutions being developed, deployed, and commercialized in Houston—a city unlike any other that's uniquely positioned to be the energy-transition capital of the world. The midweek Climatetech Innovation Festival showcased our founders’ technologies and stories and TEX-E’s work with local universities, and our Climate Impact Awards Dinner closed out the week with a celebration of Greentown Houston’s groundbreaking community of 75+ startups. Congratulations to Cemvita, Element Resources, and Neuralix on taking home awards!

These events, like everything we do at Greentown, were all about our members and their tech. Speaking of, we’re excited to introduce you to our 22 newest members, which are working on technologies ranging from a ring anchor for offshore wind turbines, to electric personal watercraft, to industrial power-to-heat solutions. Learn about them here.

You can meet these and more of our 200+ incredible startups at Climatetech Summit on Oct. 22 and 24; read on for more details about our largest event of the year.

As always, thank you for your commitment to climate action!

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, developer of long-duration iron-air battery systems, received an award negotiation of up to $150M from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to fund a new manufacturing line at Form Energy’s factory in West Virginia.
American Battery Technology Company received a $150M grant from the DOE to help build a commercial-scale lithium-ion-battery recycling facility that will process about 100,000 metric tons of battery materials annually.
Sublime Systems—a startup decarbonizing cement-making with a carbon-free electrochemical system—received $75M in investments from Greentown partner Holcim and from CRH. These partnerships involve Sublime Systems providing its cement to both corporates through offtake agreements; Holcim and CRH supporting the advancement of Sublime Systems's first commercial manufacturing facility; and Sublime Systems collaborating with each of the companies to co-develop future facilities to scale and commercialize its technology. Sublime also signed an MOU with Microsoft for the purchase of environmental attribute certificates generated from Sublime’s first facilities.
Haffner Energy signed an agreement with IðunnH2 to integrate its biomass-to-clean-fuels tech in the 65,000 metric tons/year electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) facility under development by IðunnH2.
Nth Cycle’s state-of-the-art refining facility in Fairfield, OH began operations, marking the United States’s first production of nickel and cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate—critical metals for the energy transition—from scrap.

Four Weeks Until Climatetech Summit!

Can you believe we’re less than a month out from Climatetech Summit 2024?!

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. The Houston and Boston agendas are both available, with speaker announcements coming soon. This event sells out every year and prices increase on Oct. 1, so get your ticket now!

Please join us in thanking the sponsors that are making this year’s Climatetech Summit possible: GE Vernova, Schneider Electric, the Alliance for Climate Transition, Emerson and its Impact Partner Puffer-Sweiven, the Environmental League of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, SLB, and Capgemini.

Looking to get more involved in our biggest event of the year? We have a few sponsorship opportunities remaining! If you’re interested in learning more, please get in touch.

ICYMI: Carbon to Value Initiative's Year 4 Cohort Announced

The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative)’s next cohort of carbontech startups has been selected, and we celebrated the fourth cycle of the accelerator with a kickoff event at Greentown Houston earlier this month! Learn about the nine startups that are participating here and sign up for the C2V Initiative newsletter here.

Greentown is Hiring!

Director of Human Resources (Somerville, MA or Houston, TX)
Sales and Customer Relationship Manager (Somerville, MA)

Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events

2024 Cleantech Open Northeast Regional Finals Awards & Showcase [Greentown Boston]
Join an afternoon and evening of live pitching, awards, and showcasing to honor the 2024 Cleantech Open Northeast accelerator cohort and select the Northeast Regional Winners.

Oct. 29-31: VERGE 2024 [Ecosystem Event]
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 members and alumni AeroShield, Applied Bioplastics, Kanin Energy, Mitico, Oxylus Energy, Reverse Energy Solutions, and Upstream Tech were chosen for Trellis (formerly GreenBiz)'s 25 Climate Tech Startups to Watch list. Vote through Sept. 27 for them to take home the top prize at VERGE!

Thank You to Our Partners

Earlier this month, we were thrilled to announce that our long-time partner Saint-Gobain has extended its Terawatt Partnership with Greentown through 2026! Read more about our work together.

Meet Greentown Labs’ 22 Newest Members

From The Ecosystem

Meet Greentown Labs’ 22 Newest Members