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- Cleantech Open Northeast Alumni in the News in 2021
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BlocPower, 2013 CTONE Alum, and founder Donnel Baird is profiled in The Washington Post’s “Climate Visionaries” series.
While the COVID-19 pandemic and climate concerns continue to affect our lives, Cleantech Open Northeast alumni are making headlines as they strive to tackle the world's biggest and most pressing environmental and energy challenges. They have adapted to the challenging circumstances and are addressing challenges related to water, waste, agriculture, transportation, information and communications, chemicals and advanced materials, energy generation, energy distribution and storage, and energy efficiency. Yet, even as we begin to transition back to "normal," serious events such as the heat waves wreaking havoc across the country and the severe drought out West, underscore the importance of our alumni's work to create a more sustainable and resilient future.
*This blog will cover the entire year, so come back often to see the latest updates!
The years indicate when the startups participated in the Cleantech Open accelerator.
13 Mari’s drag reduction product wins at The Captain’s Table, Hong Kong’s maritime innovation competition.
Aclarity is a MassVentures’ START program awardee.
Marcie Black - Karty (Co-founder & CEO) was selected as a semi-finalist in the TiE Boston Women's Pitch Competition
AeroShield wins the DOE American Made Solar Prize. The prize awards $500,000 in cash and $75,000 in vouchers to use at the National Laboratories and other qualified fabrication facilities
AeroShield is highlighted in a new article from VentureWell.
AeroShield wins almost a quarter of a million dollars in funding from the 2021 MassCEC InnovateMass Program
Congratulations to Aeroshield for being selected as a Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup!
AeroShield will be a commercial partner to a University of Michigan-led team to help develop a process for making aerogel tiles. The Department of Energy is backing the team as they develop transparent solar sponges with $3.1 million for further development.
Alchemr secured their first paid pilot demonstration with Repsol, the largest hydrogen producer in Spain and pioneer in low- to zero-emission fuels.
Alchemr was one of the 5 startups showcased at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Startup Exchange, all developing emerging hydrogen production technologies, at a workshop and panel on Friday, January 15, 2021. Read more here.
Andluca Technologies is selected as one of 40 companies to participate in the NREL Industry Growth Forum.
Selected participant in The DeltaClimeVT business accelerator program.
Andluca Technologies was awarded $75,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) through the Clean Tech Seed Grant Program.
Andluca Technologies won $400,000 from Luminate Accelerator in the Luminate Finals 2021.
GreenSky Accelerator Fund IV from Greensky Capital Inc. invests approximately $1M in anessa.
Closed funding round, receiving backing from Concrete Ventures, GreenSky, and more. (Article)
Selected participant in The DeltaClimeVT business accelerator program.
Congratulations to ARC Industries for being selected as one of the finalists for Lever's Berkshire Sustainability Challenge, receiving a $3,500 scholarship provided by MassCEC!
In 2020, Ashipa Electric identified an area within Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, South-West Nigeria, that had never had electricity. Ashipa Electric set an agenda to electrify the communities in the area and in the long run boost the commercial, economic and social prospects of these communities. Today, the Lomiro community, the first community to get energized in the area, can boast of a steady power supply thanks to Ashipa Electric. Watch it here.
Atrevida Science was admitted to two accelerators in 2021: Venture for Climate Tech and VentureWell.
Atrevida Science Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Design and Build Test Setup for Morphing Blade Capability
Atrevida is the team captain for a collaborative effort (The Cyberborgs) for the DoE's Solar Prize Round 5 Software track and was selected last week as one of 20 semi finalists. They have been awarded $30k to develop a proof-of-concept for the next phase of the competition.
Atrevida Science has partnered with the University of Buffalo’s Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) to conduct experimental testing in the wind tunnel in Ketter Hall.
Blackburn Energy receives technical validation from UMass Lowell.
CEO, Donnel Baird, is featured in TheGrio and The Weather Channel’s “Faces of Change” series.
BlocPower is featured in The Washington Post’s “Climate Visionaries” series.
BlocPower was named in the CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
BlocPower is aiding Ithaca, NY in its goal to be the FIRST city in the country to 100% electrify its buildings, ultimately seeking to be 100% carbon neutral by 2030.
Check out how My Climate Journey invested in Bloc Power.
Carbon BioEnergy was selected to participate in the inaugural Class 1 of the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator.
change:WATER Labs is featured in MIT’s News on Campus and Around the World for its sanitization technology.
change:WATER Labs is chosen as a Next Wave Impact Finalist.
change:WATER labs is named one of top environmental engineering startups.
change:WATERLabs is selected for the 100+ Accelerator 2021 Cohort.
Meet a Sarphati Sanitation Challenge finalist: iThrone
CLIP.bike closes a $1.57M round of SEED funding.
CLIP.bike’s e-bike technology is identified as an asset that the Ford Motor Co. is missing.
CLIP was recognized as one of the 2021 winners of the Keeling Curve Prize in the Transportation & Moblty category.
Ecolectro (2017)
Accepted into the 2021 Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator Class. (Article)
Ecotone Renewables is making use of food waste with seahorses!
eHempHouse files patents to reduce global CO2 levels.
Elateq wins funding from the 2021 MassCEC InnovateMass Program
EMPEQ Unveils New FastSiteSurvey™ Data Capture & Reporting App to Transform Commercial Building Equipment Audits
(it’s a seamless equipment data capture application that is revolutionizing commercial and industrial building equipment audits and enabling energy efficiency professionals to complete more projects in a fraction of the time, more accurately, and at a much lower cost)
EMPEQ is changing the way commercial and industrial building proprietors finance upgrades and replacements for essential building equipment, such as HVACR (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration) systems by utilizing Rapid Placement traditional financing, as well as its own unique subscription model, to provide small- to mid-size organizations with simple to understand finance options and easy to use tools to keep their buildings and equipment operational.
EnergySage’s research is featured in Forbes’ article about the recent uptick in the number of job postings in the solar industry. Founder, Vikram Aggarwal, also gives his analysis of the solar industry and its growth.
EnergySage launches a Community Solar Marketplace.
Founder Vikram Aggarwal is quoted in the New York Times discussing the difficulties of succeeding in the solar industry.
Farm to Flame wins a competitive $100,000 EPA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.
Farm to Flame Energy was awarded $75,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) through the Clean Tech Seed Grant Program.
Feedback Solutions Inc. (2019)
Feedback Solutions Inc. was a finalist for the "Future Environments Prize" in the 2021 Urban Future Prize Competition.
Flux Marine moves to Rhode Island.
Flux Marine Debuts All-Electric Marine Outboards
Flux Marine is a Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 $10,000 Winner
Foodspace was featured in BostInno as one of “The 21 Startups to Watch in Boston in 2021”.
GreenBlu was awarded $75,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) through the Clean Tech Seed Grant Program.
GreenChoice’s GreenScore rating technology is featured in FastCompany.
GrowFlux was selected to participate in Golden’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator or IN2.
Haystack won the Sustainable Startup Award from SVG Ventures | THRIVE and Bayer’s 2021 Sustainability Challenge.
HEVO received a $750,000 award from the Department of Energy for High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC).
Hevo provided their premiere combination wireless and wired electric vehicle charging station technology to Enterprise's Rent-A-Car Tests on Bosch’s automated parking tech.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed its wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to Brooklyn-based HEVO.
Hydronic Shell Technologies (2021)
Read up on how Hydronic Shell Technologies contributes to incorporating existing buildings in climate solutions.
Hydronic Shell is participating in the 2022 Impel + Innovation Decarbonize Track cohort!
Ithaca Clean Energy wins funding from the 2021 MassCEC Catalyst Program
Sanchali Pal, founder of Joro, is featured in The American Bazaar.
Joro makes perhaps the largest permanent carbon dioxide removal delivery of all time.
Sanchali Pal is recognized as one of the top CEO’s in Climate Tech Startups.
Kara Water is named one of Innovate Climate’s three trending startups.
Kara Water is featured in Wired Italy!
Metalmark’s biomimicry technology is featured in the Environmental Health News as a new way to address sustainability challenges.
Metalmark is a MassVentures’ START program awardee.
Moduly is named part of Techstars Alabama EnergyTech 2021 class
Muon Vision is invited to participate in MassChallenge’s 50th Accelerator Program.
Congratulations to Muon Vision for winning MassCEC’s Scholarship of $5,000!
Natel Energy receives help from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to analyze and improve their hydropower solution.
Natel Energy raised $20M in funding. The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Chevron Technology Ventures.
Natel Energy Expands its Development Portfolio Adding 80 MW of Renewable Power to Louisiana’s Red River.
Another article
Natel’s post about it
Footprint Coalition’s coverage
David New’s Obaggo machine is featured in the innovation section of Boston.com.
Onvector is changing the conversation around climate and entrepreneurship within the Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle.
Osmoses is picked as one of Activate’s top 100 Fellows for 2021.
Osmoses, 2021 Northeast Winner and Winner of 1st Carbon Sequestration Prize, joins The Engine and raises $3 million.
Osmoses, CTONE 2021 alum, winner of the 1st Cleantech Open Carbon Sequestration Prize, and Northeast Winner, is a startup to watch in Boston in 2022.
Pecos Wind Power received a 1.15M grant from the DOE to further the development of their distributed wind turbine.
PowerHV was selected to participate in the inaugural Class 1 of the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator.
Princeton NuEnergy (2021)
Princeton NuEnergy one of top winners at CleanTech Open Northeast
Princeton NuEnergy Announces Strategic Partnership With Wistron GreenTech And ETak Worldwide
Prisere is featured in Forbes Next 1000: The Upstart Entrepreneurs Redefining the American Dream.
QD Solar is selected as one of 40 companies to participate in the NREL Industry Growth Forum.
QD Solar in Toronto, ON receives $5.3M for their Perovskite-Colloidal Quantum Dot Multi-Layered Solar Cell
Radical Plastics is featured in MassVentures’ “The Fundable Founder” series.
Radical Plastics is featured in Forbes Next 1000: The Upstart Entrepreneurs Redefining the American Dream.
RenewCO2 is invited to participate in MassChallenge’s 50th accelerator program.
RenewCO2 was awarded $75,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) through the Clean Tech Seed Grant Program.
Featured by the International Energy Agency - Ocean Energy Systems in its article “Alternative Markets for Ocean Energy.” (Article)
Received the Solar Impulse Foundation’s (SIF) Efficient Solution label for its Wave2OTM technology. (Article)
Partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy’s TEAMER™ program to develop techno-economic optimization tools so that its Wave2OTMtechnology can be used more widely. (Article)
Congratulations to rStream Recycling for being selected as one of the finalists for Lever's Berkshire Sustainability Challenge, receiving a $3,500 scholarship provided by MassCEC!
rStream Recycling has been selected as one of 25 of VentureWell’s Winter 2022 E-Team Grant Program.
RoadPower Systems’ energy harvesting technology is featured as a possible solution to recovering and storing vehicular kinetic energy.
RoadPower Systems featured in Electrical Contractor Magazine for its “smart speed bumps” that regenerate kinetic energy into electricity.
Finalist in the “Build a Waste-Free World” category of the 2021 Earthshot Prize. (Page)
Sealed raised a $16M series B with funding from investors Fifth Wall and Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures.
Lauren Salz is recognized as one of the top CEO’s in Climate Tech Startups.
Sky Canoe and NNLP announce a partnership.
Congratulations to SolaBlock for being selected as one of the finalists for Lever's Berkshire Sustainability Challenge, receiving a $3,500 scholarship provided by MassCEC!
Sol Clarity wins funding from the 2021 MassCEC Catalyst Program
Congratulations to Sol Clarity for being selected as one of the finalists for Lever's Berkshire Sustainability Challenge, receiving a $3,500 scholarship provided by MassCEC!
Solstice Co-Founder and CEO Steph Speirs was named to the list of Top 100 Yale University Alumni in Technology of 2021.
Spar Energy has been awarded $300,000 and a High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Spring 2021 Award!
SparkCharge creates the world’s first on-demand mobile electric vehicle charging network
SparkCharge launched a charge-hailing app, ChargeUp. The convenience service will be available in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
SparkCharge is featured in Automotive News for its mobile EV charging technology.
SparkCharge partners with Urgently to bring on-demand EV charging to smart mobility assistance
Joshua Aviv of SparkCharge is featured in CBSNews to praise the support he has received from The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the importance of being a leader of color in the cleantech industry.
LACI makes SparkCharge its 10th investment from it's cleantech debt fund!
SparkCharge highlights in the news!
Huge congratulations to Joshua Aviv, founder & CEO of SparkCharge for being named one of the 100 Most Influential Business Leaders by Business Insider!
STAC Technology is one of the 99 innovative startups that The European Commission selected that will receive some of the total investment of 627 million euros of EU funding to help them bring their promising technologies to the market.
Daniela Blanco is featured in National Geographic’s “Own The Room: Changing the World One Big Idea at a Time.” The documentary focuses on Daniela competing in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.
Daniela Blanco is featured in ValiantCEO for her vision to build a more sustainable chemical industry.
T-Omega Wind, Inc. has appointed its CEO! Congratulations to Brita Osmundsvaag Formato on joining T-Omega Wind to accelerate the company’s goal of radically redesigning offshore wind!
HUGE congratulations to Tank Utility being acquired by Generac
Techstyle Materials is a winner of $2 million for The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)’s first phase of the Envelope Retrofit Opportunities for Building Optimization Technologies (E-ROBOT) Prize, a competition focused on fast-tracking advanced robotics solutions for building envelope retrofits.
Techstyle Materials was selected to join AkzoNobel's Paint the Future boot-camp, where all finalists and AkzoNobel experts will meet to explore potential collaborations!
Tend Ocean (2018)
Completed the ARPA-E Autonomous Tow Vessels award. (About the program)
Teratonix was named a winner in the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021.
Congratulations to Teratonix for receiving seed funding from Columbia’s Tamer Fund for Social Ventures!
Thermolift will begin real-world field tests of residential fuel-flexible heat pumps for single family homes, the first pilot in North America.
ThermoLift was selected as the first investment made by NGIF Cleantech Ventures.
Thiozen raised $3M in series seed funding to advance low emission hydrogen!
Transfoam LLC received the 2021 Kathryne Carr Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, given to those who demonstrate selfless leadership in commercializing high-impact technologies.
Congratulations to Zero for being selected as a Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup!
Zero is participating in the 2022 Impel + Innovation Decarbonize Track cohort!