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That holiday cheer is in the air 🌟 ☃️ We had a blast convening the community at Greentown Houston's End of Year Celebration last week, complete with a photo booth, ornament decorating, mezcal tasting, a DJ, a toy drive, and even a euphree e-bike raffle! We also awarded Member of the Year to Capwell Services for their dedication to supporting others in the community, exemplifying leadership, and setting a powerful example of collaboration and growth—join us in congratulating Andrew Lane, Lucien Peach, Tomas Pinilla, and the entire Capwell team! 👏 The holiday cheer is going strong at Greentown Boston, too, with our first-ever holiday tree sporting some truly one-of-a-kind member-made ornaments as its first decorations just in time for the Boston community party this Thursday. 🎄 #communitybuilding #holidayparty #GreentownBoston #GreentownHouston

Sending a huge thank you to everyone who joined us to meet and cheer on the newest #carbontech startups in the Carbon to Value Initiative! 🧡 Now in its fifth year, this #accelerator program with Urban Future Lab and Fraunhofer USA Inc. connects the most promising capture, conversion, and storage startups with the Carbontech Leadership Council—an invite-only group of corporate and nonprofit leaders—with the goal of accelerating strategic partnerships with large industrials. These companies are advancing the frontier of carbontech transforming CO₂ from a liability into a valuable resource through capture, conversion, and storage technologies. 🔸 ARBON: a humidity-swing carbon-capture solution, capturing CO₂ from the air or point-source without heat or pressure. 🔸 Cella Mineral Storage: a subsurface-mineralization technology with integrated software, enabling new ways to sequester CO₂ underground. 🔸 ICODOS: transforms emissions into value through a point-source carbon capture and methanol synthesis process in a single, modularized system. 🔸 Lite-1: advanced biomanufacturing processes to produce circular colourants for use in food, cosmetics, and textiles. 🔸 Mission Zero Technologies: an electrified, direct-air carbon capture solution that employs both liquid-adsorption and electrochemical technologies. 🔸 Octavia Carbon: a solid-adsorption-based, direct-air carbon capture solution that utilizes geothermal heat. 🔸 RUSHNU: point-source carbon capture integrated with chemical production, turning salt and CO₂ into chlorine-based chemicals and minerals. 🔸 Sora Fuel: integrates direct-air capture with direct conversion of the captured carbon into syngas for production of sustainable aviation fuel. 🔸 Turnover Labs: modular electrolyzers that transform raw, industrial CO₂ emissions into chemical building blocks, without capture or purification. 🔸 Universal Matter Inc.: a Flash Joule Heating process that converts carbon waste such as end-of-life plastics, tires, or industrial waste into graphene. Huge thanks to this year's CLC members for their support: Carbon180, Caterpillar Inc., CO2 Value Europe, Energy Impact Partners, Evonik, Fluor Corporation, Johnson Matthey, L'Oréal, Shell, TotalEnergies, Veolia, W. L. Gore & Associates, XPRIZE. Sign up for updates from the #C2VInitiative to stay informed of big startup news, program progression, and more: https://lnkd.in/g2f-Pe2D #DAC #CCUS #carbonutilization #carbontech

In the face of a changing climate, #resiliency + #adaptation will continue growing ever more critical for communities everywhere. That's why we need solutions that enable us to live and prosper despite extreme weather, resource constraints, and aging infrastructure, which were on show at this Sector Pitch Day for corporate partners and investors! Big thanks to all of the startups who pitched: 💧 SkyH2O: large-scale atmospheric water generation 📊 Kauel: software for risk prevention 🖥️ Decimetrix®: AI platform for carbon footprints (People's Choice Award winner - first place!) 🔌 REON Technology: power management optimization 🚽 change:WATER Labs: sanitation without plumbing (People's Choice Award winner - second place!) 🚰 Harmony Desalting: batch reverse-osmosis desalination 🛰️ Mithril Technologies, Inc.: next-generation satellite communications ⚙️ BiaTech Corporation: AI for infrastructure immersion ⚡ Wise Energie: energy generation for microgrids 🌎 NewGenium: advanced brine-to-battery grade LFP technology And to the partners who reverse pitched why they're excellent potential collaborators for startups: Preeya Birjah Morrison of Viridien and 🤠Mike Berckenhoff of Puffer-Sweiven! Plus, big thanks to Rice University's Chief Innovation Officer Adrian Trömel and Rice WaTER Institute's Eric Willman for speaking to the challenges and opportunities for resilience and sustainability in the global #water landscape! Finally, sending a huge thank you to Ion Houston for hosting us + the awesome holiday block party spirit afterwards! #sustainability #climatetech #energytech #resourcemanagement #Houston

APPLICATION OPPORTUNITY: Your startup can help shape the future of Amazon’s global network of buildings—from fulfillment centers and offices to data centers and grocery stores! 📦 We’re looking for startups with advanced CO2 mineralization and carbonation technologies that want to collaborate closely with Amazon and the Global CO2 Initiative on testing and commercialization to decarbonize the built environment through #GoBuild2026. Is your technology at TRL 4+ and ready to take the next step? Read the full request for applications and apply for this unique opportunity by Jan. 9: https://lnkd.in/gEauXgXG #GoBuild #buildingdecarbonization #builtenvironment #carbontech #CCUS #CO2utilization #CO2valorization #CO2mineralization #CO2carbonation #Amazon #GlobalCO2Initiative 

NEXT WEEK: Meet the 15 coolest European climatetech startups out there at the European Innovation Spotlight! These 15 startups are backed by the EIC - European Innovation Council's €10.1 billion fund and are the newest members of Greentown Houston: Blykalla (Sweden) Catalyxx (Spain) Circular Materials (Italy) Dracula Technologies (France) Energy Dome (Italy) (a returning Greentown company!) Infinite Foundry (Portugal) LAVA (Israel) Nano-Tech SpA (Italy) Nobula (Sweden) Ocean Visuals (Norway) PYDRO (Germany) REBLADE (Denmark) SOLAR MATERIALS (Germany) Swiss Vault (Switzerland) Sustonable (Netherlands) (a returning Greentown company!) Join us on Dec. 9 at Ion Houston: https://lnkd.in/eb7E3xgz

We are SO proud to see so many Greentowners named to this year's Forbes 30 Under 30! Sending huge congratulations to rStream's Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko; MacroCycle Technologies's Stwart Peña Feliz; Optigon's Brandon Motes and Anthony T.; FlowCellutions' Becca Segel, PhD; Flux Marine's Jonathan Lord; HyperKelp's Costas Soler; and CYVL's Noah Budris, Noah Parker, and Daniel Pelaez! 👏 From solar-testing tech to electric marine outboards to infrastructure mapping, these innovators are building truly industry-shaping solutions (as evidenced by their presence across multiple categories, from energy and green tech to manufacturing and transportation!). Join us in congratulating them on this milestone recognition, and thank you to Forbes for supporting climate and energy builders! 🏆 Check out the full list: https://lnkd.in/gggcRtHg

Meet 10 of the coolest startups in #carbontech TOMORROW at Greentown Boston as we kick off Year 5 of the Carbon to Value Initiative with the Urban Future Lab + Fraunhofer USA Inc.! This year's accelerator received 165 applications from 33 countries, ranging from #DAC to carbon-to-fuels to removal via ocean alkalinization. Tomorrow, join us to meet: 🔸 ARBON: a humidity-swing carbon-capture solution, capturing CO₂ from the air or point-source without heat or pressure. 🔸 Cella Mineral Storage: a subsurface-mineralization technology with integrated software, enabling new ways to sequester CO₂ underground. 🔸 ICODOS: transforms emissions into value through a point-source carbon capture and methanol synthesis process in a single, modularized system. 🔸 Lite-1: advanced biomanufacturing processes to produce circular colourants for use in food, cosmetics, and textiles. 🔸 Mission Zero Technologies: an electrified, direct-air carbon capture solution that employs both liquid-adsorption and electrochemical technologies. 🔸 Octavia Carbon: a solid-adsorption-based, direct-air carbon capture solution that utilizes geothermal heat. 🔸 RUSHNU: point-source carbon capture integrated with chemical production, turning salt and CO₂ into chlorine-based chemicals and minerals. 🔸 Sora Fuel: integrates direct-air capture with direct conversion of the captured carbon into syngas for production of sustainable aviation fuel. 🔸 Turnover Labs: modular electrolyzers that transform raw, industrial CO₂ emissions into chemical building blocks, without capture or purification. 🔸 Universal Matter Inc.: a Flash Joule Heating process that converts carbon waste such as end-of-life plastics, tires, or industrial waste into graphene. 📆 5:30-8:00 p.m. ET @ 444 Somerville Ave., Somerville, MA Save your spot: https://lnkd.in/ewhX2ppE

We’ll cut to the chase: it’s Giving Tuesday, and we need your help to power the entrepreneurs who are developing real solutions for a clean, sustainable future. Your gift to Greentown is a gift to the hundreds of entrepreneurs who are taking a bet on a big idea to transform the status quo: Emissions-free manufacturing. Zero-carbon energy. A waste-free world. A sustainable, regenerative food system. Net-zero ways to move around. Truly circular materials. And resiliency for communities everywhere. 🌎 It’s a gift to the scientists, engineers, business-development pros, and the ecosystem of supporters around them who believe in a shared mission: to make the world a better place, one bold idea at a time. 💡 This #GivingTuesday, your donation will be DOUBLED thanks to a $30k match by a generous donor. We’re raising community capital to invest more in the labs and resources, connections to customers, and community of fellow innovators that climatetech entrepreneurs need to go from 0 to 100. 🚀 Because this work isn’t done alone—after all, innovation is a team sport. Gifts of all sizes make a difference; you can chip in here: https://lnkd.in/eNE65UYV Thank you from the entire Greentown team, community, and our broader ecosystem of climate champions. Together, we can do this. 💚