Climate Salon: Tough Tech Meets Climate
It's hard to build a company. It's difficult when you're building a physical product or hardware. And it's really tough to scale. We hear time and again that for startups at the intersection of climate and other sectors, internal factors like getting the tech to work seem challenging, but its external factors -- like regulations, supply chain, or stakeholder pushback -- that are make or break.
For this Climate Salon, we're teaming up with The Engine to discuss what it takes to enable more hardware startups to scale, faster. We'll look at topics that cut across climate and other sectors:
Advancing biotech & human health
Decarbonizing heavy industry
Manufacturing alternative fuels
Building critical infrastructure
Designing efficient compute
Thank you to MassMutual Ventures' Climate Tech Fund and MassCEC for their generous sponsorship!
About our sponsors:
MassMutual Ventures (MMV) is a multistage global venture capital firm managing over $1 billion of investment capital with teams based in Boston, Singapore, and London. Our $150 million Climate Technology Fund invests in Series A and B software and hardware companies in North America developing solutions related to Climate Intelligence, Sustainable Cities, and Clean Power. Our sole limited partner is MassMutual, a Fortune 500 financial services firm with $500 billion in assets under management and a commitment to transition to a net zero investment portfolio. Our connection to MassMutual gives MMV’s portfolio companies access to a unique set of assets and capabilities within the firm, including a large real estate portfolio, renewable energy assets, and an internal network of later-stage equity and debt funds.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is the state’s economic development agency for clean energy and climatetech. MassCEC is dedicated to accelerating the growth of these industries across the Commonwealth to help meet climate goals, create jobs, and deliver long-term economic growth. We offer grants, flexible equity and debt investments, and other support for climatetech companies from their earliest stages through demonstration and commercial deployment of their technologies.