Carbon to Value Initiative Year 4 Kickoff
​📅 SAVE THE DATE. Join us virtually or at Greentown Houston on Thursday, September 19 to celebrate the kickoff of Year 4 of the Carbon to Value Initiative, meet the startups that were selected for this year’s cohort, and hear from industry experts!
​⏰ AGENDA:
​6PM: Welcome RemarksÂ
​6:05: Guest Speaker / PanelÂ
​6:35: Year 4 Cohort IntroductionÂ
​6:40: Year 4 Cohort PresentationsÂ
​7:10: Closing RemarksÂ
​7:20: Networking
​After a thorough evaluation of all of this year's 120+ applications for Year 4 of the C2V Initiative, we’re thrilled to present the Year 4 Cohort, representing a wide variety of promising carbontech innovations to capture and convert CO2 into valuable products and services!
​The Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative is a multi-year collaboration between The Urban Future Lab (UFL), Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA.
​This unique partnership is driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture, convert and store carbon dioxide (CO₂) into valuable end products or services.
​Four years ago the Carbon to Value Initiative was formed as a way to unlock a new carbontech economy and bring innovative solutions to scale, all while building a collaborative new ecosystem.Â
​Year 4 of the C2V Initiative builds on its first three successful years, which saw nearly 400 applications and supported 26 selected startups, including companies like AIR COMPANY, Carbfix, Carbon Upcycling, CarbonFree, Cemvita, Dioxycle, Lydian, Mars Materials, Planetary, and more.
​🚀  STARTUP-CORPORATE COLLABORATION
​The Carbontech Leadership Council (CLC) of the C2V Initiative is an invitation-only group of corporate, nonprofit, and government thought leaders who foster commercialization opportunities and identify avenues for technology validation, testing, and demonstration. Members consist of senior executives representing diverse industries that have made formal commitments to reducing carbon emissions in their core businesses and beyond. Current CLC members include BASF, Carbon180, Caterpillar, CO2 Value Europe, Consulate General of Canada in New York, Energy Impact Partners, Evonik, Fluor, Gore, Johnson Matthey, Shell, Veolia, and XPRIZE.Â
​⚡WATCH THE C2V INITIATIVE IN ACTION: https://vimeo.com/911249645
​About Greentown Labs
​Greentown Labs is a community of climate action pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate solutions. Driven by the mission of providing startups the resources, knowledge, connections, and equipment they need to thrive, Greentown Labs offers lab space, shared office space, a machine shop, an electronics lab, software and business resources, and a large network of corporate customers, investors, and more. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Greentown Labs is home to more than 200 startups and has supported more than 500 since the incubator’s founding in 2011. These startups have collectively created more than 24,000 jobs, raised more than $4 billion in funding, and generated more than $9.8 billion in regional economic impact. For more information, please visit www.greentownlabs.com.
​About Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
​​The Urban Future Lab is a nonprofit innovation hub for best-in-class climatetech startups with a focus on clean energy and sustainable urban infrastructure solutions. It is home to ACRE, New York's longest-running climatetech incubator, Clean Start, an advanced certificate from NYU for people seeking a transition into the climatetech sector, the Carbon to Value Initiative and Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, which bring innovative technologies and solutions to industry leaders, and the Innovate UK Global Incubator Programme, which supports market entry in the U.S. for U.K.-based climatetech startups that can effectively scale and support the clean-growth goals of New York State. Through its five programs, UFL supports innovators on their journey to scaling up and commercializing climate solutions.Â
​Since 2009, UFL has supported 170+ startups with an industry-leading 88% company survival rate and several impressive exits (Smarter Grid Solutions, Artemis, Go Electric, Keen Home, Honest Buildings), raised $2.5B+ in venture capital, project finance, and grants, created 4,100+ jobs, and facilitated 100+ events with 2,000+ attendees per year.
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​About Fraunhofer
​Fraunhofer USA, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of applied research. Fraunhofer USA was founded to conduct applied R & D for customers from industry and state governments and the federal government in the United States. Partnering with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe's largest application- oriented research and development organization, Fraunhofer USA can offer both domestic and international resources to our customers. The TechBridge Program is led by Fraunhofer USA with the core offering being applied, industry-focused projects performed for entrepreneurs by the Fraunhofer Network with the express goal of de-risking novel technologies for the private sector. Projects may take the form of developing and testing prototypes, deploying field demonstrations, performing third-party validation, generating test data in an industry context, or manufacturability studies. For more information, please visit www.fraunhofer.org or find us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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