TRACK 2
NextGen Climate+
Participating Companies
2Pi Optics
ABOUT
Revenue-generating optical metasurfaces platform company enabling a new class of flat optics providing imaging, sensing, computing, machine vision, and datacenter communications solutions.
THEY ARE SEEKING
Investment: A Round (to scale manufacturing and address pipeline backlog)
AeroShield
ABOUT
AeroShield manufactures the world’s most transparent, super-insulating aerogels to enable the next generation of energy-efficient windows, freezer doors, and more.
THEY ARE SEEKING
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Investment: $20M Series A. This enables a commercial pilot plant supported by a non-dilutive $14.5M ARPA-E grant.
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Customers: Looking for customers in glass/glass coatings, insulated glass, windows, or freezer doors who want access to the world’s most insulating, lightest solid.
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Talent: Manufacturing scaleup of molding/ chemical processes, chemical process operators, window product development and certification expertise
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Supply chain partners: Chemical suppliers – in particular silanes, CO2, and methanol -- looking to find innovative and sustainable use cases for their products. Custom solution providers for high-throughput molding and sol-gel chemistry.
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Real estate: Siting a 50,000-65,000 square foot aerogel manufacturing facility; zoned for chemical manufacturing
Ambri
ABOUT
Liquid metal battery company with completed product targeting renewable energy storage sector. Lower-cost, safer, and longer-lifespan alternative than Li-ion. Now ready to scale manufacturing.
THEY ARE SEEKING
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Vendors: Low-cost steel/stainless steel component fabricators.
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Licensees: Manufacturers, including battery and inverter manufacturers
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Customers: Electric power utilities, renewable power project developers, and hyperscale AI datacenter companies
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Investors: B Round
Fluorityx
ABOUT
Fluorityx is a PFAS detection company operating in the municipal and industrial water, environmental remediation, PFAS removal and destruction industries. We currently have lab scale sensors to detect relevant ppt quantities in minutes for a fraction of the cost of other assays.
THEY ARE SEEKING
Customers: pilot demonstrations
Distribution channels: Companies providing PFAS environmental remediation and testing services
Co-development+licensing: scientific instrumentation companies and testing labs
Vendors: Sensor manufacturing, engineering design
Investors: raising the remaining $2M of a $5M seed round
Helix Carbon
ABOUT
A seed-stage startup recycling CO2 emissions as a syngas feedstock for iron reduction in the iron and steel industries (for starters - applications in multiple industries). $500,000 (non-dilutive) raised so far. Pilot underway.
THEY ARE SEEKING
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Customers: Steel
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Customers: Specialty chemicals and Petrochem
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Finance: Seed Round
Infinite
Cooling
ABOUT
Enabling efficient and sustainable industrial cooling. Commercial stage revenue-generating, with operational units in various industries such as natural gas, nuclear power, chemicals and manufacturing.
THEY ARE SEEKING
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Customer: Industrial facilities with high cooling tower operations, such as data centers, chemical plants, and power plants. Particular interest in hyperscale data centers.
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Co-developer: Product integration with cooling system OEMs and water treatment providers
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Distribution channel: Automation vendors for sales of our cooling tower monitoring and optimization software
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Investor: Raising Series B (VCs with expertise in cleantech and industrial applications, or and CVC
Via Separations
ABOUT
A revenue-generating, platform “separations” company replacing thermal separation with mechanical membrane separation, reducing energy (by up to 90%), operating costs, and process bottlenecks. First of a kind solution installed and now scaling in pulp & paper. Chemicals and fuel markets are next.
THEY ARE SEEKING
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Investment: Strategic capital circled for Series C, seeking additional $3M-$5M
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Pilots: chemical and fuel companies
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Co-development: Seeking technology & business development opportunities with strategics in the chemicals & fuels markets, e.g., joint development agreements
CONTACT
Skip Farinha
Thank you to our sponsors
Thank you to premier sponsor, Gunderson Dettmer, and to Climate+ sponsors JPMorganChase, MIT Office of Innovation, Nutter, Orbia, and Verico for their support.
