Meet the startups shaping the future of carbontech and kick off Year 6 of the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative at Greentown Houston!

Meet the startups that were selected for this year’s cohort as well as members of C2V’s Carbontech Leadership Council, an invitation-only group of executive leaders across diverse industry sectors. As the C2V Initiative enters its sixth year, our recent call for applications paints a compelling picture of where the industry is headed. With a record-breaking 209 applications spanning 46 countries across six continents, the global momentum behind using carbon as a feedstock remains strong.

​💥 The Year 6 Cohort

  • Stay tuned for the official announcement!

​Agenda

5:30 to 6:00 pm - Arrival and networking6:00 to 6:10 pm - Welcome remarks6:10 to 6:15 pm - Greentown remarks6:15 to 6:20 pm - Year 6 Cohort Introduction6:20 to 6:50 pm - Startup Pitches

6:50 to 6:55 pm - Closing remarks6:55 to 8:00 pm - Networking

​About the Carbon to Value Initiative

The C2V Initiative is a unique partnership among Urban Future Lab at New York University-Tandon, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA to unlock a new carbontech economy—bringing innovative solutions to scale as rapidly as possible through the creation of a robust, powerful, and collaborative new ecosystem.

Now entering its sixth year, C2V has supported 45 groundbreaking startups that have collectively raised more than $700 million in follow-on funding. The initiative has facilitated 600+ connections across its startup, corporate, nonprofit, and government network, helping advance partnerships, technology development, pilots, and the growth of the carbontech economy.

Startups selected to participate in the program will have the opportunity to engage with the Carbontech Leadership Council, an invitation-only group of executive leaders across diverse industry sectors driving the future of carbontech. Startups will gain market insights and explore collaboration opportunities with CLC members to unlock this trillion-dollar market. Specifically, startups will have the opportunity to hear firsthand from CLC members about their carbontech strategies, to present to them directly, and to access experts and industry knowledge from within the participating corporations. Cohort startups will also gain access to the C2V Initiative’s extended network of startup alumni, investors, government funders, and ecosystem supporters, allowing them to overcome their specific barriers and significantly raise their visibility profile in the carbon management industry.

​C2V Partners

The Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering

The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is a nonprofit innovation hub for best-in-class climatetech startups with a focus on clean energy and sustainable urban infrastructure solutions. It houses ACRE, New York’s longest-running climatetech incubator; the Carbon to Value Initiative and the 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. It also offers Clean Start, an advanced certificate from NYU for people seeking a transition into the climatetech sector. As an integral part of Tandon’s Sustainable Engineering Initiative and NYU Tandon Future Labs network, the UFL is home to programs focused on policy, education, and market solutions for the green economy. For more information, visit ufl.nyc or LinkedIn and Instagram.

Greentown

Greentown is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping climate entrepreneurs build faster. As the world’s largest climatetech and energy startup incubator network, Greentown Labs provides startups mission-critical access to labs, equipment, customers, capital, talent, community, and resources to accelerate their growth and impact. Greentown Go, its open-innovation programs, inject momentum and scale into startup-corporate collaborations to propel new technologies to market faster. Greentown is home to more than 300 startups and has supported more than 700 since its founding in 2011; these startups, with a survival rate of 88 percent, have collectively created more than 16,600 jobs and raised more than $15B in funding. For more information, visit greentown.org or follow Greentown on LinkedIn.

Fraunhofer USA

Fraunhofer USA Inc. is an independent U.S. nonprofit applied research organization, established in 1994 and affiliated with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe's largest applied research organization, with 75 institutes, 30,000 employees, and $3.5 billion in annual research revenue. Fraunhofer USA conducts contract R&D for industry, state governments, and federal agencies, developing and validating technologies across advanced manufacturing, materials, software systems, AI, and energy. Its three applied R&D centers, each embedded within a major U.S. research university, draw on the global Fraunhofer network to bring transatlantic research capabilities to U.S. industry, closing the gap between laboratory discovery and commercial deployment in service of a stronger industrial base, skilled job creation, and long-term societal progress. For more information, visit www.fraunhofer.org or LinkedIn.

The Carbontech Leadership Council

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 Carbon180, CO2 Value Europe, Energy Impact Partners, Fluor, Johnson Matthey, L'Oréal, NYSERDA, Shell, TotalEnergies, and Veolia. For more details, visit www.c2vinitiative.com/clc.

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