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Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new superconducting materials to build a fusion power plant has the potential to revolutionize electricity, writes TIME.
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Investigating how light-harvesting nanoparticles like those used by Syzygy could curb climate emissions.
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Axios discusses Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ $115 million Series A funding.
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Vaxess Technologies closed its $8.2 million Series A round. The Engine led the round.
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CFS said the funding will allow it to demonstrate its high-temperature superconducting magnets by 2021 and a power plant prototype by 2025.
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Vaxess Technologies chats with Boston Business Journal about its Series A and its partnerships ahead of the first clinical trials.
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CFS raises $115 Million and closes Series A round to commercialize fusion energy
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Kytopen, a startup accelerating the discovery and manufacturing of cell therapies, announced it has raised $3.6m in seed financing.
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Zapata Computing raises $21 million to bring quantum computing to enterprise applications
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NBC News interviews Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
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Education will play a foundational role in shaping the next two decades in computing and AI research, says The Engine’s Katie Rae.
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Via Separations, a startup developing energy-efficient filtration technology, has raised $4.8 million in a Series A funding round.
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What’s one misconception about women VCs that Rae wants to clear up? “That there are no women VCs,” she said in an interview with Built In Boston.
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Congratulations to Hedron (formerly Analytical Space )- recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2019!
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Venture capitalist Katie Rae is trying to prove that “Tough Tech” is worth the tough work.
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“A critical piece to achieving a carbon-free world is the decarbonization of steel production,” said Katie Rae, managing partner and CEO of The Engine.
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Stan Wang, a physician-scientist, and two physicists, Nabiha Saklayen and Marinna Madrid, teamed up in 2017 to start Cellino, a portfolio company.
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The New York Times interviews portfolio company Zapata Computing about tech talent for quantum computing.
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Zapata is one of the first users of Google’s new open-source software framework for quantum computing.
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At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, The Engine Katie Rae discussed investment trends and the future of Tough Tech.
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Boston Business Journal on how Hedron (formerly Analytical Space) is building the “Cisco of space.”
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Congrats to founders Shreya Dave (Via Separations), Nabiha Saklayen (Cellino Biotech), and William Woodford (Form Energy) — named as world’s top “Innovators Under 35” by MIT Tech Review.
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Zapata Computing could end up with a bird’s-eye view of how applications perform on quantum computers, giving it a big advantage in the market.
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Katie Rae is featured on CNBC's Squawk Box, "We are shooting to create very large companies."
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Innovations in fields like energy and transportation often take time—and extra support—to develop. The Engine at MIT is helping them make the leap from the lab to the marketplace.
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“We’ve done small molecules, we’ve done biologics, we’ve tried DNA, naked RNA, we’ve even tried Crispr,” he says. “As superficial as it may sound, it all just works.” Carl Schoellhammer, Founder SuonoBio
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The Engine will provide funding, space, and expertise—powering a network of innovation networks.
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Keller is Co-Founder and CTO of Via Separations, which develops membrane materials for separation processes.
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Form Energy (formerly Baseload Renewables) has an ambitious goal: use renewable energy to replace fossil fuels as baseload electric power.
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MIT’s Yet-Ming Chiang has launched a flow battery startup aimed at making renewable energy competitive with fossil fuels.
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