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MIT professor Mike Stonebreaker has been at the forefront of database technology for over 50 years. The former Turing Award winner invented the Ingres and Postgres databases and helped launch a number of companies including Streambase Systems (acquired by Tibco in 2013), VoltDB, Tamr and SciDB. His latest project, DBOS, officially launches with an $8.5 million seed investment.

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TIME and Statista have named 250 companies reducing environmental impact.

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Detailed study of magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant.

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The two discuss Reed’s thoughts on the latest #techtrends, and we get a glimpse into Reed’s personal and professional journey leading up to his career today.

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• Reed Sturtevant

“Sublime ultimately selected Holyoke because of the dual opportunity to help local people in the near term while working toward swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions.”

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• Sublime Systems

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The unprecedented GaN-on-Si technology unlocks true potential of 5G/6G networks, enabling higher power, speed and linearity.

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• Finwave

AtmosZero is proud to announce the close of their $21M Series A financing co-led by Engine Ventures & 2150 to accelerate their mission to cost-effectively decarbonize industrial steam. Full steam ahead!

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Startups that aim to reduce emissions, like AtmosZero and Sublime Systems, are leading the charge to slow global warming.

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• Sublime Systems

On the heels of raising $145 million in fresh Series C capital funding, Lilac Solutions, Inc. will implement their groundbreaking lithium extraction technology at the Great Salt Lake to gather this in-demand resource faster and more efficiently while minimizing environmental damage.

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RISE™Robotics proudly announces the availability of limited licenses for its game-changing patent, EP 3 652 466 B1. This pioneering technology unlocks new possibilities for angular flat belt drive systems, proving that highly loaded belts at angles and around corners can outperform traditional designs without sacrificing service life.

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• RISE Robotics

Our General Partner, Michael Kearney, argues for a New Paradigm in Clean Energy in his new piece for Renewable Energy World.

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• Michael Kearney

Read Engine Ventures General Partner Milo Werner's bold prediction about the material future in Axios #Climate News

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• Milo Werner

This funding will support us as we pilot new electrolyzer innovations that will allow Sublime Systems to turn industrial wastes into cement more efficiently. It will accelerate our ability to turn recycled, demolished concrete into fresh, high-performing, low-carbon Sublime Cement, reducing our impact on natural ecosystems.

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• Sublime Systems

Osmoses has been selected among the recipients of the new DOE Voucher Program, which provides commercialization support for innovative clean energy companies moving from the R&D stage to the demonstration and commercialization stage. Osmoses will be partnering with RTI International to hone our techno-economic analysis for our novel membrane technology.

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Engine Ventures portfolio company Syzygy Plasmonics was awarded significant funding from the coveted U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) voucher, kicking off the first round of their #VoucherProgram. This news comes as Syzygy Plasmonics ramps up their work around Rapid Life Cycle Assessments for Carbon Management and Clean Energy Hydrogen Technology.

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Sublime Systems selected a site in Holyoke, MA for their first-commercial manufacturing facility. This plant will be critical for scaling production of their low-carbon Sublime Cement™ and has found an amazing home in Holyoke, which was once the center of the paper industry in the U.S.

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How electricity could help tackle a surprising climate villain.

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Axoft publishes tangible results that demonstrate a foundation for real-life Brain-Computer communication based on materials that enable long-term stable, high-density neural interfaces.

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Engine Ventures portfolio company and lithium startup Lilac Solutions, Inc., completes a one-year demonstration of their mineral extraction tech in Argentina.

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Listen in on Mateo Jaramillo’s conversation with Shayle Kann on Canary Media Inc.’s Catalyst podcast as they dive deep into the strengths and limitations of lithium-ion batteries on the grid today, what role multi-day storage plays for utilities beyond balancing renewables, and why Mateo thinks lithium-ion is here to stay.

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• Form Energy

Thanks to Engine Ventures’ portfolio company Amide Technologies and their breakthrough robotic peptide printing platform, drug discoverers can now order long, complex, and even non-natural peptides on demand with turnaround times measured in days, not weeks or months.

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• Amide

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Engine Ventures’ portfolio company, Boston Metal, was awarded a $50M grant to build an advanced #manufacturing plant in West Virginia for chrome #metal, the material needed for inert anode technology, which can help lower carbon footprint.

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Sublime Systems and Form Energy co-founder Yet-Ming Chiang was named on TIME's list of 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2023. Yet's style of innovating is working back from big, imaginative problem statements — an approach that has yielded many prolific startups working across important areas of climate impact.

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Reporter Bethany Halford thoughtfully detailed Sublime Systems's journey and the "broad problem statement—let’s use electricity to make cement in a completely new way" that catalyzed Sublime.

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Engine Ventures is a part of Inc. Magazine’s 2023 Founder-Friendly Investors, a list of the best PE, VC, and debt firms with a track record of success backing entrepreneurs! Our team is honored to spend each day supporting driven Tough Tech founders on a mission to enact positive change.

Form Energy has been named one of TIME's 200 best inventions of 2023! Form's iron-air batteries can discharge power for about four straight days – lasting far longer than lithium-ion batteries, which, unlike Form Energy’s solution, require mining rare-earth minerals.

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• Form Energy