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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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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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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 is helping climate-change efforts by building massive iron-air batteries that could help store electricity produced by renewable energy sources. Watch Boston Globe's video following the team into their research and design warehouse in Somerville to see what they're charging up.

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The future of electric is geothermal. Check out the recent The Wall Street Journal Future of Everything Podcast hosted by Alex Ossola, discussing the potential of geothermal energy and how electric cars, lights and cell phones may be powered by this source in the future. Quaise Energy co-founder and CEO Carlos Araque joins the conversation discussing the company's unique approach to drilling: vaporizing rock.

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Sublime Systems, and Form Energy have been named as key climatetech companies to watch in MIT Technology Review. Explore the full list, ranging from nuclear fusion to cow-free burgers.

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Congratulations to CEO Francesco Maria Benedetti and the Osmoses team for closing $11M in seed funding!

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Atlantic Quantum has developed a new type of quantum architecture exceeds industry standards. The team has announced promising research showing their fluxonium-based qubit architecture achieves the lowest error rates to date for superconducting qubits.

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Weirton Steel in West Virginia has been turned into Form Energy's new battery plant.

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Congratulations to Bharath Kannan, Co-Founder & CEO of Atlantic Quantum, for being named as one of this year's MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35! Atlantic Quantum is on a mission to usher useful quantum computing from vision to reality, by eliminating performance and scalability tradeoffs. This recognition is a testament to Bharath's dedication and vision.

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“We are writing a new book on steel metallurgy,” says Boston Metal CEO Tadeu Carneiro. With ascending climate concerns, Boston Metal is pioneering a green revolution in steel production. The team's groundbreaking Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) technology promises to reshape the future of the industrial world, offering cleaner, greener steel.

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CEO & Co-Founder of Sublime Systems, Leah Ellis, describes how her team is using electrochemistry to decarbonize cement. Watch the full video on Bloomberg.com to learn about the ramifications of traditional cement production and how Sublime is making an impact.

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Boston Metal has closed an impressive Series C round, securing $262 million to decarbonize steelmaking. This substantial investment will fuel the scaling of their decarbonization technology for commercial use and global employee expansion. Already successful with ferro-alloys, the team is now poised to demonstrate the transformation of iron ore into traditional steel at a large scale.

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By harnessing the potential of millimeter waves, Quaise is aiming to pulverize rock and delve up to 12 miles deep, a transformative development in the energy sector.

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Vaxess Technologies has teamed up with AstraZeneca to develop prototype vaccines for pandemic influenza. Funded by the DoD, this partnership will develop a game-changing skin patch mRNA vaccine, marking a significant leap forward in vaccine delivery and medical preparedness.

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How do you look at what the world’s biggest problems are? And what role could technology play in expanding the arc of those problems in the right direction?

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Engine Ventures is thrilled to have partnered with Norrsken VC to create the Impact/100 of 2023: an annual list of the world’s 100 most promising impact startups. Congratulations to our portfolio companies Boston Metal, Cellino, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Lilac Solutions, and Vaxess Technologies for being selected!

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The VEIR team has successfully completed an outdoor demo energizing a 100-foot overhead superconductor power line. Their novel cooling approach will modernize the grid and increase access to renewable energy, while helping to meet global power needs.

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The Celestial AI team raises $100 million in Series B funding! Celestial’s Photonic Fabric technology platform delivers optical connectivity performance levels that are ten years more advanced than existing technology offerings.

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Sublime Systems is decarbonizing cement production with an electrochemical solution to the conventional fossil fuel-intensive processes of the industry.

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