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Hyfé creates the future feedstocks of biomanufacturing from nutrients lost in trillions of gallons of food processing wastewater.

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• Hyfé

CEO & Managing Partner Katie Rae provides her investment insights in the fusion energy space based on her experience supporting the growth of Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

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• Katie Rae

Congratulations to Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Form Energy for being named two of the world's top 100 deep tech companies by Bessemer Venture Partners and XPRIZE.

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• Commonwealth Fusion Systems
• Form Energy

Sublime Systems is pioneering transformational change in the cement industry with low-carbon cement! Boston Globe visits the Sublime lab space to see the team's efforts in reducing 7% of global carbon emissions produced by cement manufacturing.

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• Sublime Systems

Canary Media sits down with The Engine Managing Partner & CEO Katie Rae to reflect on her path as a mission-driven investor and hear her thoughts on career opportunities in climatetech.

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• Katie Rae

Boston is becoming an energy powerhouse, and The Engine is right at the helm of the scientific breakthroughs and ambitious teams leading the transition such as Quaise Energy, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and Form Energy.

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• Quaise
• Form Energy
• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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• Katie Rae

Congratulations to Mateo Jaramillo, CEO & Co-Founder of Form Energy; Bob Mumgaard, CEO & Co-Founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems; Tadeu Carneiro, CEO of Boston Metal; and our very own Katie Rae for making the second edition of the Boston Globe's Tech Power Players List!

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• Form Energy
• Boston Metal
• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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• Katie Rae

Sublime Systems was named a winner of the BloombergNEF Pioneers Award! This prestigious award selects 12 winners from a pool of nearly 350 global applicants, recognizing early-stage startups pursuing transformative technologies to address climate change.

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• Sublime Systems

The Engine General Partner Milo Werner speaks on the state of robotics and how robotics can play a fundamental role in addressing climate change.

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• Milo Werner

CEO & Managing Partner Katie Rae speaks on how founders should pitch a VC in 2023. From Katie's perspective, sharp answers, real data sources, and a broad understanding of the market you're entering are crucial elements to a successful pitch.

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• Katie Rae

Growing up in PA, William Woodford spend cold winters watching football and using hand warmers. Those hand warmers ended up being an unlikely source of inspiration when he co-founded Form Energy with Mateo Jaramillo, Ted Wiley, and Yet-Ming Chiang. Since their inception in 2017, the team has raised almost $900M and is about to begin construction on a $760M battery manufacturing plant in West Virginia.

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• Form Energy

"The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank created a significant void in the world of climate finance, but it's now providing an opportunity for new support to emerge and for the industry to continue to grow and thrive," writes CEO & Managing Partner Katie Rae for Cipher's weekly newsletter.

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• Katie Rae

CEO & Managing Partner Katie Rae was recently a guest on the UnseenUpside podcast by Cambridge Associates. They discussed how fusion power is quickly on its way to meeting the world's need for limitless clean energy, and explored the technologies, investments, and decisions still necessary to get there.

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• Katie Rae

Droplet Biosciences is targeting lymph fluid with their new residual cancer detection strategy.

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• Droplet Biosciences

The Engine CEO Katie Rae speaks to the impactful scientific leaders behind the Tough Tech breakthroughs in our community.

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• Katie Rae

Congratulations to the Commonwealth Fusion Systems team for being ranked the #1 startup employer in America, two years in a row!

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• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Politico sits down with Biobot CEO & Co-Founder Mariana Matus to discuss how wastewater epidemiology became a useful tool during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how wastewater epidemiology opens up new opportunities for companies to track disease outbreaks.

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• Biobot Analytics

The Engine CEO & Managing Partner, Katie Rae was profiled alongside other Boston VC leaders to give her perspective on Boston’s vibrant tech ecosystem and how local startups are faring in 2023.

The Engine CEO Katie Rae discusses The Engine’s definition of Tough Tech, the fundraising resilience of Tough Tech companies, and how critical public-private collaboration is to bringing scientific discoveries to commercialization with Ironspring Ventures' Ty Findley.

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• Katie Rae

Kytopen Co-Founder Cullen Buie reflects on how his company has grown and shifted focus in developing safer immunotherapies.

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• Kytopen

Congratulations to the Boston Metal team for raising a $120 million Series C round! With this funding, Boston Metal will scale its MOE technology for green steel production and support the developmental efforts of its Brazilian subsidiary, Boston Metal do Brasil.

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• Boston Metal

Speaking at MIT Tech Review this past fall, our CEO & Managing Partner, Katie Rae shared her thoughts on the importance of building an ecosystem around Tough Tech leaders.

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• Katie Rae

A molar implant, a receiver for wireless charging made by Resonant Link, would power an attached salivary diagnostic tool.

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• Resonant Link

"Look at our universities and the important research there that has translated into companies that could have a huge impact on climate — this is the year it got real. Commonwealth Fusion Systems opened their manufacturing facility for the future of fusion energy. That is so freakin’ cool. We had Form Energy, with their long-term storage battery for wind and solar. Via Separations, that basically decarbonizes heavy industrial processes. Sublime is doing green cement. Boston Metal is doing green steel. They’re all in Massachusetts!" says our CEO & Co-Founder Katie Rae.

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• Katie Rae

Foray makes Interesting Engineering's "22 Best Innovations of 2022" list with its novel approach to 3D printing wood, ensuring we can have trees and our wood products too.

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• Foray Bioscience

In honor of publishing The Engine Report 2021 & 2022, The Boston Globe sits down with CEO Katie Rae to discuss the impact of the Tough Tech movement, and what's next for The Engine in 2023.

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• Katie Rae

Vaxess Technologies has announced positive interim results for a first-in-human trial of its seasonal influenza vaccine patch.

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• Vaxess Technologies

Inspired by the promising future of fusion energy, Chloé’s Gabriela Hearst visits the Commonwealth Fusion Systems team.

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• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

A big congratulations to Cameron Halliday, Danielle Colson, and Jasper Lienhard for making the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list! Cam and Danielle were featured on the Energy list as co-founders of Mantel, while Jasper was listed under Manufacturing & Industry for co-founding Foundation Alloy.

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• Mantel
• Foundation Alloy

“Lithium-ion is fantastic, and yet, if that’s the only tool you have, you still have a really hard time replacing high-capacity coal and natural-gas plants. To replace those, you need something that’s at least an order of magnitude cheaper than lithium-ion,” says Form CEO Mateo Jaramillo. In the case of Form Energy, The materials needed—air, salt water, and iron—are available in practically limitless quantities.

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• Form Energy