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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

A creative conversation with Amy Ripka, Founder/CEO of Lucy Therapeutics and professional violinist, about how she leverages the principles of performing music to her own leadership practice.

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• Lucy Therapeutics

Just over 40 years after the field of quantum computing began, funding is on the rise locally for the hard-to-explain concept that has huge implications for businesses.

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• Atlantic Quantum
• Zapata AI [NASDAQ: ZPTA]

Congratulations to the Syzygy team for closing a successful Series C round! The capital raised will fund further development and delivery of their all-electric reactor systems eliminating fossil-based combustion from chemical manufacturing.

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• Syzygy Plasmonics

ISEE isn't developing the next autonomous robotaxi or self-driving long-haul truck. It's working to automate the trucks that operate in logistics yards, where shipping containers chock full of stuff sit before being transported to a warehouse or distribution center.

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• ISEE

Monitoring wastewater data for disease outbreaks is becoming the norm post-COVID, thanks to Biobot's platform.

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• Biobot Analytics

With Vaxess Technologies, getting a flu shot could be as easy as opening the mailbox and placing a skin patch on your arm.

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• Vaxess Technologies

Axoft CEO Paul Le Floch and his team are developing brain implants made from soft, flexible materials that reduce injury and could treat disorders such as cerebral palsy.

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• Axoft

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• Reed Sturtevant

Form Energy is accelerating development of iron-air batteries that could store clean power for several days following Inflation Reduction Act

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• Form Energy

The Boston Globe asked top players in Boston's tech scene, "Who are the central nodes in Boston’s tech network — the people who unfailingly know about funding rounds coming together, founders on the verge of being ousted, and acquisition whispers?" First on the list is CEO Katie Rae, for her work pioneering the Tough Tech movement.

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• Katie Rae

Gabriela Hearst of Chloé is really excited about nuclear fusion energy and its implications for solving the climate crisis—so excited that she used her visit to CFS's site as inspiration for her new collection!

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• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

After sitting vacant for almost two decades, the transformational startups at The Engine 750 Main are bringing new life to the 155,000-square-foot, MIT-owned building.

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• Katie Rae

Congratulations to Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli, the Co-Founders of Biobot Analytics, for their impactful work monitoring wastewater to track diseases.

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• Biobot Analytics

CEO Katie Rae on investors seeking out technologies that will speed up the race to zero emissions: “We have fundamental risks that, if we don’t tackle with real deep science and engineering, that will take us a full step forward, or two steps forward, we’re in trouble.”

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• Katie Rae