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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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Hyfé creates the future feedstocks of biomanufacturing from nutrients lost in trillions of gallons of food processing wastewater.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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Droplet Biosciences is targeting lymph fluid with their new residual cancer detection strategy.
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The Engine CEO Katie Rae speaks to the impactful scientific leaders behind the Tough Tech breakthroughs in our community.
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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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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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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.
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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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Kytopen Co-Founder Cullen Buie reflects on how his company has grown and shifted focus in developing safer immunotherapies.
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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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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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A molar implant, a receiver for wireless charging made by Resonant Link, would power an attached salivary diagnostic tool.
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"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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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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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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