News

My Climate Journey’s podcast interviews Via Separations on industrial separations and climate change.

Companies

• Via Separations

Katie Rae kicks off 2020 by sharing with Crunchbase some of the Tough Tech startups to watch this year.

Companies

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems
• Kytopen

People

• Katie Rae

What are VC trends in 2020? With increasing constraints on carbon, “we will see a renewed interest in cleantech and a shift away from a resource-based energy economy toward a technology-based energy economy,” The Engine’s Katie Rae tells Fortune.

People

• Katie Rae

Congrats to Boston Metal and Zapata Computing — named by BostInno as among the top 20 startups to watch in 2020!

Companies

• Boston Metal
• Zapata AI [NASDAQ: ZPTA]

Congratulations to portfolio company, Hedron (formerly Analytical Space) — selected for the $3 million award at Air Force Space Pitch Day!

Congrats to portfolio companies Syzygy Plasmonics and Via Separations — recognized as 2019 “10 Startups to Watch” by Chemical & Engineering News Magazine!

Companies

• Via Separations
• Syzygy Plasmonics

ISEE raises $15M Series A led by Founders Fund with participation from existing investors including The Engine.

Companies

• ISEE

The November issue of Inc. Magazine includes The Engine & Katie Rae in its profile of Boston’s thriving tech ecosystem.

Companies

• ISEE
• Vaxess Technologies

People

• Katie Rae

Katie Rae discusses venture capital and tackling the toughest technologies on this episode of the Interchange podcast.

People

• Katie Rae

Crunchbase News chats with The Engine’s Katie Rae on what’s next for investments and Tough Tech innovation.

People

• Katie Rae

Congrats to Form Energy on BostInno’s 50 On Fire award.

Companies

• Form Energy

Congrats to Vaxess Technologies for taking top spot in the “Innovation at the Intersection” category at the 2019 Xconomy Awards.

Companies

• Vaxess Technologies

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new superconducting materials to build a fusion power plant has the potential to revolutionize electricity, writes TIME.

Companies

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Investigating how light-harvesting nanoparticles like those used by Syzygy could curb climate emissions.

Companies

• Syzygy Plasmonics

Axios discusses Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ $115 million Series A funding.

Companies

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Vaxess Technologies closed its $8.2 million Series A round. The Engine led the round.

Companies

• Vaxess Technologies

CFS said the funding will allow it to demonstrate its high-temperature superconducting magnets by 2021 and a power plant prototype by 2025.

Companies

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Vaxess Technologies chats with Boston Business Journal about its Series A and its partnerships ahead of the first clinical trials.

Companies

• Vaxess Technologies

CFS raises $115 Million and closes Series A round to commercialize fusion energy

Companies

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Kytopen, a startup accelerating the discovery and manufacturing of cell therapies, announced it has raised $3.6m in seed financing.

Companies

• Kytopen

Zapata Computing raises $21 million to bring quantum computing to enterprise applications

Companies

• Zapata AI [NASDAQ: ZPTA]

NBC News interviews Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Companies

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Education will play a foundational role in shaping the next two decades in computing and AI research, says The Engine’s Katie Rae.

People

• Katie Rae

Via Separations, a startup developing energy-efficient filtration technology, has raised $4.8 million in a Series A funding round.

Companies

• Via Separations

What’s one misconception about women VCs that Rae wants to clear up? “That there are no women VCs,” she said in an interview with Built In Boston.

People

• Katie Rae

Congratulations to Hedron (formerly Analytical Space )- recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2019!

Venture capitalist Katie Rae is trying to prove that “Tough Tech” is worth the tough work.

People

• Katie Rae

“A critical piece to achieving a carbon-free world is the decarbonization of steel production,” said Katie Rae, managing partner and CEO of The Engine.

Companies

• Boston Metal

People

• Katie Rae

Stan Wang, a physician-scientist, and two physicists, Nabiha Saklayen and Marinna Madrid, teamed up in 2017 to start Cellino, a portfolio company.

Companies

• Cellino

The New York Times interviews portfolio company Zapata Computing about tech talent for quantum computing.

Companies

• Zapata AI [NASDAQ: ZPTA]