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Climate solutions start where the work happens.

Greentown puts founders next to labs, investors, and first customers — everything it takes to turn breakthrough hardware into deployed infrastructure.

Great tech dies in the gap.

Your science works. But labs cost a fortune, investors don't get hardware timelines, and corporates want a pilot but won't commit. You're building alone, burning cash on problems that aren't technical.

Most climate hardware companies don't die because the tech fails. They die in the gap between lab and market.

Greentown closes the gap.

Lab
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Market

Labs. Network. Launchpad.

Not a coworking space. Not an accelerator with a Zoom link. A place where physical climate tech gets built, tested, and pushed to market.

Build
Shared labs and prototyping gear — benchtop to pilot-ready. No raising a round to rent a fume hood.
Connect
Founders, corporates, investors, researchers — same building. The company next door is solving the problem next to yours. By design.
Launch
Programs built for commercialization. First customer, first pilot, first real check from investors who get hardware.

We believe in ‘and.’

Most incubators give you space. Greentown gives you a neighborhood. When climate companies cluster — same city, same building — a battery company learns from a materials company, a water startup finds a pilot partner at lunch, an investor sees three deals in one visit.

This isn't philosophy. It's data.

Your tech AND the right people next to you. That's what turns prototypes into infrastructure.

The Greentown network

~30%

typical climate hardware survival rate

90%+

inside Greentown

Talk is cheap. Here’s the record.

$X B+

raised by member companies

XXX+

technologies deployed in the real world

XXX+

companies launched

Water$12M Series A
Aqualith
Developed a mineral-based filtration system that removes microplastics from municipal water. Went from bench prototype to first commercial pilot in 14 months inside Greentown.

The partner we met in the hallway became our first customer. No pitch event did that. Proximity did.

Sarah Chen, Aqualith
Materials3 utility contracts
Ferrotec Carbon
Engineers carbon-negative concrete additives from industrial waste streams. Signed their first three utility-scale contracts while still in Greentown's Houston hub.

We needed a lab that could handle molten slag at 1,400 degrees. Greentown had one. That's not something you find on a coworking tour.

Marcus Oyelaran, Ferrotec Carbon
Energy500K+ sensors deployed
Gridware
Built wildfire-detection sensors for aging power grid infrastructure. Scaled from a handful of prototypes to half a million deployed units with support from Greentown's corporate network.

The investor who led our Series B walked through the lab on a Tuesday. We had a term sheet by Thursday.

Tim Barat, Gridware
StoragePilot with IKEA
SaltX
Created a nano-coated salt technology for long-duration thermal energy storage. Landed a pilot partnership with IKEA through Greentown's corporate engagement program.

Greentown didn't just give us space — they put us in front of the exact companies that needed what we were building.

Lina Nordin, SaltX

Pick your lane.

Founders

You need labs, a network, and a real path to your first customer. Not advice.

Founder programs

Corporates

See what's next before your competitors. Structured pilots, early access, front-row seat.

Partnerships

Investors

Climate deals with traction, not just decks. Real facilities, real pilots, real customers.

Portfolio

Ecosystem Builders

Bring climate innovation to your region. Plug in without rebuilding from scratch.

Greentown nodes

Two hubs. More coming.

Boston

Where it started. Largest climate tech hub in North America. MIT, Harvard, and the region's energy ecosystem at the doorstep.

Boston

Houston

Energy capital meets climate tech. If your product needs to plug into heavy industry, this is where you prove it.

Houston

New locations follow demand, not hype.

The floor is busy.

A running feed of what's actually happening inside Greentown right now — company launches, upcoming events, funding milestones, new partnerships. Updated regularly.

Event
Demo Day — Houston — March 15, 2026
Launch
Aqualith closes $12M Series A
Milestone
500th company enters the Greentown network
Event
Climate Hardware Summit — Boston — April 8, 2026

Shop floor, not showroom.

Greentown was built by founders who needed a lab at midnight and didn't have one. That DNA hasn't changed.

People share equipment. Teams share lessons. When someone cracks a supply chain problem, the company next door knows by Friday. Function over form. Results over polish.

We're not building a tech campus. We're getting solutions into the world.

The green revolution will be built by hand.

Thousands of founders. Thousands of products. A system that doesn't exist yet — until they build it.

This is where they come to get it done.