Climate and EnergyTech Startups Announced for 2022 mHUB Accelerator
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mHUB Announces Portfolio Teams of Climate and EnergyTech Accelerator for Early-Stage HardTech StartupsStartups to participate in the Chicago-based program are developing technologies across sectors such as renewable energy, energy storage, carbon capture, and hydrogen.CHICAGO - (June 9, 2022) mHUB, one of the nations leading independent HardTech and manufacturing innovation centers, has selected eight ClimateTech and EnergyTech startups for investment through its Product Impact Fund I and to participate in its 6-month, hands-on accelerator. Consumers, companies, governments, and investors are looking for new and optimized technologies that reduce, avoid, or capture carbon emissions, said Thierry Van Landegem, Executive Director, mHUB Climate and EnergyTech Accelerator. blip energy (Evanston, IL) defining a new category of smart home batteries by leveraging second-life batteries to create an affordable, accessible, portable power station that works in any home Icarus RT (San Diego, CA) a hybrid cogeneration plus storage system that cools PV panels to improve performance and stores heat to provide hot water infiniRel (Santa Cruz, CA) developing preventive diagnostics to improve output, efficiency and reliability of power electronics for renewable energy Kazadi Enterprises (Batavia, IL) reducing the cost and carbon footprint of commercial refrigeration by leveraging the vast energy resources in environmental heat nexTC (Corvallis, OR) developing thin film coatings for solar cells to improve efficiency and lower cost OXTO Energy (Guilford, UK) designing and manufacturing the next generation of safe, high-power and low-cost flywheel batteries The Climate and EnergyTech cohort is the third cohort of mHUBs accelerator program launched in 2020. The mHUB community includes over 428 active and alumni startups and small businesses supported by a deep talent pool of product designers and developers, entrepreneurs, engineers and manufacturers, corporate leaders, industry experts, mentors and investors. mHUB provides a hyper-resourced environment to entrepreneurs with the goal of commercializing new hardtech innovation that will lead to new businesses, intellectual property, investment, revenue and job creation.