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About the Massachusetts Climatetech Studio
A 16-week accelerator run by MassCEC and FedTech that turned breakthrough university research into real climatetech startups. Over two cohorts (2024 – 2025), the Studio matched 48 entrepreneurs with 18 technologies from labs across Massachusetts and the United States, creating 12 companies that are still building today.
Program Impact
400+
Applicants
48
Entrepreneurs
11
Active Companies
$1.48M
Funding secured by Alumni
83%
Underrepresented or Women Founders
15 of 18
Technologies from MA Universities
6 Alumni
Received MassCEC Catalyst Awards
Massachusetts Climatetech Studio Impact Report
Active Companies
Aquelys
Solar powered marine carbon removal systems
Aquelys’ technology helps policymakers and industries who want to implement reliable, scalable carbon removal solutions by leveraging advanced Electrochemical Ocean Iron Fertilization (EOIF) and Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) methods. Their self-operated, solar-powered platforms enable precise control over iron release and chemical changes, overcoming limitations of traditional OIF methods. By providing onsite monitoring, reporting, and rigorous R&D and pilot programs, they deliver reliable data on sequestration, cost-efficiency analysis, and real-time ecosystem impact tracking, increasing confidence in adopting marine carbon removal practices. Aquelys creates a pathway for reliable carbon markets, cost-effective carbon removal, and strengthened ocean resilience, contributing to global climate goals.
CemCycle
Turning organic waste into valuable resources for a low-carbon future
CemCycle is developing a carbon-negative concrete filler by converting organic waste into precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC). Their technology provides a dual-market solution, tackling waste management challenges while reducing the carbon footprint of concrete production—a major source of global emissions.
Elimentra Technologies
Biological carbon sequestration using waste materials
Elimentra’s system takes waste gypsum from factories and organic byproducts from breweries, locks away carbon, and turns it into carbon credits plus value added commodities like sulfur and limestone. The result? A cleaner atmosphere, new revenue streams, and a circular economy that works at scale.
H2 Everywhere, Inc.
Modular green hydrogen production
H2 Everywhere is developing modular, onsite hydrogen production units that generate green hydrogen using a novel catalytic process at mild conditions (50°C and 60 psi). Their technology enables small to medium-scale hydrogen production (up to 1 ton/day), offering a low-cost, scalable alternative to traditional hydrogen production and distribution. The company targets port operations as an initial market, addressing regulatory pressures to decarbonize cargo handling, trucking, and shipping.
LiPhera Inc. (FKA Hephion Separations)
High-efficiency lithium recovery from battery waste
LiPhera’s modular lithium separation system provides a clean and economical alternative to traditional methods for extracting lithium from spent lithium-ion batteries. The system enables cost-effective recovery of a high purity lithium stream from battery black mass leachate, thereby creating new revenue opportunities while using 10x less energy per kg of lithium recovered. The technology also has applications in primary lithium production from brines.
Loop Chemicals
Decentralized, low-carbon ammonia production for agriculture
Loop Chemicals is innovating ammonia fertilizer manufacturing, a critical component of agriculture, to enable localized and sustainable production. By utilizing new synthesis methods ('Chemical Looping'), they aim to create localized manufacturing that brings this critical input closer to the farmers that need it.
Mira Intel
Redefining the way we monitor and maintain our most critical infrastructure
Mira Intel specializes in drone-borne inspections for structural health monitoring, using dual-camera, AI driven technology to detect misalignments, cracks, and energy inefficiencies with high accuracy. The company focuses on commercial properties, public infrastructure, and disaster recovery.
Novo Blades
Vortex-optimized blade & wing design
Novo Blades is commercializing a patented wind turbine blade design that boosts annual energy production (AEP) by 2% or more. Developed with next-generation aerodynamic modeling that predicts airflow more precisely than traditional methods, the Novo Blades design allows turbines to capture more energy, and shows potential to reduce noise and wake effects. With U.S. patent protection secured and European patents pending, the design can be applied to new wind farms as well as replacement blades for repowering older turbines - positioning it for broad market impact.
OptionV
Unlocking the world’s building blocks from upcycled industrial waste
OptionV Energy is pioneering vanadium extraction technology to recover critical minerals from industrial waste streams like oil fly ash and spent catalysts. Their patented process eliminates energy-intensive roasting, reducing costs by 60% and energy consumption by 97%, making vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) more viable for gridscale energy storage.
Respire Energy
Metal-air battery for incombustible resilient energy
Respire Energy is developing a safe, low-cost battery storage solution using readily available commodity materials to enable the clean energy transition. The company focuses on microgrid backup power for critical infrastructure such as data and healthcare facilities. Their technology aims to address safety and regulatory limitations associated with lithium-ion batteries, making energy storage safer and more accessible in high-risk environments.
Thalon Materials
Decarbonizing structural metal: clean magnesium production for U.S. manufacturing
Thalon Materials supplies automotive and defense manufacturers with clean, domestic magnesium metal. Using a patented electrolysis process, we produce low-carbon, cost-competitive magnesium without toxic byproducts. Our process cuts the carbon footprint of today's dominant production method by 50% and can uniquely repurpose idle aluminum smelters for production.
Founder Testimonials
“I learned so much about all aspects of startups—VC, SBIR/STTR, university partnerships, licensing, etc. This is the major strength of the program—it teaches you everything you need to know, which is a lot!”
- Jennifer Delegard, AAVA
“A unique combination of mentorship, resources, and opportunities that significantly advanced our project. The program's structure and support exceeded our expectations...would highly recommend the Studio to other startups.”
- Alfredo Galvan, H2E
MassCEC / Tech 2 Market / Funding / Massachusetts Climatetech Studio
Additional Funding Opportunities
InnovateMass
$350,000
October 20, 2026
Questions Due September 29th
Catalyst
$75,000
September 30, 2026 5:00PM
Business Builds: Climatetech
$500K - $2M
October 1, 2026