Keeping Indoor Air Safe in the Return to Normalcy

Keeping Indoor Air Safe in the Return to Normalcy

As businesses, institutions and organizations return to normal office life, keeping people safe from the coronavirus is top of mind. Responding to those concerns, the Biden Administration launched the Clean Air in Buildings Challenge on March 17. The Clean Air in Buildings Challenge calls on building owners, schools, colleges and …

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Our MVP for New Founders

Check out our MVP for New Founders

Even though we are investors today, most of us at MassVentures had our own startup(s) at one time. And looking back, it's humbling to recall how much we didn’t know back then and were too afraid to ask… Sometimes we didn’t ask because we did not know what we did …

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Celebrating Women Founders in Deep Tech

Celebrating Woman Founders 

On International Women’s Day, we’d like to celebrate some of the intrepid women founders in our portfolio. This dynamic group of women scientists and engineers are all on the cutting edge of breakthrough environmental technologies. MassVentures is proud to support them through our grant programs. Annie Bernard, CTO and Cofounder, …

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Our 2021 Performance

Our 2021 Performance

MassVentures enjoyed record growth in 2021, funding 67 companies with $6.5M in grants and investments. We brought five new businesses into our investment portfolio, including Battery Resourcers, Inkbit, JetCool, Paerpay and Pison. This fascinating group is solving challenges from cooling and energy efficiency at data centers, to 3D printing for …

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Catalyst & START Grants Help Metalmark Move Closer to Market

Catalyst Grant Gives Metalmark Early Boost

Metalmark develops air purification and HVAC systems that capture and destroy sub-micron pollutants, including viruses, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ultra-fine particulates. The technology, which grew out of research at Harvard University’s Aizenberg’s laboratory is more effective, more energy efficient, uses fewer natural resources, and is less costly to maintain …

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Catalyst Grant Helps Alloy Enterprises Move at Accelerated Rate

Alloy Enterprises Inc is tackling on-demand manufacturing for aluminum parts to help lightweight automobiles, trucks, airplanes, and heavy machinery. Founded in 2020, the Greentown Labs member is honing an additive manufacturing process (also known as 3D printing) that combines laser cutting with a novel metallic bonding process to produce (solid …

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Congratulations Ginkgo Bioworks!

Congratulations Ginkgo Bioworks

Today marks an important day for Ginkgo Bioworks, and the world of synthetic biology, as trading opens for its shares under the ticker symbol “DNA.” MassVentures has been fortunate to be on Ginkgo’s remarkable journey from MIT spinout to what could be the “Next Apple” since 2013 and we couldn’t …

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