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☀️ Solar panels are marketed as green technology, yet they still contain toxic heavy metals. Berlin-based startup SOLYCO Solar AG is working to fix that. Founded at the Urban Tech Republic at the former Tegel Airport, the team has developed TECC-Connect®, the world's first silver-, lead- and bismuth-free interconnection technology for solar cells. As founder Dr Lars Podlowski puts it: "Software doesn't ultimately produce anything. We need materials science and engineering for a product to actually exist." SOLYCO TECC is also a finalist for the Deep Tech Award 2026.  Read the full story on the Brain City Berlin website: https://lnkd.in/dtM2iJzD  #BrainCityBerlin #DeepTech 

On Wednesday, May 13, Innovation Crossroads’ Tim Vosburgh, Founder and CEO of Coulomb Technology and a Cohort 2024 Fellow, will take the stage at #LEEPDemoDay to pitch a bold solution in next-generation energy storage. Coulomb Technology is advancing sodium-ion energy storage systems designed to be safer, smarter, and built to outperform lithium-ion across a wide range of climates and operating conditions. Don’t miss this opportunity to see America’s next-generation innovation ecosystem in action, powered by collaboration between entrepreneurs and #NationalLabs. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eFi3csCt

🚨 Major Funding Opportunity for Massachusetts Climatetech Infrastructure Organizations supporting climatetech innovation in Massachusetts should be paying attention to this. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Climatetech Testing & Demonstration Assets (TDA) Program is expected to launch its FY27 RFP this summer and will provide capital grants ranging from $1.5M to $5M to help build shared testing, validation, pilot, and demonstration infrastructure for climatetech companies across Massachusetts. What makes this program particularly interesting is that it is not funding individual startups directly. Instead, it is designed to fund the physical infrastructure and shared assets that startups often struggle to access on their own. The program is aimed at Massachusetts-based Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), including: • Nonprofits • Public agencies • Universities • Incubators and testbeds • Shared innovation facilities The focus is on building long-term shared infrastructure that can support climatetech R&D, testing, manufacturing readiness, commercialization, and deployment for years to come. Projects are expected to have at least a 10-year useful life and improve access to real-world testing and demonstration environments. MassCEC specifically highlights gaps in: ⚡ Testing and demonstration capacity 🏭 Pilot manufacturing infrastructure 🔬 Specialized fabrication and lab capabilities 🌎 Real-world deployment and validation environments 📈 Commercialization pathways and market access Example projects include: ⚡ Long-duration energy storage pilot pads 🏭 Pilot-scale fabrication lines 🏗️ Building performance labs 🌊 Coastal resilience demonstration sites 💻 Shared digital infrastructure and maker spaces This is also part of Massachusetts’ broader climatetech economic development strategy and one of the first major programs launched under the 2024 Mass Leads Act. The larger goal is to strengthen Massachusetts as a global hub for climatetech innovation, manufacturing, and deployment. MassCEC is holding upcoming pre-RFP office hours for organizations interested in understanding project fit and preparing early: 📅 Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 12 PM ET 📅 Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 12 PM ET Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/emXaPnyH FORGE works with hardtech and climatetech innovators every day as they navigate the challenges of scaling physical products, manufacturing readiness, supplier engagement, testing, and commercialization. Programs like this can play an important role in strengthening the infrastructure ecosystem needed to support those companies long term. Follow FORGE for more updates, opportunities, and resources for hardtech innovators. #FORGEImpact #ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #MassCEC #Innovation #Manufacturing #HardTech #ClimateInnovation

What role is Bloomberg playing in accelerating the global energy transition? 🏆 The 2026 BloombergNEF Pioneers have been announced, recognizing 12 startups working to accelerate the global energy transition through technological innovation. Winners were selected out of over 600 applications from 66 different markets. 🌍 This year, the competition addressed three key challenges: 💡 Technologies for Sustainable, Scalable Data Center Infrastructure 💡 Flattening the Duck Curve 💡 Decarbonizing Shipping and Heavy-Duty Transport Three ‘Wildcard’ winners were also selected, to recognize innovations that fell beyond the scope of the three main challenges. 👀 Read more about the winners here: https://bloom.bg/41YWfk0 #BloombergNEF #BNEFPioneers

An Ashburn startup has reached an agreement with Facebook's parent company to beam infrared light from space to power data centers at night. #dc #washingtondc #virginia #tech

Sharing an update from Shifted - Energy Storage, a French EnergyTech startup and former competition finalist, building technology to make clean, reliable, and accessible energy a reality. New milestones include achieving a 3x reduction in temperature rise during compression, building a proof-of-concept (POC) and securing additional investment. Selected for the Bpifrance DeepTech Seed accelerator, they’re now gearing up for a pre-seed round to build a pre-commercial prototype. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eA5hQAFz Thanks for the update Monica Felicio Fragoso

MEET THE TEAMS: Accelerator Energy #1 2026⚡ 👉 Swipe to see where the future of energy is built These amazing teams are joining our first Accelerator Class of 2026 & we couldn’t have asked for a stronger start: Hexwise – digital twins for cooling systems to unlock efficiency & performance UpGrid – enabling local energy communities and smarter energy sharing inframind – turning fragmented infrastructure data into AI-driven grid intelligence Volatile – trading intelligence for short-term power markets Companion.energy – connecting assets, markets & finance in one optimisation loop For the next 12-weeks, it’s all about: Startups x industry experts x real challenges. These teams work side by side with experts from RWE, E.ON and Essen Wirtschaft (EWG - Essener Wirtschaftsförderung), stress-testing their deep tech solutions in real-world contexts. Different approaches, one shared goal: better energy systems! First sparks are there. ✨ Now let’s see what it can power🔋 #EnergyTech #StartupEcosystem #DeepTech #BRYCKStartupAlliance

$64M raised: GridCARE has closed an oversubscribed $64 million Series A. Sutter Hill Ventures and John Doerr personally led, with National Grid Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Stanford University also participating. Coverage describes it as a significant step-up from a round less than a year ago. The bottleneck for AI buildouts has shifted from compute to power. Hyperscalers wait six to ten years to get a new data center interconnected, often paying hundreds of millions in customer-funded grid upgrades. Meanwhile the US grid runs at roughly 30% average utilization. The remaining 70% is real capacity that's invisible to traditional interconnection studies, which rely on conservative worst-case static models. GridCARE's Energize platform uses physics-based generative AI to evaluate quadrillions of grid conditions, including congestion, outage probabilities, weather, and residential demand. It surfaces the time-bounded windows where a flexible large load can be served without upgrades. Its patented DeFlex methodology layers in batteries, onsite generation, and demand response to make that capacity firm. The framing is a new category: Power Acceleration for AI. The first flagship deployment with Portland General Electric in Hillsboro, Oregon freed up 80MW of incremental data-center capacity for 2026, with a path to 400MW+ by 2029. GridCARE claims to have unlocked over $10 billion in economic value for data center developers to date. Co-founder and CEO Amit Narayan previously founded Berkeley Design Automation (sold to Siemens) and AutoGrid (acquired by Uplight in 2023). Co-founder and CTO Ram Rajagopal is a tenured Stanford professor on leave. The company was incubated at Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability, the same school John Doerr personally endowed. #fundraising #energy #grid

Estonian-Dutch deeptech startup Spiral Hydrogen has raised €2.7 million in pre-seed funding, along with €0.7 million in grants, to develop its bubble-free electrolysis technology. Founded by Juri Volodin and Fedor Stomakhin, the company brings together expertise in electrochemistry, energy systems, and software engineering.  🔗 Read full article link in comment #SpiralHydrogen #GreenHydrogen #CleanEnergy #HydrogenEconomy #DeepTech #ClimateTech #EnergyInnovation #SustainableEnergy #Electrolyzer #NetZero #HydrogenTech

Decent Exposure's Inside The Deal Room continues to prove that when you start by serving others and bring proven operators, founders, and investors into the right environment, meaningful things happen. This week’s conversations spanned: - AI infrastructure - energy resilience - decentralized compute - data center expansion - deep-tech venture - industrial-scale deployment The room included: - a founder currently raising a $100M infrastructure-focused fund - active family offices and cross-border investors - founders building in AI, energy, and compliance infrastructure - operators discussing 12MW and 46MW deployment opportunities One founder shared they recently closed an additional $100K commitment toward their current raise while scaling toward a $1M+ ARR run rate. Another founder explained how AI reduced engineering costs by nearly 45% and compressed 4–5 months of development work into roughly 200 hours. And one of the featured infrastructure companies discussed: - a projected $1.1B rollout strategy - $70M federal energy tax credit structures - waste-to-energy systems converting scrap tires into electricity, diesel, hydrogen, and recovered carbon black Several moments genuinely stopped the room: “We need to triple the grid in the next few years.” “Kuwait’s sovereign fund approached us after the presentation.” “We can make oil for less than 22 cents per gallon.” “The projected valuation at scale discussed was approximately $40B.” This is why we built Inside The Deal Room. Curated conversations where founders, investors, and operators contribute to the ecosystem instead of simply extracting from it. Great rooms change companies. Great rooms change trajectories. Dr Joel Hillier, thank you for going on this adventure with me. #InsideTheDealRoom #DecentExposure #AIInfrastructure #EnergyTransition #DataCenters #FamilyOffice #DeepTech #VentureCapital #Infrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence #EnergyInnovation #WasteToEnergy #PrivateCapital #ClimateTech #DigitalInfrastructure #FutureOfEnergy #StartupEcosystem #TechInvesting #InnovationLeadership