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MetOx Closes $23 Million Series A Round to Build Advanced HTS Production System
MetOx Technologies, Inc., a Houston-based manufacturer of HTS wire, has announced the completion of a $23 million Series A funding round. Proceeds from the round will allow the company to construct an advanced production facility, with the capacity to produce...
Safar Partners and Hostplus Invest in Gradiant’s New Funding Round for Cleantech Water
Safar Partners, a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies, today announced its participation in Gradiant's Series C funding round alongside Warburg Pincus and Schlumberger New Energy. Gradiant, an MIT spinout and one of Safar Partners'...
Safar Partners Invests $100 Million in Portfolio Company Commonwealth Fusion Systems as they Commercialize Fusion Energy
Safar Partners, a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies, announced today that it is investing $100 million in portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). The funding is part of CFS' Series B round that raised $1.8 billion when...
Safar Partners portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announces commercial fusion breakthrough.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., PRNewswire/ -- Safar Partners, a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies, announced today that its portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) achieved a historic breakthrough in clean energy generation through...
Via Separations featured in the Spring 2021 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative.
(Energy Futures) - Cleaning up industrial filtration. MIT spinoff Via Separations aims for industrial decarbonization with its durable graphene oxide membranes. VIA SEPARATIONS is a membrane company applying novel filtration to reduce the energy used in industrial...
Chris O’Donnell Founder and CEO of OAM Quant joins Safar Partner’s Business Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Chris join Safar’s Business Advisory Board! His experience as a Founder, CEO, and entrepreneur in the investment space makes Chris a strong asset for our growing portfolio. Chris O’Donnell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OAM...
Professor Danielle Benoit joins Safar Partner’s Scientific Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Danielle join Safar’s Scientific Advisory Board! Her experience as an academic in the tissue engineering space makes Danielle a strong asset for our growing portfolio of material science and life science companies. Danielle Benoit is a...
Via Separations & Graphic Packaging International Announce Successful Pilot Of Industrial Electrification Technology
(PR Newswire) - "Via Separations, an MIT spinout company developing process intensification systems to reduce energy intensity, announced its first successful pilot with Graphic Packaging International (GPI) for black liquor concentration. "This pilot represents the...
Ubiquitous Energy Featured in Business Wire: UE Receives Additional $3 Million Grant Award from the California Energy Commission for its UE Power™ Windows
(Business Wire) - "Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in transparent solar technology, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded another $3 million grant from the California Energy Commission. This new award is in addition to the previously received grant award from...
Ubiquitous Energy Featured by Alternative Energy Magazine: UE Secures Strategic $8M Equity Investment from ENEOS Holdings
Alternative Energy – "Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in truly transparent solar energy technology, has secured a strategic equity investment of $8M from ENEOS Holdings, one of the most prominent and comprehensive energy, resources, and materials companies in Asia. The...
Chris O’Donnell Founder and CEO of OAM Quant joins Safar Partner’s Business Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Chris join Safar’s Business Advisory Board! His experience as a Founder, CEO, and entrepreneur in the investment space makes Chris a strong asset for our growing portfolio. Chris O’Donnell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OAM...
Professor Danielle Benoit joins Safar Partner’s Scientific Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Danielle join Safar’s Scientific Advisory Board! Her experience as an academic in the tissue engineering space makes Danielle a strong asset for our growing portfolio of material science and life science companies. Danielle Benoit is a...
Sophie Vandebroek joins Safar Partner’s Scientific Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Sophie join Safar’s Scientific Advisory Board! We are confident Sophie will be a strong asset for our growing portfolio of cleantech and material science, as well as AI and IT companies. Sophie Vandebroek is founder and owner of Strategic...
Timothy Swager, member of Safar Scientific Advisory Board and scientific co-founder of two Safar portfolio companies to be inducted as fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
We are excited to announce that Timothy Swager will be inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors at the NAI Annual Meeting on June 8, 2021. National Academy of Inventors – "The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who...
Safar Partners featured by Climate Tech Venture Capital
We are so excited to be featured in Climate Tech Venture Capital’s list of Deeptech Climate Tech VCs. We are honored to be highlighted together with The Engine, Data Collective VC, Future Ventures, Lux Capital, Starlight Ventures and others.
Professor Conor Walsh joins Safar Partner’s Scientific Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Conor join Safar’s Scientific Advisory Board! His experience as an academic, advisor, and entrepreneur in the wearable technologies and manufacturing space makes Conor a strong asset for our growing portfolio of material science and...
Professor Reza Dana joins Safar Partners’ Scientific Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Reza join Safar's Scientific Advisory Board! His experience as an academic, advisor, and entrepreneur in the clinical development space makes Reza a strong asset for our growing portfolio of life science companies. Reza Dana is the Claes...
Safar Expands Business Advisory Board with Addition of Leading Healthcare Investment Professional
We are very excited to have Bijan join our Business Advisory Board at Safar! His experience as an investor in healthcare companies at NaviMed Capital and previously at Highland Capital Partners makes Bijan a great addition to our team of experienced Board Members....
MetOx Closes $23 Million Series A Round to Build Advanced HTS Production System
MetOx Technologies, Inc., a Houston-based manufacturer of HTS wire, has announced the completion of a $23 million Series A funding round. Proceeds from the round will allow the company to construct an advanced production facility, with the capacity to produce...
Safar Partners and Hostplus Invest in Gradiant’s New Funding Round for Cleantech Water
Safar Partners, a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies, today announced its participation in Gradiant's Series C funding round alongside Warburg Pincus and Schlumberger New Energy. Gradiant, an MIT spinout and one of Safar Partners'...
Safar Partners Invests $100 Million in Portfolio Company Commonwealth Fusion Systems as they Commercialize Fusion Energy
Safar Partners, a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies, announced today that it is investing $100 million in portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). The funding is part of CFS' Series B round that raised $1.8 billion when...
Safar Partners portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announces commercial fusion breakthrough.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., PRNewswire/ -- Safar Partners, a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies, announced today that its portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) achieved a historic breakthrough in clean energy generation through...
Via Separations featured in the Spring 2021 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative.
(Energy Futures) - Cleaning up industrial filtration. MIT spinoff Via Separations aims for industrial decarbonization with its durable graphene oxide membranes. VIA SEPARATIONS is a membrane company applying novel filtration to reduce the energy used in industrial...
Chris O’Donnell Founder and CEO of OAM Quant joins Safar Partner’s Business Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Chris join Safar’s Business Advisory Board! His experience as a Founder, CEO, and entrepreneur in the investment space makes Chris a strong asset for our growing portfolio. Chris O’Donnell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OAM...
Professor Danielle Benoit joins Safar Partner’s Scientific Advisory Board
We are very excited to have Danielle join Safar’s Scientific Advisory Board! Her experience as an academic in the tissue engineering space makes Danielle a strong asset for our growing portfolio of material science and life science companies. Danielle Benoit is a...
Via Separations & Graphic Packaging International Announce Successful Pilot Of Industrial Electrification Technology
(PR Newswire) - "Via Separations, an MIT spinout company developing process intensification systems to reduce energy intensity, announced its first successful pilot with Graphic Packaging International (GPI) for black liquor concentration. "This pilot represents the...
Ubiquitous Energy Featured in Business Wire: UE Receives Additional $3 Million Grant Award from the California Energy Commission for its UE Power™ Windows
(Business Wire) - "Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in transparent solar technology, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded another $3 million grant from the California Energy Commission. This new award is in addition to the previously received grant award from...
Ubiquitous Energy Featured by Alternative Energy Magazine: UE Secures Strategic $8M Equity Investment from ENEOS Holdings
Alternative Energy – "Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in truly transparent solar energy technology, has secured a strategic equity investment of $8M from ENEOS Holdings, one of the most prominent and comprehensive energy, resources, and materials companies in Asia. The...
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Ubiquitous Energy Featured in Business Wire: UE Receives Additional $3 Million Grant Award from the California Energy Commission for its UE Power™ Windows
(Business Wire) - "Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in transparent solar technology, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded another $3 million grant from the California Energy Commission. This new award is in addition to the previously received grant award from...
Ubiquitous Energy Featured by Alternative Energy Magazine: UE Secures Strategic $8M Equity Investment from ENEOS Holdings
Alternative Energy – "Ubiquitous Energy, the leader in truly transparent solar energy technology, has secured a strategic equity investment of $8M from ENEOS Holdings, one of the most prominent and comprehensive energy, resources, and materials companies in Asia. The...
Quaise Energy recently featured by University of Cambridge for co-funding a clean energy project at the Laboratory for Scientific Computing with GAPSTI
University of Cambridge - "Quaise Energy Inc. has teamed with the Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LabSC) to develop computational models of the interaction of high-energy beams with geological materials. The project is supported by co-funding provided by the...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Selects 47-Acre Site in Devens, Mass., for Historic Commercial Fusion Energy Campus
"Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the leading company commercializing fusion energy, today announced it will build a 47-acre commercial fusion energy campus in Devens, Massachusetts. The campus will be the birthplace of the commercial fusion energy industry and home...
Ubiquitous Energy featured in Glass International; Pilkington North America has installed energy-generating windows, which feature Ubiquitous Energy’s photovoltaic technology
"Pilkington North America has installed energy-generating windows at its Northwood, Ohio, USA facility. The flat glass manufacturer has worked with Ubiquitous Energy (UE) to jointly develop the transparent solar windows, which feature UE’s photovoltaic...
CFS featured in New York Times; Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest
"Scientists developing a compact version of a nuclear fusion reactor have shown in a series of research papers that it should work, renewing hopes that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achieved and eventually contribute to...
New Safar Portfolio Company Quaise Launches with $6 Million to Unlock Geothermal energy
Quaise Inc., an energy company pioneering millimeter wave drilling technology to access deep geothermal energy, today announced that it has raised $6 million in Seed Funding. The funding round was led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests...
CFS Awarded $3.7 Million from ARPA-E to Accelerate Commercial Fusion Energy
Cambridge, MA – April 7, 2020 – Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a startup commercializing fusion energy, today announced it was awarded $3.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). $2.39 million of...
Ubiquitous Energy featured in CNN Business “This company wants to turn your windows into solar panels”
San Francisco (CNN Business) What if every window in your house could generate electricity? One Redwood City, California-based startup thinks its technology can achieve that by transforming the way solar power is collected and harnessed. Ubiquitous Energy has...
Gradiant’s Prakash Govindan featured in Global Water Intelligence Magazine
Gradiant's Chief Technology Officer Prakash Govindan spoke to Global Water Intelligence Magazine about Gradiant's research development, geographic expansion, and the future of water treatment. Read the full interview at the link below!
Kebotix Raises $11.4 Million in Series A Funding for Rapid Discovery of Chemicals, Materials to Address Global Challenges
(Kebotix PR) - "Kebotix Inc., a technology platform company for new AI-discovered chemicals and materials, today announced it has raised $11.4 million in Series A funding led by Novo Holdings, a leading international life science investor. Due to significant investor...
Embr Wave – Empowering Aging Through Innovation
Forbes highlights the Safar portfolio company Embr Labs together with Singfit, a music therapy app, and Alcove VR, a virtual reality app that promotes social engagement. All three companies use technology to empower people as they age! _____________ As Americans over...
C&EN’s 2019 10 Start-Ups to Watch
This year's C&EN’s 10 "Start-Ups to Watch" list features two Safar Partners portfolio companies: Kebotix and Via Separations! Kebotix Kebotix, a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based start-up with a novel idea for an autonomous materials discovery lab, came together in...
C2Sense wins award for ‘Selective CNT Gas Sensors’
At the recent IDTechEx Show in Santa Clara, C2Sense took the award for 'Graphene & 2D Materials - Most Significant Advancement In Graphene, CNT, Or 2D Material Commercialization'. Their application was on 'Selective CNT Gas Sensors' and was a popular choice with...
Lopez Research Lab Taps Kebotix for Cancer Research Project
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Health Impact – Aimed at offering more effective drugs at a lower cost to cancer patients turning to photomedicine as an alternative to chemotherapy, a grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) will have chemical and...
Embr Labs wins AARP’s Innovator in Aging award
Daymond John of ‘Shark Tank’ weighs in on pitches for AARP’s Innovator in Aging award. Nominees Sathya Elumalai and Sam Shames compete for a $10,000 prize.
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