Later this month, the city’s startup and innovation community will gather to celebrate the 2022 BostInno Fire Awards honorees.
The selected companies were chosen based on nominations you and other readers sent in. They have demonstrated their success in raising funds, launching new products, bringing in new customers, growing their Boston footprint and supporting the local community and innovation ecosystem. Honorees were chosen across nine categories.
Today, we'll meet the honorees that are working to save the planet one innovation at a time—the awardees in the cleantech and greentech category.
They are developing new technologies in areas like agriculture, plant-based foods and renewable energy.
Join BostInno for a cocktail reception on Wednesday, Nov. 30, to recognize this year's honorees and to see who our judges name as the winner, or Inno Blazer, in each category.
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Agilitas Energy
This Wakefield-based company is a rare repeat from last year’s Fire Award honorees. Last year, it became the largest distributed solar and storage developer in the Northeast. The company is projecting that its 2022 revenue will grow fivefold from 2021. It also raised $350 million in equity funding from CarVal Investors in June 2022 to build out 50 to 75 operational projects.
The Live Green Group Inc
After moving from Chile to Cambridge in late 2021, this foodtech startup has been expanding rapidly. It uses its proprietary technology to replace the animal, synthetic and ultra-processed ingredients in food. Live Green has raised over $8 million, merged with five other foodtech startups and launched a direct-to-consumer channel for its food products through Uber and Amazon.
SES
This Woburn company develops and manufactures lithium-metal rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and released the world’s largest Li-Metal battery in the last year. In February, SES began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company said in its nomination that it holds $450 million of cash on its balance sheet, which includes investments from industry giants Honda, Hyundai and GM.
Seurat Technologies
This Wilmington 3D printing company is attracting the attention of companies like Porsche SE, which was one of the investors on Seurat Technologies’ $21 million Series B extension raise this past year. Other investors include Capricorn, Xerox Ventures, and Siemens Energy. Seurat earned revenue for the first time in 2022. The company said it had 50 employees at the start of the year and aims to have 1,000 employees by 2025.
Trella Technologies
This Massachusetts company was founded by Aja Atwood, a natural-catastrophe risk engineer. Now, she’s an agricultural innovator. Trella’s patented technology uses automated plant-training robotics to train tall plants and trees to grow horizontally while monitoring environmental inputs. The company began generating revenue after delivering its first batch of products to customers in Q1 2022.
