If you're a green tech entrepreneur, you would be familiar with Greentown Labs' 100,000 square-foot office space in Somerville. If not, it's time to change that.
For the unfamiliar, Greentown Labs was launched in 2011 and is acclaimed to be the country's largest cleantech incubator. It has incubated over 170 companies that have raised more than $320 million in venture capital.
The incubator moved into its current headquarters at 444 Somerville Avenue in May 2018. The $12 million construction project turned a former auto-body shop into a laboratory with a prototyping lab space, a 24-bench wet lab, a machine shop, electronics shop, office space for more than 450 entrepreneurs and a 500-person event space. Some of the incubator's sponsors and partners include MassDevelopment, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Saint-Gobain, BASF, East Boston Savings Bank and Boston Community Capital.
In September 2018, Greentown Labs was selected by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to grow the American-Made Solar Prize, a $3 million competition to boost solar manufacturing.
Here are a few pictures I took of the lab. (PS: Photography was restricted at some wet shops and prototyping spaces at the lab)
