Issue #5 (Sunthetics, Mango Materials, StormSensor)
Meet the best women-led climate tech companies.
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Daniela Blanco, co-founder & CTO of Sunthetics. Photo credit: Downtown Brooklyn.
Sunthetics
Sunthetics is driving change in the chemical industry, one reaction at a time, by developing sustainable and electrically driven chemical processes to replace traditional heat-powered ones. The use of these chemicals has become indispensable in our everyday lives, and the chemical industry has become the third-largest contributor of GHG emissions. But there is a movement to electrify the chemical industry, enabling lower energy consumption, better resource usage, safer processes, and the cost-efficient integration of renewable energies to replace fossil fuels. Sunthetics’ first target is the pharmaceutical industry, where electrochemistry enables safer and cleaner production routes to new substances that can address unmet medical needs. In addition to other accolades, Sunthetics is a member of the 2020 class of The Heritage Group Accelerator Powered by Techstars.
Co-founder & CEO: Myriam Sbeiti
Co-founder & CTO: Daniela Blanco
HQ: Brooklyn, NY
“Anne Schauer-Gimenez (from left) Allison Pieja and Molly Morse of Mango Materials stand next to the biopolymer fermenter at a sewage treatment plant next to San Francisco Bay. The fermenter feeds bacteria the methane they need to produce a biological form of plastic.” Source and photo credit: Christopher Joyce, Morning Edition, NPR.
Mango Materials
Mango Materials is converting abundant methane gas into biodegradable materials. They have invented a proprietary platform that delivers optimally-formulated, biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) pellets that incorporate into any supply chain to reduce production of plastic. They transform waste-methane to a high quality and cost-competitive biodegradable alternative to polyester - a leading contributor to microfiber pollution. Mango Materials was selected as a 2020 Global Cleantech 100 company and named as one of the 50 Next Companies to Disrupt the World by Biofuels Digest. Mango Materials is part of women-led Alante Capital’s portfolio.
Co-founder & CEO: Molly Morse
Co-founder & CTO: Allison Pieja
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Erin Rothman, founder & CEO of StormSensor. Photo credit: crazyaboutstartups.com.
StormSensor
StormSensor works with cities across the U.S. to track how water moves through their storm, sewer, and coastal infrastructure. Their high-resolution sensor networks monitor flow and temperature every 5 minutes, while their proprietary algorithms and intuitive software provide cities with simple, practical insights to help them adapt to climate-driven risks from flooding, sea level rise, tidal surges, and storms. StormSensor is a RISE 2020 Coastal Community Resilience Challenge winner and an alumni of Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.
Founder & CEO: Erin Rothman
HQ: Seattle, WA
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