To say that time flies would be an understatement. I met the eight teams of the mHUB Climate and EnergyTech Accelerator cohort three months ago. I had only spoken with each team a handful of times during the accelerator review and selection process, but that day we met beneath The…

According to the IEA (International Energy Agency), as much as 90% of global electricity generation will need to come from renewable energy if the world wants to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. A long way to go if you know that renewable stood at 29% in 2020. A major challenge…

Why is it that so many feel the path to net-zero is like putting a destination in your GPS and not knowing what the route is? Making climate solutions more clear-cut and accessible is becoming increasingly important. Research firm Rhodium Group reported that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6.2%…

In my last blog on ClimateTech Innovation, I discussed the overall drive towards decarbonization — not just the introduction of low- or zero-carbon emitting technologies, but also efforts to capture and remove carbon from existing energy and industrial operations. Before even thinking about decarbonization, companies need to know how much…

When it comes to climate tech, lately, I am thinking a lot about dreamcatchers — or in Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh. These handmade willow hoops on which a web is woven and hung above a cradle or bed as protection. …

When I worked at major corporations, we sometimes faced a problem that we couldn’t solve internally. A client wanting additional features on a product for which we didn’t have the technology nor the experts. Clients needing a product we didn’t have in our portfolio and a must have in our…

What a difference an audience makes. This time we had a live audience of almost three hundred people in two covid-safe demo day sessions. One could feel the energy in the room, sense the passion of the founders pitching. …

Remember the endless rows of cardboard spectators in huge soccer stadiums? I felt a bit of that two weeks ago. Mid-way of our accelerator program, the nine startups of our inaugural IIoT cohort pitched to our corporate sponsors. …

We just finished another hardtech skunkworks, here at mHUB’s hardtech accelerator! Each of our cohort startups go through a skunkworks session to accelerate their prototype or product development. The skunkworks term originated during World War II when the P-80 Shooting Star was designed by Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects Division in…