Future Forward: The Latest
from the Lab

Feb 11, 2026 | Urban Future Lab

Across three in-person convenings in 2025, the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Brym’s Climate Is the New Economy series, with support from Con Edison, turned its attention to the deployment of community-based clean energy. Together, with our panelists and speakers, we explored how community is defined and engaged, the policy frameworks shaping project viability, case studies of projects that succeeded and those that stalled, workforce implications, and ownership structures and decision-making models.

The result is a document that captures what we’ve learned about equitable deployment through case studies and insights, and surfaces the structural conditions and policy required to make community-centered clean energy durable and scalable. Read the full report.

Nov 11, 2025 | PR Newswire

As a collaboration among Greentown Labs, the Urban Future Lab, and Fraunhofer USA, the Carbon to Value Initiative drew a wide-ranging global pool of 165 carbontech innovations from 33 countries.

Oct 24, 2025 | NYU Tandon

NYU Tandon School of Engineering named the winners of its 2025 Urban Future Prize Competition at the 9th annual Urban Future Summit at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This flagship program of Tandon's Urban Future Lab (UFL) identifies and supports top climatetech startups. Supported by MUFG Bank and Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), the Competition exemplifies NYU Tandon's commitment to building an innovative climatetech community that unites Tandon's research ecosystem with entrepreneurs developing real-world climate solutions.

September 9, 2025 | NYU Tandon

For six years, the Urban Future Lab has served as the U.S. soft landing pad for the annual Innovate UK program, providing participants with access to mentors, a focused cohort curriculum, and connections to funding, partnerships, and customers to build a presence in New York and across the U.S.

July 14, 2025 | NYU Tandon

NYU Tandon, in partnership with Equinor, NOWRDC, and NYCEDC, unveiled its 2025 Offshore Wind Innovation Hub Accelerator cohort, featuring six companies developing solutions to enhance turbine maintenance, monitor marine life, and strengthen New York’s offshore wind value chain.

May 22, 2025 | NYCEDC

We’re proud to be part of BATWorks, a newly announced national consortium that will anchor the Climate Innovation Hub at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT). Announced by Mayor Eric Adams and the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), this initiative positions New York City at the forefront of clean energy innovation and inclusive workforce development.

April 8, 2025 | Business Wire

We’re excited to be named a 2025 Channel Partner Strategic Award winner by the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), run with the U.S. Department of Energy’s NREL. UFL will host workshops where energy startups evaluate market readiness and work with local organizations and experts to plan pilot projects, helping strengthen New York’s energy-tech ecosystem.

December 11, 2024 | NASDAQ

In this episode of NASDAQ Trade Talks hosted by Global Markets Reporter Jill Malandrino, Frederic Clerc (Interim Managing Director at the Urban Future Lab by NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Director at C2V Initiative) discussed the future of climatetech and how we can scale solutions for real-world impact alongside Martin Keighly (CEO at CarbonFree, a C2V Initiative alumni), and Bill Lese (Braemar Energy Ventures).

October 31, 2024 | New Perspective

As climatetech companies work to grow, they’re up against two big challenges: meeting market demands and securing the funding to make it happen. New Perspective sat down with Frederic Clerc (Interim Managing Director) and Jeannette Williams (COO) from Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering to dig into what it takes to succeed in this fast-changing space.

April 3, 2024 | Pix11

As part of NYU Tandon School of Engineering, we are also on the frontlines of how academia-and-startup collaboration can supercharge innovation. One example is our partnership with AIR COMPANY in a NASA-supported bid to make sustainable rocket fuel for Earth & Mars.

September 12, 2024 | PR Newswire

The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative)— a multi-year collaboration from NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Urban Future Lab (UFL), Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA to catalyze the carbontech ecosystem—enthusiastically announces nine startup participants for the fourth year of its carbontech accelerator program.

September 1, 2024 | Decarb Connect

How Urban Future Lab by NYU Tandon School of Engineering delivers high start-up to scale-up climate tech success results.

April 2, 2024 | Office of Technology Transitions

Made possible through government support, our new accelerator with Second Muse emerges the innovative forces of hardtech clean energy startups with the manufacturing industry in the Northeast US by mandating joint applications from startups and manufacturers, ensuring both parties collaborate from the outset.

November 20, 2025 | Business Wire

ACRE Alumni and 2021 Urban Future Prize Competition Winner Shifted Energy was acquired by Resource Innovations to deliver scalable, end-to-end DSM and grid-edge solutions to more customer segments than ever before.

August 20, 2025 | Yahoo Finance

C2V Y4 Cohort Member Seabound was awarded £1.1M through the UK Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition to scale its joint carbon and emissions capture system with STAX Engineering and Associated British Ports at the Port of Southampton.

August 18, 2025 | Carbon Herald

C2V Y3 Cohort Member TerraFixing received a $2.5M CAD ($1.8M USD) investment from Canada’s Energy Innovation Program to scale its cold-climate direct air capture technology, advancing towards a 1,000-tonne-per-year containerized unit.

June 18, 2025 | PR Newswire

C2V Y2 Cohort Member Carbon Upcycling closed an $18M round led by Builders Vision to advance its first-of-a-kind CCU project at Ash Grove’s Mississauga cement plant and expand partnerships with TITAN Group.

April 2, 2025 | NASDAQ

UFL ACRE Member Dandelion Energy partnered with Lennar Corporation to deploy one of the largest residential geothermal heat pump projects in U.S. history, equipping 1,500 new homes in Colorado.

March 14, 2025 | The Buzz EV News

UFL member SWTCH’s Cortex merges cloud intelligence, onsite computing and wireless connectivity to provide charging for multifamily and commercial buildings.

March 12, 2025 | Carbon Herald

Y3 cohort member Capture6 raised $27.5M in Series A and project funding in a round led by Tetrad Corp.. The company also received backing from Hyundai Motor Group’s ZER01NE Ventures, Energy Capital Ventures, Elemental Impact, Bridge Investment, Sopoong Ventures, Third Derivative, Stan and Jane Rodbell, and the Jacob S. Shapiro Foundation. 

February 27, 2025 | Carbon Herald

C2V Y1 Cohort Member CarbonQuest raised $20M in funding led by Riverbend Energy Group to expand its Distributed Carbon Capture systems across North America, building on six commercial deployments.

February 25, 2025 | Commercial Observer

After a $3.5M seed round co-led by Harlem Capital and Building Ventures, with participation from Metaprop, Triple Five, and Dorm Room Fund, Urban Future Prize Competition 2024 winner Faura is positioned to further advance its mission of reducing climate risk and improving property survivability.

February 25, 2025 | Business Wire

C2V Y3 Cohort Member Mitico raised $4.3M in an oversubscribed seed round led by Exergon to scale its Caltech-developed carbon capture technology, which captures over 95% of CO₂ from industrial sources.

February 6, 2025 | Clean Energy Ventures

C2V Y4 cohort member MacroCycle Technologies, a developer of a novel PET & polyester textile waste upcycling technology, announced the close of a $6.5M seed financing round led by Clean Energy Ventures and Volta Circle, with participation from KDT Ventures and Neotribe Ventures.

January 22, 2025 | Business Wire

UFL member NineDot Energy®, the leading developer of community-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the New York City metro area, today announced the closing of a $65 million equipment financing transaction led by First Citizens Bank. With this transaction, NineDot’s total capital raised is over $500 million.